Hi.

I'm developing a fast paced networked action game. In my game, the server keeps a circular buffer of past gamestates, so I can replay client input in the past (for client prediction)

My question is, how do i handle object creation in the circular buffer?

For example, let's say the server has received an input from client A, telling it to fire bullets (my bullets are ballistic types, not instantaneous) at frame 10. 3 bullets are created, and I send these objects creation to each of the clients.

When I'll be replaying my circular buffer during the next timestep, those bullets will be re-created, and not necessarily with the same ids, which is a problem, because I don't want to resend the creation of these bullets to each client!

Is my question clear enough ? How can I handle the fact that some actions need to be definitive (object creation), while at the same time replaying my circular buffer of past gamestates according to new user input?