Re: Announcing release of Traders of Known Space
Hi from Aaron.
Tks already includes a pretty hefty portion of Guidedog's services. Those who installed the original release and later self updated it to the new release simply by launching the game after the update was made available were making use of one of Guidedog's major advantages.
We are going to link tks to guidedog so that you can save your settings online and retrieve them on other machines by logging into guidedog with the same account, but the game is not going to bug you like Interceptor and Yellowbonnet do if you don't use the client. The game also will cheerfully save your settings locally in the event that it doesn't have online access.
GeneWarner, I don't know anything about steam, but Guidedog is really small, and uses virtually no system resources while guidedog client is running. Additionally, no background services are used so when guidedog client is not running there is no affect what so ever on the machine. Guidedog is downloaded and installed during the first run of the first game that you have which uses it, and that process takes just a few seconds even on a slower connection. The point being that if your past experience with such services being more trouble than they're worth has to do with complicated install procedures and lots of system resource consumption, that should not be of concern at all with Gidedog.
The new version of TKS will launch guidedog client when it is started, but if you close the client TKS will run fully without it. I may be able to work out a way to optionally start the game without launching the client at all, but not sure about that.
Having said that, we all have the freedom to decide to or not to use a product based on any aspect of that product. It helps to be informed most of the time though.
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