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Need people to download/archive/upload things
Badspot:
To clarify, this update allows clients who are connecting to a server to download needed art files from a central website. It also eliminates duplicate file downloads and file version conflicts.
The primary issue that this is addressing is that new users are forced to spend hours downloading common add-ons when they first start playing. The server side of installing and loading add-ons is unchanged. It is not an add-on manager.
Right now the only way files get onto the website is by me running a script to upload them. This is not completely sustainable in the long run but it gets the system off the ground and allows me to ship the update sooner and help out those poor new users who are stuck downloading crap for 10 hours.
SpreadsPlague:
I understand now, you're optimizing load times, correct?
Nethog:
Wow, sounds great. I remember when i started playing, took a few hours to download stuff
ShadowZero:
--- Quote from: Nethog on October 25, 2010, 07:53:23 PM ---Wow, sounds great. I remember when i started playing, took a few hours to download stuff
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Dont remind me X_X
wish I could help but I dont have the space to download everything.
So badspot once this is done should we delete the extra folders in the addons folder?
Badspot:
--- Quote from: ShadowZero on October 25, 2010, 07:56:27 PM ---Dont remind me X_X
wish I could help but I dont have the space to download everything.
So badspot once this is done should we delete the extra folders in the addons folder?
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When v18 runs for the first time it will automatically cache everything that you have in your add-ons folder which will save you some downloading but after that you can actually delete your entire add-ons folder and still connect to servers.