With the save system I mentioned earlier, I suggest that the multiplayer loading process will be changed, in this scenario there are 2 players, 1 is a host, the other is a player. Client is the game.
Progressive multiplayer loading,
A map string is sent to the player from the server, the player's client will generate the map and instantly sees the map, while this is happening, data is sent to the player's client from the server starting from the nearest objects and the user sees everything popping up.
Full multiplayer loading before play.
Same system we have now but instead of sending the whole save file, the server will send the map string and than the player's client will generate the map while on a separate thread the server is still sending the data tot he client and the client keeps on generating the map. This gives out faster loading times and more playing time, less of a headache and hassle to host a server
Combined multiplayer loading.
Implementing both systems at once, player's client will receive map string and generate the map while the server will send the first bit of data for nearby items etc, the game continues to play and the client will progressively receives further away items while playing.
With any of the 3 systems I posted, the game in multiplayer will load much faster and even people have de-sync issues, they will not get too frustrated
Thanks,
Clayton
