B5 Update

[DamoclesX]

one more thing I forgot

I would like if possible, everybody who downloads and plays this to write a short review or something on what you thought of it, and its potiential then email ot to jason.b@shaw.ca with an address you can be contacted at

pass this along to anybody who downloads it

dont worry its nothing to do with junk mail.

thanks

[DamoclesX]

ya

I took the jump drives out because I need to think it through more... what you do is your setup invisible farcasters between systems or sectores, then you fly to them and jump
so youy put one in the main system, one in hyperspace linked to that system and one from hyperspace to your destonation

I just used jumpgates so you can see them easyer while I work out a b etter way tto do

until we can seelcte our destonation from the nav map before jumping I dont see another way

[Freaky]

7-Zip Ultra got it down to 209MB, with SFX. 3D Gamers or so might be a good idea

[Werewolf]

Let's wait with 3dgamers and fileplanet until we have a working DAT. I will try and make a campaign file later today. If that works out, I'll pass the DAT on to fileplanet and the other major file news sites.


BTW, DamoclesX, there's no HUD and no MUSIC folder in the files you sent me.

[DamoclesX]

they should be in the mods foldure.. 1 level up from mods

if they are not there then something major is wrong

it should be

mods/

mods/hud
mods/galaxy
mods/music
and so on

move hud and music in to root like the readme said

do you guys have like msn?
damoclesx@hotmail.com

to freaking sore to sit at this chair, gonna goto bed and boot up the internet tv

[DamoclesX]

i compressed the music and hud and put it on the ftp under addon
in case I dont make it much longer lol

[Werewolf]

Roger that, I'm downloading that and will offer a torrent for the addon as well.

BTW, so far I've served 6GB of traffic for the B5 mod. Not all that much really

[DamoclesX]

I have not posted it anywhere else

if I did who knows what would happen, last time pheagy and I did that, it was just for the 80 meg mod and he got so much traffic he couldnt even surf the net for 3 days or something

[Werewolf]

Well the 6GB are just my share - since it's Bittorrent we're talking about, everyone who downloaded it also contributed back. Cheers to those who left their download windows open by the way [:)]

[DamoclesX]

hm gues its on hard light also now

here is hoping firstones does not find out fora few more hours at least, every b5 fan on the planet checks that site
dont want to kill your connection, gues itw ouldnt be that bad once more people server bittorrent

never relized how usefull bittorrent was for getting around hosting problems

wish I understood what freaky was doing with usegroups.. ive heard of them but never used them in any way, have to do some reading

[Werewolf]

Don't worry about my connection. I have experience in this (been slashdotted twice and even was on the fileplanet front page in early 2001) - and yes, BitTorrent is wonderful for the very fact that the more people download simultaneously, the *less* traffic load I actually have on my side.

[Lord QDaan]

About newsgroups:
Usenet newsgroups are, in a way, much like this BB, or really like a prototype for the modern BB. However, you have to have a particular sort of software to receive and post from newsgroups. Microsoft Outlook has some limited functionality, I believe, but the most popular is probably a piece of freeware called XNews.
What NGs you can access (alt.startrek.vs.starwars, for example) is determined by how much your ISP feels like temporarily storing. Note temporary - if you want to look at posts made more than a few days ago, you'll have to archive them yourself, or hope Google Groups has it archived (not the case for any binaries).
Usenet was originally created for text only communication, and its protocol has no use for binaries. However, a way was determined at some point to encode binaries into transmittable text, and decoding for such files was added to any decent newsreader, including XNews. Some more specialized pieces of software are more useful for posting large files or large numbers of files. Large files are particularly problematic because there is a fairly low limit on how large a text file can be posted, so they have to be split up into several, sometimes dozens or hundreds of separate posts.
So, usenet is useful for two things in terms of this file: a one-time post of the file itself, or a simple post pointing out the location of the torrent. The question, of course, is what newsgroups specifically to post to, but that seems to be mentioned in a previous post.

[DamoclesX]

Webpage is up with the download info
http://members.shaw.ca/holdtheline/

[Leit]

Left My torrent opened since I downloaded it, only allowing 10-30k depending if I'm at home or not. but every little bit helps I Guess. I've only served 790 megs. btw I am having too much fun with the white star and watching the AI battle each other.

[Incendiary Lemon]

It'll be about a week before this things downloaded, looking forward to it though.[:)]

[Werewolf]

Addon Bittorrent is here:

http://hoxdna.org/b5/HTL500Addon.exe.torrent


Another hint: If you closed your download window but want to donate bandwidth again, just re-download into the same location where the files already exist, it will notice that you're already done downloading and start uploading immediately.

And yes, newsgroups are too short-lived to distribute binaries securely. Also, many folks have great difficulties getting files from NGs (lack of knowledge about multipart files, no client, etc)

[DamoclesX]

awsome put it on the page


the newsgroups are probably just to hard for me lol, have not been into the net that deep in a while.

[DamoclesX]

you guys ever get this to work in a dat?

[Werewolf]

Hmm.. tried making a campaign file, but that didn't seem to help. Anyone else had a try?

[DamoclesX]

I notice if you take most of the ships out, and do it, it works

maby its a size issue? overloaded the max ships the game can support in a dat?

if so we could break it into modules.. a ea dat, a narn dat so on