Community Download Center

Hi all,

One of the things that I have noticed about Inf and just about any other community supported game is the difficulty in locating the latest and greatest map version, mutator version, etc. There are several community sites out there that archive maps, mutators and such but as there are so many releases, they are often out of date. There is simply not enough time in the world for one person or group of people to keep everything up to date.

My thought was that it might be nice to have a community download center where mappers, coders, etc. could post their files for release to the community. Whether final release or BETA, this area could be used to provide one stop shopping for everything Infiltration. Since the actual developers are doing the posting you are almost always guaranteed that it is up to date and it creates a place for devs to share their files from without having to deal with the advertising supported sites like File Front, etc.

Before I put something like this together, I want to make sure that the mappers (Opfor, Fat Marrow, et. al.) and the coders (Crowze, Cleeus, Duke, etc.) would use it as it would only work if they use it.

FYI this site is not intended to replace or compete with a Real Maps or Combat Maps as there will be no reviews. In fact I would welcome either of those sites to leech the files off my site if they were so inclined. I would not be posting reviews, ratings, etc. This site would simply be a storehouse of files.

Please let me know if this would work or not.

Shan

Maybe we should talk then...no reason for one of us to reinvent the wheel. Will your system be open for upload to anyone or just the INF Mod team?

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i think it won't work

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You may very well be right. The difference between what I want to set up and what Combatmaps has, however, is that the dev would own their file and have the right to update it at will without need for someone to activate it. I can do this because we would be making use of the Clan Territory authentication system so I would ahve e-mail addresses, etc. for people who sign up and the majority of the community developers are already registered there anyhow.

My hope would be that opening it up to everyone and giving instant gratification (no need to wait for approval) would encourage developers to use the service. That way it uses my storage space and bandwidth and takes advantage of the back-ups that I do on my servers, etc.

I am also considering putting together a web-based CVS or CVS-type system so that devs, if they were so inclined could create projects and use this system to manage their source, etc. That is a ways away tho and will happen as part of another non-game-related project I am working on.

On the virus side, all of my servers are protected by dynamic virus scanning so every single file is scanned as it is read or written via the server. Anything with a virus is then quarantined automtically so an infected file would not end up on the list (it is possible that a new virus could slip through but it would slip through a manual scan too so there is no advantage).

I will be talking with Crowze to see what he is working on. Since most of the community weapon devs are part of his team anyhow, his solution will probably be the most widely accepted so we can work from there.