Seed files without been compressed

[DrWise]

I ve noticed that one main reason that some guy leech and leave is that they have deleted the downloaded files : in fact to play a game, if the files are archived, you need to extract them. So there will be 2 of them : one for seeding (archives), and the other for playing (extracted ones).
But most of people would delete the archive because of disk space problem.

So why not just seeding directly the files so we could at the same time play/watch and seed.

[SerialD]

sorry if anybody saw my previous post. it was really stupid of me since most of the new downloaded torrents were packed well and i only saw the past large files from the old tracker which is down. well the new tracker is pretty much down too anyway...

[pangsit]

Actually the disk space problem can be lessened by deleting the images while keeping the archives. Just uncompress one game that you want to play and keep the rest in the archives. Also those archives can be seeded that way.

This may be a biased opinion from someone who has low speed connection... in my opinion, seeding an uncompressed file is a waste of bandwidth, you can distribute to more people with the same bandwidth if the file is compressed.

Well, of course, all goes back to the original seeder though, but if the seeder decides to compress the file(s), how about making a multipart archives, sized maybe 699-700MB each part? For someone like SerialD and me, it would mean we can keep the original files and can be reseeders later on.

[DrWise]

Maybe you are right, but i ve noticed that the well-seeded ones are the uncompressed ones.
Maybe not all the people think the same way... some like to play many games at the same time (like me)...

Another advantage of seeding the uncompressed files is anyone can reseed easily if asked.

[jsnut]

Seeding image files directly also has another disadvantage besides larger size. If you find out the files you download are damaged (rarely happen but it's possible), you have no choice other than downloading them again. But if the files are archived files with recovery record, i.e. rar files, repairing them is possible.

[pangsit]

Maybe you are right, but i ve noticed that the well-seeded ones are the uncompressed ones.
Maybe not all the people think the same way... some like to play many games at the same time (like me)...I do install and keep images of many games, but when I'm low on space, I delete the images and keep the archives. Keeping the archives has more advantage: if you want to burn the game(s) to a dvd/cds, burning the archives will save space and also money. If you delete the archives and keep the images and then one day you decide to burn them to a dvd/cds while trying to save space, you'll be forced to re-compress the images and waste time.