Multiple non-conflicting mods

[Renegade]

Single archive and xcml support are not questions of security...they are questions of user convenience.

If I have the choice between giving my users a single .xcml or .exe and a readme.txt, or an expandmd01.mix, an ecachemd01.mix, a ra2md.csf, maybe a creditsmd.txt if it doesn't work inside the mixes, and, not to forget, the ever so popular 50 MB audio.bag + idx, and knowing that every missing file is a possible reason to have stupid n00bs spamming my forums with "omfg it says missing:name:renscannon why does it do that help", I very much opt for the single, automatically extracted archive.

I have compiled mixes and distributed mods by hand before. Everything that forces me to basically go back to that, cannot be worth it.
And that's only my side. Why would I want to force my users to have another folder in their already growing list of mod folders, and more moving back and forth of data on their hard drive (slowly fragmenting it to hell), when I know I can offer them a single .exe in which they just have to click "mod", and everything is done for them automatically?

XCC Mod Creator and Launcher have a convenience level almost unbeatable for both modders and players. Anything involving more complexity than these two is bound to have a hard stand in the community, no matter the advantage of a mod database.

Combine XCMC/L's convenience with the advanced features proposed, and there'll be no reason for anyone not to migrate. Fall back to 2001's mixes, loose files and manual package compilation, and no one can be arsed to convert their current project.