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Ryan "Ridah" Feltrin
Miscellaneous | Programmer, Xatrix Entertainment | Mar 6 2000, 06:05:43 (ET) | ridah@frag.com
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Login: ridah Name: Ryan Feltrin
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Ryan Feltrin
ridah@frag.com
Technology & AI Programmer, Grey Matter Studios.
03-06-2000
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I would like to take some time to explain a few things regarding some comments
I've recently read on the Shack boards.
First, regarding the status of the Kingpin netcode.
This is something I have looked at several times, after hearing some negative
feedback from a few users. Each time I've looked into it, I have failed to
find any hard evidence of network code inefficiencies.
I did spend a fair chunk of time cutting network traffic both during and
after the completion of Kingpin. I introduced more delta compression in the
entity packet stream, moved chunks of server code over to the client, and
removed single-player legacy fields that were not important to multiplayer
gaming.
This does not equate to better network code, but it does at least suggest
that we made an effort to make things better, even if the end result is
that the network conditions will eventually decide whether the game is
playable or not.
There is no action game made to date, that can seemlessly counter
an unreliable or lack of network bandwidth between you and the server.
My advice is to look for a server with a consistent ping in your server
browser. If a dozen pings return a wide range of times, it's probably not
a very reliable server, and will likely result in higher packet-loss.
Another thing to keep in mind, as that a higher percentage of win32 servers
are likely to be sitting on a cable or DSL link (read: unpredictable) than
are linux servers, which often sit on T1 or OC-x level connections
(read: reliable).
Unfortunately, Kingpin has a high percentage of servers running on win32,
which increases the chances of players ending up on unreliable servers, due
to the typical links these machines are behind, and the likelyhood that
they are used for more than just a Kingpin server.
Secondly, the timing of the Kingpin SDK might not have been ideal, but given
the release schedule of the binary patches, it just didn't make sense to
put out the SDK until the game was all patched up. Unfortunately I was unable
to compile the 1.21 release for Linux at the time of release, so that was
left at v1.2, and the v1.21 SDK was released only with win32 components.
This has left Kingpin in a state of dissarry.
Several changes have occured since the v1.21 release, which means I am
not in the position to make statements regarding any future releases, since
Kingpin is now officially the property of a company I no longer work for.
All I can say, is that I will do the best I can to alleviate the situation.
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