[VANILLA-L:1428] Re: VANILLA2.9

[James Cameron <cameron@stl.dec.com>]

Jeffrey Nowakowski wrote:
> One of the reasons why I think the default should be 10 is because of
> the push for new players.  The game just looks so much better at 10.

Chuckle.  Yes.  And I've been very silent on this REALITY keyword in
.sysdef now, because it has the potential to fragment the player base
yet more.  REALITY is the time between updates ... one can create a
practice server that runs at half speed, or a turbo server that runs at
twice normal speed.

A half speed server requires more teamwork, and a double speed server
requires less teamwork.  But I don't want to push either, because some
limited experiments at Digital showed that players lose some ability to
play normal speed if they play at other reality speeds.

Players would then tend to sit only on their preferred server.

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