[CF-Devel] Future crossfire changes/projects

[Mike Ponicki]

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       The other bandwidth hog is large piles of objects on the ground.  This gets
     
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      costly because for each item, we send the name information (arrow/arrows)
     
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      as well as lots of other duplicate information (face for example).  In
     
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      some cases, you get unique artifacts and can't help that, but most
     
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      big piles are a whole bunch of mundane objects that could perhaps be
     
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      handled in a better fashion.  If it was a commercial game with known
     
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      information between the client and server, it could probably get simplied to
     
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      '80 of item 1734', and the client would know item 1734 is arrows, its face is
     
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      this, and its weight is this.
     
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     Is there a way we could simplify the handling of objects, like how you
said commercial games would handle it, or would that be really tough to
implement?

-Sniper
     
     sniper at citilink.com