I've been playing around with stratus, and in the situation that you want several people connected and to be able to have any given peer send a message to all other peers, the only way to do this it seems is to create sort of a web of streams.
So in the case of 4 people all talking to each other, you would need a send stream and a receive stream for every peer. So with 4 people, each person has 6 active streams, 8 people, 14 active streams. So unless I'm completely mistaken about needing to do this, it seems that P2P is great for a small number of people connected, but very quickly becomes much slower than FMS when dealing with (guess) 4 or more.
I'm interested in learning the most efficient ways of connecting several people together with P2P. I'm guessing that the way network games do this (pure speculation) is that one person acts as a host and p2p traffic all gets routed through that host? Or is it more complicated than that?
It's a whole new world in the flash player ![]()
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