BROKEN CRESCENT: Emperor of the East PBM

**Zim** · 01-26-2008, 08:00

Hmmm...it seems to be working, but at about a quarter the speed of downloading it the regular way.

Never used torrent before, I always thought it was supposed to be very fast.

Does it uploading for other people slow things down during my download? If so, could someone tell me how to disable that until after I'm done downloading?

**Zim** · 01-26-2008, 08:15

Bah, it's downloading, but it's going far too slowly. I guess I just won't be able to try the mod for now. I'll let it keep going while I sleep, but at this rate it won't be done in the next 8 hours, when I'll have to go back home.

Edit: I should also note, that in a cruel twist of fate, the normal download started working a few hours ago, half the mod downloaded, then it stopped again and won't restart. Must be fate's way to tell me I should play vanilla.

**Ferret** · 01-26-2008, 10:52

I feel for you, my internet went off again when it was 80% downloaded but I have it now and will join this PBM if it ever starts up.

**Zim** · 01-26-2008, 10:57

Ouch, I think it's even worse when you get so close.

Torrent seems to be running a bit quicker now. If it keeps up I'll actually have the game before I have to go home tomorrow. Still oddly slower than normal download. What is the advantage of torrent? I always imagined it was quicker or something, although I never tried it until now.

If I die in one of my aars I might consider drumming up support for a succession pbm if people from the hotseat one are interested. It'd be a shame to waste those wonderful unit models.

**Zim** · 01-26-2008, 14:42

Well, I was able to download it with torrent, for the cost of only about six hours. Now I'm learning the joy of navigating the German on the pastch download site. My single semester of German would lead me to read the directions on the site as being to click on the "download" button. Apparently I learned nothing, since doing so just results in my downloading an html page to more German I don't understand.

Failing that, I clicked on the link the little green arrow by the download button pointed to, leading me to yet another page of German.

For the first time in my life, I think I will actually try a mod feeling as if I'd earned it.

"Zum Downloaden der Datei klicken Sie bitte auf den Download Button." seems straightforward enough, but I guess I'm suffering for taking far more Spanish than German.

**Ferret** · 01-26-2008, 15:03

lol that is what happened to me with Stainless Steel, half of it is in German and half in English, God knows how these thiings happen when the mods were made in English. Did you check the 'fix language' box when you intalled the 1.05 patch? That said something about foreign language support.

**Ramses II CP** · 01-26-2008, 16:12

The advantage of a torrent is load distribution. Instead of a single source for a file, or just three or four, everyone who downloads the file (And leaves the 'share bandwidth' or whatever box checked) participates in helping others get the file, leading to a snowball effect. Where a traditional source for a popular file will get slower the more people want it, a torrent might start slower but it will pick up speed as more sources come online. You may have experienced exactly that.

Of course there are downsides as well, but that's a whole different mess and usually more than compensated for by the advantages.

Broken Crescent is compatible across 1.2 and Kingdoms? I'll have to check it out.

**Zim** · 01-26-2008, 23:30

My particular problem is that the download site for the patch is in German, it didn't even occur to me that parts of the game might end up that way.

Phonicsmonkey says I clicked on the right button on that download site, but the "file" I get is an html file.

It's all a conspiracy on the part of the modders to make sure people earn the right to try the mod, I tell you. That, or bad luck.

Ramses Yep, it is. And if you have a decent internet connection (unlike me) I imagine you won't face the problems I've had getting the mod.

Originally Posted by Elite Ferret

lol that is what happened to me with Stainless Steel, half of it is in German and half in English, God knows how these thiings happen when the mods were made in English. Did you check the 'fix language' box when you intalled the 1.05 patch? That said something about foreign language support.