Hi again!

In my network test game i have some factories (1 per network player).
These factories steam clouds if they're working.
The cloudes have no big job - only fade away.

The problem now is that I get A LOT of entites to be controlled by the server (what creates a lot of traffic).

Is it possible to create (and controll) the cloudes of (all) the factories on the client not on the server because they needn't to be synchronised?

Always when a client factory's skill10 > 0 it should steam out cloudes (on every client) but not serverside generated.

How can I realize this?

look at "ent_createlocal(STRING* filename, VECTOR* position, function);"

Jup, do as much as possible local.

Effects and stuff can be (in normal case) made server-independent.
But it is not only up to effects, many other things can be reduced to only "triggers" to targets or handles, so that the rest is calculated local. The advantage is huge:
1. less traffic
2. less complicated game network control
3. less lag/jumps

One nice example is my game Starbattle I think, which was intended to send as few values as possible while keeping the gameplay smooth and filled with action using just trigger values, few vectors and handles.