Spring and PW

[NMDANGE]

Ok, it definitely seems like there's nothing definitive on which way the lobby is going, there's at least 2 different things going on...

So what I'm going to do is take the current lobby and use it as a starting point, and anything else can use the same network protocol (pain in the neck as it is). I'm only going to make a couple minor modifications to the client and add the Spring Lobby protocol to the PW server. The only changes to the client itself are using Network Byte Ordering, using a Guid for channels (as that is what the PW server uses) and changing a couple of constants. Of course the source for the modified client will be made available along with the binary.

It's going to take a number of days to recode the server side of the protocol for the PW server, but it shouldn't be too big of a job. I'm going to stick with the features the current client has for now...ranking and galaxy and other extras can come later.

[Ace07]

I don't mind if other people create lobbies and whatnot. The reason why I am still working on this "new" one is because we need it to be cross-platform. For right now, it could be a nice solution to some of the buggier features of the old client though.

[coryrc]

If anybody gives out the existing protocol, I'm willing to use it; I know we both asked for it.

[NMDANGE]

I've gone through the code and reverse engineered it, although I haven't done every message yet. I'll include the protocol along with the modified client.