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Re: Is anyone hosting 5th Gear Breakaway (simulator) games online?
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Originally Posted by onecoolc
Is anyone hosting games for the 5th Gear Breakaway game simulation online? My team just got it up and running today, and have six computers set up playing the game together (five players, one to host). We were wondering if anyone is hosting games online (and if no one is, how can we look into it?)
Sorry if this is posted in the wrong forum, or has already been asked. If it has, please post a link?
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The sort answer is "No"; but....
By sharing IP addresses with other players, and by ensuring that all firewalls between you and them are open (I'll post the ports we use in 5th Gear soon) you can take a shot at playing over a Wide Area Network (i.e. the Internet).
However, we have not yet attempted to tune the interactions between the clients and servers to make WAN play (with non-trivial message travel times) work well. I have a hunch that if you can keep the server-to/from-client delays under 50 msecs, thing will work OK; but don't hate me if I'm mistaken.
So, my big non-answer is to say "Recruit some other adventurous souls. Give it a try. See what happens; and then let us all know."
Blake
PS: This is one of our top topics for summer of 2010 improvements.
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