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Ability to make the player choose between multiple packs. [Suggestion]

Open Blobanium opened this issue 1 year ago • 4 comments

Idk if this is 100% possible but here this goes.

Why i want this feature to be added is mainly due to people's internet connections.

Technically, when a player joins the server with a RP and that user hasn't downloaded the latest pack, It does it automatically or prompts them to accept or decline the resource pack and would download the pack with little waiting (No big surprise here you made this work).

However for users that have poor connections this could take a long time for the pack to download depending on how big the RP is, this is why the most popular servers that host custom resource packs such as MCCI, Origin Realms and Hideaway don't take advantage of the Server RP limits set my Mojang themselves. These servers want to keep their pack size as small as possible in order to let as many people play on their server. Let alone a pack with 10MB or greater in size is already enough to start to cause problems for some. This could lead to servers taking compromises to get the pack size as low as they can, this could potentially affect the experience in the process depending on what the server would do to reduce the pack size.

A Solution to this would be to provide a large pack that contains many resources for the maximum experience while also providing a smaller variant of the pack containing minimal resources that everyone can download at the same time and let the player choose from there. Keep in mind you can't have supplementary resource packs (for example a core RP and one with extra content) on the server due to how the system works for server resource packs.

I can provide more details if needed.

Blobanium avatar Sep 25 '23 21:09 Blobanium