[crossfire] Crossfire+/Crossfire2 Versioning and Metaserver

[Robin Redeker]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 01:09:18AM +0200, Yann Chachkoff wrote:
> > I understand that 'Crossfire2' might cause confusion. But the
> > question is: who is really confused? Is a user/player who just runs cfplus or
> > gcfclient and connect to cf.schmorp.de confused because the server
> > software that runs there has a similar name to the server software
> > that runs on metalforge? - I guess not.
> >
> Actually, such a user is fooled. If I'm a new CF player, I'll not pick
> a server randomly, but will probably select the latest one, because it
> probably got the most interesting features. Hence, of course, if I
> have the choice between an "1.10" and a "2.1", I'll definitely select
> the 2.1 one, and label the 1.10 one as "outdated server".

So the best would be if the metaserver would only contain metalforge, so
that users can't accidentally choose another server with more players
or higher version or different server project.

> > We don't object to change the project name to 'Crossfire+' again.
> > But some rationale or explanation why that still is confusing would
> > be nice.
> >
> Note that the confusion is not limited to the name of the project -
> the discussion started because of the displayed version number
> (remember that the project name appears nowhere in the metaserver
> infos). Even if you estimate that "Crossfire-xxx" is not confusing,
> having a "2.1" number without anything else definitely is.

Yes, the length of the 'comment' column is very limited. If that would
be fixed we could also write the project name there and an explanation.