Crystal Blue on disk?

[Macabre Wolf]

I\'ve been playing planeshift for about a month now, and can\'t get enough of the game or it\'s community, but I\'m affraid that when CB comes out for the rest of us, It\'s going to be too big to download. It took me 12 hours (I\'m on a 56k modem) to download Molecular Blue and that\'s without the hitches I came across while downloading so in total it was nigh 14 hours. If there is one thing I don\'t want to do it\'s spend another hellish day downloading, especially if it\'s bigger than MB which by the sounds of it, it will be.

So is there any plans to put CB on disk for a fee ?10-20? Well let me know, thanks.

Macabre Wolf

[Kiern]

Nope.  At best, you might get someone to send it to you through mail or get someone else you know to download it with a faster connection, otherwise you\'ll have to download it yourself.

[Boldstorm]

Not sure what this has to do with Forum Requests but why don\'t you just have someone with a better connection download the client and burn it to disk for you?

EDIT: Guess you beat me to it

[Icefalcon]

Hopefully, the client will be available through BitTorrent which allows you to resume downloading. It will still take you quite a while, but at least you won\'t have to do it in one session.

[dannythompson]

Well soon before cb, i hope to work out an agreement with the devs so I can burn PS to multiple cds and sell \'em for about 2-5 bucks + s+h. A good deal I\'d say.

[Icefalcon]

Somehow, I doubt the devs will agree to that... :rolleyes:

[Dameon]

Why? It gives them money for supplies and such while still making the game free. You are paying for the disk, not for playing the game.

[Adeli]

I think you\'ll find selling the cds is a gross breach of copyright... as it is unlawful distribution, which is by the way... illegal.
So there is no way known, that you will be allowed to do so, and I hope that this means you won\'t do it, not just that you won\'t ask.
As for downloading...
Get a download manager, IceFalcon: BitTorrent does not work well for everyone, and they can get it without getting a torrent.
Use something like FlashGet, it\'s what I use whenever I can\'t find a torrent, it allows you to pause/resume downloads, and if you lose connection, it automatically pauses it. I can\'t find the link to it right now... try http://www.download.com
The best bit for 56kers, is to have generous friends with broadband.

[Uyaem]

Originally posted by Adeli
I think you\'ll find selling the cds is a gross breach of copyright... as it is unlawful distribution, which is by the way... illegal.

That is not necessarily correct
imho you are allowed to put standard open source stuff on some disc and sell it, as long as you don\'t make profit with it. Meaning you cannot charge more than the price for the CD-R. I don\'t know about shipping costs though...

[jorrit]

Originally posted by Pogopuschel
That is not necessarily correct
imho you are allowed to put standard open source stuff on some disc and sell it, as long as you don\'t make profit with it. Meaning you cannot charge more than the price for the CD-R. I don\'t know about shipping costs though...

While this is true for the GPL source of PlaneShift and also the compiled versions of those source, this is not true for the PlaneShift art since that uses another license. So you really cannot sell PS CD\'s if they include the art (and without art it is pretty useless).

Greetings,

[theRealGorbulas]

How about, he gives you the CD for free, but there is a mutual agreement of how big of a \"gift\" he is getting in return for the favor.

[BillyAnachronism]

btw, bittorrent is terribly unusable for 56k users as we are hammered constantly with upload. Our download then ends up crawling to fractions of kb/sec on many downloads.

[fireofsoul]

if they dont release it through BT, what about using Download Accelerator Plus you can pause your download & resume as you please

[theRealGorbulas]

Or use WGet because it is completely free and has no advertising of any kind. It supports resuming through the -c option. Hopefully you know how to use it.  

[Uyaem]

Originally posted by jorrit

Originally posted by Pogopuschel
That is not necessarily correct
imho you are allowed to put standard open source stuff on some disc and sell it, as long as you don\'t make profit with it. Meaning you cannot charge more than the price for the CD-R. I don\'t know about shipping costs though...

While this is true for the GPL source of PlaneShift and also the compiled versions of those source, this is not true for the PlaneShift art since that uses another license. So you really cannot sell PS CD\'s if they include the art (and without art it is pretty useless).

Greetings,

I know, I was merely referring to pure GPL/LGPL software (\"standard open source stuff\" )