Author Topic: Why is there an Addon limit?  (Read 3085 times)

I have downloaded a whoppin' whole entire RTB archive from a website that goes by the name of swololo (yes, that is really the website name.) It's about 0.9 GB (999.06 MB). And if you have that whole RTB archive downloaded, it should be faster upon loading next time.

The thing is just I don't understand why there is an datablock limit, and I know you don't want to be sitting hours for 9000+ addons to download, but hey, if you downloaded that whole RTB archive, then it should be faster then!

(only if you have good internet)
The fact that it's nearly 1 GB proves our point even more. No one wants to sit and download that much.

You aren't even going to be able to make a good server with every single add-on. There's no good use for it.

If you're hosting a DM, use a small selection of weapons with a common theme, preferably matching the theme of the build, with their mix of strengths and weaknesses.
If you're not hosting a DM, then you don't need any weapons. They don't add any value. No one needs people pointlessly shooting them in the face while they're building.

Vehicles don't really add value to most games.
If you need vehicles for a gamemode, use a small selection of vehicles that fit together. You don't need every single one.

Find a decent selection of brick packs.
Downloading every single one just clutters your brick menu with redundancy and stuff you'll never use.

Music is just tacky most of the time. Maybe one or two files to add some ambiance to the build.

Grab a couple environment files to create the look and feel your build is going for. You don't need to continuously change it.
« Last Edit: October 02, 2016, 05:34:47 PM by Headcrab Zombie »



i have ~4.7 GB of addons

my addons include:

-the rtb archive
-all of the weapons and tools up-to-date
-all of the vehicles and colorsets as of new years 2015
-all of the game modes as of summer 2015
-some private scripts

i spent too much time downloading things i've never used

Don't you mean gigabyte?
No. TB. As in Terabyte. And yes, I have that size of a computer.

You mean 1 TB hard drive. Not computer.
1 TB hard drives are nothing to brag about these days. It's pretty standard. So stop bragging about it.

Hard drive size isn't the problem here.
It's network speed and the limitations of a 15 year old game engine.

But limitations or no, the truth is you simply don't need that many add-ons.
Get a few add-ons that add to the type of server you're making. Any more is just noise.

Either way. Jared VASTLY missed the context of Siberian's post.
Headcrab mistakenly said the archive was 1 TB instead of 1 GB. In which, Siberian corrected that. I don't even know how you could think someone meant your hard drive was only 1 GB.