Interesting numbers. One thing that downloading ZIP files promotes is people using older versions. At least with the WebStart, if there's just a huge bug in some version, we can tell the web site not to serve the file any more and people would have to upgrade/update. Right now if we find a bad bug, there's not way to necessarily inform the user.palmer wrote:As of RIGHT NOW, I count 51 games listed on the server list.
4 of them are 1.3.older (including one b24!)
5 of them are Pre-1.3
That's almost 18% of games not using the most current... and we can't expect people to always stay current.
Trevor and I were talking about the initial handshake between server and registry and I think a message box that confirms that the server started should also have any notes sent by the registry. Then we could warn users of certain versions if there were problems. Or just let them know that a newer build is available...
Well, the web site updates can be made immediately, but yeah, people would need to use a build that had the command line functionality in it. So at least one build, maybe two.Obviously this functionality won't work at all for another few builds, but after that point, you know?