PlaneShift

Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: Cable_pair on January 17, 2004, 02:59:23 am

Title: Question about Crystal Blue
Post by: Cable_pair on January 17, 2004, 02:59:23 am: I don\'t know if this has been asked before, if so, forgive me. When CB is released, will we have to redownload PS, or will we get it through the updater?
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Post by: jonmack on January 17, 2004, 03:28:22 am: Looks like a full redownload I\'m afraid. Supposed to be something new with Crystal Space, the engine they\'re using, so it\'s not so easy to update such a complicated thing! So if you\'re a 56k-er I would probably not bother to download MB, unless you\'re not paying the phone bill :D, and wait until CB.
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Post by: Kixie on January 17, 2004, 03:59:20 am: downloading mb was hard for me and i have a dsl line. took me all friggin night. not to mention the fact that about 10,000 people are going to try to download it at the same time when it comes out. CB is going to eat that server UP!
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Post by: Xordan on January 17, 2004, 10:21:16 am: lol, I\'ll eat the bandwidth up... I gotta leased line in my dad\'s office, I\'ll use that....

*Imagines CB being done in under 5 min.* :D
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Post by: Commando on January 17, 2004, 11:21:50 am: I hope that my dad can download it (100MBit/s)

Everyhow, I think that will be is a great oppetunity to spread in BitTorrent and eDonkey network
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Post by: Boldstorm on January 17, 2004, 05:51:51 pm: Got to love the T1 line at work :D
Better then trying to download it at home with a cable modem.
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Post by: Kiern on January 17, 2004, 06:09:40 pm: eh, yeah, hopefully I\'m around at first...I don\'t love thinking about downloading it along with nearly everyone else...then again, it will go faster then when I downloaded MB at least. 8)
Title: Idea!
Post by: Tok'ra on January 18, 2004, 07:34:41 am: A good idea would have many servers to download from, or maybe when some one finnally gets it, they can post it on there server, with the permision of the PS crew of course. :]
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Post by: Kixie on January 18, 2004, 07:51:37 am: the ps community is a prety friendly one so im pretty sure anyone graced with access to a good server will post crystal blue there for sharing purposes. but then again you never know someone might take opportunity and spread an infected version of it and get a nasty virus spread about but im really not too worried about that happening...

EDIT: wee 400th post... hehe im happy!
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Post by: Quwaar on January 18, 2004, 12:55:11 pm: I might be able to get a server where we can down from, no promises but I\'ll see what I can do
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Post by: RussianVodka on January 18, 2004, 03:12:47 pm: ok
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Post by: chrischoo on January 18, 2004, 03:53:15 pm: The distribution of PlaneShift through the SourceForge mirrors seems very efficient IMO. SourceForge has a tremendous amount of resources. On our part we\'ll probably put up the download on 2 of our web servers. Although we\'re expecting a lot more traffic for CB I\'ve never doubted the ability of the PlaneShift servers (development and live) scattered across the Internet.
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Post by: Quwaar on January 18, 2004, 05:06:24 pm: I dont know, it was just a suggestion. I didnt want to offened the server owner. Its just that if would get to busy and all downloads go like 10kbs it would be a good idea to have others. But I dont know how good the server is, so....
Title: bittorrent
Post by: jalorden on January 19, 2004, 06:01:37 am: I suspect that appropriate use of bittorrent could help. its a great technology for times when a lot of people want to download something all at the same time. And besides... those SF.net servers can really dish it out.
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Post by: Kixie on January 19, 2004, 06:04:33 am: bit torrent is ok but i would like to see something else used.
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Post by: Guest on January 19, 2004, 06:12:55 am: my router dosen\'t like BitTorrent, but it is a great technology. Sourceforge mirrors seems like a good idea too.

what would be nice to make some $ would be to ship out CD\'s for like $5... it\'s a donation/luxury kind of thing :-p
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Post by: Vengeance on January 19, 2004, 07:01:46 am: I think with proper use of checksums, any P2P client would be great for this purpose. eDonkey, Kazaa, etc. Also Bittorrent should really shine for this.