Remove obsolete campaigns?

[ghost]

The following might sound a little like I'm the big exclusionist, but in my experience bad content drags down a game in a number of ways.

And let's face it, right now C-Dogs is distributed with a lot of campaigns that have zero redeeming qualities. As in, zero mission gameplay value, zero arcade gameplay value, no common theme, no atmosphere, nothing.

There are:

• redundant files (I think there is even a copy of one of the original campaigns in the first cpns dir.)
• one-mission campaigns that could be randomly generated, but randomly generated missions are more interesting, even when it comes to arcade gameplay
• big, random campaigns with huge maps with tons of objective objects, again, quick games are better
• things that might or might not work, like many of the totally phukt up missions
• campaigns that try to mimic network gameplay, with inane characters

Thoughts?

[cxong]

Yes; there's a lot of crap campaigns :smile: I'd rather not have to pick the bad ones from the good though. Here's what I was thinking:

• Put the non-official ones more out of the way, in a subfolder
• Make them optional downloads - this will be done anyway with #385

So eventually the campaign menu will look like this:

• cdogs-sdl-campaign-1
• cdogs-sdl-campaign-2
• cdogs-sdl-campaign-3
• cdogs-sdl-campaign-4
• cdogs-sdl-campaign-5
• custom/
  • sauer2/
  • campaign1
  • campaign2
  • campaign3
  • Wuzzy/
  • gungame
  • techdemo/
  • demo1
  • demo2
  • demo3

...and so on. Optionally, they can download a "classic mission pack", which adds this entry:

• custom/
  • classic/
  • ogre
  • bem
  • bad
  • distress
  • zombies
  • cpns/
    • weird campaigns go here

[ghost]

@cxong The options with the downloads is the best, I think. Especially if there is some kind of "unsupported third-party content" disclaimer on it.

Are you planning to eventually add a download manager into the game itself?

[cxong]

Just a link to the extra campaigns on the website.