Sending every player's position every tick eats the bandwidth of a big match

Most of the time a body just keeps moving the way everyone already expects, or stands still. Telling everybody everything is wasteful, and telling nobody until something happens leaves idle players looking disconnected. Here is a rule for when a body must speak up, and why it has to match what the receivers assume.

Why this works

If sender and receivers use the very same guess, the sender knows what the others believe, and a message is only needed when that belief is wrong. A regular signal in quiet times separates a still player from a lost one.

When not to use it

Wrong for movement that is hard to guess, such as erratic dodging, where the error is always large and you send every time anyway. Also skip it in small matches, where the saving is not worth the added complexity.

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