I'd still like to install the newest version without needing to wait for the in-game message, which means i need to stop and re-download....
Large updates for a scenery, that would require you to re-download, are not so common and, if you know your installer is many months or even years old, it would be easier just download it again without even thinking about it, and in that case, you would have to re-download anyways.
What we update quite often, are the installer themselves rather than the actual files in the scenery, so new installers comes with all the newest addition like common support files for docking systems, gsx support, etc. BUT, these files are ALWAYS included in the Stand-Alone Addon Manager so, if you download and install THAT one AFTER all the sceneries, it will update all these files without having to re-download all the scenery installers, which might be exactly the same as the version you have, except for those support files that are always included and always updated in the Stand-Alone Addon Manager.
And, the Stand-Alone Addon Manager will ALSO update ALL the AFCADs and other smaller files that might be updated more often, for ALL sceneries that are found to be already installed when its installation is ran, and it will do this for all sceneries at once, in a single step, provided (of course) you run as the last thing you do.
I confirm that this is the system that works better, because we KNOW what we are updating so we know if and when issue a "Old scenery" notification.
With a sticky post on the forum, people will needlessly download hundreds of megabytes of sceneries just because they would see an higher version number, with possibly no changes in the actual scenery but, for example, just a newer installer that will include a fixed common file, like a docking system, that would be automatically updated by updating the Addon Manager, or the GSX Live Update (for those having GSX) anyway. Sometimes, we update ALL our installers at once, just to be sure they all contain a new small support file, and if you had such kind of forum updates lists, you would be tempted to download all of them for nothing, when you could simply download and install the Stand-Alone Addon Manager instead.
