how much mega bytes are consumed in a single PA match?

Discussion in 'Planetary Annihilation General Discussion' started by melhem19, November 27, 2013.

  1. melhem19

    melhem19 Active Member

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    i am wondering how much MB are used in a single PA match, and what is the best internet specs to play online?
    my internet speed is 250mbps(max)
  2. BulletMagnet

    BulletMagnet Post Master General

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    How long is a piece of string?

    Basically, it varies. The bigger the game, the more bandwidth you'll need. What sort of size game are you likely to play the most?
  3. igorantunov

    igorantunov New Member

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    My internet speed is 3mbps down, 1mbps up and it's fine.
  4. melhem19

    melhem19 Active Member

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    I would play planetary Annihilation , that is when I buy it
  5. popededi

    popededi Well-Known Member

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    I have around 6meg down and 2 up.

    When I bought the game about a month ago, I could very rarely play a game, as the connection was horrible.

    Uber did a great many updates since then, and they have improved and optimised so much on the process, that currently I can easily play a 3-4 planet match against several AIs, the only time I experience a slowdown is when i let the AI reign supreme on a planet and it fills it with lots and lots of units.
  6. melhem19

    melhem19 Active Member

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    my question is about online gameplay, not offline gameplay
  7. cmdandy

    cmdandy Active Member

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    Everything at the moment is online game play. You have to connect to the servers to play AI.
  8. melhem19

    melhem19 Active Member

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    well i am not going to buy the beta, i am going to either pre-order the retail before the game launch or buy the retail after launch
  9. cmdandy

    cmdandy Active Member

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    ...ok. You asked about online game play (connection requirements). Thats exactly what Popededi told you. A game against the AI now, will be like a game against people at release (connection wise). You currently have to connect to the uber servers to play AI at the moment, as you will have to with people at release (unless you run on LAN).
  10. SXX

    SXX Post Master General

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    Not sure what connection speed you mean, can you try to check it here?
    http://www.speedtest.net/

    And post results.
  11. melhem19

    melhem19 Active Member

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    its seems my download speed is
    Ping: 8 ms
    download 42.14 mbps
    upload 1.94 mbps
    those are the approximate how fast is my internet
  12. SXX

    SXX Post Master General

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    It's actually more than enough for PA. Do you have limited bandwidth or why exactly you created this topic?
  13. melhem19

    melhem19 Active Member

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    well yes, if limit is exceeded the connect will become terrible
    i think the limit is 4 GB per month
  14. SXX

    SXX Post Master General

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    This is sad. I'm not totally sure about current PA bandwidth usage, but most likely it's use at least 200-300MB of bandwidth per hour.
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    ace63 Post Master General

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    Somewhere they said they target ~1 mbps downstream per client after optimizations.
  16. melhem19

    melhem19 Active Member

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    my uncle just confirmed to me that the limit is not 4GB , it is actually 15GB
    it seem i have a chance of play PA online, once i get it
  17. blazz17

    blazz17 New Member

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    Honestly, I've had this game for 3 days and I've played roughly 8 AI matches and 3 multiplayer matches running at 54mbps and its chewed through my bandwidth at stupid speeds! mostly as a game can last a very long time and you have 2-8 people average unless its a tournament. But still i think you would blow through that 15gig limit within days, maybe hours depending on the games you play.
  18. tatsujb

    tatsujb Post Master General

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    Entire cereal bowls!!! for lunch too!
    you should have enough in my opinion though careful not to torrent!
  19. ace63

    ace63 Post Master General

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    There are still optimizations to come. 15gig however sounds like close to nothing these days. Even with 1 mbps you'll be through this relatively quickly. No alternative providers for you?
  20. melhem19

    melhem19 Active Member

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    I don't care about this thread anymore
    I now have PA on my computer
    And I had already played a couple of matches against both human players and the AI.

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