my two cents on networked games

[Jim Kingdon]

> Umm, the People menu item is a local display control - how is this
> relevant to networking?

Odd, I thought I remembered this being a problem when you and I were
playing a month or two ago (you were wondering why I'd use "People"
because it "only" controls initial town generation; and I said
"exactly, I'm looking for information on where the enemy towns might
be").  But I just tried doing a networked game and couldn't reproduce
it.  Perhaps I'm remembering wrong?  Or it was a coincidence?

Another example was the "Plan type" menu item.

> only works on LANs, is not cross-platform, can't use DRI or any of the
> local speedup hacks, is not robust when someone wants to leave a game,
> etc.

Shrug.  Not completely sure whether I agree or not, but you are likely
to have a lot more time to work on it than I, so I can't really
complain.  Let me know if I can help with debugging...