Sir - isn't that supporting my observation tho? I believe Maciej wants to introduce all new content into the map file itself, which is a client forced download each time they connect, rather then having them download a seperate @dayz_whatever to play on the server.
Maciej - I think techniqually it COULD be done, but I believe it would push the map file download from being a few hundred KB to being megabites. Tents / New skins / Vehicles are generally "built" in the dayz_equip.pbo, which is very large. So large, that if you wrote code to go into the download, I think most players would alt-F4 before the map was EVER finished loading due to the assumed lag. While not actually lag, nobody will want to sit thru 10 megs of a "patch" each time they joined the server.
I think that's why dayz and all it's mods are generally written the way they're written.
Now - a smart launcher that detects the current playing rendition of a mod, and then forces a download and an install, and then attached to the server - that would be cool. (Rather then the current method of downloading each piece seperately, installing them all yourself, and then going back out to hunt for the server...)
Maciej - I think techniqually it COULD be done, but I believe it would push the map file download from being a few hundred KB to being megabites. Tents / New skins / Vehicles are generally "built" in the dayz_equip.pbo, which is very large. So large, that if you wrote code to go into the download, I think most players would alt-F4 before the map was EVER finished loading due to the assumed lag. While not actually lag, nobody will want to sit thru 10 megs of a "patch" each time they joined the server.
I think that's why dayz and all it's mods are generally written the way they're written.
Now - a smart launcher that detects the current playing rendition of a mod, and then forces a download and an install, and then attached to the server - that would be cool. (Rather then the current method of downloading each piece seperately, installing them all yourself, and then going back out to hunt for the server...)