smaller client machines

[Philip Brown <>]

I noted the point that
"people may be playing on macs, pee-cee's, {...}, and will have limited
 space" somewheres in the latest mail flood :-)
This was in reference to clients storing lots of information about
servers, I believe.

Quite frankly, that's not an argument we can afford to listen to.
Crossfire is a net-intensive, space-intensive, RAM-intensive game.
If they haven't got the space, they just can't play, too bad.
Let's have no 8088 compatability here!

Net-connected macs/whatever usually share space on a fileserver. This is
perfect. All of the little machines could share one main crossfire client
directory.  Then, when one of them connects to a server and gets the
latest pixmaps, no-one else has to.

Note that there is a "slight" contension problem here, if multiple peole
from the same site try to sign on to a new site at the same time!
Since the same thing applies to any site with shared filesystems, and a
shared client installation, considering a way out of that is not being
machine+client specific.