Please Sticky: How to speed up CK MPlayer Games

[Sid Meier]

Usually in any large multiplayer game of Crusader King's that even organized weeks in advance still takes up to 30 minutes minimum to stat past the official start date and in addition to this once you make at least 50-100 years headway into the game the save files get to around 15-20 megabytes in size, downloading such saves can take 5-10 minutes and be ruined if a random VNetter joins in (CK & EU2 Should have a Hoi2 password system).

However I have a solution that once everyone gets used to will infact speed up the game by 10 minutes at the least. Simply use winrar and compress the 20 MB save file as step one.

While compress? Because the save file is interestingly enough 100% text and with winrar can compress 99%. So 20,000,000 byte file becomes a 2,000,000 byte file in moments.

Then find a 2-5 MB limit FTP server you can upload to.

Upload the file and pass out the link to your buddies.

And voila everyone downloads it 5 mins before the game starts and you can once everyone arrives jump right into the game.

And should everyone crash? Well assuming the host saved, rinse and repeat, takes only 2-5 minutes for everyone to have the save rdy compared to the previous 10 minutes not counting the random errors that happen like random ppl joining.

I Hope this helps.

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[Lurken]

Sounds like a good one. BUt there are also easier ways.

1. Purging the save now and then will reduce the size of the save.

2. Why starting the game in CK? If CKMP starts in a non-CK like Two Thrones the random Vnetter problem is gone.

3. Join the game by IP.

 

[Sid Meier]

maybe they all work but the ridiculas size of the save file im sur eis the #1 reason for delays, esp since it kinda takes a wee bit of time I think to purge it of unncessasary data.

 

[Lurken]

There are a couple of CK-purgin applications, that do all that for you. I would recommend it, atleast try it.

 

[Swuul]

Definitively use purge for large files. You need to use purge only once after a session, not every time you rehost (and not necessarily even after every session). Will take much les time than uploading to a ftp site, not to mention much less hassle too

 

[Sid Meier]

I couldnt find a working link to ck purge.