Re: [TuxKart-devel] Work to do.

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

pmb wrote:

> Maybe Tcp/Ip multiplayer would be cool. I could do that.

We said we'd only add that "if someone comes along who
passionately wants to do it"...so maybe that just happened!

Do you really think TCP is the right way?

I generally use UDP because it's faster and has MUCH lower
latency.

In UDP, if you lose a packet, it just ignores the loss - which
for a racing game is fine because another packet is already
on it's way.   You just have to be careful about bonuses and
any permenantly changed track or character elements.

In TCP, packets are acknowledged, error checked and resent
if missing.  This is OK - but in a game like this, by the time
a missing data packet has been flagged as missing, re-requested,
and re-transmitted...another packet reflecting a later point in
time has already been sent.

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