====== Updated Map Protocol ======
==== Ideas ====
  * <del>More layers</del> (done in CVS by mwedel)
  * Filling in rectangular areas?
    * Would greatly reduce bandwidth used when sending floors and to a lesser degree walls
    * Probably too complicated to be worthwhile
  * Impliment a streaming compression protocol
    * Has been tested to be more efficent than selectively compressing large packets (map ones)
  * <del>Make use of the "map2" proposal in doc/Developers/protocol of the server source</del> (done in CVS by mwedel)
    * It's extendability should be able to accommodate features such as these
  * Send location of light sources (see [[lighting|Revamp Lighting]])
    * Split as seperate packet possibly, but listed here as the client may still use it in display of the map

==== More information ====
  * [[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.games.crossfire.general/433|Crossfire mailing list: server map code redo.]]

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Just my 0.02€, but using gzip on the conenction would likely be more effective than special protocol support for rectangular
areas. Likewise animations.. I analyzed a few streams and found that animation bandwidth use can be reduced to a few bytes/timestep that way. The computational effort is also comparable to implementing special protocol extensions like filling areas.

Compression would be more efficient, easier to implement and more stable. IMnsHO. pcg@goof.com