RE: PROJECT Q v1.6 IS OUT!

[Legacy_Pstemarie]

               Project Q v1.6 has been released to the Vault. Most of the content is up - just waiting for Rolo to link in the /ambient and /hak downloads. It'll also be up on the Nexus later today. 

Project Q v1.6 can be downloaded from the Vault:

NWVault Project Q v1.6
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Pstemarie, 23 mars 2013 - 04:14 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Nissa_Red]

               Awesome!

That came as totally unexpected for me, but it's just what I needed to play with for the week-end. Hopping over to the Vault to fetch it.

Thank you, Pstemarie ^.^
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_T0r0]

               Awesome ! Can't wait to check it out.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Rolo Kipp]

               <whistling innocently...>

Hmmm... what have we here?

:-)

Just sayin'...

<...while grabbing all the treasure>
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Pstemarie]

               Thanks for the quick work Rolo
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_henesua]

               wow. a pleasant surprise!
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_ShadowM]

               Dammit now I have to come out of my wizard tower and check this out '> thanks for the update. '>
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Bannor Bloodfist]

               Drat, drat and triple drat... I am still stuck in rehab center, waiting on a piece of titanium (they should have just used stainless steel) with a borrowed laptop from this place (IE, noting installed but win 7 and firefox) And you guys go and release this?!@!!!!!

My home internet connection was turned off yesterday, along with my home phone and some other things that I can no longer afford... so, now I get to drool over something I can' even dream of installing for several months.....

/me bows his head and cries.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               While I think this is great after a little reflection, my first reaction was somewhat different -> Dang, I wish they'd released that 2 days ago when I had some bandwidth to use up (my inet is on a rolling contract with an up to data allowance).

Followed by -> Dang, I wish they'd waited until after the end of this month's ABC, not enough time to find and understand which goodies work best with my module. Dang.

Followed by puzzlement as to why it has been released in the way that it has on the vault. Why release both a complete version and also seperate portions of the same thing. It's not as though it saves much on the individual (i.e. the hak archive makes up the majority of the overall size anyway) download side. Being used to things like (even if I have some issues with it) CEP, I had downloaded most of it (but thankfully not the haks 7zip) before I was aware there was an everything is in here archive. A little word at the top of the page would have helped. Cest la vie.

@Bannor Bloodfist get well soon. 

TR
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Tarot Redhand, 24 mars 2013 - 11:33 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Pstemarie]

               Good point, Tarot - the notation about the full archive has been added.

As for making individual components available, call it a transition phase over to a new methodology. With the loss of the updater, I've had to rethink how Q is delivered to end-users. The first step is transitioning to a FULL archive download.

The next TENTATIVE step - beginning with v1.7 - will be to utilize patch downloads that only contain those files that have been updated. For example, if no additional resopurces are added to q_race.hak in Q v1.7, then the 1.7 archive will not contain that hak. This will cut down on download size and make it easier on end users.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Pstemarie, 24 mars 2013 - 04:08 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_henesua]

               PStermarie, this stuff looks great! Good work holding it all together.

regarding "patch downloads":

Simplicity is more important to players than the size of the download.
Your patch approach is more useful for developers, builders, makers etc..., but could end up making things more complicated for players with more downloads to choose from, some of them optional, and the possibility - if you have not yet used Q - that you could end up downloading an incomplete portion of it is a problem.

I think players need one download with every HAK, TLK, ambent sound, etc... included in one archive with instructions as to what to do with it. And this archive needs to be clearly marked as the one to grab.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Pstemarie]

               Good points, Henesua. I'm still mulling this all over so nothing is set in stone yet. Maybe the simplest thing to do is just offer a single download going forward from v1.7. I'm all for simple in the end...
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Frith5]

               I'd suggest having a single download on the page, but a link to another page for 'updated' content, if anyone wants to go that route. That way, it's accessible to those in the know, but newcomers can simply grab the whole package at a click.

Also, huge thanks for all your work on this (and other things). Awesome!

JFK
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Nissa_Red]

               I agree with Frith5.

Yes, it would be nice to have an "update" option in the future, or even better yet an "auto-update" like in the past, but I realize it would be used mostly by builders and players that know their way around custom content, which probably are in the minority.

Most people just want to click download, and play. It's a reality.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Lord Sullivan]

               Great work, I like the tiles '>

Btw, it looks like one of the trolls in the screenshot "got an arrow in the knee" ... just saying '>