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Modification Help / Re: RTB Development

« on: April 24, 2010, 09:53:14 AM »

I'd rather not. Everyone should be keeping up to date with RTB add-ons, and updates will be displayed on the main menu as they start their game. It's a waste of time for me to code in the functionality for a tiny minority who haven't yet updated their add-ons.

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Modification Help / Re: RTB Development

« on: April 24, 2010, 05:50:35 AM »

If there is new content in an updated mod, or something was removed, will the user redownload the content package?

Only if they join a server with that mod enabled, RTB would then check if the user has the latest content version and re-download if necessary before joining. The server basically says "I have add-ons x, y and z" as the client joins, and the client then downloads those add-ons from RTB. There's no version comparison between the server and client.

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Modification Help / Re: RTB Development

« on: April 24, 2010, 05:37:28 AM »

Probably, but that's an acceptable limitation of the system. In an ideal world people will keep their RTB add-ons up to date (the auto-updater will be fixed in v3.4) and for the most part everyone will be using updated add-ons except for fringe cases. I think it'll be such an obscure and rarely encountered problem that it's not worth worrying about.

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Modification Help / Re: RTB Development

« on: April 24, 2010, 04:58:31 AM »

RTB prefs let you set a function that's called whenever the update is connected, so the authors could add a similar style of message using it.
If the server has a lower version than the content file on RTB then those files won't be available so the individual ones can be downloaded by the normal slow method (or skipped with the options in the Network menu)

Currently I've got it just grabbing the latest version of it off RTB. It doesn't make sense for an outdated server to waste a client's bandwidth downloading an outdated copy just because the server host can't be bothered to update.

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Modification Help / Re: RTB Development

« on: April 24, 2010, 04:47:09 AM »

Loading would be insanely faster (downloading a standard zip file takes about 5 seconds whereas downloading all the things inside it one by one from a player's server can take in the range of 5 minutes), and you can disable it entirely or click "Skip" if you get bored waiting.

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Modification Help / Re: RTB Development

« on: April 24, 2010, 03:51:01 AM »

and force players to update their add-ons before joining a server.

The problem here is more with the server having outdated add-ons and the player being up-to-date, but each time a player starts Blockland it will check for updates for all the user's add-ons and each time they join a server it will check for updates for those specific add-ons.

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Modification Help / Re: RTB Development

« on: April 23, 2010, 08:39:47 PM »

(no suggestions please)

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Off Topic / Re: Do pigeons explode?

« on: April 23, 2010, 05:23:24 PM »

I am going to partly disregard everything you say, ever. You may have had love with a woman before, but you're still too stupid to re-earn my respect. It't people like you that make me a drama lurker.

That is pathetic. I think the real reason you're a "drama lurker" is because you're too stupid to take part in any sort of intelligent discussion and you have no other outlet for all your pent up teenage angst. Stop trying to blame other people for your own shortcomings as a human being.

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Modification Help / Re: RTB Development

« on: April 23, 2010, 12:18:38 PM »

If there are any other critical bugs in RTB that people know of (no suggestions please) then if you could re-post them here that'd be good. I'd like to try and squeeze some into v3.4.

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Modification Help / Re: RTB Development

« on: April 23, 2010, 10:53:50 AM »

Yes, that's the plan.

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Modification Help / Re: RTB Development

« on: April 23, 2010, 10:26:37 AM »

I have no interest in Google Wave so I have no idea what it does, and the StackOverflow one doesn't seem to lend itself well to formatting (such as code blocks or quote blocks) in the replies.

I'm going to go with a basic ability for the submitter to reply to a comment which can start a sub-thread which can then be replied to but will still stay at a depth of one. Like so:

+ Comment
+ Comment
+ Comment
+ --- Reply (by Submitter)
+ --- Another Reply
+ --- Another Reply
+ Comment
+ Comment

Comment threads aren't very detailed discussions so it'd be a waste of time to do so much work on them and multi-level commenting is a total pain in the ass from my perspective both in code structure and layout integration.

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Off Topic / Re: Random question:

« on: April 23, 2010, 09:52:18 AM »

I thought Badspot said somewhere that you had to wait like 40 seconds in between posts.

Another benefit of using RTB. The RTB Mod Bot is exempt from this rule.

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Off Topic / Re: Random question:

« on: April 23, 2010, 05:41:06 AM »

Then again, there's the Add-ons forum

Another benefit of using RTB. The RTB Mod Bot can re-post all her threads in minutes!

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Modification Help / Re: RTB Development

« on: April 23, 2010, 05:36:13 AM »

It depends on whether people want multi-tiered replying. If it's just youtube style then I'll go with some indentation and coloring.

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Help / Re: RTB Mod Manager Says "Invalid Blockland ID"

« on: April 23, 2010, 05:10:08 AM »

Can you take a picture of the error? Or give the exact message?