By not having any way to aquire older versions of the client and than turning around and stating that it is illegal to distribude old jars is inadvertantly supporting piracy since servers are activley retaining the older versions for download by their users.
the community has a strong interest in downgrade options and some people have even gone so far as to make binary difference patches. the thing is notch how hard is it to add a version library to the official download page? there is no reason not to and it is frankly assinine to condemn people for destributing old jars when you dont have them on your site. it would be one thing if you included reverse server compatability eg 1.6 can play on 1.5 1.4 1.3 but there is no reverse compatability and thus downgrading is the only option for smp clients who run on servers whose plugins have not been updated or have been simply abandoned.
please sign this petition to show notch there is a serious interest in a version library to support the smp community.
Due to the petition nature of this post the polls will all be public so i can have names to submit on get satisfaction
additionally i have locked the thread against trolls
YOU CAN AND SHOULD VOTE ^^^^
Someone unhappy about their old minecart system not working?
It's kinda pointless since all the patches do is fix glitches and add stuff to the game.
i wasent aware that 1.6 broke minecarts :/
but this is more along the lines of people cant controll what version a server admin uses and therefor patches can make a server unavailable alltogether with no downgrade they might never be able to access the server again at least not untill the admins upgrade.
i am going to make this poll only to keep the trolls away
This sounds like a good idea. Even on my single player, as soon as the client updates (which I have no control over) all my precious mods break and i have to wait from a week to a month for them to be updated.
the community has a strong interest in downgrade options and some people have even gone so far as to make binary difference patches. the thing is notch how hard is it to add a version library to the official download page? there is no reason not to and it is frankly assinine to condemn people for destributing old jars when you dont have them on your site. it would be one thing if you included reverse server compatability eg 1.6 can play on 1.5 1.4 1.3 but there is no reverse compatability and thus downgrading is the only option for smp clients who run on servers whose plugins have not been updated or have been simply abandoned.
please sign this petition to show notch there is a serious interest in a version library to support the smp community.
Due to the petition nature of this post the polls will all be public so i can have names to submit on get satisfaction
additionally i have locked the thread against trolls
YOU CAN AND SHOULD VOTE ^^^^
It's kinda pointless since all the patches do is fix glitches and add stuff to the game.
i wasent aware that 1.6 broke minecarts :/
but this is more along the lines of people cant controll what version a server admin uses and therefor patches can make a server unavailable alltogether with no downgrade they might never be able to access the server again at least not untill the admins upgrade.
i am going to make this poll only to keep the trolls away
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