Do it or Fail?

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Should it be inforced?

Yes
36 (83.7%)
No
7 (16.3%)

Total Members Voted: 1

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Packer

October 30, 2007, 02:31:02 PM
New Add-ons and other types of files for Blockland are being made every day for Blockland with new players coming at least once a day, people keep asking one question which can have heaps of Answer (Where do I install my add-ons) You would assume the Blockland Directory but you would be wrong! Some add-ons people are only giving us the script file or the decal itself instead of giving us it zip/rar file where we can extract it to the Blockland Directory make it easier for us.

To sum it all up... Should add-ons have to be in a correct directory folder within a zip/rar?
Remember this could also stop add-ons/add-ons/ servers and also hopefully make it much easier for the newer players.

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TheWorm

October 30, 2007, 02:45:36 PM
I think at the top of each kind of thing you install there needs to be a stickied how to install topic.

Packer

October 30, 2007, 03:17:54 PM
But people still would make different ones, you could say how to install but what if some one made a zip/rar with the files but not directory's.

Spation

October 30, 2007, 03:35:17 PM
Some people, no names, would still go out of their way to mess it up. Extracting to their add-ons folder, extracting to program files, I don't know. But people will do that.

Packer

October 30, 2007, 03:37:16 PM
But still, if its all the same newbie's won't mess it up and there will be less people asking for Add-on help. While it doesn't seem like a huge thing it still will fix allot of problems and make it much easier.

Ministry

October 30, 2007, 04:07:50 PM
I like this idea.

Also could be like, an iTunes kind of thing, All Good, Approved add-ons onto some webspace and installed though a installer that installs them directly into the correct files.

But i understand somthing like this had been suggested in the past and it never happend, or wasnt do-able i dont remember and im not going to look it up.

Anyway, Like the idea Packer

Marcem

October 30, 2007, 04:28:54 PM
I though of a great solution: run the add-ons for .zips cause it does actually work but you cant write to them

Monty

October 30, 2007, 04:29:42 PM
Lul i voted no.

FlyGuy45

October 30, 2007, 04:31:02 PM
Last night, I had a weird dream, and I could search for a map ingame then DL it. Something like this would be cool and could coincide with Traders idea.

Marcem

October 30, 2007, 04:33:02 PM
Quote from: FlyGuy45 on October 30, 2007, 04:31:02 PM
Last night, I had a weird dream, and I could search for a map ingame then DL it. Something like this would be cool and could coincide with Traders idea.
Yay 4 RTB dream!

Trader

October 30, 2007, 05:02:25 PM
Just wait for RTB2.  Then it won't matter that much how you choose to organize your files - Your entire Add-On will run from a single .zip.

Packer

October 30, 2007, 05:06:44 PM
Quote from: Trader on October 30, 2007, 05:02:25 PM
Just wait for RTB2.  Then it won't matter that much how you choose to organize your files - Your entire Add-On will run from a single .zip.
Not every newbie will have RTB2 Trader.

Badspot

  • Administrator
October 30, 2007, 05:11:40 PM
I've mentioned this a couple of times now - v9 will use zipped add-ons.  Installation of new add-ons will consist of "put this zip file in your add-ons folder".  The goal is to make it impossible to install add-ons incorrectly. 

Trader

October 30, 2007, 05:15:39 PM
Will this method support custom preferences files?  If I wanted to maintain my own client / server prefs and have them save back to my .zip file, would that work?

Marcem

October 30, 2007, 05:18:42 PM
Quote from: Badspot on October 30, 2007, 05:11:40 PM
I've mentioned this a couple of times now - v9 will use zipped add-ons.  Installation of new add-ons will consist of "put this zip file in your add-ons folder".  The goal is to make it impossible to install add-ons incorrectly. 
How come I want everything from v9?
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