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Glad to hear you've managed to get the books you wanted, Limey!

If you need any advice or have questions about the rules, drop a thread in Advice or Rules Questions (recommendation for newbies: avoid RQ threads with more than 100 posts, they're often arguments) and we'll try to help out, and since you mention Kingmaker and Ultimate Campaign, find the Ultimate Campaign Kingdom Tracking Spreadsheet (other tracking tools are available) thread in the Community Use Projects subforum or the Community Use Register (or wing me a PM) for a useful tool to help you out.

Thanks for the advice. I've favorited this post to come back to after I've done the requisite reading of the PDFs.

lost_limey wrote:

I will say that the inability to handle this traffic has made me a little leery on purchasing anything else (which is a shame, as I'd like to use some of my bundle savings to buy the complete Kingmaker Adventure Path and run that.

While I understand the rough first impression a lot of people are getting of the site, I have hundreds of Paizo PDFs that normally download without any drama at all. Every now and then, when there's a major new release at GenCon or the like, it takes more than 10 seconds to personalize a file. But I regularly use Chrome of the impatient 90 seconds and have never had it time-out trying to download before the Humble Bundle hit.

Fair enough, but as they say "You never get a second chance to make a first impression, and my first impression of paizo.com isn't very rosy. While I appreciate that these are exceptional times for the site and the company, I've become spoiled in that I can download pretty much anything else I've purchased off the internet with alacrity and no issues.

Still struggling to download anything regardless of browser (chrome & edge, no FireFox on this machine.)

Figured that with the insane discount meaning increased traffic that I wouldn't get everything straight away. Jut trying to get 4 files to put on my trusty Kindle Fire. So far I've managed to get 3:

Beginner's Box
Core Rulebook
GamesMastery Guide.

Still working on getting

Ultimate Campaign.

I will say that paizo's communication has been excellent, even if the "file downloaded" label is basically a straight up lie at this point. I'm new to Pathfinder and the paizo process, so it's growing pains.

I will say that the inability to handle this traffic has made me a little leery on purchasing anything else (which is a shame, as I'd like to use some of my bundle savings to buy the complete Kingmaker Adventure Path and run that.

My biggest issue with the downloads is that since the recommended procedure is to click the link, then wait while on the personalizing message, getting hit with the login timeout for following recommended procedure is a pain. Is there a way to set the auto log out to a more reasonable time period (maybe 24 hours) for the duration of the Humble Bundle promotion? That feels like it would reduce the volume of complaints.

While, (like seemingly everybody else posting) I'm in IT (Android QA for a company) it doesn't seem like changing the server timeout flag should involve a major spin-up/rebuild process.

EDIT: And the moment I submitted this post, my Ultimate Campaign started to download (in Edge). So I have the 4 files I wanted most.