Controlling Sim Speed

You can control the sim speed if you run a local server. It might be possible to do it through a normal api call, but I haven't figured out how yet. Instead I am using the http api.

Start the server up with the --http flag and then get into a game. Now go to one of these pages in a browser;

http://localhost:8080/api/sim_slower
http://localhost:8080/api/sim_faster
http://localhost:8080/api/sim_reset_speed

There are several other interesting api calls in the server exe that I will probably update this post with later when I get a chance to try them out. If you're feeling adventurous, open up server.exe in a text editor and see what else you can find.

It should be simple enough to mod in + and - hotkeys that just do a jQuery.GET("http://localhost:8080/api/sim_faster"); etc. so that we can control the sim speed from within the game on servers that we host ourselves.

Now on of most interesting questions it's how to make server not throttle bandwidth at 5Mbps.

it does? really? xD

uber? could you please not throttle the network of a server that was given to us for LAN-PLAY? xD
I'd say fill it as a bug and have uber fix that number

Yes it's does, but to be fair it's more like 4-4.5Mbps for long time on Uber servers. You can check it on linux server using "ifstat -i ethX".

Actually it's would be cool if network optimizations would be toggable, e.g there no reason to limit bandwidth for activity on other planets.

Hah, there's an interesting Idea, have the sim go slow-mo as a commander dies!

Neat, that should be interesting for lokiCML:

I believe there is a no throttle setting for the server, no?

Excellent; now to relearned JavaScript.