Auto Downloads

[rlaurie at binarycult.com]

Well, I understand Dirk's point from a mod developer's point of view.  
It's a hassle to propagate even small paks. Many users are ignorant  
and many don't know how to turn on auto-downloading or even know what  
it means to so. Furthermore, some Q3A-literate users still may wish to  
keep autodl off for other reasons.

What if there was functionality that prompted the user if he wanted to  
enable one-time downloading from a server connect, if his autodl is  
disabled? I don't think this would stray from the original concept.  
Just further facilitate user-friendliness with downloads. It would  
curb illiterate user frustration and help literate and cautious users  
to be more selective with what is downloaded.

Quoting Zachary Slater <zakk at timedoctor.org>:

> Dirk wrote:
>
>> and PLEASE!!!!... make allowdownloads enabled by default (in the
>> client)... I have seen too many people connect and disconnect...
>
>
> The goal of IOQUAKE3 is not to drastically change the behavior of
> things like this. Authors like leilei of openarena can change whatever
> they want.