The server controls everything. Clients just display whatever the server tells them to (plus maybe some temporal interpolation).
If you start doing P2P, you're opening yourself to all kinds of hacks, and increasing the amount of duplicate data traveling around.
So if you're in a battle of 3000 people, you would have to somehow connect to 3000 people, send 3000 times more data. This would probably saturate your uplink and get you banned by your ISP as a suspected botnet victim.
If you start doing P2P, you're opening yourself to all kinds of hacks, and increasing the amount of duplicate data traveling around.
So if you're in a battle of 3000 people, you would have to somehow connect to 3000 people, send 3000 times more data. This would probably saturate your uplink and get you banned by your ISP as a suspected botnet victim.