I moved the signatures block inside the proposal itself, so it looks a bit cleaner.

Added my signature as well.

As somebody who has to deal with cherry-picking and merging, it would be awesome if Cyan could push multiple commits when they're pushing multiple fixes. It's painful enough trying to merge between OU and H-URU already. I would hope those are multiple commits in their internal VCS and this wouldn't ...

Playing devil’s advocate, I wonder if even such expectations might be seen as demanding and ungrateful by Cyan, lowering their inclination to talk to us. What if they would rather not have their neighborhoods fitted with different lamps, or even their textures replaced by higher-resolution ones, no...

I think Rand's "Want" comment may reflect the truth, but Cyan's hands may be tied by existing licensing agreements they have with other companies (UbiSoft, EA, MagiQuest, etc.) which restrict them from re-releasing content under different licenses (exclusive agreements and the like). This is defini...

I actually misspoke earlier - .fni files are in per-age manifests, not the global manifest. .age files are duplicated in both. I'm not 100% sure they're needed in External. Certainly earlier Plasma versions wanted to have the .age files at launch, but if CWE doesn't then .age files can be removed fr...

It's worth keeping in mind that when the MOUL patching system was implemented, the full data set was NOT in External.mfs - we had age patching at link time. I've found in my own tests that verifying all the global data - .age, .csv, .fni, .p2f - is very fast. That can all be put in to ThinExternal, ...

On Rand's Mysterium comments, there were other things he said during that interview that I know he wasn't entirely accurate on, so I'm less inclined to take those remarks as definitive (is it heresay to disbelieve Rand? :P ). However, a thought is that while there may be nothing that Cyan wants to ...

branan, Mac, and I can talk all day about what we think would be best and put together proposals, but without input from Cyan, we're honestly on the road to nowhere. We're not inside the minds of Cyan, so all of our proposals may very well be the definition of unacceptable. This is, I think, the bi...

https://github.com/branan/moulbuild-scripts/blob/master/mfs.py is the script Hoikas and I have for creating manifest files. It's designed for our usage (ThinExternal and External are both thin, with per-age manifests), but it should be possible to bash it in to shape for your usage as well. It's way...

If there are no changed files in ThinExternal, the patcher won't check External. In theory this is OK - whenever the game is updated, some of the core files have to be touched anyway. I suspect the issue would only occur if you canceled a patch after it had grabbed the ThinExternal files, but before...