Spring RTS Engine

Couple quick questions about hosting:

1) What specs are good to have on the host PC? IE does it matter if it has a good video card or does it needs lots of CPU/RAM, etc?

2) Is there a substantial performance hit by running the host on one of the players' PCs?

Thanks,
Aztek

You don't need a good PC. All you need is a fast connection. Every player runs the game on their own PC.

And you don't even need a fast connection if you use an autohost. Hosting a game on SpringDownloader uses an autohost by default. SpringLobby allows you to do so as well by checking the Relayhost checkbox.

So basically it assigns one of the players to be the host ingame anyways?

Since the simulation runs on each client, the host only transfers commands as overhead.
Using a relayhost delegates the job of handling the network traffic to the relayhost, so you dont even need a fast connection.

What's a relayhost?

Beherith wrote: Using a relayhost delegates the job of handling the network traffic to the relayhost, so you dont even need a fast connection.

Aztek wrote:What's a relayhost?

What is this? Jeopardy?