zisb 1 Posted March 29, 2016 Greetings,I am making this post because I have decided to start a community pack of terrains The idea of the pack would bring about a few positives for both terrain makers and the community: Single addon, this would hopefully allow the less technically talented to easily install a large amount of maps quickly for their projects or to join a server running the maps. Popularity, because of the simplicity of the install hopefully most servers would and projects would require the pack The more people with the pack downloaded the better exposure lesser known terrains get, many people are hesitant to run terrains other than what people already have downloaded, this provides a solution Terrain Maker's rights respected, this is a really important topic to me, all map content creators would be appropriately credited and linked to I am currently attempting to reach out to terrain creators and get permission and/or hear their thoughts on the issue Let me know your thoughts and if anyone would like to help out :D Best Regards, zisb Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Defunkt 431 Posted March 29, 2016 Can't see it working. Consider that recently people (I wasn't one of them) voted overwhelmingly in favour of CUP releasing their terrains as separately downloadable maps even after it was pointed out that the prerequisite package required to run any one of them was ~3 times the size of all of the maps combined. And all of these maps are part of the official canon. People like to pick and choose (even when it makes no sense). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
andersson 285 Posted March 29, 2016 "Single addon". Massive re-download for the community when a terrain is updated... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zisb 1 Posted March 29, 2016 "Single addon". Massive re-download for the community when a terrain is updated... Realistically, how often do you see terrains updating though? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flax 397 Posted March 29, 2016 Realistically, how often do you see terrains updating though? Quite often - especially when a terrain has only recently been released. Terrain makers will try their hardest to test and debug islands but players will always find more. It's more that this doesn't really serve much of a purpose to many people's needs. As a server admin I can say that having large lumped together addons makes it more difficult to distribute and update players. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
scorch_052 127 Posted March 29, 2016 Soooo, just a pack full of other people's maps? Why? If someone can install one mod, they can install 2 or 10 or 100. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
R0adki11 3949 Posted March 30, 2016 Soooo, just a pack full of other people's maps? Why? If someone can install one mod, they can install 2 or 10 or 100. Exactly, i don't see any benefit in creating such a community terrain pack. If you interested in helping/creating something perhaps join the CUP (Community Upgrade Project). 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
