[CF-Devel] Tileset server

[Pertti Karppinen (OH6KTR)]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:37:22PM -0800, Mark Wedel wrote:
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      > A good thing i think is to have a "tile server" , separated from the game
     
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      > server (in a logical way).
     
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      > Clients could connect to the "tile server" to update their tilesets.
     
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      > This server could be accessed by the artists to add their tiles.
     
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       this has been discussed before, but still has these problems:
     
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      1) If the tileserver is down, the game may very well be unplayable (need the
     
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      images to play).
     
     
Default fallback support in the client, showing ? icons for newly added
tiles, that were not in the original faalback set.

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      2) If there is one tile server per real server, thus just makes a more
     
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      complicated setup (two programs to run/restart if images are added (as
     
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      presumably, if image are added, new archs were added, which means the real
     
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      server would need to get restarted also).  So in this case, nothing is really
     
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      gained, except more complication.
     
     
I agree. But we need to have some way of requesting the fill of cache
beforastarting to play. It's pretty frustrating to enter an area, meet a
completely new monster, nicely represented by '?' tiles, and die before ever
seeing the monster.

This implies some changes to server. I don't know how the current system
works, but if the speed of server is related to connection speed of the
player with the worst round-trip-time, the tile serving has to be split up,
so one player requesting cache fill won't comatoze the server.

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