jacksbi wanted me to post this, if the staff dont agree with it, feel free to do what you wish.
Simple version:
Just seed and the system does the rest (this is if you cant be bothered to read the rest lol)
More complicated version:
Every torrent apart from recycled torrents (will get to those later) have a 20:1 seeder leecher ratio, this basically means if the seeder-leecher ratio is less than 20:1 you do not get SP on that torrent, until there is more than a 20:1 ratio.
50 seeders - 2 leechers = yes you will get it as it is 25:1
50 seeders - 5 leechers = no you wont get it as the ratio is 10:1
The idea behind this is that the seeders will not limit their upload, as they will want the leecher to finish ASAP, so they can carry on getting SP, so the leecher gets it quicker, its a win win situation.
Torrents under 800meg in size, have a 1.5 days wait time to start SP
Torrents above 800meg in size have a 3 days wait time to start SP.
1 SP is equivilant to 100meg, so a 4 gig torrent will have a 40 SP cost.
The minimum SP cost is 8, even if its a 1meg patch, the min is still 8.
Now some scenarios. (rememebr you already have the game, you can play it, its not like normal wait times, where you cant even download what you want until the wait time is over)
700meg game = 1.5 days wait time, then 8 SP. so if you upload 0 on it, you will have to seed the torrent for 36 + 8 = 42 hours
4 gig torrent = 3 days wait time then 40 SP so if you upload 0 on it you will have to seed it for 72 hours + 40 hours = 112 hours.
But lets say you manage to upload 2 gig on that torrent. the cost will will come down to 20 so the time will be 72 hours + 20 hours = 92 hours, same as if you upload 3 gig 82 hours.
remember 0.8 and under is a hit and run, so if you seed properly to a 0.8 ratio per torrent, you can stop it, but a lot of members like a clean history, so they go the extra mile.
Once SP meets cost, the ratio for that torrent will turn into 1:1 so 4 gig-4gig even if you did not manage to upload a byte on it, as long as you try we reward you, and if you limit your upload, with the 20:1 ratio i explained above, it will take you even longer to earn SP.
You can seed 999 torrents at once, and still get SP, also 10 torrents at a time get SP.
so you download 10 4 gig torrents, each one will take 112 hours, so in 112 hours all 10 will have leveled to a 1:1 ratio, it wont take you 1112 hours for the 10 torrents.
Donors do get bonuses to all of the above, but i wont go into that here.
Recycled Torrents:
These are download free. they also have the 20:1 ratio removed, and have 0 wait time, whatever the size.
If you download one of these, and you get SP on it to cost, the download you done, gets taken off your ratio, but you keep whatever you uploaded (you do not get the SP upload, just whatever you physically uploaded). The download is still on the actual torrent in your history, for your achievement table, but it does come off your ratio.
If you upload properly over the 1:1, then the download Does Not
come off your ratio.
hope this is easy to understand, and its taken me ages to write lol
any questions just ask and i will try to help.
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