l0rd carlos
Friends Of Harassment The Camel Empire
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Posted - 2014.12.17 13:38:33 -
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Catherda wrote:I currently play EVE using a 3G mobile internet connection, which works fine because of the small amount of data that is downloaded while playing (I patch my client through my home broadband connection).
Although I know the option to download the full patch files will remain, I'm curious to know how downloading on demand would work when playing on 3G. I get the feeling that it's going to eat away at my monthly download limit and make it a feature that couldn't be used for mobile internet players.
If it's the case that it would eat away at it then it would be essential to leave the option to download the full patch files before entering the game.
Wat? At worst case, you have to download the same amount of data. Best case you have to download less.
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l0rd carlos
Friends Of Harassment The Camel Empire
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Posted - 2014.12.17 13:51:25 -
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Rivr Luzade wrote:Quote:What about slow connections?
You can use the offline installer, or you can wait while the launcher downloads everything. Or you can enjoy the fact that you can get into the game sooner, although load times before ships show up might be long when you see a particular ship for the first time. So... how do I have to imagine that when I am in a multi-system fleet fight. Do I need to wait until the client has downloaded all the gfx files before I see any ship, and while it does that I only have the brackets visible? I don't know, but if this is the case, getting into the game early and then seeing this is not something I as a new player would be looking forward to. I doubt many 1 day players jump into a large fleet fight right at the start. If they travel somewhere inbetween they will already have have seen a bunch of ships and thus already loaded the textures. How much space takes up a low detail texture? some 100kb? And you don't need to download it for every individual ship, just for every ship type. For example a fleet of 100 moas, and you just have to download a single skin. I can't imaging it taking long, even with a slow connection.
Rivr Luzade wrote: Furthermore, what do you refer to with caching the files on my drives? Will they slowly but steadily build up the game's folder to the same size as it is now as it gradually dls all the files, or will these cached filed be deleted with every restart of the client/computer?
No, it will not be deleted. Why would you even think that? In the end, it will be the same size.
Rivr Luzade wrote: Also, as I do not really look forward to having to dl always all the stuff as I watch/listen to youtube or other things while I play and deem their downloading more important than EVE's traffic, will I be able to dl full patches when there are patches or are you going to force this DoD on me?
For the gazillions time, you can just tell your launcher to download everything. It's answered multiple times in this thread and in the dev blog itself.
German blog about smallscale lowsec pvp: http://friendsofharassment.wordpress.com
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