Spring RTS Engine

Large community. So I can find a open battleroom for any mod without wait.

Of course I wish that it won't become as much a retard breeding pool than battlenet. Once I tried playing Stracraft there and it was so random! So it would be best if it grew more with sensible people that with kiddies and idiots. The open source part might draw in more nerds and geeks, with is good, but the free part might draw in more the immature people, wich is bad.

I'll still play with myself :). Take that how you want to.

BigSteve wrote:...like when I discovered the spice girls... err... I mean metallica ^^ ...

In soviet russia, the ROFLCOPTER laughs at YOU!

I do agree that spring should ship with all major mods included. I imagine it would help out newbies a lot and increase the player base of all mods at the same time, plus, people would be more inclined to try new mods if they already have them.

BTW damnit, I wish 1942 would hurry up and get done! I really liked that mod!

Forboding Angel wrote: I do agree that spring should ship with all major mods included. I imagine it would help out newbies a lot and increase the player base of all mods at the same time, plus, people would be more inclined to try new mods if they already have them.

Gundam 1.11 will be over 22 megs.

And let's not forget that people won't bother to upgrade their mods if they get a version of them with their installer, same problem AF had with NTAI. You'd have people still playing E&E 160, BA 3.0, etc because they just use what shipped with Spring rather than get upgraded versions.

Large definatly, of course we would have to adapt the chat systems somehow. To avoid said idiots spamming #main and so forth.

small, just me

i'll make like 30 forum accounts and make them troll eachother for the rest of my days

I don't think it is too much to ask people to download a two hundred MB pack for a dozen full games and a moddable engine.

It is when they don't want to play that many. even those of us who play other mods probably don't want that because we have most of those mods already.

Ishach wrote:small, just me

i'll make like 30 forum accounts and make them troll eachother for the rest of my days

+1

Then it always be easy to find a game one person away from starting in any map, any mod, any player number, any time and any rank I will be satisfied with the players amount... :)

neddiedrow wrote:I don't think it is too much to ask people to download a two hundred MB pack for a dozen full games and a moddable engine.

Why make them download 200MB when they can download ~40MB and then choose which mods to play? With some well-written instructions, improvements in installation processes for mods, and ever-helpful people in #main, most clueless newbies should be able to install and start playing in under 10 minutes. If someone is so utterly clueless as to not be able to figure out how to download and install two self-extracting installers, do we really want him playing Spring anyways?

Felix the Cat wrote:

neddiedrow wrote:I don't think it is too much to ask people to download a two hundred MB pack for a dozen full games and a moddable engine.

Why make them download 200MB when they can download ~40MB and then choose which mods to play? With some well-written instructions, improvements in installation processes for mods, and ever-helpful people in #main, most clueless newbies should be able to install and start playing in under 10 minutes. If someone is so utterly clueless as to not be able to figure out how to download and install two self-extracting installers, do we really want him playing Spring anyways?

Off course yes! We need someone to satisfact the people who dont like challenges! :)