If you can pull off the mythical Raknet/3DGS merger, you'd be a god. How LONG have we been talking about that, eh?

And so far, the only DLLs we've used are the MySQL one and a few custome built ones that allows us to manipulate data easier. I can see however how adding custom funcionality would make the network happier but like it's been said, 3DGS is an "all in one" engine so it has to do everything just well enough... MP or MMP will never be 3DGS's strength but it's a great platform to develop you network skills, ideas, to prototype your game, to get some vision of it, etc.

Personally, if I jump ship in the next year or so to expand the architecture of our MMOG platform, then I'm not doing middleware anymore, I'm going straight to The Multiverse.

I mean personally, I find networking facinating and all that, but it's only a means to the end... the end being making games of course. As such, I (much like you two I suspect) have had to become networking experts to even attempt the simplest MP or MMP application. With Multiverse, it's ready, it's done, it's MMP, it's has great backing, etc.

I'll be using the Multiverse engine in a few months for various purposes and I have to say, if C-Lite doesn't shape up 3DGS MP, this is very likely where you will find me soon!