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legofanatic · September 08, 2009, 09:19:04 PM

Wow this is epic! I love how you can look at mods on the forums without leaving Blockland. I also like how organized it is. Good job!

Jak595 · September 09, 2009, 09:54:56 AM

Ephi something is wrong... in my compioter when i downloaded the 3.0 (it continuing hapening with 2.0 too) still not working with my blockland

Duckmeister · September 09, 2009, 11:25:03 AM

I absolutely love the new Mod Manager and how smooth it is. No more waiting for 3 hours just to get to the add-on's page.

In fact, all of the features of the Mod Manager work so well and are so compatible with everything that it kind of reminded me of installing and uninstalling software on a Mac.

And thank you for including a "delete" feature. I hated having to go into the add-ons folder itself to delete add-ons.

And also, big thumbs up for having the bargain bin. I know that I can trust you guys a lot more (as to whether an add-on works perfectly or not) than I could in RTB 2.

However, I have found a couple of bugs:

When you sync up your add-ons from RTB 2 to RTB 3, some of the ones that are supposed to be deleted are still there. So then I end up having to go to the regular add-ons list, click "default", then enable all of my RTB 3 add-ons, and then write down the names of all of the add-ons in the regular list which are still disabled so that I could go into the add-ons folder and delete them.

Also, it never synced my maps. I had a couple maps which were already on RTB 3, and it never synced them.

Other than that, excellent work, I look forward to the next update.

Ephialtes · September 16, 2009, 05:23:01 AM

We've been having some issues with server load with regards to the numbers of people using RTB concurrently. At peak times we're getting about ~5 requests per second which is quite extreme (for us). I'm looking at switching the webserver software to something better suited to our API like Lighttpd which might make it run a lot faster.

For those of you that don't know, the RTB API serves all the requests you make when browsing the mod manager or hosting a server etc.

I've also been running the API on a debug build of php to track down some mysterious apache segfaults that have been cropping up (which may also contribute to general slowness), but I'll let you guys know what I find.

Ephialtes · September 17, 2009, 08:59:59 AM

Ok looks like there's a nasty flaw in the API causing a few segfaults and instead of getting PHP patched to fix it, I'm just going to re-jig the API. It'll probably take about 2-3 days.

A GUY · September 17, 2009, 04:08:34 PM

Quote from: Ephialtes on November 03, 2008, 03:08:27 PM

In-Game Add-On Manager - This system will allow you to browse Add-Ons submitted to the RTB Add-Ons System, comment on them, rate them and finally download and install them without ever having to leave Blockland.

By that, do you mean we can enable them Ingame, and they will just appear there?
That would be helpful, massively.

Chrono · September 17, 2009, 04:25:51 PM

Quote from: A GUY on September 17, 2009, 04:08:34 PM

By that, do you mean we can enable them Ingame, and they will just appear there?
That would be helpful, massively.

Not while your server is up of course.

Ephialtes · September 26, 2009, 04:21:29 PM

RTB v3.1 is out, here's the changelog:

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Changes:

 - New tips added for the Infomaniac
 - Added warnings for when downloaded add-ons can't be saved
 - Fixed pref change callback not being called when prefs are reverted to defaults
 - Changed RTB to be permanently enabled and un-disableable
 - IRC mode change lag now fixed
 - Commenting event added to user's activity stream
 - Server control keybind now checks whether server has rtb etc.c
 - Tweaks to Server Auth to post mods in a new way
 - Added changes to joinservergui to be compatible for v13
 - Added new default add-ons from v13
 - RTBSA_Post now gives warnings if it is unable to post server

Additions:

 - Server Information
 - Content-Only Add-On Downloading (part of server information)

Other Stuff:

 - RTB Web API now runs faster/uses less memory (speeds up mod manager)

Space Guy · September 26, 2009, 04:24:47 PM

Downloading RTB 3.1 disabled all my Add-Ons... right after I'd went through them and chose which ones I wanted for my server.