With some of the new RAT additions, some of my friends on older hardware are finding it takes a prohibitively long time to unpack a new copy of MegaMek, and the slowdown seems to be in the copious amounts of new RAT files. Now, currently I know megamek has the ability to load camoflauges and mechfiles from zip files instead of loose files. I would like to request that the same be done for RAT files as it would be quicker to unpack 1 archive than 500 loose files.
It also took an excessive amount of time to download them from the SVN Repo.