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But players mostly want the DL feature too. What about reducing the amount of objects and skins server can use for download? Let's say 100 skins and 100 object models? Or limit it by overall size (10 MB?). I recognize you are unsure whether downloading wouldn't annoy players, but if downloading would take less than minute, I guess players wouldn't have any reason to dislike it.

If HTTP download could be somehow set by default in the server package (or enabled HTTP downloads only), I assume downloading 10 MB of models and skins would take even less than 15 seconds for most players.