V13/Blockland update suggestions

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KINEX:

--- Quote from: Gen. Nick on August 28, 2009, 02:12:46 AM ---What if someone with high speed internet doesn't want to download stuffty music and such?

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They could then disable those features. What I'm trying to get at is right now there is a massive influx of new users who do not know about the check boxes to enable downloading of models and whatnot. These users may be able to download these features at a fast speed but don't know it. Right now new users probably have many weapons and whatnot that are downloaded from a server only to have them in the shape of a sword or something. It really tarnishes the look of the game.

Badspot:

--- Quote from: KINEX on August 28, 2009, 02:19:11 AM ---They could then disable those features. What I'm trying to get at is right now there is a massive influx of new users who do not know about the check boxes to enable downloading of models and whatnot. These users may be able to download these features at a fast speed but don't know it. Right now new users probably have many weapons and whatnot that are downloaded from a server only to have them in the shape of a sword or something. It really tarnishes the look of the game.

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You have completely lost perspective here. With weapon, texture and sound downloads on it can take hours to join your first server. Wrap your head around that - you pay $20 for a game, get excited to play it, then you're "loading" for 2 goddamn hours.

The speed of your internet connection is irrelevant because the transfer is via UDP packets that are being size and rate limited and squeezed through some other schmuck's puny residential upload pipe. To make downloads really work properly, they would have to be mirrored on a real web server. It's do-able for sure, but not for v13.

tails:
Since baddys talking alot here, AAaaages ago (v7 or 8) i said about day/night transitions and you said you wanted to do it but wasn't possible because of the network code

Is it possible yet? :D

Tada! found it:

--- Quote from: Badspot on May 29, 2007, 03:02:42 AM ---I do want to put the day/night transitions in. They would work really well because all of the brick lighting is dynamic. However, to put them in I would have to break network compatibility and I want to avoid that for now.

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Maor:
Badspot, Was my response correct?

Bisjac:
late on this topic but it was discussed here.

sure (properly) raising a brick limit would be awesome. but the dozen blockland users that ever come near 128k will have to do. its just not that big a deal.

the only people that really get close anyways are people with those stupid rpg games that have them towns. for as long as it takes to limit out anyways, just consider it a game, and start a new round.

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