The Horror!

[Andycornell]

there are 8902 members registred at the forums, how many are active planeshift fans? and how many are just waitning for CB?

and there are probobly a lot of people not at the forums to... I joined the forums after i played the game 3 month...

so, well, the first day maybe there only will be 200 people that will try to download, but there may be 8900+

(sorry for the english guys\'n lady\'s.)

[FESFES]

I\'m gonna estimate that about 2000 people will try to download CB within the first three days its out which won\'t be pretty

[theRealGorbulas]

To encourage the use of Bit Torrent the server based download should be delayed for a while.

[Zeraph]

I use Shareaza to download Anime,
I will help Torrent!

Maybe a 1 day delay to direct-download, also, they should be able to download the client 24h before they initialize the server, that way people won?t complain that it is slow?

I sort of want to see a hit counter on the ?how to download? page! That would be nice to see about how many people download the client?

[Kiva]

Originally posted by theRealGorbulas
To encourage the use of Bit Torrent the server based download should be delayed for a while.

To download torrents you need a source to download it from. Where would these sources get it from? Then again, if you put up torrents, don\'t you think they would be massively booked as well as the download servers?

The question is simply to limit the amount of people who are downloading things, and find good hosts which are capable of handling large amounts of users, such as fileplanet, sourceforge and other hosting companies. There are plenty of them, and I\'m sure at least some will be able to host the files.

[theRealGorbulas]

If you only allow downloading through Bit Tirrent then only the people who cheat by turning off the uploads will have problems downloading. The data that you have already downloaded is sent off to the people who need it.

[Kiern]

I\'d guess they\'ll trickle in like always...the most will probably happen a few days after the release, then it would level out I think.  Who knows, maybe hardly anyone will download it, all that\'s really important is that it gets to you at all.  It\'s not the end of the world if you have to wait a few more days extra to do so, not much to really worry about, unless of course you want to then knock yourself out.

And I hate Bittorrent.  Doesn\'t work right with my connection.

But really, I don\'t know if I\'ve said anything, if I haven\'t then just note your all wrong.  Or not.

Thought I would just cover all my bases...

[FESFES]

Well if torrents are there I\'ll use them since I already have bit-torrent and more people will be using FTP

[Ghostslayer]

Originally posted by Gronomist

Originally posted by theRealGorbulas
To encourage the use of Bit Torrent the server based download should be delayed for a while.

To download torrents you need a source to download it from. Where would these sources get it from? Then again, if you put up torrents, don\'t you think they would be massively booked as well as the download servers?

I\'ve seen torrents with one seed and 10000 downloaders that work fine and quite fast.

Needless to say though, I doubt sourceforge\'s download servers are really going to suffer on release date.  There will be several thousand downloads in the first couple days, but these servers deal with a lot of downloads normally anyway.  Either way, splitting everyone up over these servers and bittorent will be a good idea.  I\'ll pick up whichever comes first, and seed for a while over bittorent so it can easily spread.

[Adeli]

I\'m really glad that there will be torrents available. I\'m on ADSL (I\'m from Australia), but still large downloads get annoying. I use Bit Torrent for anime all the time, I love it. I\'ve also seen thousands of users getting torrents with one seed and had a fine download. If the source is reliable/capable, BT will be no problem.

I pity 56k users who will be downloading from the site. Limiting it to BT would be a very bad idea.

[Kiva]

Noone said anything about limiting the download to BitTorrent. I know that wont happen at all, simply because that would be the most stupid idea ever. Not all people has access to it, where everyone has access to download things from a sourceforge FTP. Besides, sourceforge has 8 servers (or something like that), and 1000 users spread among those 8 servers if all people actually start downloading at the same time, will only be 125 users per server, which isn\'t a lot. Besides, the download is most likely to be some 200-300 MB, and most of the DSL users can finish that in two hours or less. That means more free space for other people, and more server bandwidth, and suddenly there aren\'t many people left.

[Auran]

shouldn\'t we be talking about things which have a more realistic time frame ?(. Like the nuclear burnout of the sun or the impending collision of andromeda and the milky way? .

No but seriously i know the devs are trying....trying.

And Bittorrent sucksX(. Maybe guy\'n\'gals who download CB can put it up on p2p networks. That way we can service more gamers in a less time.

How big is the distribution projected to be?

[theRealGorbulas]

What? I did suggest limiting it to BT. Nobody seems to like that idea. Not even putting the torrent up an hour or less before the ftp link? Sourceforge probably won\'t appreciate it if they get even ten simultanius downloads of 300MB on each server.

[FESFES]

Well what if they put a PS download on C-net (download.com) when I download somthing from there I get 300+ Kbs (i got cable) and it never lags or anything

[Caldazar]

Originally posted by FESFES
I\'m gonna estimate that about 2000 people will try to download CB within the first three days its out which won\'t be pretty

And you base this on?