The Horror!

[FESFES]

Well its a pretty random guess but I put a little thought into it . There are about 300 active people in PS and my guess is that there a few hundred to a thousand people waiting for combat to come which would make about 1200 people then 800 people would magicly appear . Well if you look on the PS site it shows that there are thousands of people registered and 2000 is a small fraction of them.

Any ways would my idea of puting a PS download on C-net work?

[Adeli]

Originally posted by Gronomist
Noone said anything about limiting the download to BitTorrent

Originally posted by theRealGorbulas
If you only allow downloading through Bit Tirrent...

well, I think that\'s a pretty good indicator that someone DID suggest only using BT. Wouldn\'t you say Gronomist?

[FlippySeal]

Man, i hope everyone else uses torrents! I hate the things. Never understood them, care to explain?

Will there be many mirrors?

[Adeli]

torrents are simple

There is a seed,
this seed is the source for the torrent,
person A comes along, and downloads,
whilst downloading, person A simultaneously uploads,
person B comes along and downloads from both person A and the seed, and while downloading, also uploads, then person C comes along and so on.

I think that\'s right, someone correct me if I am wrong...
at the end of the torrent, the download puts itself together.

[Ghostslayer]

Originally posted by Adeli
torrents are simple

There is a seed,
this seed is the source for the torrent,
person A comes along, and downloads,
whilst downloading, person A simultaneously uploads,
person B comes along and downloads from both person A and the seed, and while downloading, also uploads, then person C comes along and so on.

I think that\'s right, someone correct me if I am wrong...
at the end of the torrent, the download puts itself together.

Yup, thats pretty much the idea.  The neat thing about torrents is that when person B comes along, they will download a different part of the file from the seed which in turn they will start uploading to person A.  (Bittorent basically segments the files in to a lot of pieces,  so you can download any part of the file first, and forces you to download the rarest peice of the file first.  It does hash checks on each piece so you don\'t get corrupted files like download accelerators).
So all in all, the more people downloading, the faster things go.

[Tzur]

Personally, I\'m against it - which is mostly due to problems I\'ve had with them in the past.

The majority of the free clients are ad/spyware infested and unrelible at times. Also, it is likely scare off some of the more timid portions of the audience which probably isn\'t a good thing. IF a free, stable, and simple client was released alongside the torrent, and a clear guide on how to use it, it would probably be an acceptable means of distribution. Of course, the downside to that would mean time spent devloping/testing a BT client instead of working on/releasing the next phase of planeshift.

In conclusion, while it\'s probably something that should be taken under serious consideration, I don\'t think it\'s something that should be taken \"Completely\" one way or the other on.

[theRealGorbulas]

I use the official from http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/. There is no spyware in it.

[Adeli]

That\'s what I use, and it\'s free, they just ask for donations every now and then