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RTB Development
Ephialtes:
Loading would be insanely faster (downloading a standard zip file takes about 5 seconds whereas downloading all the things inside it one by one from a player's server can take in the range of 5 minutes), and you can disable it entirely or click "Skip" if you get bored waiting.
Space Guy:
--- Quote from: heedicalking on April 23, 2010, 07:39:18 PM ---For RTB preferences like duplicator prefs, it should display what was updated.
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RTB prefs let you set a function that's called whenever the update is connected, so the authors could add a similar style of message using it.
--- Quote from: Ephialtes on April 24, 2010, 03:51:01 AM ---The problem here is more with the server having outdated add-ons and the player being up-to-date, but each time a player starts Blockland it will check for updates for all the user's add-ons and each time they join a server it will check for updates for those specific add-ons.
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If the server has a lower version than the content file on RTB then those files won't be available so the individual ones can be downloaded by the normal slow method (or skipped with the options in the Network menu)
Ephialtes:
--- Quote from: Space Guy on April 24, 2010, 04:49:27 AM ---RTB prefs let you set a function that's called whenever the update is connected, so the authors could add a similar style of message using it.
If the server has a lower version than the content file on RTB then those files won't be available so the individual ones can be downloaded by the normal slow method (or skipped with the options in the Network menu)
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Currently I've got it just grabbing the latest version of it off RTB. It doesn't make sense for an outdated server to waste a client's bandwidth downloading an outdated copy just because the server host can't be bothered to update.
mctwist:
If the newest update have a model removed, and the host have the outdated add-on, doesn't that mean that the player wont see that model?
Ephialtes:
Probably, but that's an acceptable limitation of the system. In an ideal world people will keep their RTB add-ons up to date (the auto-updater will be fixed in v3.4) and for the most part everyone will be using updated add-ons except for fringe cases. I think it'll be such an obscure and rarely encountered problem that it's not worth worrying about.