TDM changes

[SteeleTrueheart]

The last time I played around with TDM when it first came out, it allowed you to start playing the early parts of the game while it was still downloading in the background.

Has this changed? I do not see the Play button now even though I have downloaded 75% of the files so far.

[smatt]

For active accounts the TDM looks at where all your Characters are, every one on your account. All characters on your account must be parked in areas that have been downloaded. So say the Insiprired Quarter downloads last , I'm ot sure of the exact order, for go with me onthis.... OK, if you have just one character that was in the Inspired Quarter when you looged it out, well then you'll have to wait for that part fo the game to download before it'll allow you to log in to any character onthe account. It seems it wants to be able to read all the locations on all your account characters.

TDM is great for brand new players.... It appears to be working well there... But for people with active accounts..... Nope not worth using it IMO.

[stz]

I thought this had something to do with Team Deathmatch :-)

[SteeleTrueheart]

For active accounts the TDM looks at where all your Characters are, every one on your account. All characters on your account must be parked in areas that have been downloaded. So say the Insiprired Quarter downloads last , I'm ot sure of the exact order, for go with me onthis.... OK, if you have just one character that was in the Inspired Quarter when you looged it out, well then you'll have to wait for that part fo the game to download before it'll allow you to log in to any character onthe account. It seems it wants to be able to read all the locations on all your account characters.

TDM is great for brand new players.... It appears to be working well there... But for people with active accounts..... Nope not worth using it IMO.

IIRC In no part of the download process have I had to input my account details. Unless it read it from my forum account when initially downloading it, which would seem ********.

[chubbs99]

When I came back to DDO during the EU launch i used the TDM, it downloaded character creation, and "noob island" first, then the rest of the game. As soon as Korthos had finished downloading I got a play now button that launched the game and allowed me to make a character and play with my friends on Snowy side korthos.

Since then I noticed TDM lagging my laptop, running turbine process when TDM wasn't even running (that would restart when I killed them, and they were taking 10k+ mem each.) so I uninstalled it... and a word of advice... don't do that... it cripples the game, you have to re-download and install the "old school" client, atleast there wasn't much patching that needed to be done. But atleast my system lag is gone

As for if they allowed "early access" before the game finished downloading... I don't know, i don't see why they would, Character creation, and snowy korthos seem to be 'seperate' from the game to a degree anyways.

[TechNoFear]

Has this changed? I do not see the Play button now even though I have downloaded 75% of the files so far.

Could be worse, you could have -713% downloaded...

http://www.eldergame.com/2010/01/sid...ave-no-polish/

[smatt]

IIRC In no part of the download process have I had to input my account details. Unless it read it from my forum account when initially downloading it, which would seem ********.

Oh it knows who you are ...... Anything and everything Turbine is linked... Think IP, shared files etc.

[SteeleTrueheart]

Oh it knows who you are ...... Anything and everything Turbine is linked... Think IP, shared files etc.

I think you may be right. When I first opened it after download was finished it already had my account name in the login field. :0