agris
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That's ok, I get that. That's why I'm posting- to inform you that you can losslessly compress your archives so that the download size is drastically reduced, saving users time and Deadly Stream bandwidth. If you want to prove to yourself how this works, compare the checksums of a pre-compressed file to the extracted version. Try this software: https://raylin.wordpress.com/downloads/md5-sha-1-checksum-utility/ Also, if you're interested in 7zip, here's the link: http://www.7-zip.org/
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Hey Jorak, Maybe I wasn't clear. I'm talking about compressing the files into a 7zip library so that they can be uncompressed and installed. This has no bearing on the actual file quality. Modern compression software like 7zip uses lossless compression, so once the files are uncompressed they are the exact same. No loss of quality. That's why DS would save a lot of bandwidth by distributing your mods in a 7zip file, you keep all the quality of the originals while trasferring a much smaller package.
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FYI, the contents of part 1 to part 5 can be compresses to 50.6 MB using 7zip's default file compression into a .7z file. Similar size decreases (below 80 MB, into a single file) can be had for ALL of Jorak Uln's multi-part downloads. edit: the sith base overhaul compresses into a 102 MB file, not sure if that's within DS's single file download limit. Either way, Dead Stream could be saving themselves a lot of bandwidth by using the right compression.