Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2917] MAXPLAYER in config.h.in

[Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Dave Ahn wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 08:24:12PM -0500, Dave Ahn wrote:
> > 
> > Ok, I just finished testing BRMH and Paradise extensively with 36 player
> > support.
> 
> By the way, other people interested in testing their clients, feel free
> to use raidio.psychosis.net 2592/2593.  It's currently set up as a pickup
> server with 16 observer ports + 4 reserved for god for a total of 36 players.

I suggest limiting the player numbers to 32, as I already changed in the
server source.  There are fields in the netrek protocol that use a 5-bit
player number or bitfields for each player.  With >32 players things get
worse, the server has to fall back to large packets, and in some cases I think
it just doesn't work properly.