It's my yearly "worry about The Nexus" time:

[ExoKallum]

I'm a simple creature of simple aspirations, and also I'm easily inspired. I couldn't work that sentence out very well after a few attempts - I apologize if it enrages you as trite or cliché, or just confusing.

 

What I mean to say is that I've been playing around with qbit for a day or so after getting really excited about VirtualBox and Xubuntu (and it's ISO torrent), and that combined with checking in here has led to my belief that some kind of custom bittorrent client can solve all the problems the entire world has right now the Nexus has what with its server rack(s) being slowly destroyed like Robert Patrick in Terminator 2 (or perhaps like Robert Patrick in the pilot episode of Stargate: Atlantis) and its cloud solutions cackling madly before a pyre of burning cash offerings.

 

Anyway, predictably, this comment has begun to burn up the rails so I'll temporize before I further live up to my sometime(ct) moniker Excursus: Wouldn't it be nice to have a custom peer to peer solution for the incredibly vast array of files, works, assets, records, history and etc that is held in trust by you guys? I would pay to use it, so that's a few dollars down.

 

I think (am sure) the resource here has come to be historically significant, and I at least would like to see that significance matched by assured longevity - and in my mind it appears that means peer to peer file distribution of some form. It's a fact that your user base will continue to increase in size, if not in complexity :D, and someday people on Mars will need their mods...... no amount of vapor capitol will resolve that issue.

 

I will now exit before I being to verbally explore all those phenomena that "Mars needs Mods" creates synergies with

[Pickysaurus]

I'm pretty sure we've explored peer-to-peer in the past. I could get one of the devs to chime in here about it but my main concern is the security aspect.

 

I mean, torrenting anything opens you up to potential malware. How can we realistically offer to have at least virus scanned all files if they're not on our own servers? Some very clever people could find a way to spoof the file they sent into the P2P network and it actually contains malware.

[JimboUK]

Wouldn't that make your IP visible to randoms?