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Azbestos8 · Postby **Azbestos8** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:17 pm

Those of you that play online know that it can be a pain in the arse to sync files with friends. And what's worse, is that MM2 brands you as a cheater, when you never even cheated! :o

This gave me an idea to create some kinda little application that allows you to quickly share files with your friends.

How does it work? It dumps a "profile" file of your MM2 directory, your friend puts this file in his app-dir, and then he can easily compare & see what he doesn't have and/or needs to download.

I've included a screenshot, it doesn't look like much (or very pretty, or user-friendly but), it's only 1 night's worth of work, I've finished the ground-work, and once I've finished all the other little things, I intend to polish it up a little & make it more user friendly. At the moment - I've been using it with my friends and it seems to work fine, I haven't decided if I should release it or not. It'll all depend on how development progress goes.

I have some good ideas, such as adding an 8-man chatroom from where you can launch MM2. But it all comes down to how much time I can devote to this project.

https://homepage.ntlworld.com/az5135/rel/preview1.jpg

Riva · Postby **Riva** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:45 pm

Pretty nice idea.

I dunno if MM2 is still played online but it would be an useful tool.

Azbestos8 · Postby **Azbestos8** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:01 pm

Thank you, I'm glad you agree, I'm sick of MM2 metaphorically sticking a finger up my ass everytime I'm lacking a mod.

matt1314 · Postby **matt1314** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:23 pm

Yeah, it's truely a nice idea to do that.

Postby **Franch88** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:02 pm

Cool and pretty useful program project for multiplayer gameplayes, it's especially very original. Great work.

Those of you that play online know that it can be a pain in the arse to sync files with friends. And what's worse, is that MM2 brands you as a cheater, when you never even cheated!

Yeah, infact is important to decide which cars and tracks use, and have installed in the game, for a multiplayer gameplay do don't be stopped as cheater.

Azbestos8 · Postby **Azbestos8** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:06 am

I'm planning on including an editorial suite for vehicle makers. Do you think I should make it as a part of this app? Or separately?

It'll include things like a batch renamer (to change veh basenames), tuning utils for suspension, camera, damage, an archiver to create your *.ar files, etc, to streamline the whole process.

Edit: Anyone have any name ideas? I'm stumped, full credit will be awarded in the application.

Edit2: Franch, as an admin, do you have access to, information like top 50-100 most downloaded vehicles and mods?

dageek · Postby **dageek** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 7:45 pm

Name:
Cheater Preventer

(I dunno.. what else would you call it?)

Azbestos8 · Postby **Azbestos8** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 7:59 pm

Well at least it's a suggestion. Thanks! But I'm not too sure it's right. I was thinking something along the lines of "MM2 Sync" which would be "MM2S" or "MMS" for short.

I don't think "Cheat Preventer" would correctly portray the aim of the application, which is to easily share mods with friends. Not being branded a cheater is just a by-product. ;)

Edit: Whenever someone replies, could you include your favourite vehice to end the of post, please? The reason being is that this application syncs files using a centralised online database, and slowly but surely, I have to create a profile for every mod available - or at least the most common/popular. But even if the user's file isn't in the database, it doesn't impede the application's functionality.

Postby **Franch88** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:07 pm

I'm planning on including an editorial suite for vehicle makers. Do you think I should make it as a part of this app? Or separately?

It'll include things like a batch renamer (to change veh basenames), tuning utils for suspension, camera, damage, an archiver to create your *.ar files, etc, to streamline the whole process.

Interesting project this one too, the batch renamer is the more useful for me, also if there are already files batch renamer programs.

Make it as a separate program.

Franch, as an admin, do you have access to, information like top 50-100 most downloaded vehicles and mods?

Yeah, I can see those info. Is possible also to see that info from the website Top Files link here.

Azbestos8 · Postby **Azbestos8** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:17 pm

Are there any objections to using MM2X as a primary download location for a large majority of files? I plan to link to the file's imformation page.

Eg Madness City 3.

Postby **Franch88** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:20 pm

Are there any objections to using MM2X as a primary download location for a large majority of files? I plan to link to the file's imformation page.

No problem, me and Riva already use MM2X for the same thing in our websites.

Just link the page of the download details page for each file.

Azbestos8 · Postby **Azbestos8** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:04 pm

Okay, but I thought I should ask, seeing as it could potentially send a lot of traffic your way. Any name ideas? What's your favourite MM2 mod or mods?

matt1314 · Postby **matt1314** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:23 pm

Mine are MM2 Revisited and Shader Mod 2 Gold.

dageek · Postby **dageek** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:28 pm

How about the Drive on Water Mod, and HQTM's Reflection Mod. Also Fire and Smoke mod 3.2, and classic madness.

Postby **Franch88** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:33 pm

Okay, but I thought I should ask, seeing as it could potentially send a lot of traffic your way. Any name ideas? What's your favourite MM2 mod or mods?

Yeah, I could imagine that, but the important thing is that isn't directly linked any file, only the website page.

My favorite mods are the Classic Madness, the MM2 Revisited Mod V2 and Shader Mod 2 Gold. My favorite car is the BMW M3 CSL by HQTM-Team.
Anyway you can well take these info from the top downloaded files from here.

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