This option is for users who don't care about torrents that only have X number of peers. Lower Seeding Rank for torrents with no seeds and less than X peers Note that if you are mostly seeding torrents with very low seed counts, seeding a larger swarm means you are helping out more people AND your bandwidth will noticed a lot. The advantage to seeding a smaller swarm is that your bandwidth will be more noticed. The advantage to seeding a larger swarm is that you are helping more people.

When two or more torrents end up with the same Seeding Rank, you have a choice of preferring the torrent with a larger peer+seed count, or one with a smaller count. When torrents have the same rank, prefer larger swarms Several options were added to tweak the desperation rankings of the torrents: You have total control of the order of seeding. Completed torrents will be started based on their # in the list. The length of time they remain seeding is set by the Minimum Seeding Time setting. Torrents will be rotated in and out of seeding mode. Similar to Peers:Seed ratio, torrents with 0 seeds and 0 peers are sent to the bottom of the list. In this mode, we first sort by number of seeds ascending, then sort by number of peers in the order you specify via the 'prefer larger swarms' field, and then give the torrent a rank. This places torrents with 0 seeds at the top of the list, with the exclusion of torrents with 0 seeds and 0 peers (or you can set your peer limit when seeds are 0). The higher the ratio, the more desperate the torrent is, and the higher the Seeding Rank will be. When the minimum time for one of the seeding torrents runs out, it will go back to queued state, and the torrent higher on the list will start seeding. Sometimes you will see a queued torrent with a higher ranking than torrents that are seeding. 'Minimum Seeding Time' was added to stop the torrents from continously stopping & queueing, only to be started again. One side effect is that the order of torrents can fluctuate within short periods of time. Alternatively, if a queued torrent gains a Seeding Rank higher than an actively seeding torrent, the queued torrent will start and seeding torrent will stop. The rest will remain in a queued state, ready to be started once a seeding torrent drops in ranking, or completes in some other way (seeding rules).

The torrents with the highest Seeding Rank will start until we don't have any more open slots. Two of these ranks are based on desperation, which prioritizes your torrents based on how needy they are. Seeding rules introduce a smarter calculation of what torrent needs seeding, instead of just starting the next one in the list, and sort torrents based on a Seeding Rank.

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