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Whats with the 2 Gig Patch?!!!

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Gonna take me 2 days to download the patch. :mad:
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Have you seen the new stuff? You get to checkout the interior of your ship and stuff like that.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Ryu, you're not playing with dialup or DSL are you? What kind of internet connection are you using? I logged in 2 hours ago and I have 71 percent of the patch downloaded right now.

    I'm slightly more concerned that they are going to take down the servers in 5 hours "in order to perform mainenance, and apply a patch." Really? They have to patch the update already?? I would have thought the Devs would be able to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak....
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Your right this is an outrage how dare they add content to this MMO that is clearly not lacking content. I think I will rage quit over this right now.

    FYI that was a joke. in truth it is big because it is awesome. there is a lot of new stuff that would not fit in a small patch.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Ryu, you're not playing with dialup or DSL are you? What kind of internet connection are you using? I logged in 2 hours ago and I have 71 percent of the patch downloaded right now.

    I'm slightly more concerned that they are going to take down the servers in 5 hours "in order to perform mainenance, and apply a patch." Really? They have to patch the update already?? I would have thought the Devs would be able to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak....

    That's fairly common practice, a post update patch or three to squash bugs found after the update went live.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    This needed to be a 6 gig patch.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Man... people that are complaining about download speeds and how long its going to take really need to pony up some dough and get better internet. I pay around 60 dollars a month and i have 15meg download and 3meg uploads... this only took me a hour or so and i thank CRYPTIC for every second of it.!!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Zodi-emish wrote:
    Your right this is an outrage how dare they add content to this MMO that is clearly not lacking content. I think I will rage quit over this right now.

    FYI that was a joke. in truth it is big because it is awesome. there is a lot of new stuff that would not fit in a small patch.

    NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!


    oh wait, my download finished in under 5 minutes..................cya inside.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    RI'm slightly more concerned that they are going to take down the servers in 5 hours "in order to perform mainenance, and apply a patch." Really? They have to patch the update already?? I would have thought the Devs would be able to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak....
    That is the life of software developers.

    You guys need to understand that every time any minor change gets put in, there's a whole complicated process that needs to happen (build, testing, etc). There are several of these per DAY. When things are tested, bugs get categorized and when there are no bugs of a certain importance level left, that build gets flagged as the one that will be released.

    From THAT point, it still can take several days or weeks of bureaucracy and additional testing before the new stuff gets out. At that point, the devs still work their TRIBBLE off to fix the rest of the small bugs that still exist in that load, and it gets released as a much smaller patch that doesn't need scrutiny.

    So be thankful that you get that extra patch. It just means less bugs.
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