T_Rex wrote:Actually, your "warning"

about making installers for potentially obsolete theaters raises another area for collaboration.
Heh yeah, again I have to say that there is no release dates, but surely new versions are on their way. Past few days I've been busy with the Iran theater, some people have let me know they have great interest on Vietnam and Sherlock is the man for ODS enthusiasm here. So dunno when and what comes out.
I squeezed a 1.4 gb install of Europe down to 200 mb.
Hmm not sure what you mean by this, most of the space in theaters will be from the theater.L0 etc and fartiles.raw files, those arent to be added into the installer/download. For europe even the 200mb sounds excessive, I mean the original release was like few megs I think?
What sort of installer-system are you planning on using for the theaters?
Honestly I havent thought about it yet, for certainly it will not modify registry and it has to be very seamless. I'd go for just rar into F4 dir but there has to be some sort of tinkering, if not else than just running a batch file to copy stuff and/or run sptinstall etc.
Remains to be seen how will the final download/install be handled.
The resurgence of theater-building for F4 has me VERY excited.
Me too. Been having great time on Iran theater, today I chuckled that perhaps I should try some Korean campaign missions for a change to get some bearings how to original plays.