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Messages 1711 - Golden Mario Golden Mario
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OceanCats wrote:
Wargor wrote:
Ok, please calm down :) I know this limitation can be annoying, but it is there for pure technical reason, I wouldn't have made it if there were no reason. Let me explain.

MKPC is hosted on a small server, with only 10 GB of disk space. I could use a larger server, but it would cost more money and since the game is entirely free, nothing would finance it.
So, 10GB of space means that if everyone used the 25MB allowed, only 400 members could create circuits. It's quite few. Hopefully not everyone use the 25MB so in practice it's more than that, but it shows that this limitation is necessary to allow as many people as possible to create tracks.

That being said, I can think of 2 solutions to solve this problem:
- Delete all old useless tracks to save space. But it would be veeeeery long to do manually, and not that easy to do automatically (how do you identify a useless track? :s)
- Allow to create circuits from an external image URL, instead of importing it on MKPC server. You would host the image on an external website such as Discord or PostImage, like what you do when you post images on the forum. This way, you could create as many tracks as possible without using space on the server. While I like this solution, it implies that I develop something to allow circuits with external images, which would take time too.
So whatever solution I chose (it could be both), it will take some time.

Now, before I start doing anything, who needs extra space for circuits today? From my experience, 25MB of space is already a lot (with well-compressed images, you could create over 100 circuits with that). If many people need more space, then I'll try to do something for it. But if it's only 1 or 2 members, please understand that it will not be my first priority.



So that means  Delete the Old ones that people already made??
Kinda, I think he meant that tracks that take up alot of space and that no one plays anymore and have little to no purpose to be on here. Default quick circuits on complete mode that is made like a year ago.(Also the creator would spam item boxes.)




Hmm
Messages 3078 - King Mario King Mario
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Canada
Wargor wrote:
since the game is entirely free, nothing would finance it.
But there are some ads on the website :s
I guess you win a few money from them?
Messages 995 - Mario Mario
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Waluigi68 wrote:
But there are some ads on the website :s
I guess you win a few money from them?

Yes, but ads barely finance the server today. If I take a better server, I would have to put more ads on the site and make them more intrusive (like popups and video ads at the end of a race) to compensate the server cost increase. I don't really like this idea.
Messages 1711 - Golden Mario Golden Mario
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Wargor wrote:
Waluigi68 wrote:
But there are some ads on the website :s
I guess you win a few money from them?

Yes, but ads barely finance the server today. If I take a better server, I would have to put more ads on the site and make them more intrusive (like popups and video ads at the end of a race) to compensate the server cost increase. I don't really like this idea.
 

I'm confused !
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Messages 2585 - King Mario King Mario
Wargor wrote:

That being said, I can think of 2 solutions to solve this problem:
- Delete all old useless tracks to save space. But it would be veeeeery long to do manually, and not that easy to do automatically (how do you identify a useless track? :s)
Delete or Consequence
Wargor wrote:
- Allow to create circuits from an external image URL, instead of importing it on MKPC server. You would host the image on an external website such as Discord or PostImage, like what you do when you post images on the forum. This way, you could create as many tracks as possible without using space on the server. While I like this solution, it implies that I develop something to allow circuits with external images, which would take time too.
So whatever solution I chose (it could be both), it will take some time.


I never tried create track with external website. thank you Wargor, now I can create a lot of track bisou
Messages 3078 - King Mario King Mario
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Canada
Wargor wrote:
Waluigi68 wrote:
But there are some ads on the website :s
I guess you win a few money from them?

Yes, but ads barely finance the server today. If I take a better server, I would have to put more ads on the site and make them more intrusive (like popups and video ads at the end of a race) to compensate the server cost increase. I don't really like this idea.
The best thing to do would be to implement the external URL feature when you have enough time ;)
Messages 22 - Koopa Koopa
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even though i don't really make tracks as much add my name and also flame0 who is def a different person
Messages 350 - Luigi Luigi
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In my case, only 90 tracks could be created!

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