[Arkcon]

Geez, what'd I say? OK, let me try to break it down. I think I was unclear about where I pulled the .zip fromat from and sprung it on you guys.

1). Most people who play SE4 use Microsoft Windows (whatzit, me and 2 other people using WinE?).

2). Lots (many? most? all?) of those people using Windows run XP, which includes zip support. Zip up a mod and you don't have to wonder about the need for an unzipping exe.

3). Mods are tiny text files, sometimes with large BMP files. WinRAR is not going to provide any better (well, not much better) compression then ZIP. You just use it as a package to keep files and directories together, right? So what's the diff?

I just thinking out loud here. Something I wanted was RAR packed so I got WinRAR. I'd prefer not to get a self-extracting exe, I do worry about how insecure it might be.

If you just want to keep files together, just right click, zip, and be done with it. I guess. Is maximum technology really needed for SE4 mods and Image packs?