Please Address Game Bloat from CoreMods & Excessive Liveries

[Draken35]

What you call "bloatware" is not. It is not unnecessary (for me, an other who had posted here at the very least) and therefore it does not match the definition of bloatware.
At best, or worst, depending on the point of view, it should be optional content.

[niru27]

4 minutes ago, Draken35 said:

...it should be optional content.

Precisely 

[celestHawk]

11 minutes ago, niru27 said:

Please refer to the thread title before sharing your opinion on "what is worth it" (for you)...

What I meant was that I could get rid of more stuff but didn't spend more time to do it - making my point for the thread topic I guess.

[Draken35]

10 minutes ago, niru27 said:

Precisely 

My only objection to this thread is calling this content "bloatware". Poor choice of words.. 
Now, as for making the handful of GBs of content optional (10-15Gb if I read the OP correctly)... Is it really worth the dev time and gained complexity for such a small gain? Because, I can see the complains already for the additional bugs in the installer and because the dev are dedicating time to this and not "that" feature or the "other"...
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Edited 8 hours ago by Draken35

[MAXsenna]

This subject surfaces from time to time as sure as auto/easy AAR. I can see where OP is coming from, with valid points. Personally disk space is not an issue for me. Compared to the 20TB of baby/children videos of my daughter, it's nothing.

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[rob10]

10 hours ago, SharpeXB said:

Perhaps at some point DCS just goes for streaming all the content vs storing it locally. 

Dear god no!!!!!!!  Not everyone has high speed and unlimited data.

[rob10]

9 hours ago, SharpeXB said:

If you try that other sim that streams the content it actually doesn’t need that much bandwidth. The recommended is just 50mbps. It seems like the only solution for games with such large content. Like when or if DCS ends up with a global map just putting it on a drive will become unmanageable. 

"Just" 50 mbps.  In some cases that's not available on the user end.

And as BigNewy pointed out, that's multiplied by thousands on the ED end that has to serve up.

Edited 5 hours ago by rob10

[SharpeXB]

1 hour ago, rob10 said:

"Just" 50 mbps.  In some cases that's not available on the user end.

And as BigNewy pointed out, that's multiplied by thousands on the ED end that has to serve up.

Sure, that doesn’t sound like an option here. Yet. It’s probably the future though. All other media has moved from packaged to downloaded to streamed. Games likely will too. We’re just at stage 2 for now. I don’t see how a global earth model ED is considering would be feasible unless it were streamed.  

Edited 4 hours ago by SharpeXB

[Nealius]

The only reason the liveries are bloated at all is because they have unnecessarily large resolutions, often 4k or 2k.