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February 1, 2012 at 7:51 am #12180
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genii
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Hello, as some of you know there is a problem with the speed when downloading/patching, and this is mostly because the lack of seeders. And i don’t think that the seeder will increase that much, while the downloads will(hopefully), since who cares about having the client on when you want to play? Who cares to turn it on before they got to School/work?

One idea to fix this is that the devs get a seedbox or two.
Sure, it would work quite well probably, but the user who don’t live in the EU(Good luck to finding a seedbox in the US) will still get quite low speed. And another thing is that they cost, and for any indie game company, costs = bad.
(For those who don’t know that a seedbox is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seedbox )

So, a solution that wont cost the devs anything?
A ratio system. which is based on how much you seed and download.

How much you seed(gb)
Ratio = ———————–
How much you download(gb)

So the more you seed, the higher ratio.( And yes, about all closed torrent trackers uses this.)
But what if you gained something based on your ratio? The more you seed, the more you gain. It could be anything, a few items, maybe a level and so on. Just so you gain something, which will make some think, “hmm, if i turn on the client before work/School, i would get that cool thing”.

Just don’t make the ratio system op..
And another thing, there should be a limit on how much reward you can get per month, otherwise some users with their own seedbox or server will just gain ALOT.

Just a little thought i had.
(And sorry for any misspellings.)

February 1, 2012 at 2:15 pm #12183
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Draconan
Player

There is no need to bribe players to seed. Once the game is active there will be a lot more clients running to seed from.

PS There is no point to the ratio since the amount downloaded should be the same for everyone ;)

  • This reply was modified 107 days ago by Avatar of Draconan Draconan.
February 1, 2012 at 3:49 pm #12187
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genii
Player

The ratio system is just to know how much you seeded, easier to have a number like 2 then 6,66gb.

And this must not be any permanent, but many peoples i know that are going to try a new game, and it takes them a day to download don’t even test it, they don’t care to wait that long. So this could help some new players to the beta, which will lead to more publicity.

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