[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6815) Balancing Battle Response Time for Different Client CPU/Network connection

["Raimar Falke" <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=6815 >

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 04:43:26AM -0800, Christian Knoke wrote:
> 
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=6815 >
> 
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:52:20AM -0800, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > 
> > > Yes. I bear an idea for long, though, that it might be possible to let the
> > > server put in a delay for quicker connections, so that everybody virtually
> > > has the same ping time. 
> > 
> > > If you use ICMP packets for that, it should be hard to betray the
> > > measure.
> > 
> > No. While I may don't know how to delay ICMP packets I know how to
> > disable them completely.
> 
> So only people can use this who have ICMP not disabled. But I've heard that
> some *BSD can do crazy things with packets...

What if I _claim_ that my ISP doesn't allow ICMP packets and that the
ISP drops them? Do I have to search I new ISP to play freeciv? That
would be harsh.

> > > What do you think of that?
> > 
> > If would be more fair to rate limit the commands to n
> > commands/time. But I don't know if this is a good idea.
> 
> Don't think so. A sophisticated concurrent movement model comes to mind,
> we've had discussed this.

        Raimar

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