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General Chat / Re: AA2.5 Assist ReadME
« on: Sunday, January 04, 2015, 17:05:27 PM »
Then just to summarize my points:
-if you played this 3 years ago, you can have "vanilla" America`s Army install kit
-3 years ago i stopped at version 2.8.4
-by far that is not 2.5 and was usually installed in other folder then "armyops"
-before my first post i read some posts here (after reading the "readme") in the "readme" forum, which has given me the hint what tone i have to use
-at the moment for me still not works, yeah the update patch destroys the existing install as expected (no worries for this).
-most possibly not the "instability" of my internet connection is the problems source for update failure as i can do anything else without any major problem
- as i noticed before, using the find button could be more effective, in a way than creating the 25Assist folder with armyops subfolder
-no offense on armyops, but install kit can be downloaded from other places, and most nowadays programs has the flexibility
-changes can be also stored on existing settings.dat file, as anyway is created, and used for storage
-settings file is unencrypted, even without weakest possible encryption
-the download has no ability to continue, as a download manager, if needed wget is also a sourceforge project and supports retries and continue
-speed limiter also would be handy option on download as well as peer to peer connection options
As you can see i just noticed just a handful things about Assist, without calling someone asshole. Browsers support download managers from `98, other settings from even earlier.
Whatever connection you have, it is always good to don`t download twice what you can do once. Its a rule of really old times when bandwidth was a serious problem, and as nowadays still happens like connection instabilities.
Is it better now?
Second, in this world nothing is free, nor a server or more servers. Someone pays the bill.
When peoples behaves like a community, mostly you will not find some of them that whatever they did they are over the others. Disrespect is disrespect. As i read trough this pages, not really long pages, this is what i found, whoever wrote it, so i addressed him the same way.
That is all. At the moment this project is a dead weight and dropped, for me.
Good luck with it.
P.S.: Anyone who have good sense on IT, mostly will not use the default install drive for games. As written in the "readme", first you start the program as administrator to create some files. In the same way when you start first time the program could read install locations from registry. Some installers by default use the partition\games\ folder structure, i think with a reason. Operating system drives at least for Windows needs a lot of work space for the operating system, so should be not filled over 2/3 of the size. After windows Vista recommended partition size for windows is 100 Gb, but not to fill with games. It is for windows, installed work programs, system recoveries, etc. This not changed with Windows 7 and 8 or 8.1. Remains the same with Windows 10. You can use smaller but nothing will be comparable with "Xp" anymore.
-if you played this 3 years ago, you can have "vanilla" America`s Army install kit
-3 years ago i stopped at version 2.8.4
-by far that is not 2.5 and was usually installed in other folder then "armyops"
-before my first post i read some posts here (after reading the "readme") in the "readme" forum, which has given me the hint what tone i have to use
-at the moment for me still not works, yeah the update patch destroys the existing install as expected (no worries for this).
-most possibly not the "instability" of my internet connection is the problems source for update failure as i can do anything else without any major problem
- as i noticed before, using the find button could be more effective, in a way than creating the 25Assist folder with armyops subfolder
-no offense on armyops, but install kit can be downloaded from other places, and most nowadays programs has the flexibility
-changes can be also stored on existing settings.dat file, as anyway is created, and used for storage
-settings file is unencrypted, even without weakest possible encryption
-the download has no ability to continue, as a download manager, if needed wget is also a sourceforge project and supports retries and continue
-speed limiter also would be handy option on download as well as peer to peer connection options
As you can see i just noticed just a handful things about Assist, without calling someone asshole. Browsers support download managers from `98, other settings from even earlier.
Whatever connection you have, it is always good to don`t download twice what you can do once. Its a rule of really old times when bandwidth was a serious problem, and as nowadays still happens like connection instabilities.
Is it better now?
Second, in this world nothing is free, nor a server or more servers. Someone pays the bill.
When peoples behaves like a community, mostly you will not find some of them that whatever they did they are over the others. Disrespect is disrespect. As i read trough this pages, not really long pages, this is what i found, whoever wrote it, so i addressed him the same way.
That is all. At the moment this project is a dead weight and dropped, for me.
Good luck with it.
P.S.: Anyone who have good sense on IT, mostly will not use the default install drive for games. As written in the "readme", first you start the program as administrator to create some files. In the same way when you start first time the program could read install locations from registry. Some installers by default use the partition\games\ folder structure, i think with a reason. Operating system drives at least for Windows needs a lot of work space for the operating system, so should be not filled over 2/3 of the size. After windows Vista recommended partition size for windows is 100 Gb, but not to fill with games. It is for windows, installed work programs, system recoveries, etc. This not changed with Windows 7 and 8 or 8.1. Remains the same with Windows 10. You can use smaller but nothing will be comparable with "Xp" anymore.