Post "Rakshakin Headhunters (and Djinni!) - October '20" by "ArtisanGuild" from patreon

Deadmilkman

Damn I missed the supported models on this release I have the unsupported any way I can get those supported models with out buying them on my mini :( your supports save me tons of time

Tribun Publio

same

Monty

Ditto, it happens often with me, I have to keep coming back to check if I can download, and I'd say about half of the time I can't, which means I miss out on a lot of sets and have to pay full price for them later. Sucks, but it is what it is.

Kurtis Speer

Same

Nick Duts

Same :(

AlfänReplay .

I have the same issue :/

Artisan Guild

Thank you for the feedbacks! MMF just launched a beta version of our future delivering system, we are testing it with the first 3 releases in chronological order. If it works as intended and the Bundles are saved in your libary, then at the end of the month we will always send them the final Patrons list :)

Dani Barbosa

I was unable to download the files during the month of October and now the links are not there anymore. Is there anything I can do for this?

Ryan S Kearns

Im a little upset about the file hosting situation. I have had issues with SYNC from the very start of my Artisans Guild subscription; I would download file folders or zip compressions and find out after the fact that the website had just dropped files and so i wasnt getting complete sets. I found missing hands, weapons, even some full models and so I got into the *extremely* tedious habit of downloading all of the files individually so I could make sure I wasnt missing anything that I could never download again without paying for it twice. Now this month there are ONLY compressed zip folders available for download and I not only dont have a guarantee that Im getting everything I paid for, but im fully expecting that to be the case. If youre not going to host these files on a better service then please put up the individual stl files so I can at least control the issues.

BrazenVoid

Same. Nothing but issues all week. Got an email that goes nowhere and none of these links work. First month of trouble.

Ron Sago

I got an email with a Sync link in it, since MyAirBridge auto-expires after 30 days. I'm currently stuck in in Sync DL hell.

Clayton Keller

I am also trying to find out where I can download the October release. Loved the look of it but was only just now able to afford the subscription. Is there any way to get it still?

Nathaniel Glass

Also trying to find the link. I always download at the end of the month?

Charlotte Heilling

I'm really confused by this post. Is this not this month's set? where is the link for it? I haven't been able to get to this one sooner or i'd have asked then....

Incandescent Dragon Creations

hope you add them to MMF soon. many of the other patreons I back do and it is so much easier.

Solaaris

Cab you not award them in MMF like other creators do? I have nothing but issues with SYNC :(

Joey

I really like this release. I am fitting it into my army nicely. Printing the Cav mounts now for my undead monster mounts. I am sure you get tons of requests, but it Sure would be sweet if you did an Undead release one of these months. Skeletons are my Favorite army type Thanks again for all the work, I am still fairly new to 3D printing, your stuff is awesome

Cryda the Incredible

Is anyone else getting an error message on sync "8052 This user has been placed on accounting hold"?

tbossche

I didn't need to enter a code to download this month's release, not sure if that was intended or not - but very fast and simple process. Much better performance than sync. Weird UI, odd file naming when zipping, but all in all better.

Eric Kunze

the artisan collection code doesnt seem to work anymore

Drake Collins

Oh man, Airbridge was so easy to use. I finally got my files instead of missing out again because I couldn't get the download to work.

Artisan Guild

hello Anton! We had dropbox. But even on the best premium plan it couldn't give us enough traffic. Basically every few thousand downloads our account would be blocked for 24 hours, definitely something we had to get rid. Same for most of the other services. Traffic unlimited services we found are actually Sync and MyAirBridge, wich is probably the most expensive (but it works and we don't get banned lol)

John C.

Air Bridge seems pretty good, just as others stated do not like jumble name. BUT I copied the name from the sync to paste over the name from there

Anton von Leski

That's not meant badly, but the same problem every month, downloading almost all folders separately. Why not just a link for a real Dropbox. Yes it costs over 2GB money, but it saves a lot. and the 2tb variant even has a password function ...

Rodrigo Cruz

Same

Adrien Laroze

Is not working for me too

Adam M

Gotcha, tks

darthweezy

FYI, ARTISANCOLLECTION is not working for me for a 30% discount on previous months. Anyone else having this issue?

Greg Kourakos

Let me know your settings and what fails you are getting, files are tested on 3 different printers, so you can call "bullshit" but honestly the issue is with your settings not the supports. I'm more than happy to help you get the proper results though!

Greg Kourakos

if there's a left and right of the same weapon and they are mirrored onyi one gets a chitbuox version the other gets a mirrored stl

Miles Lewis

Dude, you would not believe. So many models in this set need extra supports. Greg insists they are "heavier" than previous releases but I am calling bullshit. Really hope this get corrected for future.

Adam M

Couple of the Riders are missing chitubox files for their weapons... should I be looking at the standalone folder for them?

Koal

@matt the claw with the skulls on it is the one that needs to be mirrored.

Koal

@glitterwolf there are no unsupported islands, the standard supports just ended up not being strong enough with what i am using i guess. I ended up repositioning the model and re-supporting it.

Matt

Tail printed just fine for me. My only issue is, I seem to have both claws as wanting to be on the left side. I will have to mirror one, but which one?

Glitterwolf

Even with presupported files always check for islands and add extra supports where needed.

Koal

Is anyone else having issues printing the scorpid king tail? I have use the pre-supported model twice, and both times the section before the last gets smashed, like it isnt well supported enough. the entire tail prints fine, except the section before the tip of the tail.

Andre Fowler

Maybe you should explore offering 2 tiers with tier A costing an extra $2 and being released at the start of the month and tier B costing $2 less and starting 1-2 weeks later. Both tiers running for 4 weeks from their respective start date.

Carlos Salazar

Airbridge seems pretty smooth. The two criticism I have for it are: the jumbled name, not sure if i can just download part of it (i like to just take the pre supported files).

Apocrypta

Didn't have to input a password and I don't think that that works as intended. Also I really don't like the random jumbled name the zip has when downloading the files. As someone who has a messy downloadfolder with many random zips for drivers ect this is a bit annoying. I will also say that I think I never had trouble with the download from Sync. The problem was the calculation of the zipping.

MBT Play Madolche

Yeah, it's completely better than sync. Just going to use MyAirBridge from now on.

Sara DeWitt

Airbridge worked well. Did not ask for a password.

Artisan Guild

Have you troed with MyAirBridge? It's much quicker at making zips :)

Laurent Maedh

MAB worked just fine for me. :)

Joseph Browne

Airbridge worked well but did not ask for a password

Scott Van Scheik

Oddly with the airbridge link. I don't think I had to put in a password.

MBT Play Madolche

You should provide pre-zipped files of each of the support and non-support folders so that sync doesn't have to zip them which takes forever and often fails.

Threee

MyAirBridge isn't asking for a password currently

Jorge Luis Aragón Martínez

MyAirBridge will not work if I am on VPN. Had to remove VPN connection before accessing the site. There was no password requested. File downloaded properly with an "myairbridge - xXXXX" file name.

MrWho

Check your Patron-only posts, it should be there.

new member here, I cant find the 30% discount code, am I not looking in the right place?

Jupp3

Downloaded without issues from MyAirBridge. Finally! One idea, as there often are some errors each month, that are corrected later on (which is fine), how about creating a new "update" archives, that have same paths and filenames as the full releases, and contain only files that were actually changed? So that you can unextract it over the full release, and have broken models fixed. If there's another error spotted later, add the new AND old changes, so that we can always "patch" any older release.

Jupp3

> At the moment we removed Zips as it seems that both Sync and MyAirBridges can do that automatically Well, sync "can" do that, but like with downloading big files, this is one thing, where it seemed to get stuck forever randomly.

Matthew Bane

I tried MyAirBridge this time. The Zip downloaded pretty quickly, I was impressed. However it did not ask for the password...

Dr.V

MyAirBridge worked AFTER I disabled script/ad blockers, just in case anyone else has that issue. Also did not ask for a password.

Jeremiah Sells

The MyAirBridge download was flawless! Thanks!

Jeffrey Everets

AirBridge worked great but I always wait to download the files.... in fact I think the 5th is the earliest I've ever pull down a set. Just wanted to try the new system. :-) Keep up the great work.

Productions Diratia

Had the same problem!

Mordaga

Successfully downloaded the set from MyAirBridge. I was not prompted for a password.

Sebastian Spandl

Dunno if anybody else has tried this yet, but the Chitubox-presupported right Claw of the Scorpion King is another left Claw (altho it is the design of the right one)!!!! don't be as dumb as me and only realize when it's already printed! :D It needs to be mirrored - I guess something went wrong there during presupporting.

Jeremy Grandclaudon

Yep, MyAirBridge is working really well. It's a shame for MyminiFactory, it's really easy to have all the files at the same place, ready to be downloaded if needed.

Tom Boucher

FYI: MyAirBridge worked today, but didn't ask me for a password.

Ian Wilson

I was one of the ones that sync was not working for. i was able to use my airbridge with no problems. so thank you artisan guild for offering multiple solutions.

Beer Gnome

I have probably the slowest connection of your Patrons, with my best speed at 11mbps and usual around 3-5. Sending telegraph messages is faster. I had managed to, after a couple dozen tries, get Sync to work. That said I tested this to see how it work and to let you know. Simply put, MyAirBridge worked better than anything else I have tried or used with other Patreons. It took 30 minutes to download the 2+GB file with no errors and my family of 5 using the same connection at the same time. That is not a complaint, that is amazing! Thank you for supplying this service. Not that I wasn't before, but I am now 100% an Artisan Guild fan. If you ever need help testing services let me know. My connection should be a good stress test.

Christian Geißler

I also tried myairbridge. Was quite fast and no password required.

Radoslaw

Maybe stupid question but why Princess Thamin don't has the tail ?

Bierbart

I downloaded with myairbridge. No passwordrequest; zip-file loaded easy.

Rob Leonard

Same experience with me...NO password prompt, but downloaded pretty quickly.

CG

Airbridge didnt work yesterday, worked perfectly now. I second a solution with MMF is the way, and that Titanforge have gotten the full service you guys lack... (your models are way better though ;) )

Pete

Titanforge just release them on myminifactory.com pretty much everything I ever got from them is there in my library, super handy.

Jason Moore

I used MyAirBridge - it didn't ask me for a password though? But downloading everything in one go, super quick, flawless!

Ian R Moriearty

MyAirBridge doesn't allow download, just repeats the password prompt

Fedor

I can't get MAB past the password prompt. It just loops on the password dialog forever.

Vaughn allen

also couldn't get MAB working, happily sync isnt fighting me today

Tom Boucher

another file suggestion is itch.io Ritual Casting started using them this last go round and it worked great, they're a video game distribution focused service, maybe they're better built for giant files. Weird how myminifactory ghosted you especially since they're working with Titan Forge

Tom Boucher

tried myairbridge, no joy. firefox on windows 10.

Dave G

Add me to the MAB list of people who can't get it working.

Aaron Russo

I am unable to download anything from MAB and sync takes what seems like hours to even allow me to download files. I didn't even have a chance to download the kobold set due to it's horrible performance (Just sits at "calculating size, please wait".

Stephan Steup

Same here, MAB not accepting my Password (copied or entered)

Morden

As many others have reported, the password isn't accepted by MyAirBridge.

MiniJunkie

Password isn't working on AirBridge (Chrome, latest ver).

Sam Booker

MAB won't take my password right now but sync went through super fast now that I've waited a couple days for the rush to die down.

Max Magana

I'm also having this problem. I'm using Firefox.

Octavio Carlo

lmfao... at least now sync is working for me

Andrew McGregor

Yep. No joy with pastor on AirBridge - using Safari on MacOS for reference.

Maeyanie

Yeah, MAB not working here either. Rejects the password. Tried copy-pasting it into different program first to make sure it didn't have any spaces (it didn't), tried typing it in manually, tried a different browser, nothing worked.

Rebecca Moore

Also getting an issue from MyAir Bridge, tried on firefox and chrome, copied the password and typed it out, disabled my script blocker, disabled my ad blocker, nothing seems to be working. Disappointing because I have also been having a lot of trouble downloading from sync the last few months.

Mike Martin

SAME

JackyFoxboot

also getting the password issue with MyAirBridge

Octavio Carlo

I'm having the same problem

AaronA

MyAirBridge wouldn't take the password, so I couldn't download from there.

Casey Geyer

Same Airbridge wont take the password

Dennis Pohl

no problem. things happen =)

Erik Watts

Apparently my computer is the only one that dislikes Airbridge. I'm copying the password with no spaces and it still wont open.

Logician

Airbridge worked very well. Downloaded all 4gigs in a few minutes. I don't mind unzipping and deleting the stuff I didn't want such as the unsupported files. It still much better and quicker than trying to use sync

Christian Savarda

MyAirBridge was a vastly superior method of downloading compared to Sync. Thanks!

Leif Hedstrom

Agreed, this is vastly superior to Sync. I'd probably say this is also easier and better than MyMiniFactory, if it's viable from a cost basis, I'd say stick with MyAirBridge for now at least. The download speed was superb, almost using up my entire 1Gbps link :).

Charles Feduke

As far as I can tell there doesn't seem to be a way to download just a single file from AirBridge - it wants to zip and send it all, or send each file individually through multiple downloads. Basically 4.35 GB instead of the 1.2GB for the pre-supported zip by itself. At least that's what I determined from their UI - which sort of lets me select a single file but then only gives me the option to download the folder as a zip or individual files. Maybe placing the zip into its own folder would work, since AirBridge has this concept of "download the folder, not the file" apparently.

Artisan Guild

thanks! We kept both online as some people prefer to download a single zip at time, or the unzipped folder : )

Geert Bevin

MyAirBridge worked perfectly!

Andy Bradbury

MyAirbridge was a good fast download. Although I had to allow the webpage to store local files before seeing the download buttons. I hope you get somewhere with MMF as, to be honest, I wouldn't actually download everything every month if it wasn't removed.

Robert McDermott

Thanks for the quick fix. MyAirBridge worked well and was a very fast download.

James Weaver

To clarify, that was with the download zip option.

James Weaver

I just used airbridge and it downloaded everything fine. It downloaded a bit too much. It has both zipped and unzipped versions. Which is fine, I can delete. I am just pointing it out.

DungeonTokens

Wish I'd seen this before printing everything!

Greg Kourakos

sorry will check it\

Aviad Madar

Worked like a charm!

Dennis Pohl

the R_claw from the scorpion in presupported folder has to be mirrored ..... figured it out after printing that this claw is inverted..... not complaining....just as an info to others =)

Grimwoody

✊💦

Matt

Pretty sure they were suggesting that downloading all the files on day one is unnecessary. The files are available for a month, and don't vanish from your hard drive. Waiting a few days won't slow people down too much.

Lester Ward

If you published a read-only Resilio Sync link, I would certainly use it and keep it running. If enough people did the same, you'd have distributed downloads that didn't rely on a central downloading service at all.

Ron Staton

Open the individual folder and click download all. You'll get a zip file for each folder. I was able to get them all one folder at a time.

Joshua braff

I delete the chitubox anyway, so this is a great idea

Lisa Kellogg

Glad I am not the only one here then because I have been trying for two days now and haven't gotten anywhere all my other patreons give me one file at a time option. and it is a pain to do it that way but it works.

Joshua braff

Yeah, we are all trying to download the files at once, so it maxes at 1MB a second download due to bandwidth. So...maybe a few people have gotten the files. But it will continuously fail for most of us.

Jonathan Roy Marois

You are not missing something. They put the .zip in there containing all of the files, which makes it impossible for us to simply download each folder individually (which seems to be the only way to download from Sync imo).

Lisa Kellogg

As much as I hate downloading the files one at time I will do what I have to do but I cannot do this here their is no way that I have figured out to download them one at a time am I missing something ?

Ron Staton

Can you please break them up in to individual zip files? Maybe then I might actually get one....

Benjamin Engl

Have you even read the whole post?

Benjamin Engl

goodbye

Benjamin Engl

they are trying...read the post before writing....and this is patreon, you support artists: so be supportive, not toxic

Benjamin Engl

How about everyone just read the whole post before complaining? They stated (and not for the first time) that they are working on a solution with myminifactory for the future downloads. They already try to do, what most of you are proposing. Stuff takes time. You don´t have time to restart a sync download? Guess what: They do try to find a solution. At the same time, they model a complete, totally awesome set of 3d models for next month. Plus taking the time to make additional stuff, like cavalry models, or presupported old releases.

Leif Hedstrom

Well, I don't know how much you are paying for the Sync services, but you could easily get a dedicated server somewhere, with a 1Gbps unlimited bandwidth, and host all this yourself. Or, contact one of the many CDN services, such as Fastly, CloudFlare etc., and see how much it'd cost (you can easily calculate the download costs based on subscribers multiplied by file size). But a CDN would likely cost you about $0.20 / full download (maybe that's too much, but it'd be the best user experience).

Levi Brooks

I honestly haven't had any issues downloading from you guys or the other 7 patreons I have through Sync. Someone told me if it doesn't start up in a few seconds of clicking the link to try again. It works! It only takes a few clicks. As for the speed of the download, it's no different from MMF or Google drive. I have a 1tb connection and it's all the same.

James McCoy

Honestly, a password protected fileshare site is a pretty easy and cost-effective solution that could be stood in a public cloud like AWS. It would scale with demand and even provide caching capabilities to assist in download speeds to patrons in various geographic locations. This would provide a much better day one experience for patrons who may be frustrated by the performance of sync which clearly is also not equipped to handle your level of traffic. Just some food for thought from someone who works in the cloud-computing industry.

Turius Münsterius

@Restlessded Probavly you missunderstood me... what you mentioned is exactly the reason why I don't rush. I cannot print nor paint every day 😭... so same as you 😏

Restlessded

This would be great if I was able to print every day of every month and didn't end before the end of the month. Not everyone is in your situation, or in any situation you might be able to comprehend, so don't assume we are all in the same place as you and can print every day of every month. TIA

Logician

presupported zip gets to .9gb then starts over.

Milo_Jones

The dropbox link doesnt seem to be working :(

Zachary Rucker

Second that. I would only ever download one of those, if that was an option, making it even easier on the bandwidth.

Christian Savarda

Peer to peer would really help immensely.

jack thompson

I hadn't noticed that actually thanks. I'll make sure I remember haha.

John Pope

Might I suggest splitting the pre-supported zip files into "STL" and "Chitubox" folders, so that the download for each is much smaller. I realise this a labour, but the combined files are 2x the size of the unsupported zip, and given the problems with downloads, perhaps more people downloading 600Mb instead of 1.2Gb would be a help?

Adam Portman

If you haven't noticed, the presupported right claw needs to be mirrored on the Y axis to fit the body right. The left claw doesn't seem to have the same issue.

Adam Portman

FYI: The Presupported Scorpid Right Claw needs to be mirrored on the Y axis to fit correctly on the model. The unsupported model has the correct orientation for the body. Check for yourself before printing!

Matthias Schobloch

When I've understood it correctly, the "Titan Forge"-Deal with MMF is what AG want too. I think the MMF is testing the system with Titan Forge and when it works fine, it'll be offered to other patreons.

Christian Carbone

small note: the Scorpid_King (Hallowed) (Supported) stl file is also the saddled version. if you want the no saddle printable body then use the chitubox file and make the stl.

Michael Conway

No worries I can wait it out. Thank you for the insight into why this keeps happening, it makes complete sense. Have you considered doing something similar to what Titan Forge is beta testing? They are just file releasing directly through MMF and so far its been pretty good. I am in no way telling to "do it like the other guy" but I imagine that your issue with SYNC was the same as theirs and that is why they decided to drop their file transfer system and use MMF instead. Keep up the good work and thank you for all the wonderful miniatures.

Berni Mjölnyr

Modular cavalry would be absolutely dope!

Kevin Walker

Same here...finally near midnight my local time (UTC-7) it worked. About the 20th try.

Dennis O'Brien

Took a while, and had to restart stalled downloads multiple times - but we did manage to download the set. very, very nice, though we will be reversing the 3d models for Namur Makir's hands - since we want him as a full rakshasa, and that pipe definitely looks better in the upraised hand. If you find the time - including reversed versions of each of the hands will be very helpful for specific rakshasa builds. (Going to use the Princess as is, and hope that the players don't notice. :P )

Turius Münsterius

I do no understand why people always rushing to get the files on day 'one'. Be patient... wait a bit (like I do), and you will really never experience issues. The more you wait, the more stable would also be the content. I'm far behind printing already the stuff of prior months, also from other patreons. Are you all up-to-date with all this stuff... this also includes painting. I guess, it is nearly impossible to get this all done in one month, so there is no real reason to rush....even if these are amazing models... they will still be amazing in some days 😏

Pete

Why not do peer to peer torrenting

Jon Liao

dropbox link isnt working

Mini Manatee

Luckily there are still 28 days to download this, then we will get a link to it messaged avyer that to download it - I'll wait 24hrs and get it tomorrow probably without issue.

eddy

I have problems when downloading by Sync, the file is never downloaded, it stays loading

Brent Kutz

I appreciate you trying to get files to us asap. These issues must be frustrating. It might be worth delaying the presupported files a couple days or hosting them separate to limit impact as they are much larger part of the download. Also, I know I was able to get my files for another patreon using same site using smaller files they had hosted along the big zip. Might be worth having seperate smaller files as I know I have it get to 100mb and start over several times. also, I would assume you have looked into having a hosted website for files or something like that instead of these services.

Cold Painting Table

I'm sure we've all printed and painted 100% of the kobolds set and desperately need this now. Thanks for the great release. I can print other stuff until sync settles down.

Elfhugger

Another "big" pateron artist uses it but his files are large single models. I guess that is where the difference lies. But for reference, you dont need an account to download from the site.

James McHugh

Didn't know the patreon community was so toxic. I can wait a couple days if necessary, I understand every technology has a limitation as should everyone printing these files. Anyways, thanks. Look forward to future works.

Joe Kushner

Have you thought of doing something like Duncan? He does a Gumroad subscription service.

ARM

MMF or DrivethruRPG or Mega. Anything other than sync. I've been trying on multiple Patreons and sync has failed nearly every time. Sync's ability to do what they are supposed to do is total crap. It is their business, how can they fail the one thing they set out to do? Total garbage dumpster fire.

Kevin Walker

Sigh...getting 150 to 350MB downloaded and then the transfer drops.

CycyX

AG needs around 20TB/month and Mega "only" allows for 16TB (and I think each patron would need a Mega account). Maybe wetransfer pro or massive.io would be usable, but for a price of around $6000/month...

Alex A

Might try a dual account model so you have A/B sync accounts. maybe that would help dilute the monthly fan crush a bit. Interesting problem to have.

Bill Cedarheath

Gigabit connection for me and Sync is giving me an estimated download time of 2 days. MMF download of a file of equivalent size for another patreon... minutes. So... yes I agree.

Artisan Guild

We just discovered that and we already tempested them with messages, emails and skypes. We need to make this work asap

Dan Gutierrez

I feel like Steam might be able to help out?

Edgar Kingmaker

Hate to be that Patron, but... where's Thamin's tail?

Bill Cedarheath

About this comment... "we are still waiting for MMF to implement a sort of unlocking/distribution through their platform, they asked us to patiently wait till they come to a solution." I have another Patreon that is delivering their monthly release this month on MMF. So I am not sure why MMF are saying to wait till they come up with a solution to something they already do.

Karen Schroeder

The files will be available until Oct 31st. If you don't get them day one, you're not going to miss out. I always wait a couple days to download files from Patreons that use Sync and I never have issue. Try again after the weekend and I'm sure it will be fine.

Yokel OMigosh

Thank you for the updated post. You're not alone; every release thread I'm on this month looks like this. Sync is a pain for everyone right now.

Elfhugger

What about Mega?

CycyX

They can't: as I mentioned before, AG (and other "big ones") exceeds the monthly bandwidth limit of Google Drive or Dropbox...

YouChadBro

Finally brute forced my way in and finished the download. This was about the same time of day I was able to get it last month. Guess I'll just have to try and be patient next time lol.

Nicholas Kefalas

AG really needs to do what some of my other Mini makers do and use Google Drive or Dropbox.

Mikey H

Doing a day-one release via AWS S3 and then subsequently shifting to Sync could resolve a lot of these issues!

CycyX

The problem doesn't come from AG... Every single month, in a few hours interval, AG, Titan Forge/Cyber Forge, Archvillain Games and other smaller Patreons release their files through Sync. That must be 20-25K clients trying to access files at the same time. What is worrying is that Sync is supposed to provide file access. That's their job. That's "all" they do. And if they're not able to handle 25K accesses in peak time, they should rethink their whole architecture... Oh, I'm sure there is actually more than 25K clients (STLs are not the only files Sync are hosting and Patreon is not the only traffic source), but when you're trying to be a small scale content delivery provider and you fail to do just that, there is an issue... Dropbox, Google Drive or even Mega all provide better service (in my opinion), but they also limit bandwidth for their customers, which is why all major Patreons had to find another provider. I know this isn't a usual way of thinking, but shouldn't STL Creators on Patreon take a moment to gather and think about something else, like hiring a few consultants and develop a service relying on AWS or other "real world" CDN to host their files? I mean come on... Just do something.

Grimwoody

Its a Bloody Sham... I will not be subscribing again if it isn't sorted out soon

Alex A

My sentiments exactly.

CycyX

Not anymore: Sync only now...

PhantomWang

I've been retrying the download all day on a gigabit connection with no luck. Sync needs to implement a download queue or something because this is ridiculous.

Logician

Yeah, this is beginning to not even be worth it. Download doesn't go past .2gb.

Jacob Mertz

Ritual Casting uses itch.io, their a much smaller Patreon so it's not much of a test in terms of bandwidth, but the setup is nice. But, similar to MMF you have access to download even after the month is over. At the very least if AG offered other options in addition to Sync, like Google Drive, it would lift some bandwidth burden for Sync.

Grimwoody

Yes, 6,700 PAYING patreons!! There earning the money...more patreons = more money, so why dont they research & find a better way? this happens every month

Grimwoody

I tried waiting 4 hours...nope still does not work....getting really pissed off now

John Brennan

I'm the same as the above here. I love the models being produced, but the frustration of using Sync.com is just about enough to make me want to leave. Please please please find a different distribution model for them.

Josiah Blackie

People, AG has over 6,700 patreons as of now, and they are ALL trying to download the files at once. If you're having trouble, the simplest solution would be to just wait until tomorrow once all the early birds have their files and the bandwidth opens up a bit.

Gary Pruitt

Yeah, this sucks and is just getting worse! It makes me sad but I'm about to give up on these guys, I'll pick up stuff I really want from them on My Mini Factory from time to time, but I'm tired of fighting this download crap EVERY month!

ludovic lefeuvre

I don't want to alienate the community but I respect the work of others except now put me in I have a very weak connection I just wanted the Zip file to be cut I think that's understandable no ?

jack thompson

It wasnt even a print error for me, it was a file error. It just gave me an unspecified error code and removed that file from the zip. So unfortunately i guess i'll have to go for the re-download.

Joey

Oh, and I love the edition of the Calvary!!!!🥰

Glitterwolf

Put it all on MMF give Patreons the code for free download? This new Zip does not work. If we can't download what you create, this will fail. I really like your stuff but this needs to be fixed.

Joey

OMG, I hope it’s going to print well for me. I am with you on reloading the zip file That the first model I am going to print too

jack thompson

I finally got the files to download, but does anyone else get an error with the left legs of the scorpion? I dont want to have to download the entire zip again just for one individual file.

Nicholas Kefalas

Archvillan games uses Google and Sync. You need to do something about this !

Nicholas Kefalas

CANNOT DOWNLOAD ! Ihave a 400 MPS connection and your server keeps timming out ! YOU NEED TO FIND ANOTHER SERVER !!!

Jupp3

Hah, my personal record is already 400 megs!

James Keegan

Can't get sync past 0.2Gb on the pre-supported pack without it just restarting.

Ian Wilson

sync was awesome in the beginning. but lately even when i use a vpn it gets stuck. ill get halfway through a download for it to reset and start from scratch. mmf however downloads fast for me with no pauses.

Sinister Snickers

It has become obvious that SYNC just cannot handle what you guys put up.

eli

FIX please go back to the old way of downloading, killing us with ZIP or do both ways.

eli

i can't get the ZIP to open

Randy Shoemake

Did Tino from the Welcome Box get fixed yet? Wasn't there an issue?

Productions Diratia

Im guessing youre talking about CastnPlay, I downloaded in 5 mins. Still cant download these from sync

Erik Watts

Strange things are a foot. I just had SYNC DL each file as HTML and not ZIP

Scott Gerstenberger

7.1GB download from a different patreon I am on. They use dropbox and it took me 43min. I cant even get Sync to startup

Robin de Saire

Dumbass

Kevin Walker

Glad to hear that some are able to download as this month is appears there are many that are having difficulties. I will try back later, hopefully things will work better late today or in the next few.

Josiah Blackie

vpn to where

De

the work around i found with sync its a have to use a VPN once connected sync works great and fast.

RathofKelly

Have you all thought of potentially doing releases through MMF? Both ArchVillian and Titanforge have started putting their releases through them and it seems to have worked out well so far.

Boodavia

Sync is straight up broken

Arman

Oh Sync, how I loathe thee.

Ron Staton

So frustrating to have a release that you can't even download....

David Rockwood

Slow download is infinitely preferable to no download. Slow eventually finishes, sync requires babysitting and then fails anyway.

CycyX

I'm just repeating myself, but please consider itch.io (try to see with them if they can handle your bandwidth needs of course...).

CycyX

Because "people" kept clicking "download all" and got everything in double (the whole zipfile and the separate directories)...

CycyX

MMF as the same flaws: one launch day, it's impossible to get decent download speed...

CycyX

Sharing? Like just providing the files? Hum.... No. Just don't.

CycyX

Nope, for example, I can't: the connection keeps resetting.

CycyX

You're just lucky to get the files... When *trying* to download a zipfile (yes, one zipfile at a time...), the connection just keeps resetting. Or, sometimes, I get a download working. At around 40KB/s. When I downloaded 3GB from dropbox at 30MB/s just minutes before.

Jupp3

So pumped to MAYBE successfully download this set on 100th try or so :P

David Monkman

From what I've seen, AG are working on it. It sounds like MMF are the bottleneck, so all they can do is keep pushing.

Glitterwolf

in previous months there were smaller files. now just whole sets. this is worse instead of better

Jupp3

Isn't that just the REASON to switch to a service, which doesn't have this day-one problem, every single time?

ludovic lefeuvre

IN THIS CASE CUT THE ZIP FOLDER INTO SEVERAL PIECES BECAUSE NO HIGH SPEED

Jupp3

Of course this "separate files download faster" is simply because Sync sucks. On any proper file sharing service, it's faster to download all at once (assuming you want to keep them eventually, and not just get few files you want)

Glitterwolf

Why did you make the whole set one zip? Normally I can choose to download each part of a set so it is faster. Now it's either supported or presupported , separate the files and it will be easier to download please?

David Rockwood

Sync is a constant source of frustration. I have seen other Patreons use MyMiniFactory to distribute models, would that be an option for you?

David Rockwood

They are threatening to publicly share the content.

DarthUrsus

Dropbox limits how much can be downloaded from a shared folder within a single day. This limit is much much lower than what AG would need for the size of their patreon. Instead of having a slow download you would just get a message saying downloads are impossible for the rest of the day if you got there too late. Don't get me wrong, I hate sync as much as the next person but unfortunately dropbox just wouldn't work for Artisan Guild.

DarthUrsus

I think he is threatening to post the files elsewhere.

viktor kopelent

trying to download the files over an hour already with no success. Download started a few times but never finished and just restarted downloading from 0 again :(

Joe

Else I share?

ludovic lefeuvre

PLEASE DROPBOX

ludovic lefeuvre

IMPOSSIBLE TO DOWNLOAD A SINGLE FILE PLEASE SEPARATE THE FILES ELSE I SHARE

Josiah Blackie

or you could just wait like an hour

Grimwoody

Looking forward to printing them....if only i could download the file, seems this happens alot.....sort it out admin, or change vendor, but please look into it.

Hans-Walter

Awesome as usual!... The only thing i may be a bit sad about, is that there isn't a shorter version of this katana ☹️ but well... One can't have all 🤣😜

Dave G

Please, please, please get off Sync. It's terrible.

Steve Rubino

I seem to remember this being mentioned, but can't find it again to verify: these awesome tiger mounts are swappable with previous cavalry right? I suddenly have a huge desire to mount some of the previous Amazon Riders on big honkin' tigers now!

Cedric FERRUT

I LOVE the cavalry !!!!

Angel Sainz

I’m so happy that we now get cavalry options too... Are there any plans to add the option to past sets too? Maybe adding to the release poll an option that would be cavalry for 2-3 past sets?

James

So pumped to start printing these bad ass minis off!!!

Joe

You're right though..cant do one file at a time.

Joe

Not sure what to say guys...I just clicked it once...went smooth. Downloading unsupported now 4.5mbs.

seth mearkle

Sync won't even give the option for choosing individual files on my end. I just get the first page and upon selecting presupported or non supported it just tries to download the 1.2GB file.

CycyX

@Sean It's because of bandwidth limitation, not number of users. But still, as you said, I worked for 2 quite big MMORPG in the previous years, and I can assure you that serving 7000 simultaneous users is not that hard. Try the same thing with 30-60K impatient gamers...

Joe

NO....one zip at a time.Read instructions

Christopher Barnes

The cavalry is incredible!

CycyX

Yeah... Like, you've got 2 zipfiles and a text saying "download one zip at a time", and plenty of people mess up downloading one file at a time... Sync sucks. You may have more luck because you're near their servers, but do not blame "users" in this case...

Patrick Krog

You can take the lid off of the lamp? For why?? This level of detail is why I subscribe lol I'm so here for it

Joe

Sync works perfectly fine for me..user error is most likely the cause. Files must be selected in a certain way.

Brian John Gabriel

The modular cavalry is a great idea. It is huge for wargamers.

CycyX

Come on... I was downloading another Patreon previous release on Dropbox at 30MB/s. Now, every attempt to download ONE zipfile from Sync fails. It starts and just fails. You biggest competitor (having more subscribers than you) is using MyMiniFactory: you could take a look at this solution (even if MMF also has issues under heavy load). Please, do something: being unable to download models means patrons pay for something they cannot get...

RoaringAxis78

Sync doesnt seem to be very friendly anymore...*sigh*

Gary Krieger

Absolutely love the cavalry! They complete the set in just every way. I can’t wait to see next months cavalry. You guys Rock!

Gianluca D'Alessandro

I love the set and the modular cavalry is simply fantastic!!

Sean

Give it a day or two, everyone is downloading from Sync on day one. It's like gaming servers on the launch day; it will never be easy to get on. Sync is fine when it's not being hit by the 6,600+ clients at the same time. AG have already stated they can only use Synce because of the amount of hits they get.

CycyX

OK, you have to *STOP* using Sync... Please, try something else. Anything. itch.io is quite the buzz currently and it works fine.

Montemore

I really enjoy this set. I was missing a good Catfolk and Djinn so this will fill fit nicely. I like the addition of the calvary as well, even if the group shot gets busy.