Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I believe they said they are addressing this with a "Light Client" that does background loading of assets as they are requested much in the same way Blizzard does with their games.

Alternatively, they could let the launcher serve as a peering service to let you download some from them but the rest from other players who are currently getting the data. It should ease the strain on the hamsters and make the download faster.

Edit: Found It

Yes and no. If they own a console they should be used to this. Santa brought my son an xbox one. and a game. Put game in and It said hi, I need 7.7 gb patching to even join the game servers. It took longer than any eve client full pull I have ever done.


Server infrastructure also only part of the problem. Insert your favorite day after expansion whine thread here. Where 20 people take forever to download. And....20 people are dl'd, patched, and playing in minutes. It then breaks down to get better ISP arguments from there.

You see, ccp could have a huge massive pipe from source servers. Does them no good if an individual player's ISP does funky throttling schemes on their end.

example: I live overseas and support the military as a civilian.

I live off base, I get off base internet. I have no speed problems. If I am throttled, I don't see it.
People on base get a base ISP. They have massive speed issues. They throttle their network to the points its a joke really.

Both pull off the same interconnect to the island we are on. Japan doesn't have anti-monopoly rules. All roads lead to NTT (kind of like the Ma Bell back in the day from the states when Bell was the be all end all). You can be with ISP 1,2,3,4 or 5.....all roads lead to NTT's backbone.

My isp pays more to get a fatter pipe from there and doesn't throttle as much. Base's ISP pays less it seems, gets a much smaller pipe and then (heavily) throttles use to make sure they get some form of bandwidth to all its customers.

CCP having a 235345357934875983745 kb/s channel from their files servers is doing those people on base no good the tl;dr.

Not saying ccp shouldn't improve their stuff. Am saying they shouldn't be looking to take out a massive investment that could wreck profts for years when its benefits end of day still can be cut to shreds by a crappy ISP.

just put eve on a new machine took 2:45 thats not all that long

Maybe you should upgrade your hamsters, too.

Ah the things I could do IF I had a 400kbs connection.
Instead of complaining about it count your blessings that you live in a place where you can get a connection that fast.

If a company upgraded aspects of their company to appease the fastest and bleeding edgiest (I will make up a word) full time they'd go broke.





If capital purchasing like what I am used to from my IT job a good year can be burned from the decision paper turn in to actually getting the gear at your shipping and receiving section. Bean counters make this process fun, then its political stuff...In that year that new gear is now "old" and not bleeding edge lol.

Then after that year, once in place it has to live long and prosper. While a bean counter may not know a cisco switch from a cisco router from a cisco ASA...they do know if they gave you say 750K+ funding say 2 years back to buy the stuff. Why you see a 3-5 year required in service life span common in IT. Look at higher end cisco ASA and router prices...you won't wonder why. They can be fun enough to get funding approved for 1 year out to be proactive if bean counters are being pricks tbh.


You are also thinking your personal little plan for your house. Business stuff its not so cut and dry. If they paid for what they had for just 1 user to use.....you would have your wish, and then some. They don't, they support 1000's of users and internal business needs.

To test, split up your uber connection across 100 users for starters (we will assume this won't violate your contract ofc, it will most likely though), report to us how great your speed is under high load.

Tacking on more lines or options not always an easy option. I have seen my companies internet bill for several networks that covers my local area, a site in mainland japan and a site in Korea.....I saw the amount and went damn, that's a lot of money. SO I ask the network manage do we pay that yearly. He just looked at me, laughed, and said try monthly.

CCP uses HighWinds CDN services for assets and cloud services, please check that your ISP is not throttling traffic from US/that particular cloud service.

I have no bandwidth issues on my end either only took me an hour to download the full client... you know it could be a problem your end after all

To quote Steve Martin "excuuuuusssseeee mmmmeee", a simple slip of the fingers.
Your connection is still considerably faster than anything I can get and since I am on a quote binge "don't worry be happy".

I checked with my son he is also on Comcast and it took him 18 minutes to download the complete client so it seems you have a problem on your end, or somewhere in between.

Let me assure you that CCP feeds their Hamsters with the best rodent food available on the market and have high grade training facilities for them, all to assure they can outrun Speedy Gonzales if it comes down to speed. (They might even get some 'extra's' at times when needed from shady doctors for that extra wide eyed foam-at-mouth boost).

Anyway, as this is neither a proposal for a new feature or a new idea, this thread gets a lock.