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Community => Community Discussion => Randomness Lounge => Topic started by: Bub on July 18, 2011, 02:45:39 PM

Title: Does Simutrans Auto-Update?
Post by: Bub on July 18, 2011, 02:45:39 PM
     I was wondering if Simutrans Auto-updates, because I had version 102.2.2, and it seemed that I missed version 102.5, now, I have version 110.0.1, and I would like to know if my game can auto-update, and if it can, how can I enable auto-updating?
Title: Re: Does Simutrans Auto-Update?
Post by: Václav on July 18, 2011, 02:53:17 PM
You did not miss version 102.5 - because this number of version was not used. But if am not wrong, Simutrans has not self-update mechanism.
Title: Re: Does Simutrans Auto-Update?
Post by: jamespetts on July 19, 2011, 12:57:20 PM
Vaclav is correct - Simutrans does not auto update. Watch out for new versions on the Information and Announcements (http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?board=2.0) board.
Title: Re: Does Simutrans Auto-Update?
Post by: arnoud on July 19, 2011, 01:48:03 PM
It'll be a nice extension.
Title: Re: Does Simutrans Auto-Update?
Post by: Václav on July 19, 2011, 05:44:29 PM
I am not programmer but regardless of it I am worried about that it is not so easy to prepare auto update mechanism when game has been for more than one OS.
Title: Re: Does Simutrans Auto-Update?
Post by: transporter on July 19, 2011, 08:51:11 PM
Would it have to be for all OSs? There's already a downloader to install simutrans for windows, would it be possible to add to that a "check for new executable" extension that replaces (and maybe archives to another folder) the older file?
Title: Re: Does Simutrans Auto-Update?
Post by: Václav on July 19, 2011, 09:27:54 PM
???
I know about that Windows utility for Simutrans - but it is not auto-update too. It only makes downloading Simutrans simplier.

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Admins, I think this topic would fit to Help requests board.
Title: Re: Does Simutrans Auto-Update?
Post by: arnoud on July 20, 2011, 11:37:02 AM
Quote from: transporter on July 19, 2011, 08:51:11 PM
(and maybe archives to another folder) the older file?
And what if you didn't have enough space?
Title: Re: Does Simutrans Auto-Update?
Post by: Lmallet on July 21, 2011, 02:52:09 AM
Um, I will let a dev give a better answer, but from my experience, some upgrades are actually so important that old saved games will stop working.  In this case, auto-update would be a bad idea...
Title: Re: Does Simutrans Auto-Update?
Post by: transporter on July 21, 2011, 05:38:39 AM
That's a good point...if only there was someone who archived the complete sets as they get replaced.

And the simutrans executable is small enough that it shouldn't matter for a while. If it becomes implemented, maybe there could be an option to either keep or delete the old one
Title: Re: Does Simutrans Auto-Update?
Post by: prissi on July 21, 2011, 07:26:24 PM
Auto update would be only relevant for servers, since simutrans has no network functionality that can be used for braking into a computer and most known bugs are rather minor for years. And as soon as you do onlyine games, you need to have a curretn client that matches the server.
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