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Originally Posted by Fquist
A second challenge is how to command clients to give info on their variables, how to communicate this info between the scripting clients of various people and how to change things for everyone. It should be possible to somehow arrange this by changing certain variables that are sent to other clients, and the scripting programs at the client's computer would somehow understand this and reply (by doing something, or sending data back). What about sending something like a shot being fired at some unused location?
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The easiest way to do this would be to have parallel network communication. Using JJ2's networking (like a shot being fired) would be difficult and limited. The scripting program could run in client or server mode alongside JJ2, and send data separately.
Many of your suggestions can be done already with simple server-side programs (Project Controller for example), but I think they could be done more elegantly with extra server-client communication.
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