I've got two eyes and half a brain. Having read some of the old (and recent) posts, it's obvious why you guys are all a bunch of asses.
What you're saying makes sense, sort of. Makes more sense to me that once you've hammered out your basic opcodes, you don't change them. Maybe you add more for more features. If you update the server then you need to update the client, but updating the client shouldn't mean the server needs to be updated with these new opcodes if it doesn't intend to use them. The old ones should be completely backwards compatible. I dunno, maybe there's more going on in a MM game like Everquest than can be handled by a small collection of set codes. I'd imagine when dealing with 50k users every bit counts, so it's worth it to cut where they can, but cricky, it's been 4 or 5 years, hasn't it? The networking protocol should be perfect by now.
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