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"Andrew" <spamtrap@localhost.> wrote in message
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> ...it is a dumb idea to allow
> merging of architectures on the same servers.

It's not a dumb idea, it's just not workable.

If plausible, it would open up the field of available opponents and
team-mates, and settle once and for all the console vs. PC argument (and
probably allow some intra-console ranking as well).

However, the basic differences between the various consoles, and the console
generically vs. the PC, would lead to natural segregation as players band
together in architecture-based groups to even the playing field.

The only practical way would be to have a TFC-type game where the abilities
of the platform are an intrinsic part of the abilities of the player - so
for example a slower machine or connection would have only lumbering, tough
characters* available, whereas a state-of-the-art broadband machine would
only have fragile, agile characters available, such as the sniper.

* It's so long since I played I forgot the player class of the
minigun-toting character.