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This is the wrong place to put this, but im not a mod so I couldnt put it in work in progress. My appologies, please edit this post and move this thread if needed.


Now,

What i was posting about is,

Plas mentioned to me last week about how hard it is to get the UO wad from any download site. I kinda remember having some pretty severe frustrations getting the files myself. If I remember correctly, it delayed me for 2 months joining the sever because I figured if i couldnt get the base game (thats 10 years old) then screw it.

But anywho, thats all neither here nor there.
The whole point of the thread is this.

After talking to plas, I decided how nice it would be if our shard had its own package distribution system. So I got to coding and testing. Why post it here then?

Well i need some xtra stuff to include. And Im offering the community the option to contribute.

This is a list of what i need.

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1 alpha tester (will need atleast 2gb of free space and a decent highspeed pipe (5mb down at a minimum), and a dual core/athlon 64 machine.

4 beta testers (same as alpha testers except a 3mb connection will work.)
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1 beta tester with a intel Pentium III machine and a minimum of 256mb of ram.
1 beta tester with a AMD athlon thunderbird class processor and a minimum of 256mb of ram.
1 beta tester with a intel pentium 4 class processor 2.0gb - 3.0gb and a minimum of 512mb of ram.
1 beta tester with a AMD opteron class processor and a minimum of 512mb of ram.

All beta testers Must have a minimum of a 3mb download connection.[/list]
Some basic artwork. i need 1 image of decent quality to be 165x310 pixels. File format doesnt matter, and 1 image 111x63 pixels. Again file format doesnt matter, just should be decent quality. Please try to keep the images to a theme consistent to AOV.

2 people with a decent upload (nothing smaller then 375kbps upload. I recommend speedtest.net to test your speeds. These individuals would also need to be able to dedicate a minimum of 1.2gb of space to the project for mirror downloads. I would prefer web hosts, but your personal machine can be used.
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I Think it would be nice if some really nice macros were included in the package. Razor will be included, so razor macros only please.

Think thats it.

DO NOT PM me about this. Please post questions, submissions and responses in THIS thread. I really dont need my pm box cluttered with un-needed requests.

Besides, its so much easier for me to keep track of who and what if its 1 place. And I want to make sure that credit is given where it is due. And you never know, Red and Death may want to have a special event for those who contributed, so you really want to make sure THEY can see your thoughts and submissions on this matter.

Mal

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i could test this if you would like ill find out my system specs when i get home

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You mentioned a package distribution system, but are kind of vague on what you want to distribute. If you are talking abou hosting the actual game files, or any of the copywrited material, I'd suggest against that. If you are talking about something completely different, it would be good to elaborate a bit.

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im putting together a package of UO + Razor with the AOV server configuration settings.

I know its copy written.

BUT,

UO is 10+ years old, close to 14 i believe. Anything after 15 in the software world, still retains the original copy write, but can be legally distributed as a whole.

Also, we have a community. One that would be nice if it grew. And it gets harder and harder to provide the files needed to play. And its really hard to get people to join if they have a hard time getting the base game.

My suggestion will solve some of that problem.

I am going to take full responsibility, and will carry the load of the bandwidth. Im not asking anyone else to accept that. I am how ever allowing the community to put forth some input and maybe even help test the finished product. If OSI wants to get their panties in a wad over it, fine, i'll remove it from the server per their request, when they do so. In the mean time, Im not selling the game, Im not advertising in the installer, Im merely helping to promote that game.

M

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You got my vote. It's nice to see the players actively working to strengthen and enlarge the community.

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Here's what would be cool actually. Use a SVN setup, and do a version patched at each OSI version. Then you could just right click your UO folder and checkout the patched version you want to use.

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dumples, thats a cool idea,

1 problem tho.

If i leave it open ended so it takes some experience to use the system, then ive over stepped my original goal which is to make getting on the shard alot easier todo.

How ever i will be using svn to keep track of versioning and changes made to the package distro's.

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I think I could be your alpha tester

-AMD Athlon 64 3200+ processor
-1 gig of ram (hoping to get a new motherboard and upgrade to 2 gigs sometime soon)
-26 gigs on hardrive


I think this is what you were looking for, if not then I could beta test as well ^^

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wham bam thank you ma'am

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