Downloads question

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I have an internet connection that is somewhat bandwidth limited.  I can download the beta but given my bandwidth is on a monthly deal I can't keep downloading 2 gigs.  Plus my flatmate would somewhat kill me if I did since we share the connection.

 

So my question is this - how often will the game be updated?  Also will the updates require a complete reinstall or will they be a few hundred megs patches?  I can probably only do one big download a month and so don't want to do it and find a monster update the following day (making my testing obselete).

 

Let me know.

Thanks

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

There is only one solution to your problem - you have to kill your flatmate before he kills you! Then you will have all the bandwidth for yourself, with all the FE goodness flowing to you with full speed!

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Kamamura_CZ, reply 1
There is only one solution to your problem - you have to kill your flatmate before he kills you! Then you will have all the bandwidth for yourself, with all the FE goodness flowing to you with full speed!
End of Kamamura_CZ's quote

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Galactic Civilizations IV
Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

I have an internet connection that is somewhat bandwidth limited.  I can download the beta but given my bandwidth is on a monthly deal I can't keep downloading 2 gigs.  Plus my flatmate would somewhat kill me if I did since we share the connection.

 

So my question is this - how often will the game be updated?  Also will the updates require a complete reinstall or will they be a few hundred megs patches?  I can probably only do one big download a month and so don't want to do it and find a monster update the following day (making my testing obselete).

 

Let me know.

Thanks
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Killing your flatmate is the best solution of course, but to answer your question I don't think you'll ever need a complete reinstall (I don't recall that even being the case with the GalCiv beta's). Looking at how complete the game already is I don't expect patches to be hundreds of MB's. Most of the big content is there already. There will be the occasional bigger patch, but not that often. Looking at Stardock's record I suspect weekly/two weekly patches with mostly bugfixes.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

ATM, the plan is patch/update installs over the [large] beta1 base. 

Kris