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Abandonado

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by marcel5, Jun 25, 2015.

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  1. marcel5

    marcel5 Horde Gibber
    1. Zen Laboratories

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    Abandonado
     
    Last edited: Nov 8, 2015
    marcel5, Jun 25, 2015
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  2. Asu

    Asu THD Team THD Team Forum Moderator

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    Rent a server?
     
    Asu, Jun 28, 2015
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  3. Asu

    Asu THD Team THD Team Forum Moderator

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    I don't think there is much you can do.
    If you have some programming knowledge you can try to find a library to handle network connections so you can limit it.

    Having a good internet connection is the best way for that (Watch aphelion's gamemode, it's large as hell). That's why I did recommend you to rent a server.
     
    Asu, Jun 28, 2015
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  4. Geti

    Geti Please avoid PMing me (poke a mod instead) THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    Consider just distributing the mod separately via a zip. 60mb to download directly from your machine with a crappy connection isn't fun for anyone.
     
    Geti, Jun 29, 2015
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  5. Asu

    Asu THD Team THD Team Forum Moderator

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    Actually, it is a good idea and would be easy to put on. IIRC, the netcode already has a gzip/something compression built-in. If the file sender is not hardcoded or something, it could be done easily. @Geti ?
     
    Asu, Jun 30, 2015
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  6. Geti

    Geti Please avoid PMing me (poke a mod instead) THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    It's already sent lz compressed, like every other packet that goes over the wire.
    TBH, the only files that compress well are scripts; pngs and audio files are already compressed on-disk and don't have that much redundancy to cut out.
    However: you could reduce the bitrate of audio files, and run all your images through pngcrush if you wanted to minimise size.

    @AsuMagic fwiw you don't need to tag me in threads I've already responded to (or just in general).

    Re: "would it be possible to redirect somewhere else" - possible, but it wont happen. If there were easy ways to limit the bandwidth in the setup we already have, I'd be doing that, but it's a rats nest that re-uses code from about 6 years ago and I'm not keen to touch it in case something breaks on some edge case and I have to spend a week debugging or cut the feature anyway. Feel free to nag MM but he doesn't respond much on these forums.

    It's also possible for them to download it ahead of time before connecting. If its a public server then it's a problem, but so is trying to run it from home, in that case.
     
    Geti, Jul 1, 2015
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