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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 23:41:17 +1100
From: Byron Forbes <hosh@ar.com.au>
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We could at least live without smoke, dust, fire, etc.... for starters. And I see no
real reason for revs/selected gear info to be exchaged either. I would sacrifice this
stuff for better connections any day. Same goes for front wheel orientation! Overkill on
Papy's part if you ask me. Ok for LANs but ridiculous for the internet.

Andrew MacPherson wrote:
> 
> > They should of simply copied whatever
> > other sim developers did that works.
> 
> As you keep reminding me, I've no idea what's going on inside GPL. Similarly you have no
> idea what's being passed back and forth on the Net compared to other games/sims, and
> how necessary all that data is.
> 
> It's quite possible Papyrus could get away with exchanging a simple x,y,z coord for other
> cars. It'd be interesting to see it tried. In the mean time I'll be enjoying myself online, warts
> and all.
> 
> Andrew McP

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 Byron Forbes
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