Alright, I know this is only for the select few of us who run custom maps on our source servers, but I'd like to see a better download bar for the Source2 engine.
What does this mean? Remember back in the old 1.6 engine, when each file had it's own download bar, and you could actually tell (sort of) the filesize that you were downloading? Why can't we do that with the Source2 engine? It'd be nice if the download bar would tell you what you're downloading as well as displaying the size and the download status, instead of this silly one-bar-for-all-files-plus-extraction kinda thing that's going on now. If you're a server administrator and compress files on your webserver to .bz2, your clients see a download bar that goes halfway. If there's a large map (TF2 maps are getting larger and larger) we see clients leaving just due to the halved download bar, because the first half shows the overall file download progress (oh, and it doesn't care what the filesizes are of any custom files, so if you have two or more, good luck) and the second half shows the extraction and load process. So my question is...why can't we have anything to better inform the clients of what they're downloading and exactly how big it is? It would be very useful to us as server operators, I'd think, but correct me if I'm wrong. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
