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  • Think I've finally found the root problem. Yandex search bot was going berserk and indexing ~10,000 pages an hour on the site which is way too many. This was causing an effective DDOS which made pages unresponsive. Am in the process of stopping them crawling, hopefully everything gets more stable going forwards now.

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    This thread has run its course, and OP has made their point. Am locking.

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    So Construct 3 saves binary blobs that can not be edited externally and are difficult for tracking changes.

    It's a mix of binary and JSON. You'll have to wait for Ash to update you on what this means exactly.

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    Yep fair enough, have updated FAQ.

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    Construct 3 is backwards compatible and can open Construct 2 projects, Construct 2 will not be able to open Construct 3 projects.

    [quote:36o6evm8]Because the project filetype is binary, users will not be able to comment out lines of code that prevent the project of being loaded either.

    Construct 3 projects are a mix of binary files and JSON.

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    > Free!

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    > Tom / Ashley . Can you just give us what is covered in the free version? Most people yapping might not even need the subscription features, and can be fully contented with the free version. Unity free is decent, would C3 be the same? We all love to see the Free vs Paid feature list. I don't want to poke you against unity https://blogs.unity3d.com/2016/06/05/subscription-why/, on why they went through a subscription model, then went through a pay to own.

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    I think Tom mentioned that the free version will let you open projects, but not edit them or export the game... which imo makes it pretty much worthless

    This is wrong, the free edition will have limits. You can work and edit games in the free edition up to those limits. If you open a project that exceeds those limits, it will be in read only mode.

  • Hmm nice trick there!

  • Great question and something we haven't actually considered! Just had a quick look online, and seems like it's not possible in CSS to position scrollbars to the left of the container.

    I think there would be some aspects of the UI you could change to be more left hand friendly when it's released with CSS.

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    I said none of those things, you've misunderstood somewhere along the line. Closing and renaming thread to stop any confusion.

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    So Tom it will be $99 and $99 a year after that for people without a license. $49.50 the first year if you have a license and then $99 a year.

    Is that correct?

    Yes that's correct.

    If that is an auto subscription renewal I can already see parents screaming when they did not expect that ongoing bill when little Johny thought he was getting a one time purchase. May even raise legal issues.

    Saying there are legal issues is pure speculation that we're going to do something intentionally illegal, which of course we would never do.

    ADDED: We are seeing alot of error messages and slow uploads and game loads in the arcade. Is there a server issue or something hanging things up?

    Will look at this on Monday when I get in the office. One thing we're spending a lot of money and resources on is our web infrastructure going forwards with C3, we've got some announcements about that in the near future.

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    Tom - what if i take C3 in 2 years from now on? i am a C2 user, do i get that first year of using for 50% since i jumped from c2 to c3 in 2 years or

    do i have to buy for 99% in 2 years? is that just for this (2017) year buyers?

    The direction we're going is that you can exercise your 50% discount whenever you want, this year, or next year etc.

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    Please keep it civil everyone, there's no need to be sniping at each other.

    For current Construct 2 license holders, first year is 50% off. This means you'll be able to use Construct 3 for a year for $49.50.

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