Pre-Starting Question on Bandwidth

[cishanjia]

Hi,

I've just found Planeshift and think this is a great idea. I've clocked up hundreds of hours of RPG gameplay with Oblivion, Morrowind and older games I can't even recall the names of now. But I've not played MMOGs before. I also worked in IT on Help Desks before a current spell of illness means I can't work. But leaves me random periods of reasonable health where I may be able to help find bugs. It'd be nice to help out real world as well as pass the time RPing.

I have a question before taking the plunge, on bandwidth. I'm restricted to 5Gb per month. Aside from the 250Mb client download what kind of bandwidth would I be looking at? For example, how frequent are updates (and approx. how large), and does the client download a lot of graphics or audio during gameplay? One reason I quickly gave up on things like Second Life was the bandwidth.

Thanks,
Ian.

[Pizik]

The bandwidth requirements are very low, I cant specify an exact figure, but to give you an idea, you can avoid most updates other than new client releases but they only happen every couple of months at most. no additional data like maps, sounds, textures and so on will be downloaded during gameplay.

I would think that the game would run perfectly well on a dial-up connection. You could download a bandwidth meter to keep track of your allwance usage.

[Edit]

sorry, forgot to say Welcome to PS ;o)

[cishanjia]

Wow! That's great, thanks Pizik.   

Ian