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TL;DR: The current updater needs serious work to reduce download size and load on mirror hosters.
I appreciate that the game is getting attention and is sucessfull, but the updater is terrible for mirror hosters. What it currently does is download the whole game for every update and not what has changed. I offered to fix this a half year ago and recieved a generic response, which one could interpret as a no. My contact person then was Burnjack.
And since then I haven't heard anything from the Project. No e-mail about new versions to be uploaded so that I could prepare the servers for heavy load, no e-mail contact about anything else. Nothing. This is bad practice, to say the least.
I already added ratelimiting to the mirror I host to prevent other mirrors from having not enough traffic and cancelling the uploads/downloads. I hope you understand.
Sincerely,
- Xaymar
Edit:
To elaborate on why this is bad:
As you can see, the downloads never really stop. I don't know why, but they don't. If you add all the downloads together you get 1.062 terabyte/TiBi just used by StarMade alone.
I appreciate that the game is getting attention and is sucessfull, but the updater is terrible for mirror hosters. What it currently does is download the whole game for every update and not what has changed. I offered to fix this a half year ago and recieved a generic response, which one could interpret as a no. My contact person then was Burnjack.
And since then I haven't heard anything from the Project. No e-mail about new versions to be uploaded so that I could prepare the servers for heavy load, no e-mail contact about anything else. Nothing. This is bad practice, to say the least.
I already added ratelimiting to the mirror I host to prevent other mirrors from having not enough traffic and cancelling the uploads/downloads. I hope you understand.
Sincerely,
- Xaymar
Edit:
To elaborate on why this is bad:
- 10th November 2013: 978 downloads, 54.41 GiBi
- 11th November 2013: 1627 downloads, 90.51 GiBi (Patch Release)
- 12th November 2013: 1410 downloads, 78.44 GiBi
- 13th November 2013: 987 downloads, 54.91 GiBi
- 14th November 2013: 969 downloads, 53.91 GiBi
- 15th November 2013: 1633 downloads, 90.85 GiBi (Patch Release)
- 16th November 2013: 1607 downloads, 89.40 GiBi
- 17th November 2013: 1262 downloads, 70.21 GiBi
- 18th November 2013: 812 downloads, 45.17 GiBi
- 19th November 2013: 730 downloads, 40.61 GiBi
- 20th November 2013: 748 downloads, 41.61 GiBi
- 21st November 2013: 654 downloads, 36.38 GiBi
- 22nd November 2013: 753 downloads, 41.89 GiBi
- 23rd November 2013: 1129 downloads, 62.81 GiBi
- 24th November 2013: 966 downloads, 53.74 GiBi
- 25th November 2013: 609 downloads, 33.88 GiBi
- 26th November 2013: 629 downloads, 34.99 GiBi
- 27th November 2013: 761 downloads, 42.33 GiBi
- 28th November 2013: 715 downloads, 39.77 GiBi
- 29th November 2013: 579 downloads, 32.21 GiBi, and still counting.
As you can see, the downloads never really stop. I don't know why, but they don't. If you add all the downloads together you get 1.062 terabyte/TiBi just used by StarMade alone.
