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Launcher/Updater (paid job)[message #356415]

Tue, 15 January 2019 01:12

jpanic

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Hi all,

I am a long-time fan of JA2 1.13, wavering between AIMNAS and AFS mods. I am a busy professional with a young family and usually only get very limited days in the year to devote to a good run.

One thing that always frustrates me and I feel holds back enjoying the game is the difficulty of, every time I want to load a game, going through the process of having to separately update and install the various mods. Also if you do a single thing wrong and it crashes this usually means re-starting from scratch. Sometimes I have spent over half a day trying various installs and it's very disheartening to see the red text, remember something like one needs to install the Windows 10 patch as well, and lose so much time.

Another frustrating thing is having to go through the .ini settings each and every time that you re-download, to change all the settings to one's preference. It would seem to be a great project if a launcher could keep some "persistent" .ini settings that it would apply to freshly downloaded updates where the .ini settings are in the new updates.

Something I feel would take the more usual experience to the "next level" would be a proper updating launcher that updated the .exe and game data, kept persistent settings, similar to the launcher one is familiar with things like World of Tanks or XCOM 2, which could simply on launch check for updates from one of the stable repositories, let one check and uncheck different mods (eg Aimnas, UC AFS), and apply persistent settings, then launch the game in a stable and "just works" way.

I am wondering if anyone of the experienced modders who have broader Windows programming skills and experience would be interested in, as a properly paid-for casual job, doing this as a project (for Windows 10)? If so, please feel free to contact me either privately or how you prefer.

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		Launcher/Updater (paid job) By: jpanic on Tue, 15 January 2019 01:12
		Re: Launcher/Updater (paid job) By: Deleted. on Tue, 15 January 2019 11:37
		Re: Launcher/Updater (paid job) By: Shanga on Tue, 15 January 2019 14:16
		Re: Launcher/Updater (paid job) By: Deleted. on Tue, 15 January 2019 14:29
		Re: Launcher/Updater (paid job) By: jpanic on Wed, 16 January 2019 00:59
		Re: Launcher/Updater (paid job) By: Shanga on Wed, 16 January 2019 18:32
		Re: Launcher/Updater (paid job) By: edmortimer on Wed, 16 January 2019 18:48
		Re: Launcher/Updater (paid job) By: Jahh on Wed, 16 January 2019 20:37
		Re: Launcher/Updater (paid job) By: jpanic on Thu, 17 January 2019 01:13
		Re: Launcher/Updater (paid job) By: Shanga on Thu, 17 January 2019 02:02
		Re: Launcher/Updater (paid job) By: ZedJA2 on Thu, 17 January 2019 03:22
		Re: Launcher/Updater (paid job) By: jpanic on Thu, 17 January 2019 08:21
		Re: Launcher/Updater (paid job) By: Jahh on Thu, 17 January 2019 12:13
		Re: Launcher/Updater (paid job) By: Shanga on Fri, 18 January 2019 17:15
		Re: Launcher/Updater (paid job) By: Jahh on Fri, 18 January 2019 19:09
		Re: Launcher/Updater (paid job) By: jpanic on Mon, 21 January 2019 00:40
		Re: Launcher/Updater (paid job) By: Jahh on Tue, 15 January 2019 14:56

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