ID Games Torrent

[Macro11_1]

I am not sure if this idea has ever been discussed... but has any one considered making a torrent of Doom wads/mods or something?

[Vermil]

Doomsday uses torrents for it's model pack mods and the like.

But most Doom wads/mods are small enough that a torrent isn't needed.

[Macro11_1]

no im not talking individual files, I am talking something like a years worth of wads and mods.... from the ID Archive.

[Graf Zahl]

Get an FTP manager and download it all. Even with a mediocre connection you shouldn't need more than a day for it.

I can't see any potential use for a torrent here. After all the files are already hosted on multiple reliable servers around the world.

[Macro11_1]

Guess that makes sense. I do not know how big the archives data actually is.

And won't that just increase the cost of hosting the archives if some one were to just download the whole thing? I was just thinking a torrent would alleviate that by allowing people to download chunks of it while hosting it? *shrugs*

[edit]

thanks for the replies.

[Kira]

How much does it weight BTW? Doing backups is tempting.

[printz]

Not to mention that I'm forbidden from using P2P here.

Also, /idgames grows by each week; your download of /idgames will get outdated quickly.

[GreyGhost]

Macro11_1 said:

I am not sure if this idea has ever been discussed...

I seem to recall someone (can't recall who) suggesting last year that /idgames should be made available on commercial file-sharing sites as a one-file download. :D

K!r4 said:

How much does it weight BTW? Doing backups is tempting.

Around 30GB (that's not counting /idgames2), a bit more than two-thirds of which is in /idstuff.

[ReFracture]

It would be awfully tempting to have a full copy of the archives. You could fit that on just a couple blu ray disks.

[printz]

And without /idstuff, you could fit it in a flash stick.

[Macro11_1]

Well what about having a yearly torrent? as in something that contains all the wads + mods uploaded for that year?

I mean there would be some file redundancy, but if you keep the same structure, then when you download the new year, all the updated files should replace their old counterparts...

[GreyGhost]

Macro11_1 said:

Well what about having a yearly torrent? as in something that contains all the wads + mods uploaded for that year?

Might be feasible, here's a rough year by year breakdown of the archive - once again excluding /idstuff.

1994 - 165.9MB
1995 - 376.8MB
1996 - 447.7MB
1997 - 333.4MB
1998 - 201.8MB
1999 - 136.1MB
2000 - 222.7MB
2001 - 166.7MB
2002 - 145.2MB
2003 - 239.0MB
2004 - 677.2MB
2005 - 456.2MB
2006 - 689.7MB
2007 - 602.9MB
2008 - 738.1MB
2009 - 1.183GB
2010 - 1,012MB
2011 - 1.206GB