{"id":1255,"date":"2009-08-17T18:57:55","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T00:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2009-08-17T19:53:13","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T01:53:13","slug":"co-the-first-five-million-years-of-patching-were-the-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2009\/08\/co-the-first-five-million-years-of-patching-were-the-worst.html","title":{"rendered":"CO: “The first five million years of patching were the worst …”"},"content":{"rendered":"

“… The second five million years of patching were the worst, also …”
— Marvin, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Champs Online<\/em> <\/p>\n

Got home. Clicked on the FilePlanet link Yay! Unlocked! Downloaded the client\/patcher.<\/p>\n

Login. Um, what was my password again. (Figures out what it got set to.)<\/p>\n

Start the download. <\/p>\n

Margie (doing the same on her machine) suggests this will go really fast because she’s already at 18%. I note that in the CoX world, multiple patches may apply (so to speak).<\/p>\n

Head out to Back to School Night.<\/p>\n

Two hours later …<\/p>\n

Both our patchers have hung up with a disconnect error. I click [Patch]. It seems to start things over again. Mine goes a very short way, then stops.<\/p>\n

I get an email from Lee:<\/p>\n

De said you were downloading the Champs beta. Dunno if you’ve gotten this far yet, but once you’ve got the beta client installed, if you have problems with the patcher, I’ve found that closing the patcher (not cancelling the download, but clicking the red X of the patcher) and then restarting it, makes it chug along. Mine stopped at 9% then 15% then 51%, and each time I close\/open it zips through the previously downloaded file and continues on. <\/p>\n

I take his advice. My client seems to start over again. Though the numbers look different. There seem to be different numbers for Patched vs. Received.<\/p>\n

Margie tries this. She goes 47% to 0.7%. But it’s not the same numbers a I have — “Patched X Mb \/ Y Mb – Received Z Kb – N %.”<\/p>\n

And when it froze again, when I tried the same way, it ended up with a loarger X, a smaller Y, and a much smaller Z, but a larger N.<\/p>\n

(“It’s beta, Dave. It’s beta, Dave, It’s beta, Dave …”)<\/p>\n

Actually, that’s a fair thought. All those pre-orders trying to patch essentially the entire system at once. <\/p>\n

And now stuck at 45%. Or, not, it just paused a bit.<\/p>\n

Margie notes: “I expect this. I just don’t expect dead silence on the boards.” That’d be dead silence from the CO folks, not from the many, many people bitching about the download setup.<\/p>\n

Someone suggested creating a torrent of it, but in one of the few official responses was asked not to post it — because it would removing the testing of the download process. Um, yeah. It would, but … well, unless they’re running around like crazy behind the scenes, then the testing is pretty clearly not very good for today.<\/p>\n

Hey, here’s the official article<\/a>. Sounds like a number of errors (plus load) causing the problems. Though, guys, if you’re going to say something like, “this should take about six hours to clear up,” you might want to put timestamps as well as datestamps on your posts.<\/p>\n

Checking out the forums – lots of very confusing advice, which the above article seems to indicate is now obsolete (as far as moving files around). Waiting for something more officialler that either says, “Stick to it” or “Delete it all and start over again.”<\/p>\n

*sigh*<\/p>\n

Posting this, and moving the narrative to Comments.<\/p>\n

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