[Pierre-Marie Baty]

The way you intend to do things would work, however I don't think it's a smart way to do things. To me players should also be represented as entities. Players should be represented as players to hold what the player knows about himself, and also as entity to hold what others know about him.

If you look in my code you'll see the player_t structure encapsulates a pointer to a corresponding entity_t structure.