PBW, First Impressions.. (Multiplayer discussion)

[David E. Gervais]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
The idea about only sending the information that has changed instead of the whole game file is interesting. Would speed things up some.

I noticed that the .plr file we send is always around 7-8k and the save game download is 400-500k (so far). I find it strange that the 6 players send in approx 48k of data (6x8k) and each have to then dl a 400+k file. it seems to me that much of what is in the save game file could be saved localy, or if the game is running then perhaps much of it would not be needed. (Send 8k and recieve 48k (the combined info processed by the server.) and have each local game play out the others moves.)

just a thought, Cheers!