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isn't artificially limiting the number of people from each side that can access a battle essentially creating a LITTLE FAKE FIGHT?

All right , all right, you got me !

I made a mistake when I began to think and speak about a possible solution.

But I'm not making a mistake hitting and addressing the white elephant in the room of Eve Online and
game experience quality.

Playing a battle in very slow motion for 20 hours (that should had been 2 hours long) as has happened in the past must not be fun and not a good game experience at all.
At the most it is grinding at the maximum capabilities for a human being when dealing with internet spaceships.
I don't think grinding is fun, do you ?

And as for the little fake fights, if they come with good quality in graphics and client/server performance, then they will
be much better than, "big" and "unlimited" fights, and won't be fake but only little and controlled funny fights.

If you do the math, one big fight with TiDi is just a little fight expanded in time scale, but with no fun at all.

At last , Benny I don't expect real fights in EVE, but just the same game performance in all aspects or situations of the game.The laws of the universe (game performance) must not change , even if a magic number (TiDi trigger) of internet-spaceships hits a solar system or grid.

It is better to have a funny little universe with unchangeable laws (good game performance) ,than a "big" "unlimited" universe with laws depending on a magic number, the number of GOD TiDi.

A huge leap of logic here, as far as I can tell. So you're saying that when alliances were acknowledged by CCP, something that people were doing anyways somehow "sprang to life"?

As for OP: as you've been told already, your issue is on the list. It will get better, eventually. That's the best you can expect from devs to do with this troubled game.
I agree, something that often serves as a public face of EVE should work. We'll be there.

Until then you have time to enjoy other aspects of EVE you could be missing.

Another example of why limiting people in system is bad. Let's use OP's suggestion of limiting to 200 defending alliance and 200 non-defending alliance.

Say Legion of xXDeathXx wants to take one of Bastion's systems. Legion fleet of 200, because that's the cap, starts to form, and CFC spais get word to Bastion, who form their own 200 man fleet. Then, Circle of Two forms their own 200 man fleet, and flies over to assist the Bastion fleet, with both Bastion and CO2 fleets arriving before Legion of xXDeathXx.

According to OP's suggestion, Legion of xXDeathXx will never get a chance to even enter the system. The 200 'sov holder' cap has been met by Bastion, and the 200 'non-sov holder' cap has been met by CO2, thereby removing the ability of anyone else to enter the system.

You can use nearly the exact same example to cover pretty much any variation of system player caps, just adjust the numbers to match whatever arbitrary number is given for player cap. Regardless of how you want to spin it, it will always boil down to whichever group hits the cap will lock everyone else out.

That aspect of the game will not be fixed until CCP releases the strangle hold on multiboxing by taking the new graphics upgrades down a few notches. They overhauled the graphics without any cause, reason, or patchnotes because Goon told them to do it as part of the campaign against multiboxers, needless to say, it screwed everyone all the way down to the ordinary player because they don't seem to realize that not everyone has state of the art computer tech and top of the line video cards worth hundreds of dollars.

Don't look for that fix, not only are they not going to, CCP does not have permission from the Goonswarms CSM to reverse the sabotage they have implemented with such hellbent dedication. You'll just have to ride it out or upgrade your card.

Well, Iceland does export a lot of Aluminium...

There's two types of fights in EVE the one's you win and those that you get crushed in. There is no game mechanic that will limit actual fleet sizes because the ultimate counter to every strategy is 'more dudes' . You can try all the instancing and throttling you want it'll just be gamed by those that had more dudes anyway. Removing Alliances at this point and time is meaningless we have more communication out of game than in game. Overtop of that is the migration of 'talented people' towards one of the larger groups. Those people are what makes 1000 guys jump into ships and press F1 together and over the years they have gotten better and quicker at getting those fleets to the fight. Blame blue donut all you want the fact of the matter is that the ridiculously large fleet is logical and natural to EVE and it has always been that way.

One suggestion for the sake of adding suggestions is right now the current fleet movement tactic is for everyone to approach one guy (the anchor) and effectively follow him around until he gets popped. If we have the server just take everyone that is 'keeping at range' or 'orbiting' just take the movement of the guy they are following and send that to all the clients viewing and have the client 'make up' where everyone is in the ball and anything being shot at in the ball fudges a little on range so that its basically taking a shot at the 'center' of the mass.

Other suggestion is to have the ability of the client to tell the server "I don't need you to send me this set of data' like don't send me broadcast of certain types (I know that you can filter them out but the packet was still sent to your client before it was filtered from your screen) or yank me out of corp/alliance chat, only keep track of certain types of ships and just don't send me anything about other ships unless I leave the current fleet.

TIDI is still a good answer to black screens of death that we had before.

Leave blob, try to creating something smaller.
Problem solved.
TIDI is mostly because of the blob fights.

This is because you need bigger blob to kill other blob.
Without of ## ships on grid you cannot brake remote tank of ## logistic ships.

Bring more and you win, unless your FC is dumb or you lack skills to put proper isthar or tengu numbers - then you need just more ...
Just to summarize today eve.

Bet you a Confessor that OP has never experienced "Soul Crushing Lag".

Clearly you never dealt with what happened before tidi. Which was: Defender packs system, attacker blackscreens upon entering and dies before their computer even recognizes that they have jumped in system.