[Server Side Suggestion] Compressing data before sending

[Abhi]

This is mainly aimed at Whack. 

 

I have seen that it takes a lot of time to login the first time a player logs in. I was just wondering whether you could just compress the packets sent from the server to the client and vice versa. It will help bandwidth for both the host and the player. 

 

Thanks. 

[Ueda]

We'll be separating our login server from the game server

[Aido]

Cool, does that mean there will be less lag for players in general?

[Bubbles]

what? compressing? yeh it lowers bandwidth usage but it takes some cpu usage instead... i think, idk shit

[Abhi]

I am not sure but I think to increase CPU usage it would have to be a big file. 

But since the Login and game servers are separate, there isn't going to be much of a problem. 

[Blastcore]

what? compressing? yeh it lowers bandwidth usage but it takes some cpu usage instead... i think, idk shit

 

Yeah.