I am also tired of all this old whining about that you cant make a multiplayer game. Newbies should be helped and not scared away. Ok, in A6 days there was no MP tutorial and thus it was really hard for a beginner. But with A7, the tutorial explains step by step how to do a well working multiplayer game. Everyone should be able to create MP games now. So I think that this old whining should finally stop.

Gamestudios multiplayer functions work very well. In the other thread about ANET traffic, I made some test with a packet analyzer and found Gamestudio multiplayer very effective. External plugins cant really compare with Gamestudio in that regard. Using ANET caused six times more traffic than Gamestudio without ANET.

The best advice for any beginner is starting with the tutorial. Its also much easier to understand, the tutorial level needs far less code than an external plugin. Later then when you need some special commands from a plugin, learn using that as well.