Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2432] Extra observers

[Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>]

Quoting 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?"
> 

Whatever happened to the "observer server" concept. Where the actual server
sends packets to the observer server and it then distributed the packets to
all the observers.

I remember thinking that was a pretty good idea when it was first discussed.

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