[bf1942] Query protocol

[Lars-Erik Stenholm]

Hi!

We have also been working with the query protocol for some time with
BF Tracks. It seems that the server leaves "ghost" images of
players in slots higher than numplayers (i.e player_NN). 

I'm not completely sure if this is correct but what we do is that 
we only "keep" player-id:s lower than numplayers. Our empirical 
study shows that this is the correct way to handle the "bug". 

Without knowing how the system really works it seems to me that 
the server is moving players to lower slots on the fly to keep 
them in the "lower-than-numplayers" slots. 

Maybe Andreas can acknowledge or clarify this?

So if the server reports numplayers 0 it really means that there 
are no players on the server and the guys that are reported are  
only cheap digital echoes of real players. :-)

Best regards,
Lasse

P.s Nb, this is not a Linux specific issue.

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On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 16:22, Morten Striboldt wrote:
> After I made a query util for BF1942 I have noticed some problems with
> the responses from the servers.
> 'numplayers' are not equal to the array with players. Very often
> numplayers (which seems to be the right one) is '0' but I keep getting
> player informations (such as names, frags deats and so on).
> 
> Best regards,
> Morten Striboldt