Any interest in a dedicated torrent and forum service for Sins?

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I've played Sins since it was released, purchased it before beta and there's two things which I think the community needs more than anything.

1) A dedicated forum for mods

and

2) A torrent service for mod downloads.

 

More details on each point, as follows

1) A dedicated forum for mods

I personally find this official sins custom forum a pain in the rear to use, it lacks features I'm usually accustomed to from brands such as Vbulletin, MyBB and other softwares.

It's often slow and unresponsive in general

Additionally, mods are restricted to a single thread for all feedback, which makes searching for a possible issue, not to mention getting feedback in general, a pain, to say the least.

As I have some 8+ years running community sites for games, I propose setting up a dedicated forum, seperate to this site (of course), which would be dedicated to modders/mods.

Each mod would have it's own category and forums for news, support and other information, making it much easier to find the information you need, plus it'd be much easier for modders to respond to feedback and post new information etc.

The forum would run on commercial software, perhaps Vbulletin 4, or Xenforo, thus, it would be much easier to use, than this one.

It would be hosted on a dedicated server, with sufficient ram/cpu/diskspace to accomodate lots of posters/readers.

 

2) A torrent service for mod downloads.

One of the problems I seem to face as a user and what I notice modders face as developers, is the ability to find a decent download site, which is happy to host their mods.

Sites that are used, are often slow, have loads of adverts and are a pain to download from, which must be frustrating for both modders and players alike.

I propose the creation of a torrent network, purely for sins mods (both past, present and future ones), with the main torrent device being a dedicated server with a "fat pipe" (so to speak)

This service would be offered to those who host their mod forums on the dedicated forum I mention above and to those who choose to use this forum.

Having a torrent service for mods would make it much easier to download/upload mods, plus it'd get rid of the need for download services which bombard people with ads, popups and slow download speeds.

 

So, any thoughts?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

There is forum for most or if you want better mods here

http://danmangames.com/forums/index.php

As for torrent service I don't think it will happen as for ISP s that monitor traffic all torrent activity is deamed illegal. 

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

1) A dedicated forum for mods

I use moddb

2) A torrent service for mod downloads.

I use moddb

 

What would be the benefit of this service over other more established providers that have large user bases?

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

The only benefit in having torrents over something like ModDB would be if the mods were > 1 gig in size.  My opinion, anyway. 

With regards to your concerns about the forums, I'd suggest requesting enhancements.  SD is generally quite responsive... based on my experience anyway. 

Additionally, mods are restricted to a single thread for all feedback, which makes searching for a possible issue, not to mention getting feedback in general, a pain, to say the least.

um... really?  Its impossible to post another thread focused on a particular issue?  I'm all for keeping things in 1 thread, but if something comes up that is problematic, I'm not exactly sure why there would be an issue with creating a new thread to address a particular bug, etc. 

On the dg forums (I'm an admin there), we don't have any restrictions like that.  If an issue merited another thread, then make it and discuss. 

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Torrent activity isn't illegal unless it's the sharing of illegal/copywritten files.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting adamdresch, reply 4
Torrent activity isn't illegal unless it's the sharing of illegal/copywritten files.

And I'm 99% certain Greg knows that. It's just that you can't actually tell what types of files or even the actual filenames of transferred information are when using a torrent, so an ISP would be more likely to say "it's illegal files", instead of "maybe it's something like a mod".

That's really the thing; those ISPs that can track transfers and notice torrent usage, will likely be pretty quick to go from nice to not-so-nice. And it's mostly because some of the more publicized usages of torrents are illegal distribution of copywritten files or consumer products, like music, movies, and/or games.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Ah, ok

Well thanks for the feedback anyways.