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Downloads question

January 20, 2012 3:22:45 AM from Elemental ForumsElemental Forums

I have an internet connection that is somewhat bandwidth limited.  I can download the beta but given my bandwidth is on a monthly deal I can't keep downloading 2 gigs.  Plus my flatmate would somewhat kill me if I did since we share the connection.

 

So my question is this - how often will the game be updated?  Also will the updates require a complete reinstall or will they be a few hundred megs patches?  I can probably only do one big download a month and so don't want to do it and find a monster update the following day (making my testing obselete).

 

Let me know.

Thanks

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Reply #1 January 20, 2012 4:59:42 AM
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There is only one solution to your problem - you have to kill your flatmate before he kills you! Then you will have all the bandwidth for yourself, with all the FE goodness flowing to you with full speed!

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Reply #2 January 20, 2012 5:18:21 AM
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Quoting Kamamura_CZ,
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There is only one solution to your problem - you have to kill your flatmate before he kills you! Then you will have all the bandwidth for yourself, with all the FE goodness flowing to you with full speed!

I agree with this conclusion. I also know a guy. Send me a PM for details.

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Reply #3 January 20, 2012 5:52:49 AM
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I have an internet connection that is somewhat bandwidth limited.  I can download the beta but given my bandwidth is on a monthly deal I can't keep downloading 2 gigs.  Plus my flatmate would somewhat kill me if I did since we share the connection.

 

So my question is this - how often will the game be updated?  Also will the updates require a complete reinstall or will they be a few hundred megs patches?  I can probably only do one big download a month and so don't want to do it and find a monster update the following day (making my testing obselete).

 

Let me know.

Thanks

Killing your flatmate is the best solution of course, but to answer your question I don't think you'll ever need a complete reinstall (I don't recall that even being the case with the GalCiv beta's). Looking at how complete the game already is I don't expect patches to be hundreds of MB's. Most of the big content is there already. There will be the occasional bigger patch, but not that often. Looking at Stardock's record I suspect weekly/two weekly patches with mostly bugfixes.

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Reply #4 January 20, 2012 11:31:44 AM
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ATM, the plan is patch/update installs over the [large] beta1 base. 

Kris

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