World clocks now in sync
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The game world clock is now synced across network clients, time advance and day-night cycles locked. Accuracy is down to round-trip packet times plus a few milliseconds. More than enough to keep entity spawn times and waypoint navigation in close sync.
I'm as yet unsure how often to send clock updates, currently it's every half-second which is quite aggressive, it's easy enough to tweak. Clocks run on client and frame-rate independent so they don't need to be updated often. They just need the occasional time sync from the host or when the host is changing the time-of-day.
Chat channels work well, need to add the player name to the prefix. We have a player profile set in the game config but this carries no player name or any other data as yet.
Almost ready to test that NAT punch-through.
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