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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: J.F.K. on July 17, 2003, 06:26:25 am

Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: J.F.K. on July 17, 2003, 06:26:25 am: Maybe I wasn't the only one who noticed, but it seems like the release of the first chapter of Inferno (the campaign) went pretty much unnoticed. From what I gather it's the biggest thing to happen in quite a few months for FreeSpace 2.

http://www.fileplanet.com/files/120000/127705.shtml

My question is, are we still interested in being FreeSpacers? Or has the game really lost all its lustre to us? Anyway, my download is up to 22%.
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: Woomeister on July 17, 2003, 06:46:27 am: plus 70 for this one:
http://www.fileplanet.com/dl.aspx?/3dactionplanet/hlp/hosted/inferno/inf_release1.exe

and about 60 for the smaller VP version
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: J.F.K. on July 17, 2003, 06:55:13 am: That's a little more encouraging... oops. :D Still, I've heard surprisingly little about this, when it seems to be the biggest campaign on all of HLP. I mean, I was just browsing the tech room... took me close to an hour looking at all the pretty new ships :p
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: Woomeister on July 17, 2003, 06:57:21 am: Here's a dump of the current download numbers so far for each file:

INF_Core: 65
INF_EA: 442
INF_Terran: 146
INF_SOCVas: 107
INF_Enemies: 63
INF_GTVA_CH1: 59
INF_CB_GTVA1: 49

INF_Main: 30 (GS Version)
INF_Main: 70
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: Fineus on July 17, 2003, 06:59:53 am: Thanks for pointing this out - Re-installing FS2 now (pulling the 134mb version from GS)...
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: karajorma on July 17, 2003, 08:42:54 am: I have to say that the launch was rather low key. No one was expecting it and I only recognised it was a release thread after opening it and reading it!

There are probably loads of people who don't even know it's out yet. (BTW has this been pimped on F2S or VW yet?).
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: CP5670 on July 17, 2003, 10:19:59 am: Actually, I didn't know about this at all until now. :p I will try it out tonight if I get some time.
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: Goober5000 on July 17, 2003, 12:27:44 pm: It needs to be blared all over the news page.
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: Martinus on July 17, 2003, 12:56:03 pm: [color=66ff00]Damn straight!
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Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: Rictor on July 17, 2003, 01:30:08 pm: Anyone care to talk to Gamespy about putting it up on their Mod Watch thing on Gamespydaily.com?

Other news sources, such as ve3d.com and homelanfed.com ought to be contacted. Bluesnews already has the news post, check my thread in the Inferno forum.

The number of downloads is a really good indicator of how FS2's popularity s holding up. Don't settle for a few measly downloads guys. Hundreds. Thousands. Millions!!:thepimp: :thepimp:
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: Goober5000 on July 17, 2003, 02:24:59 pm: Maeglamor, a link from your news post would help. ;)
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: Knight Templar on July 17, 2003, 02:28:38 pm: *pssst* Maeg, add links! :nod: :yes:
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: Woomeister on July 17, 2003, 02:50:35 pm: I kept it low profile as we had been close to release before, and then it wasn't released for over a year. Also we've been very busy testing and checking everything. I didn't have the time to do a mass pimp over the entire community :D
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: Martinus on July 17, 2003, 02:58:46 pm: [color=66ff00]No, cause then you have to look around you lazy buggers. ;)
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Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: Taristin on July 17, 2003, 03:05:19 pm: Eegad.. there's a 15 minute wait on all of the first site's servers, and no ait on the premium ones...

Lol.. Mirror two is still good tho. But it takes sodamn long to DL this... I'm only DLing at 171Kb/sec... I can get 725 on Adobe's servers... :(
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: Woomeister on July 17, 2003, 03:07:15 pm: Well poor me had to upload it at 14kb/sec, took 3 hours and 2 attempts at it. Then it took me 45 mins to download it for testing :D
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: Rictor on July 17, 2003, 03:21:17 pm: 171kb/s is bad?

I haven't tried it yet. I downloaded it once, it wouldn't install. So now I downloaded it again, but my good computer is being fixed, so I have to wait
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: Woomeister on July 17, 2003, 03:24:20 pm: better than the 39 I was getting while downloading it :D
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: Tiara on July 17, 2003, 03:40:56 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Woomeister
Then it took me 45 mins to download it for testing :D

You know how long it took me :D
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: Taristin on July 17, 2003, 05:31:34 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Rictor
171kb/s is bad?

It is when you're used to 500+.
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: Galemp on July 17, 2003, 10:32:31 pm: Damn it!! My ZIP drive only holds 100 mb! Now I can't take advantage of the awesome installer!

*smashes computer into tiny bits, then jumps on them*
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: J.F.K. on July 17, 2003, 10:50:19 pm: Quote
Originally posted by CP5670
Actually, I didn't know about this at all until now. :p I will try it out tonight if I get some time.

Lol, this thread wasn't completely pointless then. :D
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: Goober5000 on July 18, 2003, 08:39:23 am: Quote
Originally posted by GalacticEmperor
*smashes computer into tiny bits, then jumps on them*

Now you can't even take advantage of the game. ;)

If you have WinZip, you might be able to use the file splitter to chop the big install file into two components.
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: Hippo on July 18, 2003, 10:18:18 am: here I am, lucky to hit 3 Kbs...
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: Gloriano on July 18, 2003, 11:45:58 am: plus 5 download from Gamespot insider area;)

if my friend is not liar:)
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: Woolie Wool on July 18, 2003, 12:05:01 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Woomeister
better than the 39 I was getting while downloading it :D

At least I had managed to finish downloading all elements of the multi-VP version before DSL went down. Imagine what it would be like to download 150MB at 3kb/second...:shaking:
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: Tiara on July 18, 2003, 12:24:08 pm: 3kbs... :blah: I feel sorry for you, Hippo. I truly do...
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: CP5670 on July 18, 2003, 12:29:21 pm: I used to get that kind of speed in my 56k days; best thing then was to start it in the night before going to sleep and it would (usually) be done by the next morning.
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: Hippo on July 18, 2003, 01:33:07 pm: I spent 40 hours downloading the Halo 2 E3 Demo off bungies website...
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: Black Wolf on July 18, 2003, 02:04:44 pm: I got the full version, in two nights, from Fileplanet, on 56k. It's not so bad a download time really.
Title: Only 30 downloads?
Post by: J.F.K. on July 19, 2003, 04:26:55 am: I just got it all - one night, one ten hour connection. Beauty. :D