Shipset Torrent Question

[Fyron]

I'm wondering if it would be better to make the shipset megapack torrents a collection of archives, one per set, or leave them as a single archive. With the collection of archives, updating to a newer torrent version would not require redownloading everything. This would potentially make it easier to do frequent updates. However, it does make it more tedious to install the shipsets, because you can't just point the single archive at your base SE5 folder... Please vote in poll.

[Ed Kolis]

Can't you just point the collection of individual archives at your SE5\Empires folder, and extract them all at once by selecting them all, right-clicking, and doing Extract To Here? (With WinXP or any reasonably decent explorer-integrated zip program) I don't see what the problem is with the individual archives, so I'll vote for those...

[AdmiralMartin]

I would prefer one big archive file. I'm not sure about those with slow internet though... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Fyron]

The files will always be in RAR format.

[Atrocities]

Can you have a selection for both options given that the choice is pretty much even?

[Suicide Junkie]

Why not include them separately, and add a batch file to unpack them all?

[Santiago]

As more ship sets get added, a single archive will get larger. Not everyone will want every shipset however blasphemous that may be.

[parabolize]

whats the problem with putting the ship sets all in their own rar inside a directory and make a torrent for each rar and then one big torrent for the directory.

[Fyron]

That would be excessive work, and would require people running 200+ torrents (in the case of SE4). You can make your torrent client only download certain files if you want to.

[Atrocities]

I would say go with one file.

[AdmiralMartin]

Maybe smaller packs arranged alphabetically? (ie. A-I, J-R, S-Z) It would decrease the amount of torrents needed, yet people wouldn't have to download the entire megapack for the shipset(s) they want.

[Azselendor]

Why isn't there an option for both?

[President_Elect_Shang]

It seems to me downloading the whole thing just to get two or three shipsets I like would be a real PITA. I have no facts or experience on this though. I have never run into a situation where I had to download a whole bunch of stuff to just get one item.

[Combat Wombat]

One big file! Its work well in the past and the ammount of people with high speed connections is insanely high now.

[RCCCL]

But, those of us who only have dial up, for whatever reason, would be SOL.

[parabolize]

As Fyron said:

Imperator Fyron said:You can make your torrent client only download certain files if you want to.


It just takes some know how with your torrent client.