FFA interference

[roncli]

One of my very first FFA games back, I had my ship do this. People were seeing some really weird things happen. Basically my ship would appear motionless, but whenever I fired, whatever direction my ship was actually facing was the direction the GHOST ship would fire out of. It was as if I was connected to the game *twice* somehow.

It's the only time it ever happened, and I've never personally seen it since.

[Entropy]

There was that game where my ship was super bouncy for no reason. A reconnect fixed it. I was also observing a 4-5 man game in Rie2mann and from my point of view one of the ships was permanently stuck in place with no visual rotation. However to everyone else he was flying around normally. From my point of view I would see shots come out of his stationary ship from all angles (because he was rotating and flying normally to other people). When he would die his ship would just disappear and then reappear, frozen in place once again.

[The@$$Man!]

Perhaps something in the netcode needs be to re-looked at again? Maybe another method needs to be put into place.

[Drakona]

[birdseye]

[roncli]

- I wrote this up because I wanted to prevent unfortunate situations like what happened to Hyper in the future. While this would prevent accidental problems, it would NOT prevent intentional hacks.

I would also be for hard-coding the damage numbers in a #define and take the damage numbers from the bacon files out of the equation entirely, but I'm not sure on the legality of that.

[Sirius]

There's a pretty decent chance most of the contents of said bacon files is owned by Parallax, who are actually moderately easy to get hold of these days... given that a bunch of scalar numbers don't really represent anything profoundly creative, you might be able to get permission to do it.