Daidalos Team's Room -QUESTIONS AND REQUESTS ONLY on IL2 Authorized Addons

[mkubani]

Hello all,

before the patch is made available for public download, we would like to set up as many mirror servers as possible. Those who can help us and provide such a service, please drop us an email at daidalos.team@gmail.com (if you haven't done so yet )

Thanks a lot.

[mkubani]

I need a quick correction to a French 4.09 readme. Who can assist here please? Drop me a PM with your email. It's urgent. Thanks a lot.

[Hood]

Originally Posted by mkubani

I need a quick correction to a French 4.09 readme. Who can assist here please? Drop me a PM with your email. It's urgent. Thanks a lot.

Was there a problem with the original? Please check your DT email.

[nearmiss]

Torrents?

I've used torrents and had issues. The problem with torrents is all the hackers and crackers that want to cause problems get in the mix with legitimate downloads. They poke in their poison, and you never know what you are getting unless the torrent site allows comments.

There is so much bootleg software on torrent sites. Putting legitimate software up for torrent downloads seems IMO to be an encouragement for software piracy.

I'll download from just about anywhere to keep from using torrents.

I should say... if my only choice is a torrent then I'll deal with downloading that way. I've got a couple spyware scanners and anti-viruse I'll run on the file before I open it. Nuttin' to it.

[ramstein]

well, as long as excuses are put up to not use valid solutions, then I guess we will just not use other valid options..

[WWFlybert]

nearmiss,

I respectfully disagree .. whoever seeds a torrent has control of the content, and the particular name and it's MD5 hash can be published as the 'official' torrent.

I can almost guarentee 4.09m official will end up on the torrent tracking sites anyway, it's wiser to have a known good version made available, than to risk multiple copies showing up that could conceivably be "poisoned' .. though I can't imagine why anyone would poison a legal and legitimate file.

Once the 'official" torrent is up, and dozens download and seed, from that point another differrently named 4.09m won't attract use anyway.

And no matter what you download from anywhere, it's wise to run a good anti-virus scan on the archive .. btjunkie.org does have "verified by the community" numbers and comments.

I can almost guarentee also, that no matter how many mirrors you set up, I'll be lucky to pull down 100kbs, where through a torrent and sufficient seeds, I get about 300kb/s (2.4Mbits), my maximum download speed.

TD .. how big is 4.09m in a .rar or .zip file ?

[MicroWave]

Originally Posted by WWFlybert

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TD .. how big is 4.09m in a .rar or .zip file ?

IIRC, something like 560MB.

[HanzBlixz]

Request for options in future versions of IL2 that may promote better team play and/or a more enjoyable online experience.

Option to Hide Score Column while playing online
The option for dedicated dogfight servers to hide the players score column from players while flying online. This option might help eliminate some of the bad behavior of those seeking to fluff how they look on the scoreboard and promote better team play. It also may eliminate some of the bickering about score/points that players get tired of listening to.. It may also attract more players to fly online. This increase of online players could come from players who previously left online play because the above mentioned issues. There are also new players who hesitate to come online to play because they may be embarrassed by their online score. Either way it would be a nice option for the admin of a server to have. (Regardless of the split points debate/resolution)

Who Won in an online dogfight??
Who Won? - The ability for the server to show which team won in an online dogfight server across the center of the screen like it does in a coop. Currently this can not be done without the use of 3rd party tools. Even then it doesn't show across the center of the screen like a COOP and it's only seen by those displaying multiple lines of chat.

(How this was not included in the original game baffles me. Spend years to make a game that pits two teams against each other and then when the battle is over don't show them who won. Then throw in a convoluted scoring system that only shows the individual players score and lets see how well they work together as a team... Oh and lets give them chat so they can spend all night bickering about who stole what.)

Option to Ban a player from chat... Chat blocker.
Some players wont stop talking, some players never have anything nice to say and others complain all evening. It would be great for an admin of a server to be able to block certain players from typing in chat or auto-kick them each time they use chat. We don't want to ban them from the server because we love to shoot them down...we just want them to be quiet.


In order to improve online TEAM play the focus needs to be on the TEAM win.
Improved team play will reduced the individual bickering.

The chat bar should be filled with phrases like "Thanks for clearing my six" instead of the garbage that scrolls by currently.

Please considered these options for the future
-Show which team won
-Option to hide player's score.
-Option to ban from chat.

[nearmiss]

Originally Posted by WWFlybert

nearmiss,

I respectfully disagree .. whoever seeds a torrent has control of the content, and the particular name and it's MD5 hash can be published as the 'official' torrent.

I can almost guarentee 4.09m official will end up on the torrent tracking sites anyway, it's wiser to have a known good version made available, than to risk multiple copies showing up that could conceivably be "poisoned' .. though I can't imagine why anyone would poison a legal and legitimate file.

Once the 'official" torrent is up, and dozens download and seed, from that point another differrently named 4.09m won't attract use anyway.

And no matter what you download from anywhere, it's wise to run a good anti-virus scan on the archive .. btjunkie.org does have "verified by the community" numbers and comments.

I can almost guarentee also, that no matter how many mirrors you set up, I'll be lucky to pull down 100kbs, where through a torrent and sufficient seeds, I get about 300kb/s (2.4Mbits), my maximum download speed.

TD .. how big is 4.09m in a .rar or .zip file ?

IMO = In my opinion. I've used them before, and gotten all kinds of junk in them. The bad part... it often took several days to get the file fully downloaded because people weren't seeding. Then when I spent all that time the file has some bad Pelosi in it.

I remember getting DLLs that were disguised as system dlls and corrupted the Pelosi out of my system.

So, no I would prefer not to use Torrents. Yet, if they were put up by trusted members of the Il2 community I would probably be fine with torrents.

[ramstein]

if the patch was just released with whatever servers that are already available, then people would gladly put it up on Torrents and you wouldn't need to keep asking for servers..

IMHO

Originally Posted by mkubani

Hello all,

before the patch is made available for public download, we would like to set up as many mirror servers as possible. Those who can help us and provide such a service, please drop us an email at daidalos.team@gmail.com (if you haven't done so yet )

Thanks a lot.