24.03.2008, 20:45
The way I envisioned it the mini install would still require the game files. It would contain nothing of the original game files in the mod installer (except the required mod files).
On install it would add the mod patch to a pre-existing stock IL2 install, then add the mod specific airplanes, textures, and maps and then delete the unneeded sfs files to reduce mod size.
That is no different than what the mod community is currently doing, but it makes for a small and orderly package for that Mod's theater of combat that everyone who wants to fly online can have the same version easily.
On install it would add the mod patch to a pre-existing stock IL2 install, then add the mod specific airplanes, textures, and maps and then delete the unneeded sfs files to reduce mod size.
That is no different than what the mod community is currently doing, but it makes for a small and orderly package for that Mod's theater of combat that everyone who wants to fly online can have the same version easily.