Unfied client manager awesomeness

[Zenka]

Lobby client isn't open source though. Hence no one else can code stuff into it. Or is it? I'm so confused.

Lobby is open source. It's all on the CVS. I've compiled the lobby myself serveral times, trying to make a "beep" option in the battle window. (didn't work, since I couldn't figure out how the whole lobby works, it's very complicated.)

[zwzsg]

I dislike overbloated all-in-one clients. Keep it simple and light.

However, I think spring needs either:
- A better menu when running Spring.exe (something that allows us to select mod, number of AI, teams between AI, etc...)
- A lobby client that work offline.

[FizWizz]

Wouldn't one way to keep the client from becoming over-featured (but still appeal those who want their bells and whistles) be to make all the funky things like linking to download pages and other non-game features into optional plugins?

[PauloMorfeo]

... but I see it as a button you push when in the battle preperation thing.

A pre-calc one map for one mod is a good idea, especially if it has a button on the battleroom.

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However, I think spring needs either:
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- A lobby client that work offline.

Formal request for that already done in that ... thing where lobby requests should go to.

[BlackLiger]

Hmmmm. What WOULD be nice to see is it coded into the spring engine all together. I don't really know why, I just like the neatness of having it in the engine, like OTAs menu setup...

[SinbadEV]

Problem with that is that engine takes ALL of my system resources to start up, and the TASClient takes practically none... I think that just making spring.exe have LESS features and the battle client having full offline functionality would be a better solution... spring in this case would be an engine that could be loaded by any client using the correct format or scripts or command line parameters, but if just run alone would just be like a "can't run spring without command line options"