Jenna WSI wrote...
Part of why I asked was because I am learning to make our own custom haks, and in that wondered if it was easier to make ALL our haks custom in order to save space and make things nice and neat.
You basically have to weigh two things here:
- Will the server use a lot of (insert compilation here) stuff?
- Will I be losing players just because they have to download another large compilation set?
If the answer to bullet one is "yes", then you are probably better off using CEP (or whatever other compilation you plan to use) "out-of-the-box". In the case of CEP, I would say that most of the players out there have CEP already.
In the case of bullet two, any player you do lose are probably bowing out because they have slower connections and don't wish to spend hours (and precious bandwidth) downloading another large set of haks. In this case, LOSE them - you don't want them on your server anyway because they do have a slow connection and will have severe problems interacting with the server and other players.
P.S. Don't worry about being - or sounding - a little critical of the CC Groups out there. As a member of Project Q (and several other past projects), I can say we get more out of constructive criticism than praise. Nothing is perfect, but with input from the Community the CC Teams out there can certainly work to improve what they've released. IMO, all praise and no criticism = flyby night game *cough* DAO *cough*. But mix in liberal amounts of both and you get a game that will survive long past its expected life - i.e. NWN.
