[zharknado]

This discussion reminds me a bit of the description of Fujitsu trying to implement Habitat in Japan:

“…instead of sending a command message to the object on the server, the client would send the X-Y coordinates of your mouse click. The server would then render its own copy of the scene into an internal buffer to figure out what object you had clicked on. Not only was this extremely inefficient, but the race conditions inherent a multi-user environment meant that it also sometimes just got the wrong answer. It was amazing…”

http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-an...