[bf1942] Custom map downloading (was: Punkbuster confirmed for 1.6)

[Anton Jansen]

Scratch Monkey wrote:

>--On Tuesday, December 02, 2003 11:46 PM -0500 Jon Wolberg <MMmmGood at cox.net>
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>>The problem I see with this is the Q3 engine, which is most well known for
>>having the auto map download, has VERY small map files in comparison to BF.
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>>You'd either have to make it very fast, which would suck up a lot of
>>bandwidth, or no one will use it because no one wants to download a 40+mb
>>file at 10k
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>That's partly dealt with by allowing the server to delegate the download to
>another server.
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>What's included with a custom map? All the .rfa files I have on my server are
>from 20k to a little over a megabyte. Hardly big downloads.
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Maybe it is a good idea^TM to have a bittorrent link besides the normal 
http/ftp stuff. Question is wheter this info should be in the map itself
or some external source ....