Solved Bit Torrent Needed to Install BMS?
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<p>Re: BMS Base Installer question<br /><br />I haven’t visited FalconBMS in a couple of years. Decided to try to get back onto it with my son. Came here to download it and find out the “default” download requires a torrent client? The download page shows the checksum of the standard .ZIP file (2.32GB for the base install), I assume it is the “Magnet” version??? They could do a better job of explaining what “Magnet” is in the first place. Frankly, if a bit torrent client is need to install, then after using Falcon 4.0 and BMS over the years since 1998, I am done with BMS, there is no need to make getting the .EXE a chore…</p>
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<p>I strongly suggest qBitTorrent and getting used to torrents in general - not all torrent clients are bad - but totally understand that some people have had such negative experiences in the past that regardless of any assurances, torrents are just a no-go for them.<br /><br /><strong>Since we are not allowed to host public mirrors for direct download, I can only offer that if anyone is truly facing a barrier to entry in BMS related to downloading the setup files, I can privately share the files (not torrents; full files) from my communities website CDN. Only rules are you have to contact me via DM/PM, and then you cannot share the link(s) I provide publicly with anyone such as on reddit, discord, etc…</strong><br /><br />Trying hard not to break the rules here, so if even <em>this</em> post is not allowed, please let me know and/or delete it and I won’t make such offers again. Just want to help, and I happen to have all versions of BMS back to 4.33 available on my groups website yet 4.35+updates is simply not allows in public mirrors.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p>
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<p>@trance_factor seems like a weird hill to die on… but alright.<br /><br />Distributing via torrents is cost effective, secure, fast and easy. </p>
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<p>@trance_factor<br />I see this discussed over, over and over again. I.E. just recently on Reddit: <a href=“https://reddit.com/r/falconbms/comments/t1529p/best_way_to_download_bms_435” target=“_blank”>https://www.reddit.com/r/falconbms/comments/t1529p/best_way_to_download_bms_435/</a><br />It seems this question never dies, but why is this such a big deal for some people?<br /></p><ol><li>Download “qBitTorrent”, which is open-source. (So you don’t run into the risk that your GPU is doing some crypto-mining in the background while downloading…)</li><li>Install the best modern era, (F-16) fighter pilot sim out there (to be fair, there is no alternative out there anyway so…)</li><li>Happy flying</li></ol><p><br /></p>
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<p>Use qBittorrent and I promise it won’t make you download pirate software…</p>
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<p>@Zero900 I’m more of a Transmission man myself</p>
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<p>@trance_factor If you play BMS I’m sure you can take 5min to learn how torrents work</p>
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<p>@WurminatorZA Yeah, it boggles the mind that people who can get to grips with running and flying BMS can’t figure out torrents.</p>
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<p>+1 for transmission from me as well! <br /><br />Cheers, Uwe </p>
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<p>@hoover Is the windows version operating without issues? I see it’s an “early preview”. Used it on my linux systems, no issues there.<br /><br />edit: well, with qbit apparently crashing lately, might as well give it a try…</p>
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<p>No issues to report here with transmission on both platforms (Linux & win10)<br /><br />All the best, Uwe <br /></p>
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<blockquote>@WurminatorZA Yeah, it boggles the mind that people who can get to grips with running and flying BMS can’t figure out torrents.</blockquote><p>While I do think that is obviously a thing as OP posted, I think that the more common problem here is people thinking torrents by default are bad since a lot of pirated stuff is torrents. But I do think even a simple explanation by the links explaining the reason of saving bandwidth fees and that truly BMS is safe to download this way would help with that misconception.<br /><br />I also get on the other side of the complaint that you are saying that most of us are techies to a basic level to be into PC military flight sims. OTOH, recently I had to download a Python app and set in my ways me almost gave up and was angry that the guy just didn’t have it complied already in the first place. So I get the sentiment to an extent. But we all know ultimately it’s worth it (as it actually was for that app too)!</p>
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<p>I also - on principal - REFUSE to use a torrent to download BMS…!!<br /><br />I refuse to use bit torrent to download anything for which I do not have to pay…!!<br /><br /><br /><br />Ara Privateer Gorn</p>
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<blockquote>I also - on principal - REFUSE to use a torrent to download BMS…!!<br /><br />I refuse to use bit torrent to download anything for which I do not have to pay…!!<br /><br /><br /><br /></blockquote><p>Sorry Aragorn, but that makes absolutely no sense in my book. This sounds like refusing to ever use a phone because the “bad folks” use it too to organize nasty things at times <br /><br /><br />Bittorrent is a protocol, nothing more. A very helpful & useful protocol to be sure, to provide quick and easy distribution to such nice things as free Linux distros, Libreoffice productivity suites and more. <br /><br /><br />What’s stroking you the wrong way about a protocol? I can understand you don’t like taking risks with a possible malware installation that all those fools run into who install torrent clients from untrusted sources, but that’s not an issue with the truly open-source, multi platform tools like transmission. <br /><br />All the best, Uwe <br /><br /></p>
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<p>@Aragorn <br />you dont trust torrent client or bms? <br /><br />if you had to pay you would use torrent client?<br /><br />i dont understand </p>
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<p>I strongly suggest qBitTorrent and getting used to torrents in general - not all torrent clients are bad - but totally understand that some people have had such negative experiences in the past that regardless of any assurances, torrents are just a no-go for them.<br /><br /><strong>Since we are not allowed to host public mirrors for direct download, I can only offer that if anyone is truly facing a barrier to entry in BMS related to downloading the setup files, I can privately share the files (not torrents; full files) from my communities website CDN. Only rules are you have to contact me via DM/PM, and then you cannot share the link(s) I provide publicly with anyone such as on reddit, discord, etc…</strong><br /><br />Trying hard not to break the rules here, so if even <em>this</em> post is not allowed, please let me know and/or delete it and I won’t make such offers again. Just want to help, and I happen to have all versions of BMS back to 4.33 available on my groups website yet 4.35+updates is simply not allows in public mirrors.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p>
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<p>@Aragorn LOL <img src=“/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f609.png?v=1g16vn91q2r” alt=“” class=“not-responsive emoji emoji-android emoji–wink” /> </p>
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<p>@Aragorn That’s funny. I’m the exact opposite of you. I use torrents exclusively for everything I don’t pay for. </p>
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