EVE Technology Lab

The lag you encountered was actually on purpose. Time dialiation is a mechanic that purposefully slows down everyones client time in affected system so that the servers can keep up processing. The servers themselves never lagged behind, they just throttled your clients.

Oh dear God, just stop it.

You don't want to fight the other alliance who could possibly outsmug you on the forum warrior pit. It's okay, we get it.

Just stop trying so hard to prop up the argument, it's not a pretty colour on you. Blue suits you better.

That being said; death to ALL supercaps!

Sounds like server was doing just fine and your system ran into a bottleneck.

Goons and friends (ie. the ones shooting them, because null = NAP ) did manage to kill something however, the myth of Eve being a PvP centric game stone dead .. twenty-five hundred people in a system for Goddess knows how many hours and less popped ships than a weekday afternoon in Amamake ...

I think eve is written i C, and uses stackless python.

It's just so frustrating to travel all that distance, get there wanting to start targeting primaries & you get what, maybe 1 cycle on your turrets? Evening warping felt we were going through slimmers (ghost busters) intestines.

Really CCP what are we supposed to tell friends (potential customers) about the end game? "If your lucky enough to not lag the hell out, you might actually get an action in every 10 minutes. Great fun (sarcasm)."

My copy of the client had 3.2GB allocated at the height of the battle. vOv

that was a cool video, and accelerated to compensate for tidi it was 18 minutes and some seconds

A fight like that would have even less of a chance happening in 0.0 as it did in lowsec. Sure DD would remove a few caps with a quickness but no one, and I mean no one is gonna commit that many capitals to an area where they can be bubbled. And the whole pre-determined thing is like a red herring because the aggressor forms up dudes to contest a timer, the defender forms up dudes to defend a timer, and usually if one side has a pretty big advantage the forecast is blueballs. If the numbers are pretty even then there might be a goodfight.

But in 0.0 titans and supercaps are used 95% of the time for bridging (titans) killing structures quick (supers) usually ninja-quick unless theres a reasonable guarantee of safety. Goons will camp nearby opponents into whatever station they base out of then let capitals run willy-nilly or have a full sub-capital fleet on standby but then again theres the safety measure. PL will camp a freakin gate in lowsec with supers but would never dream of doing that in 0.0 Everyone else has to ninja around with extreme paranoia with their caps.

So at the end of the day- in lowsec they are too hard to catch, in 0.0 they are too easy to catch (no one wants to commit to using them) and theres no happy medium or balance

So no one can really be sure if an enemy is going to contest a timer, unless its something like the 49- system in Delve which must be taken in order to move supers in from Catch. So if you know for sure that you're gonna bring max dudes to a fight and the enemy cannot afford to lose the system or station and will bring max dudes then you can do the whole 24 hour thing in advance and get the node reinforced. Theres another system in Fountain thats like that. The IRC CSAA kill a few months ago where goons brought like 700 dudes and IRC batphoned all of EVE. Those things you know are gonna be a cluster**** but ultimately, getting a reinforced node in 0.0 is a rarity as well.

If the game looked like that in real time, Eve would be unstopable