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PLEASE READ* Client download bandwith over...Is there a ZIP download for this?
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RYAN FLEMING
Windsor Disposal Services
#1 - 2013-06-28 02:03:54 UTC
I was wondering if anyone knows of a Zip folder which I can download which DRASTICALLY reduces the 20 GB download for this game?
Kali Maat
PVP FAST
#2 - 2013-06-28 02:15:32 UTC
If any compression is possible CCP would have done it already.
they are big computer geek like us.
Compression can do magic..
but nothing "drastic"
Sturmwolke
#3 - 2013-06-28 02:20:42 UTC
20GB full game download? My EVE folder sits at 11.8GB.
Wut?
Stonecrusher Mortlock
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2013-06-28 02:23:22 UTC
lol you have a download limit.
Myrkala
Royal Robot Ponies
#5 - 2013-06-28 02:30:26 UTC
Theoretically it could be probably compressed into 10% of that but it would also take your machine days to decompress it.
Sable Moran
Moran Light Industries
#6 - 2013-06-28 07:50:19 UTC
The installed eve client is around 12 gigabytes in size. The download size is some where around a fifth or a sixth of that. If you're having 20 gigabyte downloads.... Dude! You're doing something seriously wrong.

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Vorll Minaaran
Centre Of Attention
#7 - 2013-06-28 10:07:15 UTC
I downloaded the full client install earlier this week:
EVE_Online_Installer_560552.exe Size: 4.5 MB
eveonline_560552_1of2.7z Size: 2,842 MB
eveonline_560552_1of2.7z Size: 2,967 MB
Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
#8 - 2013-06-28 10:09:00 UTC
Client grows over time unless you remove the updates manually... usually in the root folder called ".winpatch" (iirc)

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Doctor Caprician
The Denisovan Initiative
#9 - 2013-06-28 15:24:03 UTC
Stonecrusher Mortlock wrote:
lol you have a download limit.



Virtually every ISP imposes download limits. They may not tell you they're there since they're usually rather large allowances, and it is unlikely that the typical user reaching them, but they're there nonetheless. The limits are typically published either in the fine print that nobody reads, and/or on the ISP's website.

My ISP, for instance, has a monthly data allowance of a combined (Upload and Download) 400GB. I wouldn't even know that were it not for the fact that I specifically asked about it and was directed to their website for the information.
Ginger Barbarella
#10 - 2013-06-28 15:37:28 UTC
Find someone with a torrent for it, throttle it so you don't hit your cap, and get out into the sunshine this weekend. Come back next month, install, have fun.

Alternatively, learn to hijack open wifi and use it. But I never said that.

No, really, I didn't. The NSA must have just inserted that into my post here.

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Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2013-06-28 15:42:42 UTC  |  Edited by: Grimpak
Doctor Caprician wrote:
Stonecrusher Mortlock wrote:
lol you have a download limit.



Virtually every ISP imposes download limits. They may not tell you they're there since they're usually rather large allowances, and it is unlikely that the typical user reaching them, but they're there nonetheless. The limits are typically published either in the fine print that nobody reads, and/or on the ISP's website.

My ISP, for instance, has a monthly data allowance of a combined (Upload and Download) 400GB. I wouldn't even know that were it not for the fact that I specifically asked about it and was directed to their website for the information.

some do have unlimited, but after a certain amout they start to throttle down the speeds.

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Panda McLegion
#12 - 2013-06-28 15:49:35 UTC
Yo dog, I heard you like zip files so I zipped up the client onto a zip drive, but I didn't have your zip code so you get zip.

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