Should Bug/Patch be a subforum of Modding instead? ATTENTION: .EXE CODERS

[Buster's Uncle]

[DrazharLn]

Your and ete's plan seems good to me, BUncle.

[scient]

I have no preference personally. As long as it doesn't break any thing, shifting around forum locations is fine. I do think that Bug/Patch discussion is oddly placed in Theory of Everything.

[Buster's Uncle]

There was a good reason for that at the time - all the random bug reports already existing were in TOE, and bugfixes weren't exactly modding, in the sense of change being intended.  Now, though, we've probably found all the old reports, and are definitely talking about modding, collectively.

[Buster's Uncle]

Well, not to be impatient or anything, but everyone I especially wanted to get feedback from had been by and either commented or not - I rearranged as ete suggested.

Nothing that can't be undone - your happiness is the whole point of the exercise.  I'll leave this thread here until tomorrow night, anyway, before I move it to Council Room and retitle, so now's your chance to kibbitz/complain before you have to scroll further down the root to do it...

[PlotinusRedux]

I don't think it matters where the discussions are, but it would probably be a good idea to give patch releases more visibility that a post in a sub-forum.

[Yitzi]

I think putting it in modding could work, as long as everybody knows where to find it.

[sisko]

I will make the patches more visible to everyone sometime this week.

[ete]

I don't think it matters where the discussions are, but it would probably be a good idea to give patch releases more visibility that a post in a sub-forum.

Usually Yitzi and the others post in Chiron News Network when they release a patch, probably worth doing that for yours?

[Buster's Uncle]

CNN posts -Yitzi's are autoposts when he puts up the latest iteration in Downloads- automatically go to AC2's Front Page for maximum visibility...

[ete]

Ah, I see. It'd be good to have the same for Plotinus.

[Buster's Uncle]

You don't HAVE TO post a file to Downloads to start a thread in CNN and get on the front page, of course - but we sure love to have whatever resources we can get in Downloads...

[PlotinusRedux]

Do I have a way to post to downloads?

So far, really, it's been good to work out the kinks with the smaller group here, especially with the high level of computer literacy in this forum--usually 99% of the feedback I get is people who don't know how to use their computer asking me to be their free Windows tech support rather than anything relevant to my code, whereas here every post has been relevant.  This is by far the best experience I've ever had getting feedback.

But eventually I'll want to make it available to everyone.

[sisko]

Do I have a way to post to downloads?...

You should be able to see an 'Add a download' link at the bottom of the patches section:
http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=downloads;cat=2

[PlotinusRedux]

I'm not sure at this point I'd make modding and patching separate forums at all.  I just found Ford's posts on the Cavier format under modding from a google search because I've only been reading the patching forum, and it is very relevant to patching--as is his post there about starting on a java rewrite.

It looks like modding is averaging 2-4 topics a month, so I don't think the forums would unduly dilute each other--and it would good for patchers and modders to know what each was up to in general.

Of course, now that I know there's stuff I want to know being posted in the modder's forum, it's no big deal to check both.