Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2432] Extra observers

[Quozl <quozl@us.netrek.org>]

On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 03:06:32PM -0700, Carlos Y. Villalpando wrote:
> Quoting sheldon@visi.com <sheldon@visi.com>:
> > As far as clients connecting as an observer.  Hmm, I say let them break.
> Which goes against what I'm trying to do.  Tom requested extra obs
> because Team Captains who captain from observer slots were having to
> fight with other observers for the piddley 2 slots per team, if I
> remember the thread correctly.

To do this properly would require an extensive survey of where the player
slot number is used in the protocol ... in messages you might be able to
get away with allowing Fk talking, but just no talking back to them.

INL players are the most or least likely to adopt a new client to fix
this "problem?"

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