It's not that the files are getting bigger, with all of the black backgrounds & stuff, they compress 60% to 80%. The compression is great. The problem is that P&N v2 is 45 Megs uncompressed!
I've got 44.7 megs of graphics for the AIs that I didn't change.
The core code is 100Kb, the patched AI files are 100Kb, and the battlemoon pics are 20Kb.
220Kb would be reasonable for a download, but that includes only 2 files per AI, and the user would have to copy the remaining files from SE4's originals in order to play.
The other option is to give out the core with Battlemoon pics (120Kb), have the user copy the entire AIs from SE4's originals, then run my AI patcher on them (20Kb with docs)
Going to sleep now...I'll check back tomorrow for any Ideas.
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