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Miko Valentine
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2015-03-24 01:58:41 UTC
how does it exactly work? with my ****** Internet connection will i get lags and please wait Screens when i enter a System for the first time? how big will the Data packages be, will eve still be playable with my 2000kbit/s tiny village Internet connection
Anhenka
The New Federation
Sigma Grindset
#2 - 2015-03-24 02:06:08 UTC
There's very little CCP can do for you.

I recently played EVE while in a remote Alaskan town, and while the speed was horrifically slow (Literally worse than 56k dial-up), the latency was ok.

Turns out that aside from patches, playing EVE uses only a very tiny amount of actual data exchange. So your issues have more to do with the latency between you and the host than they do the actual amount of data exchanged.

Oh and Download on Demand is 100% optional. You can go ahead and download the entire package like you already do instead of going the download by demand route.

Which you would know if you went and read the dev blog.
Miko Valentine
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2015-03-24 02:21:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Miko Valentine
never had Problems with the playing any online game , only the download takes a bit more time :) thank god than ill Patch my game like usual. < some game news sites and german Forums wrote like, as if the Dod Client is the only way to play the game after the new Expansion.. and readed the patchnotes on giantsecurecontainer.de a german site Not a single word a bout it being optional, anyways great to see that it is optional
Serene Repose
#4 - 2015-03-24 02:51:29 UTC
Anhenka wrote:
...Which you would know if you went and read the dev blog.
grrr goons Shocked

We must accommodate the idiocracy.
Liafcipe9000
Critically Preposterous
#5 - 2015-03-24 08:04:17 UTC
the first time hurts, then it becomes better.
Miko Valentine
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2015-03-24 09:45:51 UTC
hurts? na why should it hurt to ask ....
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
Vote Steve Ronuken for CSM
#7 - 2015-03-24 09:55:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Steve Ronuken
Download on demand is optional.

You can tell it to just go ahead and download everything before letting you play. (just change the setting in the launcher)

It /should/ let you play anyway, when it doesn't have assets, giving you placeholders instead, but you would notice a spike in network usage, as it has to download stuff (while showing you the placeholders)


However, if you have eve already installed, this won't change that. it'll just shuffle some files around.

Woo! CSM XI!

Fuzzwork Enterprises

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Kenneth Endashi
Kor-Azor Slave Holdings
#8 - 2015-03-24 09:58:29 UTC
What does a placeholder look like?
Miko Valentine
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2015-03-24 10:29:09 UTC
devblog:

What about slow connections?

You can use the offline installer, or you can wait while the launcher downloads everything.

one last question: the Launcher behaves like usual if i dont change any settings and it will download the Patch/files as it normally does and the DOD is just for the ppl who dont dont to wait till the patch is downloaded before playing ?
CCP Maxwell
C C P
C C P Alliance
#10 - 2015-03-24 10:55:29 UTC
Miko Valentine wrote:
devblog:

What about slow connections?

You can use the offline installer, or you can wait while the launcher downloads everything.

one last question: the Launcher behaves like usual if i dont change any settings and it will download the Patch/files as it normally does and the DOD is just for the ppl who dont dont to wait till the patch is downloaded before playing ?


If you do not change any settings in the launcher, then at first login after downtime on March 24, 2015, the launcher will convert all the existing resource files in your client to new file-formats in a location of your choosing. This is done so that you do not need to download the full client again. After this is done, the launcher will then patch the release, and you are all set.

If your connection is a bottleneck, then I'd probably recommend entering the launcher settings and ticking the "Download all the resource files" box. Doing this ensures that you have all the resources possibly needed in game.

CCP Maxwell - QA Engineer - Team RnB
Pak Narhoo
Splinter Foundation
#11 - 2015-03-24 11:00:33 UTC
CCP Maxwell wrote:
Miko Valentine wrote:
devblog:

What about slow connections?

You can use the offline installer, or you can wait while the launcher downloads everything.

one last question: the Launcher behaves like usual if i dont change any settings and it will download the Patch/files as it normally does and the DOD is just for the ppl who dont dont to wait till the patch is downloaded before playing ?


If you do not change any settings in the launcher, then at first login after downtime on March 24, 2015, the launcher will convert all the existing resource files in your client to new file-formats in a location of your choosing. This is done so that you do not need to download the full client again. After this is done, the launcher will then patch the release, and you are all set.

If your connection is a bottleneck, then I'd probably recommend entering the launcher settings and ticking the "Download all the resource files" box. Doing this ensures that you have all the resources possibly needed in game.


Bolded and underlined the part that, because as far as I know, is only possible on a Pc, on a Mac it's just placed on your HD. You have no choice. Right?
Elenahina
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2015-03-24 11:13:23 UTC
Pak Narhoo wrote:


Bolded and underlined the part that, because as far as I know, is only possible on a Pc, on a Mac it's just placed on your HD. You have no choice. Right?


Where else would you put it?

Eve is like an addiction; you can't quit it until it quits you. Also, iderno
Ur'yaen
Xcense
#13 - 2015-03-24 11:17:34 UTC
Reposting from another thread

Ur'yaen wrote:
If someone could elnlighten me on that topic please

Currently I have 3 EvE folders - SiSi, TQ 1st account, TQ 2nd account (as a walkaround to not being able to switch toons without relogging). At this moment each launcher/game updates separately and I'm ok with that.

With DoD will that change and if, how do i keep it the old way?

Can I patch all 3 clients and pick different cache folder for each or they will be somehow forced to use one?
Tuttomenui II
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2015-03-24 11:20:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Tuttomenui II
The TQ launcher after it updated remembers my settings from SISI tests and the custom test shared cache I had so I moved that shared cache to a new location where I'd like it to be and then pointed it to the new location. Hopefully the test shared cache doesn't bork my TQ. Lol

Right now it is 50% through the 'Extracting Stuff Files to Shared Resource Cache'. I am hoping using the test cache will also save me some download time. We will see.

*Edit: Went smoothly client is now ready. And logged in successful. bit laggy with the bulk data but it worked great.
Agent Intrepid
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#15 - 2015-03-24 11:20:35 UTC
Is the patch supposed to be 7GB?
Malcaz
Omni Paradox Securities
#16 - 2015-03-24 11:23:24 UTC
This is going to cause issues in fleet/small gang fights when people forget to turn this off.
Avellean
Perkone
Caldari State
#17 - 2015-03-24 11:29:34 UTC
Malcaz wrote:
This is going to cause issues in fleet/small gang fights when people forget to turn this off.



Yea not sure who thought this was a good idea, doubt many people will bother to use it.
Miko Valentine
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#18 - 2015-03-24 11:33:06 UTC
so clicked Download all the ressources ... it still converts the Gamefiles to this new shared folder ?
xttz
GSF Logistics and Posting Reserves
Goonswarm Federation
#19 - 2015-03-24 11:33:32 UTC
Avellean wrote:
Malcaz wrote:
This is going to cause issues in fleet/small gang fights when people forget to turn this off.



Yea not sure who thought this was a good idea, doubt many people will bother to use it.


The best part isn't the partial download, it's being able to share the cache between multiple clients. Apparently it's even possible to have a TQ and a Sisi client sharing the same resource data, which saves a decent amount of disk space.
CCP Mephysto
C C P
C C P Alliance
#20 - 2015-03-24 11:33:37 UTC
Agent Intrepid wrote:
Is the patch supposed to be 7GB?


No, restart your launcher
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