QSB network protocol

[Urre]

I felt it was easiest this way, let's just settle it with a vote.

I'm asking this because it'd be a lot easier to settle on what features to support if you don't have to care about network protocol compatibility, but it'd make multiplayer-mods made for QSB meaningless.

Note that QuakeWorld engines adopting QSB would have their own variant of this network protocol, QuakeWorld and NetQuake engines wouldn't need to be compatible between eachother.

Also supporting the old protocol would be a requirement.

[Downsider]

[Urre]

[Spirit]

[mh]

[frag.machine]

[Baker]

[Spike]

[goldenboy]

[Spike]

[ceriux]

what would be wrong with multiplayer mods again?

[Spike]

public servers generally prefer to allow as many clients as possible.
By using an extended protocol on a dedicated server, you effectively ban a whole load of clients (any that don't support the extensions).
You can draw your own conclusions from that.

Depends on the server implementation, tbh, so imho any such extensions shouldn't be made to exclude the possibility of dual-protocol servers.

[Team Xlink]

[Downsider]

[ceriux]