Even if only a few people are still running Titanium at some point, as long as we are going to support, it, we should try make them work well together. The only thing I know of that we can't make work perfectly between the 2 clients are item links and that is due to the hash that each client sees, since SoF has 5 more chars in the hash so it sees Titanium links as missing the first 5 chars. Everything else should have fixes or work-arounds in place to make the clients play as nice as possible together. The work around for models over 473 on Titanium or older is to just force them to show up as normal humans, so you don't see the frozen naked human for them. That is a nice fix for having Drakkin races on a server with Titanium players and was fairly simple to do.
Titanium players will be around for a long time to come, I am sure. People are slowly making the change, but probably 90% or more are still using Titanium. I've kinda been wanting to add a client version check to the admin webpage tool so when we list the players on the server, it shows what client they are using. That would be some cool info to have just for reference and to get an idea of how popular the SoF client is getting.
There aren't really that many things that need to be handled in an extra special way between the clients. AAs are one exception and spells are another. Most everything else is fairly minor things here and there that don't really take much thought to get put in.
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