Quads Map Share

1.1.4

• Less network traffic when someone joins. Only one player sends the newcomer the whole map now; the others send just what the newcomer still lacks (usually nothing), instead of every player sending their whole map at once. Maps also go out at a gentler pace, so the newcomer's world loads without a flood of map pieces. Works with older versions on the same server, and everyone still ends up with the same explored area.

1.1.3

• Its reload message in chat follows the game's language.

1.1.2

• A clearer page: what it does, who needs it in multiplayer, how it gets on with other mods, and where to report a bug. The game itself is unchanged.

1.1.1

• A new id, com.quad.mapshare (it was com.dhack.mapshare): your settings move over by themselves the first time it starts, and the old settings file is kept as a backup. Restart the game after this update. If an old copy is still installed beside it, this one stands down and says which file to delete, so the two never both run. The DLL now says it was made with AI, as Thunderstore asks.

Earlier

• New: General/AllowSharing, decided by the server in multiplayer: a server where everyone should explore for themselves can turn map sharing off for all. Fix: a map that arrived only partly (its sender left) was kept in memory for the rest of the session, and a shared map is now only unpacked up to the size of this world's map, so nobody can send something that unpacks to a huge size.

• Fix: a player joining could miss the map explored so far when someone online did not have MapShare or had sharing off. Everyone who shares now sends it.

• First version: live sharing of the explored map between players, plus a full sync when someone joins.