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Old July 6th, 2001, 12:57 AM
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Default Pirates&Nomads v2 Problem

Uh, guys, I just dumped my files into a zip, and the end result is 70x bigger!

I don't think the majority of you will appreciate having to download 10 Megs of file, or shrapnel hosting it.

The difference of 9,984 Kb is composed of every race's pictures for the most part.

The datafiles are only 91Kb zipped.
The Default BattleMoon pictures are 53Kb uncompressed (21Kb zipped).
Each race is 2MB uncompressed. (over 500Kb zipped)
Each Race's patched datafiles are 93Kb uncompressed. (5Kb zipped)

What should I do?
A) Upload the entire 10Mb zip and hope shrapnel dosen't get mad.
B) Remove some of my homepage to cram the full Mod in there.
C) Upload only the core Datafiles, and force Users to run the AI patcher before playing? (112Kb)
D) Upload the core plus patched files, Users will copy the races into the modfolder, then overwrite the nessesary files? (250Kb)
E) Other (specify...)

Note: A and B are not good options, since it still means modem Users have to download overnight or when they leave for work .
Also, C and D force the user to do a bunch of stuff with the files.

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