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[jbadams]

I thought people might want to check out The Poor Man's Netcode - Evan Todd discusses his approach to networking in his upcoming game "Deceiver".

He's stumbled on to a real life example of premature optimization, and the approach he ended up using in his networking code is often used by professionals.

[Schrompf]

Nice write up. I don't agree with everything he wrote, but I sure agree on the basic principle of "keep it simple and straight forward".

I just wonder how he implements handing out different delta packets to different clients. That would imply some feedback channel which tells the server about the last packet the client received. High frequency updates are usually fire-and-forget, and even if you implement a feedback channel, it would be outdated by hundreds of milliseconds.