Re: [Civil-devel]Timing problems

[Mike E. <me...@me...>]

On 30 Jul 2001 11:25:26 +0300, Jan Ekholm wrote:
> Here be dragons.

Yup.  I think you have diagnosed symptoms correctly, and that workaround
might be a good thing on its own merits.  Maybe have plans throw an
exception when they're finished, and let the server loop send the done
command was my thought, but it amounts to the same thing.  However, the
sequencing issue makes me a bit nervous.  I'll try to chase that down -
ought to learn that code anyway - otherwise it will come back and bite
us later.  What I really don't get is why we have the bug for fire but
not for move; I don't see the difference...?


Question on attack types: is the shooting actually handled differently,
or is it a matter of differences in the plans about formation, movement
rates, when to fire vs. move, etc.?  It would be nice if that all
derived from unit state and plan rather than being explicitly coded in.



As to GGZ, I think a chat room and meta-server would be nifty; really,
all the metaserver would need to do is let remote clients find each
other and agree on who will run server - communications don't have to be
relayed through it.

Somewhat off-topic: any of you guys run across XML-RPC?  I hear
generally good things about it.  At this point I think our custom
protocol is the right thing, mind you, mostly curious for general
opinions...

- mikee