[glob2-devel] further direction for mars and months to come

[Leo Wandersleb]

hi *

bradley kept asking me what should be done and i didn't say much as i felt he's 
doing much and doing fine.
now i feel a bit at a point i wish to base direction on a broader basis as the 
broken nicowar at fosdem and some ideas on switching back to udp made me nervous 
on weather things are still fine now and for future development.

- for at least steph and me stability has top-most priority. there are no new 
features after feature freeze period. testing is a must. all known bugs must be 
dealt with. those tons of valgrind output should be dealt with, too.

- networking: i thought routing should be done like now (tcp routing via yog) 
just with the addition that every client launches a restricted server, too. so 
once the game starts (after pre game screen), the main yog server can move routing
* to one of those connected clients' servers if possible,
* to another server that registered as "open server" if not and
* do the routing itself as a final resolution.

this should do for lan game as a subset of central yog. just connect to a yog 
server on the lan.
* join yog (join yog.globulation2.org)
* start lan (join localhost. make localhost an open server. localhost can change 
settings like max. games and allowed IPs)
* join lan (join ip)
* etc/init.d/glob2-server start (headless (no X needed). start a yog-server that 
registers at yog.globulation2.org as open for game routing of n commands/s)

what should be very robust would be the handing over to another server. if gameN 
routes via serverM those connected to it should not notice once playerM leaves 
(lost) and switches off the pc. the server object should go back to the next 
higher yog server (clients would ask there, too.) and this should be able to 
delegate again for the running game. to be robust this server would get a 
request for new routing by all the clients that lost their server all providing 
their respective serverID and last valid command queue. that should be all it 
needs to re-delegate the game smoothly.

- other features excluding AI improvements as the AI is far beyond strong enough 
already.

Greetings,

Leo Wandersleb