Spring RTS Engine

As i have been playing spring for a while now im am completly used to the lobby and how to get maps and mods and lua wigets and all of the things that are needed and ar not included in the initial setup.
After bringing in a new player i rememered how noob unfriendly all that serounds spring is.
First of all i ask lobby creators to integrate maps/mods/lua widgets/replays download and ladder position in their lobbies.The lobby must be the center of eveything spring related besides the forums.
Now,im not sure how hard it is and if you are already working to achieve this but if your not than that is very important if we wish to bring in new players.
In the next spring release please turn on only the most important lua widget that actually are used the rest of them should just be available for download(like eyes.ffs who the hell though of that?).
I have seen some dev posts about how people dont test the new releases..well make them downloadable through the lobby as well..make an option to aouto update new snvs or whatever.so with a push ofa few buttons ican immediatly move to testing the new svn from the regualr stable one without changin al lkinds of details and looking for hte latest svn to download and adjust.I knwo this is alot to ask but i am sure it will make testing much more popular.

DZHIBRISH wrote:(like eyes.ffs who the hell though of that?)

It stops lua from being some kind of leet hax thing only used by the few.

And you should use firefox with its built-in spell check, at least when writing a long post >_>

I have often complained that since the near-death of file-universe when the integrated downloader was nixed we have never gotten things back to that stage of simplicity... if you have a huge server with many GBs of space and Many unneeded GigaBits of transfer per month and are willing to allow people to download directly from your server instead of having to browse to your site and view your adds and are willing to assist the lobby developer in implementing integration again I for one would be very happy.

SinbadEV wrote:I have often complained that since the near-death of file-universe when the integrated downloader was nixed we have never gotten things back to that stage of simplicity... if you have a huge server with many GBs of space and Many unneeded GigaBits of transfer per month and are willing to allow people to download directly from your server instead of having to browse to your site and view your adds and are willing to assist the lobby developer in implementing integration again I for one would be very happy.

Oh, integrated downloader was one of the fundamental projects in the original construction of UF. Iamacup implemented MD5 hashing on every file so they can be located by spring and downloaded directly, problem is, lobby uses a different hashing method and neither has been updated to compatibility with the other.