Ooooh the suspense!

[Megalos]

Well, judging by how 0.81a worked, I was the only seed at first, then about 10 more came in the following days, but many of these fell off after a short while. Eventually there were about 4 that I could see with my client, and later I think more have chosen to seed, but I haven't checked. I think I've uploaded 70GB worth of EB by torrent.

Distribution would have been a lot faster if everyone had used torrent then instead of swamping our FTP (exploding our bandwidth limit). Torrent/ED2K should actually be quicker for most people, once more than 10 people get it down and choose to keep sharing. I encourage everyone to keep seeding after getting it down successfully.

Good advice there Bovi! Unfortunatley for poor soles like me in the UK who pretty much all have bad upload speeds, i'm guessing it is going to take at least a week to get down.....oooh the pain!

[Admetos]

Originally Posted by I of the Storm
I suspect it all depends on how many video teasers they have produced. I'm afraid it might be quite a bunch. We had 4 already, Saba, Gauls, Seleucid/Ptolemies and the horse-factions. That leaves Romani, Qart-Hadast, Luso, Sweboz, Casse, Epeiros, KH, Makedon, Getai, Pontos, Hayasdan and Baktria. The release frequency of the previous teasers was 2 days, so it will be 23 days to go until the release of the final teaser, which brings us into November and we all now that nobody releases anything in November since that's too early for christmas presents, so we won't see 1.0 before December 1.
QED.

From EB monthy screenshot competition poll (SEPT.)

Originally Posted by Admetos
Whens the next competition being opened?

Originally Posted by abou
I think we may be waiting for something special.

I think we'll be seeing it soon, at least this month otherwise why are they waiting to open the new screenshot competition

I think you could possibly group the videos together by what actions they will take in the game/area on the map, eg. the Audei and the Arveni previewed together and the same with Arche Seleukeia and the Ptolemaioi. So I'm guessing Makedon, Epiros and KH will be previewed together, and also the Romans and Carthagians. That leaves us with Luso, Sweboz, Casse, Getai, Pontus, Hayasdan and Baktria. But going back to the idea about the screenshot competition, I don't think we'll have to wait too long.

[Moros]

I think we'll be seeing it soon, at least this month otherwise why are they waiting to open the new screenshot competition

Hmmm...I should remember this.

Note to myself: Next time people get thinking some new EB version comes out. Wait with the new screenshot competition... Gnagnagnagnagnaaa!!!

[Sassem]

Hi Bovi,

Forget about the newsserver thing it's very handy only if people are familiar with it

But what you can do is besides having 1 big file is the following

You can create with a program called Quickpar small repair files for the big file if some one missing a few blocks ( a few bytes or mb's) the program can see this and will tell you how much you're missing the only thing what they have to do is download a few extra repair blocks and run par2 (this will automatic start quickpar) and then it will automatic start the repair

Sorry for the very short and lowlevel explanation but in short it means

people need a free program called Quickpar less then (1 mb )

They have to DL Eb1.0 and a par2 file (wich you created with Quickpar its very simple)

check the downloaded file with the par 2 file fileEB081aFinal.exe.par2 (created with QP only 7 kb or so this small file the have to download also)

If they miss something let say 4 blocks they only have to DL another 5 MB or so (EB081aFinal.exe.vol06+04.PAR2) they DO NOT HAVE TO DL THE BIG FILE AGAIN

When you have DL the repair blocks click the par2 file again it will check it again and see that there are enough repair blocks then it will ask you to start the repair and KLAAR IS KEES

Example of EB0.81final



If you have further questions about this just ask but i think that people with a low upload and/or a bad provider will benefit from this method

ps here is the english version of QP http://www.binaries4all.com/quickpar/