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Re: [VANILLA-L] Code for more observer slots?
Quoting Mikael Sandstr|m (d4sand@dtek.chalmers.se):
> On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Steve Franks wrote:
>
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I'm setting up a new vanilla server at MIT and I'd like to try to put
> > in more observer slots. I remember a while back that there was a lot
> > of talk about this, but I don't know what ever happened. Is there
> > any code out there that will allow me to have extra observer slots with
> > the vanilla server?
>
> Heiko did this but there was some problem too.
> Not all clients can conect to the higher slots, COW can brmh can't.
> And some client might get strange behavior like seeing double ships. Or
> ghost ships coming and disapeering on both tactical and galactic.
> It have crashed a couple of times too but that might be for diffrent
> reasons.
There was talk about an obs server in the past. Where the main server
would relay packets to a obs server. Thus allowing multiple people to
watch a game on a main server without sucking too much resources from
the main server.
Anything come of this? Still just a good idea?
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