Re: [palito-dev] on simultaneous orders

[Gabriel Blum]

> The current code just processes all stuff for all the units each frame.

I've read a technical doc of RTS research group where they describe how
they coded a simple NETWORKED RTS game with visibility and collision, to
serve as a study framework

They ran performance tests on the server. In a map, the server was able to
sustain 1500 units simulations with
2d collisions and visibility over 5 frames / sec;
The test was performed on Nov 2002, IIRC.  I think this is a poor
performance for the server. I saw the code, very messy.

But the useful info is that from the client perspective, not very much
bandwidth was consumed.

For a 200 moving unit player, the client was working with 3kb/s download and
1kb/s upload data.
They some *simple* compressing techniques I haven't explored, but based on
the idea of
only sending orders relative to the previous frame of the simulation...
something like mpeg does or so