Re: Game 939 - Questions and Feature Requests.

[Jon Davis <davisje@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

File size:

We ran a game a few months ago with fifteen players and about 100 ships.
The files sizes towards the end of that game were 800 kB.

The good news is that the new interface was able to handle it easily.
The bad news is that the files got very large.  We had brief discussions
about using compression to send out the files.

XML:

I had put together a DTD about four years ago, but it became obsolete
quickly.  A Schema file would be preferred for the current version.

Your suggestions are welcome.  The issue for a XML file format change
is compatibility from the two versions of the file for the server and
the clients. 


>>I did notice that in the XML
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>>I might come up with a bunch of XML suggestions soon, are you working 
>>to an
>>XSD or DTD or is it a little too loose for that at the moment?
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>It's very loose at the moment. I think that it would be useful for some
>of the JUnit tests. A review of the format would be appropriate pre-1.0
>release.
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