Sending Input to the Game Server

Pros

• The computation for all players is done at once on one machine.
• Each player receives the same game state.

Cons

• The player has to wait for the server's response to his/her input.

Sending Game Actions to the Game Server

Pros

• The player will not experience any latency relating to his/her own actions.

Cons

• The server has to stitch together and arrange multiple events from multiple players to be sent back out to the players.

Summary

It takes more work for a server to listen to multiple player's actions than it is to just take their input, calculate the result, and return a game state for all players.

Sending Input to the Game Server

Pros

• The computation for all players is done at once on one machine.
• Each player receives the same game state.

Cons

• The player has to wait for the server's response to his/her input.

Sending Game Actions to the Game Server

Pros

• The player will not experience any latency relating to his/her own actions.

Cons

• The server has to stitch together and arrange multiple events from multiple players to be sent back out to the players.

Summary

It takes more work for a server to listen to multiple players' actions than it is to just take their input, calculate the result, and return a game state for all players.

Sending Input to the Game Server Pros

Sending Input to the Game Server

Pros

• The computation for all players is done at once on one machine.
• Each player receives the same game state.

Cons

• The player has to wait for the server's response to his/her input.

Sending Game Actions to the Game Server

Pros

• The player will not experience any latency relating to his/her own actions.

Cons

• The server has to stitch together and arrange multiple events from multiple players to be sent back out to the players.

Summary

It takes more work for a server to listen to multiple player's actions than it is to just take their input, calculate the result, and return a game state for all players.