Ahh, if it's the buffer size... That can be fixed easily enough. > -----Original Message----- > From: vanilla-list-admin at us.netrek.org > [mailto:vanilla-list-admin at us.netrek.org] On Behalf Of Trent Piepho > Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 8:04 PM > To: Vanilla Netrek Mailing List > Subject: [Vanilla List] continuum bugs and cow bugs > > > The downgrade of genspkt.c on continuum has caused a few > problems. The code to indicate observers is now missing. > When there are lots of observers, people with one column > player lists run out of room for real players. Some clients > can turn off observers in the player list to make room, but > that don't work. > > The problem with stats updating has been re-introduced. It > still sometimes takes 10 minutes for everyone's stats to be > displayed after login. > > And there is a bug where player flag packets are never sent. > > All these bugs were fixed in the latest (like a year old!) version. > > The problem with full updates messing up COW users is not > caused by genspkt.c. > The version 1.20 that continuum is using just doesn't exhibit > it because the no flag packet bug covers it up. The real > problem is that the increase to 32 players made the full > update packet larger than a 768 byte buffer COW uses. > The solution is to increase the buffer size in COW, not add > bugs to the server that make the problem disappear for a bit. > > If you are going to release a now cow, how about fixing this bug? > > _______________________________________________ > vanilla-list mailing list > vanilla-list at us.netrek.org > https://mailman.real-> time.com/mailman/listinfo/vanilla-list > >