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Tim Ashworth
School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State
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Posted - 2015.04.23 05:25:01 -
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Hi i just started playing tonight and i was wondering how much data the game uses while im playing... i have a data cap on my internet so i dont want to end up using too much and paying for it... anyone know how much data per hour EVE usually eats up?
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Chainsaw Plankton
IDLE GUNS IDLE EMPIRE
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Posted - 2015.04.23 05:37:13 -
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almost nothing
press ctrl+shift+alt+m (i think?) to bring up the monitor in game and it tells you all sorts of things. mostly just have to watch out for patches. a lot of the network code was written for 10+ years ago.
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Elena Thiesant
Sun Micro Systems
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Posted - 2015.04.23 06:36:59 -
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Very, very little.
I play EVE 3-4 hours most days from a connection that has a 2GB/month cap and I don't come close to hitting it if I'm just playing EVE (the major releases have to be installed from somewhere else though) |
Xylem Viliana
Protomonolithic
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Posted - 2015.04.23 09:58:37 -
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Long ago I asked this question to CCP
The answer was basically "not much but impossible to estimate" this is due to the tie between what you do ingame and the usage, the mosr you do etc the higher the use however EvE is not heavy use at all, even if you are online 23.5 hours a day in fleet battles. |
Tim Ashworth
School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State
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Posted - 2015.04.23 12:20:47 -
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Thanks for the help guys. I downloaded it at my girlfriends house so i wouldnt use my data... ill just do that for updates and i should be good to go.
thanks again |
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises Vote Steve Ronuken for CSM
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Posted - 2015.04.23 12:56:11 -
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Tim Ashworth wrote:Thanks for the help guys. I downloaded it at my girlfriends house so i wouldnt use my data... ill just do that for updates and i should be good to go.
thanks again
Just make sure that you have download on demand set to download everything, while you're connected at your GF's house.
You may also want to set up a sisi client, using the same shared cache and update that there semi regularly. (as when things go live, they'll be using the same graphics as were used on sisi (mostly) and you've already downloaded them)
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Mr Mac
Dark Goliath
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Posted - 2015.04.23 14:00:19 -
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Playing in EVE w/o downloads 5-7MB per hour
EDIT: without Voice Chat btw |
Mr Mac
Dark Goliath
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Posted - 2015.04.23 14:02:14 -
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Mr Mac wrote:Playing in EVE w/o downloads 5-7MB per hour
Might be bit more if flying in big fleet |
Eli Stan
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.04.23 14:22:56 -
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Mr Mac wrote:Playing in EVE w/o downloads 5-7MB per hour
EDIT: without Voice Chat btw
That's similar to what I've seen when I've looked at my utilization. (Specifically, 6.3 MB/hr. And that's with EVE Voice.) Which means, OP, if you play 8 hours a day for 30 days, you'll use up 1.2 to 1.8 GB of data.
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Tim Ashworth
School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State
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Posted - 2015.04.23 22:47:53 -
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Steve Ronuken wrote:Tim Ashworth wrote:Thanks for the help guys. I downloaded it at my girlfriends house so i wouldnt use my data... ill just do that for updates and i should be good to go.
thanks again Just make sure that you have download on demand set to download everything, while you're connected at your GF's house. You may also want to set up a sisi client, using the same shared cache and update that there semi regularly. (as when things go live, they'll be using the same graphics as were used on sisi (mostly) and you've already downloaded them)
yea definetly need to go do that... i used half a gig last night in an hour and a half lol didnt know about the on demand download thing. ive got it all sorted out now though and all is good. i can totally deal with 5-10mb an hour no problem... so ill be seeing you all out there sometime im sure :)
thanks again for all the help guys |
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Sabriz Adoudel
Glorious Revolutionary Armed Forces of Highsec CODE.
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Posted - 2015.04.24 00:43:52 -
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Yeah the download on demand system will be a killer.
Basically there's an upfront ~8GB download then the ~10MB/hr rates mentioned before.
But download on demand will spread that 8GB over a considerable amount of time.
Shoot everyone. Let the Saviour sort it out.
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Hasikan Miallok
Republic University Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2015.04.24 04:38:45 -
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On the plus side EVE does not distribute stuff by bit torrent so you will not be getting hit for uploads the way you can with games like WoW. |
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