[War-devel] Plans for multiserver "backbone" structure

[Thomas L. <tl...@id...>]

Hi

Nice subj :-)

I have 2 weeks holiday from friday, and then I have (finally) time to
code again.

Plans for the holiday are:

* basic mainserver + gameserver structure
* basic chatroom

All in all: networking

I have been thinking about implememnting a server structure ala:

  main  <---->  main
 /  | \           |
gs  gs gs         gs
|   |  | \	 / |\
c   c  c  c	c  c c

main = mainserver holding login info, game stats, experience point for
squads, chat relay, list of gameservers connected, etc
gs = gameservers. These run the games, and are the servers that clients
(c) connect to. The gameservers validate the user/passwd with the main
servers, and get lists of other users connectd to the "war network". A
ggameserver could be one of the clients actually.

Communication between mainservers and gs<->main are encryptd somehow.
When reporting stats back to main servers from games, we should
implemnent some validation thing with keys so nobody can cheat. I have
absolutely no clue how to do this, but thats the fun of programming -
learning :-)

In the beginning there will only be 1 mainserver.

Comments?

/Thomas