Proposed development of YR 1.002 Community Patch

[Renegade]

I guess I could host a site and provide at least basic FTP-access for the development process. The two-level-access suggested could be difficult, though (no option in CPanel for that). We could either use anonymous FTP, with read-only for the majority of it, and /incoming being writable, or we could upload into an http-accessable folder, so people could download via directory listing (DCoder-style ).

After the release, depending on the traffic generated, some mirrors might be nice

- Intro: I myself use a custom intro-video, so I'm against it.
- No-CD-cracks: Actually, making the patch kinda "anti-no-CD" would improve our position a lot if EA ever starts to question this project.
- TX-lite: I'm against this. All or nothing. Either you have the connection to download 10 megs in reasonable time, then you don't want half a TX, or you're on 56k, then 5 megs are too much for you as well. I know I'm on DSL, and it's easy for me to say this, but: 10 megs ain't that much. As I said before, a normal patch nowadays is a lot bigger. Let's just include a good, stable version of it, then all 56ker will cry as long as the download goes, but will be happy afterwards 'cause they can play all the cool new maps. Half a TX is worth nothing.
- All maps everywhere: While I am a fan of "more", I think this won't work out, simply because of the way the maps are designed. All modes have those maps enabled that fit them. It's no use enabling land-only maps for naval war or similar. What we could do, however, is get over to our favorite pussy, Da Lion, look for the best maps for YR, and include some of them...