This is why I think it to should be an OPTIONAL service... Just like how you can let universities borrow your CPU power while you are afk... I mean heck, it's not being used when you aren't around unless of course you're running servers or services that take up CPU power. Why not do the same for bandwidth? It could be disabled by default and a steam update news can tell you how to turn it on for steam rep. I think steam reputation would be cool... It not only would allow you to find more trusted players by there reputation score but it would allow people to up and down rep you based on what kind of person you are in games. You providing seed power would only be a minor plus to your reputation but would be enough to have some people seeding all the time for hopes of a higher rep. Reputation could be used to see if a player is a trustworthy trader as well. If a player has a lot of negative reputation for trading then people will be more careful and be more worried about getting their items scammed. It would also allow for valve to monitor users better and have a better system for finding scammers or hackers faster then ever.
Just throwing out some ideas... On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Mart-Jan Reeuwijk <mreeu...@yahoo.com>wrote: > Blah. > > You really think your the only one with 30/3 mbps? torrents just go > looking for more hosts with content, and swaps low speed ones for higher > speed ones. > > And anyways, I tho it was stated (long, long ago, valve time you know) > that valve was stepping over to some other download type http or w/e, where > ISP proxies could speed up stuff. CBA to search my mail for it. > > As for its use on Bittorrent, maybe you should learn more about it, for > you clearly have no idea. And I'm not going to waste a explanation to you > about it. But let me say this: If it was implemented, I think the > shell-shock for you will be 2 months after, when you finally find out that > it was the reason why it was faster since that time. And then you will be > blocking outgoing, which will make you go slower with downloading the > content (guess why that is). And then we hear you again complaining about > torrents. > > > > >________________________________ > > From: dan <needa...@ntlworld.com> > >To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list < > hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com> > >Sent: Saturday, 18 February 2012, 23:22 > >Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Full Steam Ahead > > > >On 18/02/2012 20:08, Asher Baker wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 5:39 PM, dan<needa...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > >>> p2p is a waste of time - most end users have download bandwidth more > than > >>> upload and the only reason people started using it is because they are > >>> stealing stuff with it. > >> Yes but there are lots of users, a lot of users with a little upload > >> bandwidth would provide a nice boost alongside Valve's content > >> servers. > >Well no it wouldn't. This is the flaw that people think if they switch > off one lightbulb then all the lightbulbs add up and we save loads of > electricity. > > > >But it doesn't work like that, you just save a tiny bit of electricty > compared with that being used overall. > > > >When I download from steam I'd ideally want 30mbps (60mbps in July) > > > >If my upload speed is 3mbps, then you need 10 people, with connections > similar to mine, to support one download. > > > >So you see, it doesn't work, it's a pyramid scheme. And it doesn't really > "boost" what Valve already has either since I'm getting 30mbps as often as > not from them anyway. > > > >The other reason it doesn't work is because I'm not donating my bandwidth > and neither is my ISP - so I hit caps and filtering and all kinds of other > things designed to make it rubbish. > >(I'm definitely not donating when I'm playing a game for reasons that > should be obvious) > > > >Plus it doesn't scale. You see, if everyone company decides that "p2p" is > some kind of magic free bandwidth they can pinch from their userbase then > my bandwidth will be used several times over, by steam, blizzard, spotify, > google, Uncle Tom Cobley and all. So now which one do I pick? Because this > "boost" is getting smaller and smaller once you stop deciding p2p is great > because you can get crap without paying or the odd linux CD and think about > what Valve's requirements are and how p2p does not fit them. > > > >It would be much better to get ISPs to mirror Valve's content locally. If > there is a problem to solve. > >Personally I downloaded the MW3 free weekend on Thursday without any > problems at all. > >-- Dan > > > >_______________________________________________ > >To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > >https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
