EVE General Discussion

I'll see if I understand what it is that BiAB is suppose to do or I imagine that it will do.

I'll do it with a picture.

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you assume that the skills are not recomputed when you jump between systems on the same node... (which is very reasonable). But it isn't the case. It is actually faster when two connected systems are on two different nodes. Since this literally splits the workload of a jump to two distinct servers. Its the only parallelism they have. There was a quite long devblog about system mapping around 6month ago or so. I was a bit sad as i read that :(

I don't think that we will need to do (significant) changes to node mapping due to BIAB - but the load in many systems should be lower (we could increase the number of systems per node - but I don't think that we will do this). With BIAB it might be better to jump between systems on the same node compared to systems on different nodes - but it is a bit too early to tell as I don't have any numbers yet for this. Several years in the past we thought that it would be beneficial for server load to have neighboring systems on the same node - but mass tests (and reports from TQ) proofed this to be wrong.

For the jump changes with Phoebe: I can imagine, that we might see a few more small lag spikes for moving capitals, but time will tell how capitals are moving exactly after these changes. I don't think that it will be necessary to change the node mapping for this - but we will for sure monitor how the server is doing and take action if really necessary.

I'm trying to answer, as I am already active here in the forums:

As far as I can tell as non-programmer BIAB will not make it easier to host a given solar system on multiple nodes. We are trying to move as much load as possible from the system nodes to other nodes to reduce the need for splitting systems themselves (which would be a massive undertaking).

Dynamic node remapping: I would love it, but there is still a long way to go. BIAB might even help a tiny bit with this, but there is still a LOT to be done (and many other things are more important).

Awesome stuff, CCPs Prizm X, Habakuk & Hedgehog!

Go devs!

Thanks for posting war stories, hopefully neither python nor other black magic can stop you from finishing and releasing BiaB in some near-ish future (measured rather in years then decades).

But that fragment about skills being items in our head "inventory" is kind of WTF case. Wouldn't it be just easier and simpler to have it coded as most primitive list/table where each skill is at specified index and number stored at that index is current trained level of that skill? After all everybody can eventually train every skill so WTF complicate things by making this whole inventory in my head voodoo. Actually that would make sense if I could eject trained skill from my head and make an implant out of it or sth that could be traded and used by somebody else but that's not possible so really, WhoTF thought it was a good idea? Hilmar? :)

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Well, then stay true to your words and stay silent. As you wish to display that you do not care, I will happily dismiss your nonsense.

You're welcome.

Actually a star system is a system composed by several stars orbiting each other. The planets and other bodies (comets, asteroids, planetesimals, et cetera) orbiting a star (be it a single star or a part of a star system) are known as a planetary system.

As EVE does not have lone stars nor star systems, I guess we could just agree to talk about "systems".

(To make things more complicated, Sol System is the name of the data synchronization core behind Tranquility cluster, and whose 1 hertz ticks are so intrinsecal to EVE)