ModJive Q&A

[E1025]

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outstanding acheivment Elxx

[|D|-Jaws]

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Have you considered integrating bit torrent within the program?

[Sir. MatDef]

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Let me just preface this post by saying I'm just a tester, so I'll do the best I can to answer these questions to the best of my knowledge (besides, elxx can correct me later :p)

When around will it be released??

Soon, but I don't know exactly when.

Do you plan to give it support for more games?

That depends on how popular ModJive turns out to be. If it's popular, it could be possible to add support for other games.

how will you go about dealing with mods? as in who and what will be supported
will their be a dedicated email or contact for mods to tell about update or a place to find out more on being supported by this..

Droid

Like aak said, it will be up to the mod teams to get their mods included but I bet elxx is working on some kind of system that makes it easy for individual teams to update + release their content.

Stuff I as a modder would love to see incorporated:
- server browser with a mod filter
- ability to launch / join a server from the browser
- buddy list
- torrent downloading capabilities (tho I am assuming that it can launch a torrent client if the link to an update is a .torrent file)
- ABR client capability

Basically the ability to become the front end for a mod in terms of launching the mod and joining servers / finding buddys.

I too would love to see these features in ModJive, perhaps they could be added before release. (I don't know, ask elxx)

Have you considered integrating bit torrent within the program?

See above.


Take all my answers with a grain (or two) of salt, I'm sure elxx will be along shortly to provide proper (I mean correct) answers.

[Elxx]

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Will there be a display that shows how many people are currently playing each mod? And if not I officially declare there should be one...eh?

That's a good idea :)

Stuff I as a modder would love to see incorporated:
- server browser with a mod filter
- ability to launch / join a server from the browser
- buddy list
- torrent downloading capabilities (tho I am assuming that it can launch a torrent client if the link to an update is a .torrent file)
- ABR client capability

The server browser is a possibility for a later version. Currently it doesn't support torrents, but that can be added aswell. The buddy list system I'm not so sure about, right now ModJive doesn't really identify its users at all.

i sure hope ea spotlight this or makes it a ingame popup or something.

Heheh, sorry, that's not going to happen. If anything, EA's going to try to crush ModJive if it takes too much traffic from EA Link

My only concern is what happens when say..... the next build of poe2 or PR comes out, and everyone is trying to get it. Won't the downloads be slow for everyone using mod light to auto update. We all know what those days can be like. Just curious.

Well, we're going to have several file servers - new mods will be uploaded to multiple ones to balance the load. Downloads might be slightly slower during peak times, but it's better than having to wait 35 minutes on Filecloud just to START downloading

how will you go about dealing with mods? as in who and what will be supported
will their be a dedicated email or contact for mods to tell about update or a place to find out more on being supported by this..

Yep, there's an online backend where mod leaders can update their mods and info. We're working on getting contact info out so that mod teams can get their mods submitted.

[Sir. GenX000]

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Heheh, sorry, that's not going to happen. If anything, EA's going to try to crush ModJive if it takes too much traffic from EA Link

but EA Link does not distribute mods...
what "traffic" do they have in common? patches?

EA should love Modjive as it helps keep people playing their games!

[I am RKO]

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Will Modjive support both full and incremental patches?

- For example, say Battleracer 1.3 was released as the full patch, then sometime later a 1.31 patch as an incremental was released, meaning the 1.3 patch would be needed too, would they both be available to download?

Will ModJive have a sort of Premiere download for new Sir. Mods like before it's released elsewhere?

Will there be links to the modifications websites and a chance to read more detailed info, that just a brief description.

Is there a cut-off point of how many or which mods get chose?

[Elxx]

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Will Modjive support both full and incremental patches?

- For example, say Battleracer 1.3 was released as the full patch, then sometime later a 1.31 patch as an incremental was released, meaning the 1.3 patch would be needed too, would they both be available to download?

That's what the shiny "Update" button in the Installed Mods is for. It does incremental updates :)

Will ModJive have a sort of Premiere download for new Sir. Mods like before it's released elsewhere?

Yeah, I plan to release one or two of my mods as ModJive exclusives later on. It's not limited to Sir. mods though, all mod teams are free to choose when and how their mods are distributed.

Will there be links to the modifications websites and a chance to read more detailed info, that just a brief description.

Pssst, look at the screenshot

Is there a cut-off point of how many or which mods get chose?

ModJive will accept pretty much any mod that has a (virus-free) working release out. The team member who submits the mod must have MSN, Google Talk, or Skype to stay in touch though.

[The Crazy Idiot]

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Why is it running under linux on that screenshot?

[Elxx]

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Why is it running under linux on that screenshot?

It's not, that's Windows XP with an Ubuntu theme :p

[Eden]

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Have you thought about implementing a way to download mods distributed by torrent?

[Deleted_screen]

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Elxx is writing a back end for mod teams as we speak. Mostly, it will be the modder's or mapper's responsibility to apply for a "slot." You will have direct control over updating your content.

So where do you request your mod into ModJive?

[Elxx]

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So where do you request your mod into ModJive?

There will be contact info on the ModJive website soon when we're ready to start accepting submissions.

Eden, already answered your question, scroll up.

[Eden]

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So you did. Good to see your considering those features. Is it just you working on it?

For the buddy list, it could be possible to allow the users to add BF2 usernames to a buddy list which in turn could check if there online and if they are where they are.

[The Only Apex]

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haha "reminds me of steam, therefore i do not trust it"

"Do not give Skynet total control. Nooooooo. Get to da choppa! NOW!!!"

[Elxx]

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For the buddy list, it could be possible to allow the users to add BF2 usernames to a buddy list which in turn could check if there online and if they are where they are.

Yep, that would go along with the server browser stuff.

haha "reminds me of steam, therefore i do not trust it"

I absolutely HATE Steam. ModJive won't end up like that.