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

[Dave Ahn <ahn@vec.wfubmc.edu>]

On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 02:56:19PM -0500, Mark Mielke wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 05:30:26PM -0800, Trent Piepho wrote:
> > 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.

Well, as far as I can tell from client sources, there are no obvious
problems with using 32 vs 36 players...the only thing it does is add to
the various i < MAXPLAYER loops.  The bugs are completely on the server side.

I agree that we should leave the server MAXPLAYER at 32, but I think that
upping client MAXPLAYER to 36 is the better choice if we ever plan on fixing
whatever is broken with >32 player support on the server side.

Are we going to fix the server?  If not, I will drop MAXPLAYER down to 32
on the clients.

Dave

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