Pls make one file in which all the maps would be to download

Huh? It only compresses a file by a certain percent, regardless of how many zip files you put it in.
-VGsatomi

Yay, we compress it endlessly and the filesize gets close to zero

*warning to myself: no spamming*

Oh dang. And also, phew. I was gonna made a thread about this too. Good thing I saw it before I did it...

Mainly... it's about saving time. Now, I know that the person that creates the huge thing will have to spend some time; but if you consider how many people will be manually downloading each map, then think of the time saving that would happen if just one person were to make a single file.

I don't know about this single file thing, but in today's mass downloading frenzy, bittorrent is preferred. It'd also be a good idea to seperate the maps in the categories they're already in. Just make a bittorrent that has all the maps in their respective folders.

I know this would be 'n' GB and would take a long time to download, but there are those of us that would do it. And if bittorrent... would seed the bittorrent. Looking at the 250+ pages of maps here and 300+ at warcraft3.org... I certainly wish there was a bittorrent with all the maps.

It's certainly doubtful that we'd ever play all the maps, but the main idea is that we'd have a big enough selection to find a great deal of maps that we really like.

Another reason we crazy people want to download such a huge load is that we're hoping to, amoung the Gigs of maps, attain the good ol' maps that people don't have or play on Bnet anymore. I've recently found some people that have some good old maps, and have been able to find Smash CTV. This is also a favorite of mine from Starcraft, which no one has or plays anymore...

The main idea of a single file is to make it easier to get the maps. We'd rather spend our bandwidth 24/7 downloading a huge file than manually downloading and browsing through thousands of pages to find a certain map. Of course, if you don't, then we'll still be where we are now: manually downloading a single map at a time. Although, we prefer to d/l everything then test the maps, than download, test, download, test.

err..all of them? wow taht would b like 1gig or somethin, but if u had a check list, like a cart and u added map to list to dl, that would be tasty..

1 gig?

Wulf, you are underestimating

Considering that this site rips through just under 1024 gigabytes a month, I'd easily say it'd be in the hundreds of gigabytes

That wouldn't be "very long", that'd be "Leaving your computer on and network unused for a week"

I've done that before. I did it when I downloaded all 291 episodes of DBZ in 64 Gigs of torrents.

You could make them smaller by having a torrent per section. That'd certainly cut down on size for those that don't want the whole thing, or for those that don't know how to select what files to download in a torrent.

DaelinI would start with Darky's campaigns.

~Daelin

They don't work.

yes they do.

Although that was thread revival I will leave this thread open because virdicyer's idea is interesting.

The problem is, I don't think there'd be enough users downloading the maps to keep the torrent alive. Also, I doubt most users even have any torrent downloading programs. Of course, even if that idea worked, there would have to be someone to start the torrent, and it couldn't be everything because it would be way too big.

oz02Although that was thread revival I will leave this thread open because virdicyer's idea is interesting.

I can't see what's wrong with thread revival, in my opinion it's better to have all about a topic in the same thread, instead of thousand of mini threads which makes seaching horrible and uses more bandwidth.

The problem with thread revival is when a thread which has it's discussion finished is revived. This thread, for example, had its discussion finished, so reviving it is only annoying. However, since it was revived with another idea that can continue the discussion, its ok.

Have any of you been to ocremix.org? They have a bittorrent system going to distribute their songs (1250+).

"Many of the Bittorrent clients can only handle torrents with up to 500ish files in them. Although our recommended clients can work with at least 1000 files in an individual torrent, we figured that it would be best to not require people that already have a Bittorrent client installed to have to upgrade" --OCRemix.org, regarding number of files in torrents

They have 3 torrents for their main remixes so far. The torrents have been up for a long time and each still has 20+ seeders. They also have several other torrents for specific games... each of those has 5+ seeders.


That means a torrent per map type and those small categories (Campaign, CTF, Footman Wars, etc.) can be combined. Or if you did 1000 files per torrent, then that's be 4 torrents.

Well what would be good if someone went into the spells section and gathered lots of spells onto 1 map.

e.g. a map with every fire spell, a map with every1 frost spell.

But then again who'd want to waste their time doing that

oz02The problem with thread revival is when a thread which has it's discussion finished is revived. This thread, for example, had its discussion finished, so reviving it is only annoying. However, since it was revived with another idea that can continue the discussion, its ok.

Well, that is good to know.