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- From: cfodor@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Hi.)
- Newsgroups: alt.games.gb
- Subject: Re: Serious Bug fix....
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- Date: 24 Dec 92 16:24:14 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.090520.17470@hemlock.cray.com> <1992Dec23.172334.19507@nwnexus.WA.COM> <15225.2b392069@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>
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- In article <15225.2b392069@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu> vancleef@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Dec23.172334.19507@nwnexus.WA.COM>, ninja@halcyon.com (Jonathan Roy) writes:
-
- >> [Use repeat]
-
- GVC responds:
-
- > [repeat sends 200 packets as opposed to 1 packet doing it all
- > which is wasteful of packets.]
-
- Yes, but then all the other players have to wait for that command
- to finish before theirs get processed which gets annoying. GB is
- an entire waste of packets anyways so who are we kidding? We could
- save millions more packets by cleaning up news and tact if we were
- worried about packets... :)
-
- Some macros I have do the following:
-
- build the pod, load it with an individual amount of fuel for its
- destination, load a dude into it, launch it, name it (just for fun,
- and always based on its ship number and destination of coure), and
- sends it on its merry way.
-
- By making these things parameters to a macro and using the repeat
- command I can make multiple pods with different destinations which
- I couldn't currently do otherwise. Is this more wasteful of
- processing power? Sure it is. But there is one thing we have
- forgotten to mention... Like sex, until you have done:
-
- repeat 200 /bup YourSys 3
-
- (build 200 pods, named "YourSys<ShipNo>", load them with 3 fuel and
- send them on their merry way... this does not affect pods already
- built... I could do repeat 200 /bup NextDoor 1 next without
- affecting the pods I've already built.)
-
- And watched it working you don't know how it feels... :) (Side
- note: Sex is way better so if you've got to choose one or the other
- pass up on the macros. )
-
- Could you implement this on the server? Sure you could!
- load p f 3 and launch p and ord p dest /XXX is getting there...
- but the client is still far more powerful because that is it's
- primary purpose... to help format commands sent to the
- server. The server programmer has to deal with the database,
- and buggy commands not to mention whiny players, and system
- administrators. Don't burden yourself with extra work when
- we've got the laws of a universe to mold!
-
- My thoughts on this subject are finished.
-
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- Chris Fodor cfodor@UCSD.edu
- Disclaimer: Why am I posting here when I have 800+ articles
- left in alt.sex?????
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