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General Opinions on Personal add-ons?
Pandan:
Whats our general opinions on personal add-ons?
People can dive into the cache file to rebuild personal add-ons such as bricks and player-types.
What was the purpose of adding the cache file in the first place?
I remember our cache used to just be folders in the /add-ons/ folder.
Ephi said recently that he doesn't believe in private add-ons or something.
Adding a poll.
--- Quote from: Ephialtes on November 06, 2013, 03:53:44 PM ---I will define the difference between personal and private add-ons now:
1. Personal Add-Ons: Made specifically for you and your server to give your server a unique draw for players.
2. Private Add-Ons: Made and then only given to friends of the person who made the add-on or clan members.
I think it's fine to have unreleased add-ons to increase the appeal of your server but when you just make an add-on and then hand it around to all your little buddies and tell everyone else to get lost I think you're doing a disservice to them and the community and there's really no justification for it.
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Thank you for the clarification.
And i'm glad to hear you support personal add-ons.
Adding your post to the OP.
Zeblote:
The point of cache.db is to not have to download a few thousand files every time you join a server.
It is not cluttering up the add-ons folder because that would suck major ass?
Private add-ons are crap
Pandan:
Makes sense. Less clutter is always good.
But why are private add-ons crap?
The people who made them made them for their server. To set their server apart from the rest.
We already have an issue of a lot of 0/30 player servers. Why not let people make stuff that's unique to theirs?
I think it's very communistic.
Cuddles le Bear:
Private Add-ons should only be private if they are unsuitable for release. What I mean by "unsuitable" is if it's poorly coded, a new add-on that still needs to be tested or just shouldn't be released. I don't see something wrong with having a private personal add-on for your servers use (like Pecon's boss battles) but I do find something wrong with never releasing a Marble playertype.
Pandan:
Okay, i guess that makes sense. But, why is keeping a add-on private to keep your server unique, wrong?