Hello All,
I have been following UFO AI since the xmas release and have just created a forum account. I have been following UFO AI with interest as UFO Enemy Unknown was the best game I have ever played on the Amiga.
I was originally looking to help out in coding area, but sadly I pale in comparison to the current coders (excellent work BTW). I tried the latest beta of 2.3 held on destructivators website and it was ALOT better than I was expecting. It seems your best and brightest were looking for more webspace to store the latest betas and upload them. Taking this into account I believe a can satisfy that requirement with around 7GB webspace and 50GB bandwidth/mo. This is currently unused space from my personal / old business website.
The only reason I found destructivators website was to find the latest beta build. Currently I have r25570. Previously I had to wait for nacando <sp> ? which someone else uploaded beta debug builds on the forum which to be honest was/is a terrible download system. Someone else mentioned problems with filefront (usually filefront doesnt like large uploads).
May I provide one of the dev guys with a username asnd password for ftp access to the webspace? There-by they can have the space they desire to upload large beta installers? I am not sure what your policies are in relation to use of third party space, if so I think I can provide what your looking for. It would mean everyone in the community would have a direct download link to UFO AI Beta builds.
Thanks,
James
Hi James!
Welcome to this project!
I am so glad to hear another fan on the site! Hahahaha.... its GREAT to have more fans coming up and sharing their positive experiences; BETTER STILL when they offer to help constructively!
I am glad that u have tried the 2.3 BETAS (or should i say, ALPHAS) versions.... they are uber good, but i am sad to say u have gotten the 25500+s revisions only. Its currently in the 25800+ and probably even as i speak, crossing to 26000+.
I love filefront's system - if only it has upload resume functions. My local ISPs dun quite like this filefront.... and when i dc, timeouts and stuff, i am resetted back to ZERO! Its damn uber frustrating considering that i only have 1Mbps upload speed and the file is a whopping ~600MB FILE. And i do this on a daily -> weekly thing.
As much as i thnk nakido's servers have this flag thing (which requires install / activation and TSR), they allow me to resume uploads if dc-ed. But i must say no one is perfect - nakido is compensated over filefront (or compromised should i say) over its speed, the frustrations of nakido's handling of TSR and of course many diff users' compatibility issues. THEN again, nothing called best of both worlds. Lol.
Nakido works wonders for me and many others, and a pure nightmarish hell for some. I cant help it. I dun host my own servers.
So how do we move on from here? Hmmmm. If u do host a server, and do not mind GBs / even TBs of bandwidth lost.... here's the commitment required:
1) Allow probably almost indefinate hosting of files - ~600MB file each, and so far, nakido hosted some 70+ files of mine which equates ~42GB of files (some 42000MB).
2) Since per upload takes up some 600MB bandwidth and downloads are typically abt 30-100+ per files, lets average tat to abt 50 (min) downloads per file. This equates to: 2100000MBs of downloads so far, for just the last few months -> This is quite nightmarish considering its almost 2TBs of bandwith in just a few months. Lets average tat to per month.
Abt say 3 files (can be up to 5) per wk, abt 50 downloads each, for 4 wks = 3 x 50 x 4 x 600MB = 360GB of bandwith on average a month.
If that is acceptable, probably i might consider your file server!
It would hugely benefits alot of ppl!
If ur host allows the a/m requirements, I would LOVE a private server! Haha. U can create the sharing, limit the UID and PW to the folder, and send me a pte msg ok?
Thanks beforehand for offering the help! I can understand if u decided not to offer the services after knowing the limitations, though. Its a HUGE commit so
Welcome to the project once again!
Have fun!