Pardon Our (CMT's) Ignorance.

[Masterz1337]

No, they keep coming up with more problems, so we give them their solutions. This repeats every time they try to come up with a reason to not use OS and then we tell them how they are wrong.

You guys still haven't been able to disprove how we don't want to use OS because we are happy with the mod as it is.

[Masterz1337]

Alright, fine. Support the pirates. Make the maps bigger. Keep complaining about tagslots and spaces. I'm sure it will help you and make things better for you.

We don't have any tagslot and tagspace problems.

[Timo]

Actually, I think we should use OS to make file sizes smaller. The mod having its own spv2bitmaps.map and spv2sounds.map is nifty, and should cut down file sizes by quite a lot. When shouldn't burden the people who are willing to host the mod with larger files than necessary.

Do it, I don't want to have to spend literally $20 towards bandwidth in order to download this mod D:

How much more complicated is having your own sounds.map and bitmaps.map?

[Masterz1337]

Korn can let us try it but we're not agreeing to anything.

[Arteen]

Do it, I don't want to have to spend literally $20 towards bandwidth in order to download this mod D:

How much more complicated is having your own sounds.map and bitmaps.map?

Hopefully Kornman can elucidate this for us. It would be nice if it's simple to set up and use.

From the player's perspective, it's just putting two more maps in the maps folder, which isn't a problem, as long as it's made clear to the player he needs the shared maps to play the SPv2 maps. I'm not sure Dennis will like having maps being dependent on other maps to run, but Masters said he'll ask him about it.

[FRain]

Oh, so we dropped the idea of an installer, then.

[Masterz1337]

No one has dropped reaper man's idea.

[flibitijibibo]

Hey, when did Tim Buckley get into modding?

Look, if simplicity is your concern, then work on the mod with large maps, but when polishing the product for release, OS would be nice to use when compressing it so it's not destroying whatever hosting you use. I mean, if it's a release, there's no changes to be made other than bugfixes, so complexity won't be a concern, right?

From what I've gathered in the thread, it seems people are mixing up the source with the public product. Masterz is concerned that making the maps smaller now would be too complicated to work with, which is perfectly fine. What everyone else is worried about is having these massive-ass files that don't need to be as big as they are. They're not done yet though. When working on a project, simplicity always wins. However, when the product is finished, convenience for the user is ALWAYS the winner against simplicity of the code/tags/whateveritisI'mnotinthisfield, because when a product is released, it is assumed that the inner workings will not need to be deeply tampered with, and thus, the complexity does not matter.

TL;DR: Let them be big as shit now, but when it's done, use OS to make it smaller.

[Amit]

Oh fuck, I'm not reading this entire thread. Somebody point-form the important stuff for me. Rest of the people GTFO with your unworthy posts.

[Arteen]

Korn can let us try it but we're not agreeing to anything.

If he can get it to work, then I really think we should use OS. As you know from SPv1, bandwidth is expensive.

TL;DR: Let them be big as shit now, but when it's done, use OS to make it smaller.

Hopefully OS is simple enough that it won't be an issue.

Oh fuck, I'm not reading this entire thread. Somebody point-form the important stuff for me. Rest of the people GTFO with your unworthy posts.

• There are many reasons to use OS.
• There are a few reasons to not use OS.
• CMT still hasn't decided on whether to use OS.

That's about it so far.