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The_Triggerzone

January 30th, 2002, 05:06 PM

Hello DoomerZ,

I'm currently working on a little program that must make it able for people to share there wad file without makeing a website.

It will be possible to upload a wad or add a link to a wad. This will make it possible that there are files in the list that are not existing. I've been thinking about this problem and it is easy to fix. When a files was not downloadeble it wil be flagged that it was not downloadeble. After several flags the file wil be removed out of the list. If someone else (before it was removed) downloads the file and workes well the flags will be reseted.

The files will also be rateble so realy bad maps will be recogniced.

Per file there will be some standard info's like:
What port is it made for.
What kind of level is it (coop, dm, etc).
Addings to the wad (like sounds and textures).
Copyright notes.
etc.

All the file will be catagorysed and searchebla by a biltin search engine.

This program will be totaly free and only for win32 users.

If you got ideas for this thing or other things you can post them here or mail them to me.

There are also some screenshots of the program so you also can add some comments about the lay out.

I hope yall like this program and I hope I'll be able to make it a good working app.

GRZ me an THNX for reading this stuff.

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Working on the Doom Wad Provider (http://dwp.mspn.2y.net/)

Nickster

January 31st, 2002, 03:53 AM

COOOOOOOOOOOL!!! http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/smilies/cwm17.gif

The_Triggerzone

January 31st, 2002, 06:31 AM

Thats short but clear http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/smile.gif

THNX

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Big_al

January 31st, 2002, 08:15 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<hr width="100%" size="1" noshade>It will be possible to upload a wad<hr width="100%" size="1" noshade></BLOCKQUOTE>
Were will it get uploaded to?
Will this be some kind of Peer-2-Peer file sharing util along the lines of eDonkey,etc?

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DarkWolf

January 31st, 2002, 12:18 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<hr width="100%" size="1" noshade>The files will also be rateble so realy bad maps will be recogniced.<hr width="100%" size="1" noshade></BLOCKQUOTE>
Who will rate them? On what sort of scale?

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-DarkWolf

The_Triggerzone

January 31st, 2002, 01:37 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<hr width="100%" size="1" noshade>Were will it get uploaded to?
Will this be some kind of Peer-2-Peer file sharing util along the lines of eDonkey,etc?<hr width="100%" size="1" noshade></BLOCKQUOTE>

At the moment its not so inportent yet to were the files go to but its still a good point.

1. I was thinking on a online file place (But I havent realy infestigated this yet).
2. On the main server (This is not a realy good idea. It'll make the search thing slow).
3. Some freaks whith an ftp (This is realy bad because most of these guys quit without announcing it and that means that you have lost lots of files).
4. ... Can you guys help me with this a bit. Its a known question and space is mostly not cheap.

This program will not be some peer-2-peer thing. It'll download the files of servers or from inserted URLs.

Are your questions ansered?

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Working on the Doom Wad Provider (http://dwp.mspn.2y.net/)

The_Triggerzone

January 31st, 2002, 01:41 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<hr width="100%" size="1" noshade>Who will rate them? On what sort of scale?<hr width="100%" size="1" noshade></BLOCKQUOTE>

The people who download them and on a scale of 1 to 5.

1 = Totaly crap
2 = Bad
3 = Normal
4 = Good
5 = Excelent

I'm also thinking of giving the scores a color code.

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Working on the Doom Wad Provider (http://dwp.mspn.2y.net/)

DarkWolf

January 31st, 2002, 03:44 PM

Rating system sounds good, as long as people don't abuse it.

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-DarkWolf

The_Triggerzone

January 31st, 2002, 03:51 PM

The rating system can be abused if someone has more accounts.

This is because I make it inpossible to rate a wad more then once.

About 1 person having more accounts. I'm thinking of a system that logs or checks the use of usernames in combination with the IP adress. This makes it almost impossible to cheat.

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Working on the Doom Wad Provider (http://dwp.mspn.2y.net/)

deepteam

February 1st, 2002, 04:57 PM

Proxy servers easily defeat IP checking.

DarkWolf

February 1st, 2002, 06:03 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<hr width="100%" size="1" noshade>Proxy servers easily defeat IP checking.<hr width="100%" size="1" noshade></BLOCKQUOTE>
That's true, perhaps you should have the # of downloads instead? Although this doesn't necessarily distinguish between good and bad, really bad maps don't usually get a whole lot of downloads.

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The_Triggerzone

February 2nd, 2002, 08:36 AM

I've thought about the proxy servers. Its indeed a little problem but I first have to see if there are people who are gonna try to cheat.

And ofcourse people can see how much a file has been downloaded (requested). The only thing with that is that its even less reliable as the voting system.

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Working on the Doom Wad Provider (http://dwp.mspn.2y.net/)