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Old November 25th, 2007, 03:36 PM
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Default Re: Making a Map Database?

there is, and thats an awesome thread... but it doesnt really allow for extensive feedback, searching by rating, etc.
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OW like that.. no not really.. well your idea sounds good.. but I fear that any effort in it (I can't help you btw) might be wasted a bit for the same reasons we get little feedback in the forum (whatever those might be)
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Old November 25th, 2007, 04:32 PM
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This sounds rather hard for just fans to create. The website itself probably won't take too long for someone experienced in php, but how are you going to come up with the GBs of hosting space and (possibly) TBs of bandwidth the website will require if it will become big?
EDITMaps are 1-100 MBs big, so 20 maps might take 1GB of space. If each map will be downloaded 100 times thats 100GBs of bandwidth [not in one month of course])
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well, i mean, theoretically the forum here does all of that. so i dont know if it would be possible to do this as part of shrapnelcommunity or what
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Actually, it might be possible by leeching onto someone elses hosting and bandwidth.
Maybe if you put the maps on something like yousendit.com and just post links on your fanmade website, you could get around the problems of hosting and bandwidth.
Hmmm, and if you can write some sort of script that will download each map once every six days to make sure it doesn't get removed from their site.
Hmmm.

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Well, you can't stop me until I get started I have no relevant skills, just a desire, so I'm really pulling at others peoples' ideas and skills
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Well.. all maps usually are already attached here.. you'd just have to use those links then?

No skills here either.. I just like making maps noone is interested in it seems.

And I can't figure out why everyone is so interested in new nations mods (they seem popular) when there are already about 80 nations... only for the warhammer map I'd like some modded nations.. for the rest the game provides enough for me... but that is a bit off topic..

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