tei wrote:
I have work at a some cyberlocal. My experience about config files is that every user have is own, or use one from other user and edit. As users move from comp to comp in cyberlocals or move from cyberlocal to cyberlocal or from home to cyberlocal (and somethimes from home to work!) can be very valuable a feature to make config files portable and downloadable from Steam for custom mods/games. The ability to "upload" a configu file and "download" these config file can be automagically (similar as Messanger downloading your contacts and other config) or by a button or by console commands.
1. On-line Internet storage space is expensive to purchase, operate and maintain.
humm... but nowdays HD where giganteous and cheap. So.. with a 100 GB hard disk you can store 26,214,400 files of 4 KB
I know BW is expensive, anyway.
2. Valve is in the game development business, not the Internet file storage business.
hummm...
This problem can easily be overcome by having people set up an e-mail account on a free (or low cost) Web based e-mail service (MSN, Yahoo, etc.). Send your config files in an e-mail to yourself and leave them on the e-mail server. When you move to another machine (whether across the room, across town, or across the country), connect to your Web based e-mail address and copy your config file(s) to the local machine.
If the cyberlocal able browsing the computer, some cyberlocal forbid this windows feature. Most users where malicious and will break the computer or try to break into network shared computers, or exec config tools (regedit, regsrvc32, at, etc... )
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When you are done using that machine, delete the files.
argh!!!.. users deleting files at a cyberlocal?, of course, you can reestablish the files (maybe automagically with rembo or hardway with ghost) but is not fun to wait a computer restart slowly, or not work at all...
The simplest solutions are often times the best.
I agree.
1) User start steam 2) press "download my config" 3) play
vs
1) User start steam 2) start IE 3) start notepad 4) browse hotmail 5) search the mail trough spam and personal messages 6) copy the text into notepad 7) save as dialog, search into the tiny window the steam folder somewhere in the hd tree 8) press save 9) type exec myconfig.cfg 10) ERROR, the config doest not load 11) exit the game 12) open save as dialog 13) search the folder 14) notice the file whas save as myconfig.cfg.txt (or not notice the error, then goto 7) 15) rename the file myconfig.cfg 16) exec myconfig.cfg 17) play
hehehe...
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Has a engine coder myself (or something), I guess having the whole cfg file of everyone player of your engine can be a dream for the developpers, that will instanly know what feature is activated, and what not, what is the common sensitivity and mouse values, etc... Much more informative to directly ask users this data, and in a format ready to datamining :D
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