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Originally Posted by Jutocsa
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Ps: What happened to the Texas after your name, HHT ?  |
I got lazy!!
Besides, I live in the UK and people were always getting confused thinking I was living in Texas!!
Cost...simple as that. When I stared Simpaint (another skinning site) up it was just a forum hosted on free webspace. We had something like 200mbs of bandwidth a month to play with. I couldn't believe how quickly it started getting used up!! And we were only getting a couple of posts a day when we were busy. Put skins on the site and bandwidth costs would skyrocket. The other annoying thing with hosting skins is people would just visit the site to grab a bunch of skins and then leave. They would bring nothing to the site and would contribute nothing. At il2skins.com, we had 50,000+ registered users. Out of them maybe 100 contributed on the forum and approx 400 uploaded skins. That leaves 49,500ish that just came to download skins
We did talk about it a while back and it was a possibility but a)its expensive b) nobody wants to be stuck with a bill for massive bandwidth like Sharx was, and c) it would take a lot of work to set up and several members of the team were not in a position to make that sort of commitment. Who knows what the future will bring, like I said I wouldn't rule anything out. Ideally I would like to see the site grow to be a one stop shop for all flight sims so you could download skins for il2/pf or planes for MSFS etc..... Its a nice dream but would cost mega bucks!!
I'll shut up, I've probably said too much already
Monguse, which skins do you want to be able to search?? Do you mean like a skin directory for certain skins on different sites?? Vig was talking about something similar earlier.....would be a massive amount of work
Keep the idea's coming though
