Creating a New AIM Server

[OhHelloThereImTheGuy]

@Wildman_Fujiami

Way back in the day (early 2000s), we made a server / client for Populous 3 in VB6

@Wildman_Fujiami

The user count got above about 13 or so. Then it was latency and desync hell.

That’s a very vividly hellish image.

@Wildman_Fujiami

It was a simpler server than Xeon’s because it didn’t have all this conversion and encoding nonsense to do.

That’s what you get with an IDE that doesn’t support actual ASCII byte support or clean Win32 API support (cough BSTR cough), like C++ or C# would (although VB .NET might be more lenient with Win32 APIs).