Hello,
It's time to release OP+ 4.0, which has been in development since about .. June? July? It's gone through a lot of tweaks, has gained a lot of models and even has more ships added for our gaming fun.
To download, please use bittorrent. Bittorrent is a p2p-like file-transfer application which is limited to only the specified file(s). In this case, only the OP+ with models installer will be included, which makes it safe to use. Why Bittorrent? While yuou are downloading, you're also letting others download from you. Once you completed your download, you can choose to let bittorrent run for a while, sharing your bandwidth and letting others download from you as well, adding to the total share speed.
The official site for bittorrent can be found here:
http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/Me, I suggest and use BitTornado:
http://bittornado.com/download.htmlEdit: It's safe to install once the bittorrent client says the download is finished without interrupting it: please let it run for a bit. It's also ok to restart the torrent pointing to the completed file. That tells the torrent client to 'seed' and let others download from you.
Bittorrent download:
ftp://klingon.stasis.ca/pub/sfcop/opplus_40_models.exe.torrentThere's also a classic download URL, but it is limited to 30KB/sec:
Download:
ftp://klingon.stasis.ca/pub/sfcop/opplus_40_models.exe (63 MB)
No-models Download:
ftp://klingon.stasis.ca/pub/sfcop/opplus_40_no_models.exeFor reference, I suggest visiting the main site:
http://klingon.stasis.ca/OP_plusrefit/--------
Number of ships: 5958
For major changes, please see:
http://klingon.stasis.ca/OP_plusrefit/contents_changes.html * Enhanced Shiplist
* Module R9 -- The Ships That Never Were
* 4.0 Refit Spans and Revision
* fighter number consolidations
.. oh, and a change I did not list, but is assumed you can expect, is that there's a crapload of new ship models. An installed OP+ 4.0 (with models) will take around 700 mb on your HD.
Edit:
I forgot to mention: The installers include everything from my mini-patchers. That should help propagate D2 goodness as well as other fixes and workarounds.
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Developpers and scripters:
There's been some initiative in trying to improve how a shiplist is accessed. What I have done here is designed and implemented a system which allows far more control over ship selection using a modified and enhanced MagnumMan Shiplist API. I will shortly release a new coopace script which demonstrates what it can do.
You can get the API by itself (you gotta compile it) or within the OP "FireSoul's Build Environment" here:
http://klingon.stasis.ca/sources_and_utils/#api