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Apologies to everyone for not being around these past few weeks or so; my job has kept me extremely busy throughout that time and I haven't had the time to devote to this mod that I'd have liked! I do, however, intend on taking some time off at the end of February which I'll hopefully be able to use productively by working on MDS.
It seems that there is a reasonable amount of interest from the community in getting hold of the mod, which I am more than happy to allow. However, someone will need to give me some idea of how to distribute such a large mod to everyone. As pointed out earlier, the mod weighs in a 1.4GB; whilst I'm sure that this can be brought down with compression, it's still likely to be a hefty upload and I can't immediately think of anywhere I can upload it to. Does anyone have any ideas? I'm willing to listen to anything in this regard.
And to answer Olle8's question, the mod is built on MDS 1.6 and uses the custom map created for the mod, with more provinces in the Middle East and the Balkans.
It seems that there is a reasonable amount of interest from the community in getting hold of the mod, which I am more than happy to allow. However, someone will need to give me some idea of how to distribute such a large mod to everyone. As pointed out earlier, the mod weighs in a 1.4GB; whilst I'm sure that this can be brought down with compression, it's still likely to be a hefty upload and I can't immediately think of anywhere I can upload it to. Does anyone have any ideas? I'm willing to listen to anything in this regard.
And to answer Olle8's question, the mod is built on MDS 1.6 and uses the custom map created for the mod, with more provinces in the Middle East and the Balkans.
Zip it and torrent it, upload to http://thepiratebay.org/ and seed it, we will download and seed as well, anyone who want it can get it from there.
Yes a torrent is an possibility, renowned mod-teams like Project Reality for BF2 distribute their mod (>3GB) this way.
It is simply not possible that the mod, i.e. the modified files alone, weights 1,4 Gb. Either you're speaking of the entire install of AoD over which you installed the mod, and then the distribution of it will be indeed very unpractical and also simply illegal, or something went very wrong when you prepared the required files for the mod and then I'd recommend you to check them again and to include only what is really useful.
I have over 3 gb of sprites in my current AoD. I am pretty sure that the mod includes sprites.
Its very well possible and I would appreciate to download whole mod, than with excluded "useless content".
Then how about omitting the sprites? Should make the mod smaller that way. Keep in mind that Paul Hanson has to first seed at least a single full copy.
I'm against cutting out of sprites(and I assume enough other people 
). And once compressed they (bmp. sprite files) weigh much less.
edit: Just done an compression of my sprite folder "units" with Winrar. Folder weighs 508MB uncompressed and 29MB compressed.
). And once compressed they (bmp. sprite files) weigh much less.edit: Just done an compression of my sprite folder "units" with Winrar. Folder weighs 508MB uncompressed and 29MB compressed.
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It has to be because of the sprites, it just can't be that the mod is over 1 GB in size. The Arma version was around 200 MB in size if I recall correctly, and Kaiserreich for example has around 100 MB of data. Just exclude those sprites, I think no one will mind if the alpha version is released without them.
Alfa version? I mean there were 3 beta versions before.
And yeah just compress it and you will see the sprites weigh more than 10x less than before.
The Korean naming tradition is reverse to the western one, the first name is the family name, while the second name is the given name. At least that is true for North Korea, but I would assume it is for South Korea as well, especially after looking at the names of South Korean leaders and ministers.
Alfa version? I mean there were 3 beta versions before.
I meant the alpha version for AoD
The mod was playable on Arma, but AoD has slightly different game mechanics so there might be more bugs than expected.
OK, I've just tried compressing the mod, whilst removing things that I know for a fact are unchanged from vanilla AoD, and the resulting zip weighs in at about 360MB, which is decidedly more reasonable. Whoever it was who made the point about bitmaps zipping up well was on to something I reckon, as the 700MB worth of graphics (most of which are altered from vanilla, bear in mind; unlike with a lot of mods, the timeframe of MDS precludes any real overlap with the vanilla game) has compressed down to a fraction of it's overall size.
This strikes me as a pretty reasonable sort of size for a mod download in this day and age. Unless anyone has any better ideas (and I'm more than open to them), I might try uploading a torrent of this on the Pirate Bay and seeing how things go.
This strikes me as a pretty reasonable sort of size for a mod download in this day and age. Unless anyone has any better ideas (and I'm more than open to them), I might try uploading a torrent of this on the Pirate Bay and seeing how things go.
Uploading the mod as a torrent is a good idea. I can seed it for as long as necessary since my computer is already up and running from morning to evening, seeding torrents of various TV shows.