P2P more config options

[Mikey]

After having a look in my tm2 cache yesterday I was suprised to see the size of mods. And was already aware of the sizes of car models/skins compared to TMF
I think it would be of benefit if there was greater options in the P2P settings, like being able to individually select if it was enabled for different types of p2p content, ie mods, skins, music, signs, avatars etc
Nadeo please consider this !

[xis101]

I second that. Would be really useful for bad connections

[bel1be]

After having a look in my tm2 cache yesterday I was suprised to see the size of mods. And was already aware of the sizes of car models/skins compared to TMF
I think it would be of benefit if there was greater options in the P2P settings, like being able to individually select if it was enabled for different types of p2p content, ie mods, skins, music, signs, avatars etc
Nadeo please consider this !

And this is Urgend
When you are in a race game , without leaving it , P2P of and on is already fine

[Alter-Fox]

I agree.
Disable locators is ok, but it's a bit of a hack job. My game often locks up when downloading mods, but maybe I just want to hear the music.

[tcq]

I have to agree. My connection is nearly as slow as possible and playing online simply sucks. If i don't have P2P enabled i don't find the way on maps with custom signs, but when pi turn P2P on i can't race because my internet is to slow, when it downloads signs, car skins, mods and all other stuff which doesn't add anything to the game, when you simply want to race.
So i would love the possibility to only select signs as a DL option and probably cars, but not the rest.
Please add this.

[zootie]

I think it's a good idea.

Most decent mods are over 100megs, the Tropical mod on ManiaPark is a whopping 400 meg !!! . So if we have the option to exclude say just Mods, it will help a great deal and save us a lot of money on bandwidth.

[Mikey]

The alternate possiblility would be to have an option to set a size limit, example 10 mb,
And any p2p bigger than the limit do not download.
It would be really good if this was a feature of MP 2.0 ! please

[tcq]

What i thought about was the following.
Why not setting a flag to each dataset, you are about to download?

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Flag1 means carskin
Flag2 means carmodel
Flag3 means signs
Flag4 means mod
Flag5 means music 
...
FlagN ...

And give the player the possibility to select the flags he wants to download and up to which size.
As an example:
Player A only wants data with flag 1 and flag 3 and it shouldn't be over 4mb per file?

[phil13hebert]

Really good idea ! I totally agree with your idea.

[Keras]

Agreed, very good idea.

Edit: And it would also be great if the cache was organised in some way. For example there could be folders for each type of content so you could look through them and search for something you would like to keep in the game even after clearing the cache (if the filenames could include the original filename somewehere it would help too).