PR: MXvsATV coming to the PC and PSP

[RXR_MX322]

Kamshaft open the site back up man you were here since MCM1 i really hated to see it shut down. And lastly FIRE UP YOUR BIKES BOYS AND GIRLS WERE GOING RAICNG AGAIN!! 

[VRT_RIDEBLUE]

There will be too much bandwidth with 1 site, we need 3 or make it a pay service, these new tracks will be 15 megs zipped, top notch tracks will be downloaded 3,000 times, do the math, Kam, if you do this I reccomend it to be a pay service($20 a year) and perhaps some help so its not on you, I would be willing to handle the forums if you want.

[22Ryann]

Yooo.. HOLE SHEET why hasnt someone emailed me earlier about this thanks to bruce for the heads up this is amazing... hell yes guys!

[Metla666]

All you need for destriibuting tracks is a Torrent tracking site, similar to what has been made for rFactor, that way everyone shares the load, gets fast downloads and it doesn't cost anyone anything.

oh yeah, Im back (who?,they say)....lmao.

Been watching from the sidelines for a couple years now, waiting for this announcment.

[VMX_101]

All you need for destriibuting tracks is a Torrent tracking site, similar to what has been made for rFactor, that way everyone shares the load, gets fast downloads and it doesn't cost anyone anything.

I mentioned that above, but don't have much knowledge on how torrents work. But I agree it would defiantly solve the cost issues.

There will be too much bandwidth with 1 site, we need 3 or make it a pay service, these new tracks will be 15 megs zipped, top notch tracks will be downloaded 3,000 times, do the math, Kam, if you do this I reccomend it to be a pay service($20 a year) and perhaps some help so its not on you, I would be willing to handle the forums if you want.

Thats my exact point Blue, we can't expect one person to take this on. We are a community and I think we should work together to make this as easy and inexpensive for everyone involved. I would be willing to pay a monthly or yearly fee if required, but I'd hope we could find away to keep it as free as possible.

I know advertising will help alittle, but it won't cover even half the bandwidth we'll be seeing. I just don't want to see anyone feeling obligated to fork out cash they shouldn't. I don't want anyone sleeping in a box to keep a site up we all use. I would defiantly think something in the lines of what RFJ had for awhile, recognized creators of course if there is a fee involved then this would be waved. You pay you play.

LosCyco,

I do think you might have something on limiting people on how much they can upload, that would defiantly reduce the amount of crappy tracks. Of course this will make it a lot harder for new creators to show there stuff. But I think with a limit the overall quality of tracks would be much higher. I personally take my sweet ass time between projects so having a limit would work for me. Another thought would be to have a group of mods or a selection of well known creators that review the tracks before they are available to the public. Removing the lack luster tracks from the pile and approving the quality or deserving tracks. Again this could cause problems, for new creators. But it would defiantly reduce the amount of bandwidth by reducing the amount of tracks uploaded. But again these are just some ideas.

I personally plan to open a personal site for my tracks and other related content. So if I end up with any space I'd be will to spread the load.

Well thats my journal post for the day.

Regards,

Denny

[TTM_96CR250]

Hey fellas, appreciate the good news!  The TTM site has went down but it will be back up soon.  The server PC is changing locations from Gekko's house to another TTM member's.  Maybe we can talk Gekko into making a new recorder.  It's hard to say at this point, but hopefully he will.  This is the best news I've heard in quite a while.  Have a good one fellas.  

[Metla666]

This is the rfactor torrent site I mentioned,

http://rtracker.no-ip.org/

There is a faq and on there and google has eleventy billion articles about torrents.

Anyhow, I use the above site extensivly to get tracks and cars for rFactor, And I leave them seeding when the comps free, Works well, doesn't cost a cent.

[VMX_SKYmx99]

Man, it's gonna be a long three months.  This sounds like the good ole days again.

[RRC_OiLbUrNeR]

OH HELL NO! 15MB TRACKS ZIPPED!!! I am deffinantly goona ave to buy a new pc. I need to buy a car atm aswel well if it gets released in 3 months in usa im guessing another 8-12 months for Aus. Do american games work on aus pcs? like america uses ntsc while aus uses pal?

[VMX_Burn]

Well, I'm hoping to get a new pc by the time this is released and maybe that will prise me off XBL for long enough to get my ass whooped by some of you guys, just like the good old days

(Speaking of xbl, and a little off topic sorry, but the only guys i have played with on live from the mcm2 lot are mx45 and brenticus, Someone pm me their gamertag if they play anything on live)

[AUS_Twisted]

No chance of it being on MSN Zone...why? Because MICROSOFT owns it and only MS games get on there!

Thats false, theres been a lot of non developed or published Microsoft games added to the zone over the years.

But I dout THQ/Rainbow will make a deal with Microsoft to have a new MX game added to the MSN Zone, it would be good though as it's a easy meeting place to join games and chat etc.

I'd rather the new MX vs ATV for PC to have it's own inbuilt chat server with dedicated servers like Nascar Racing 2003 has, very easy to use and no other software is required other then the game itself.

Wonder if we will be able to use joysticks? or are we going to have to buy the ps2 controller adapters?

Well any controller that works in DirectX under Direct Input should work no problem like MCM2, every PC game released these days is mostly all controlled by DirectX, some developers still have the option to use openGL for graphics acceleration which can actually be faster sometimes depending on the hardware and drivers used

[Kamshaft]

Hosting is not the problem.  Heck, even building fancy PHP scripts is not an issue now either.  I knew nothing about PHP when I built MCM2 Central.  The issues are time & bandwidth.....MCM2 Central in it's "hay-day" was transfering over 600GB per month! That's 2GB per day, most hosts we had that just did mirroring.... dropped us.

A torrent site is a really good idea actually.  This would assure, a non bandwidth hogging system.  Blizzard does it for World of Warcraft with their patches. And it would be free, or very close to it.

How about a pay to download thing?  $5 per month or $50 per year for like 1GB per month or unlimited? (this is a not concerte)  Track creators could get a credits towards more downloads.  Thus, if you build tracks, you won't have to pay.  Advertisers, do people want flashing ads over just paying a small fee?  Just some ideas here folks.

We would filter bad tracks too.

I'm torn, really I am.  I may just be a regular person and make tracks again, under Cameron Graphics.  And maybe pay someone else. 

And a review system, I would definately change the review system.

Kam

[ATR_RaTaX2]

welll i dnt like paying but tbh its the fair way and i would part with my money that way

[VMX_Burn]

I think a review team would be best. Maybe a track will need 5 passing reviews before it gets hosted, and any tracks that a reviewer hasn't looked at yet will be flagged and they will need to review it before moving to the next track that hasn't had 5 reviews. This would be some work but if there were say, 50 reviewers then 5 reviews wouldnt be a problem.

http://halo.bungie.org have a video review system that works very well called the MPRRS.

About the paying aspect, I would prefer ads, as long as there are no pop-up ads. As an occasional downloader anyway.

[The Loz]

Hello boys and girls.

ElDiablo tipped me off about this one. What can I say? Hot stuff

If the terrain, textures, skies etc work the same as MCM2 did then you'll definitely be seeing a new track from THE LOZ.

Does anybody know if it has motion blur? I love that effect!

Oh, and please don't use torrents... My university has blocked Bittorrent and all that.

~Loz

[VMX_SKYmx99]

All of the MCM greats are coming outta the woodwork.  Lets see if Tnarg and 51 start making tracks again.

[VMX_D-Dub]

this is the thing we need to keep everyone here alive.

thanks sooo much rainbow !!!

[Green_CRrider2]

I myself would prefer ads.  and that review thing sounds ok but how bout if you set a minimum amount of downloads over 30 days like 30 downloads or 60 downloads. and if it doesnt make it delete it off the site and theres 15 mbs of bandwidth free.

[VMX_Burn]

The only thing about a download limit is that we wouldn't know how big the community will be, there will be a lot of new people I am sure.

Back in the day even the most crap tracks would get at least 100 downloads.(I would know as mine were a few of them)

[Mr_Blacke]

Sweeeet