EVE General Discussion

Of course it's possible, but it's very hard.

How do you decide which set of actions between two or more object that can be isolated without losing sync and without adding so much overhead that the solution actually slows down the overall execution?

Goons have led me to believe that removing the drone assist ability will prevent all future node crashes.

It makes sense, right?

Did you write the code so it had to take into account inputs from a thousand different client and handle this in parallel to not **** up anybody because his branch resolved slower than someone else who sent his server request 1 second after? Threading an app that works with a fixed data set is not all that hard. Doing it with a constantly changing data set is where it gets dicey.

I think it would be a good idea!
I'd at least chip in a few dollars!

How about CCP actually do something about Sov Mechanics considering they haven't been touched since Dominions half arsed scaled back release in 2009.

Maybe change something so it that it doesn't involve bashing a structure at a certain date + time so the entire of Eve know when to show up if they choose to.

I know.. a wild and crazy idea

Problem with a code re-write.. since CCP didn't exactly do a steller job first time round, why do you think they would do a great job second time round?

Nope, because supercomputers aren't single computers nowadays, for one thing - they're just huge banks of smaller computers with some pretty goddamn clever task scheduling, made specifically for tasks that are extremely good at being parallelized. EVE combat is not one of those tasks.

And as a couple of people have mentioned, by quite a few measures the current EVE cluster would probably count as a (no slight intended to CCP network engineering guys) smallish ad-hoc supercomputer.

Yeah, because anyone who's been playing Eve for the last 10 years and lived its growth can testify that CCP doesn't know how to optimize their game, nor improve performances, nor manage a single server of 50k people with fights involving hundreds to thousands of players, like every other mmo company does.
Oh wait.

On the other hand we are still waiting for something to be done with PoS's after years of asking and apparently its because the code is in a horrendous state.

Also what fights have involved "hundreds to thousands of players"

I mean considering the highest weekly average this year was 40160 its pretty hard to have "hundreds to thousands of players"

Also the 50k number which you used is more the expectation then the norm.

Maybe if you stopped filling your post with hyperbole people might take you slightly more seriously.

Another point.. CCP have been developing their code base for 10 years and yet if anything we are still having issues with lag, not when there are thousands of players on grid but a lot of times 300 - 400 and even less.

Considering one the the major attractions of Eve is being able to have fights involving thousand of players, its not good when you get lag and TiDi when a few hundreds guys are on grid or when you get maybe 100 guys doing something as amazing as undocking.

You would of thought that after a couple of years they would be doing something about this.