Live Events Discussion

Oh my everyone saying well node crashing would have made it bad or TD was bad enough. I think the real point that everyone is using as an excuse points to a bleak fact CCP does not have the server power to adequately run the game.

Like telling us your cable tv has great reception but it is not our fault it goes to crap when your neighbors turn on their tv's. I was lucky enough to get in but I would be mad as hell if i didn't. (P.S. where are all the Kill mails?)

I understand the may problems of CCP (Mostly Self Inflicted) and appreciate the eve events (Only During EU TZ) but man your excuses stink as bad as your customer service.

Feel free to go design your own server cluster that performs anywhere near as well as EvEs.

I doubt they have updated them, they seem to be spending the extra moneys on sending pointless objects into "upper atmosphere" (no, nothing actually went to "space")...b/c thats constructive and really helps make the game better...or other similarly useless endeavors.

But back to OP, i think he is just upset that CCP only figured there would be a measly 1k ppl show up at best. Which shows just how disconnected they are from their player base.

Also, to the comment of them releasing Faction Police so the Caldari FW pilots could get involved....that ONLY happened after there was an outcry on the forums (CCP somehow didn't anticipate this), and the police were only released after the population cap was reached. And even then, the faction police were still chasing the FW guys...even after they were not supposed to. (there were plenty of 5.0 sec status guys that where just on the wrong side of the FW that the police where still chasing)

Personally I enjoyed following these projects. And so did others. So it certainly helped in bringing joy to players and even non-players. If I was in a position to move to Reykjavik, I would have already applied there tbh, such a crazy company.


Point granted.
The 1k limit was announced a bit late, especially considering how they were building up steam towards this event, advertising it as the event that changes history.

This might unfortunately be a symptom of it being your first big fleet engagement. If you had high graphics settings, and especially if you had brackets turned on, you might have experienced client side GUI lag.

I had brackets off ("Hide brackets"), had fleet members hidden in overview, graphics to either none/low/medium and at some point realized I could turn off effects.
At this point I think menus actually opened faster, so there's that..

But selecting, locking and unlocking targets still was still very unresponsive. Ctrl+clicking on the broadcast history once seldomly worked, so I had to keep clicking the entries all the time while accomodating for the list moving downwards, sometimes causing the wrong targets to lock, which in turn forced me to unlock these which also was unresponsive.

To me it looks a bit like the typical [Website under load]->[People hit F5]->[even more load] phenomenon.

Oh, and the client completely froze, beyond recovery, the moment we fleet-warped out. I could still see the greyed-out entries in the locked overview, so I knew I at least left the battlefield. I waited a bit but the client did not recover and I had to restart.

(Silly me then forgot I still had suspect timer, so when warped to the gate after traffic control sent me to Mies I could took the fast way back into Luminaire. Only to realize that the timers there would run 4-8 times slower aswell..)

I wonder if the unresponsiveness can also be related to me using wireless network in the house? Does the client also work in some kind of ticks for its network communication or does it communicate immediately upon any player action?
Edit:
Ping to eveonline.com while having a dozen other infinite pings and a dozen websites refreshing gives me [min 26ms / max 157ms / avg 37ms].
Ping to eveonline.com without any other constructed load gives [min 25ms / max 52ms / avg 29ms].

I had a client that remained responsive all the way through, I was getting low FPS due to the graphics rendering of that many ships even with everything turned down to minimum, but everything seemed to be working fine. It would take a couple of seconds for a module to tell me it was activating after I clicked it, but I assume this is because the client confirms with the server the module is able to activate rather than simply activating it blind client side, then getting told by the server it actually wasn't allowed to. I never had any missed clicks though.

I did get the warp out freeze issue, which would have been a serious problem for anyone destroyed & trying to reship, & wonder if CCP could do some investigation into that particular issue, since a LOT of people had that one. Otherwise I'm very happy with how well the node held up.

There were a few moments during the fight when we raised pop caps that would have caused this, but it shouldn't have persisted beyond the first couple of minutes after the cap was raised.

Well since there were 1100 of us sitting directly on the gate in Algogille, waiting/orbiting and trying to jump in with the annoying "gate has been locked message" You would have done the same thing I did. Sit there for 2 hours then leave out of boredom. But if you watched the stream you got to hear how the battle was so impressive because they had more dusticles involved then capsuleers.

I look forward to more live events. Especially where the end isn't a forgone conclusion.

would have been nice to have capsuleers be apart of the navy. As in, people that choose a side can meet in a system, join fleet and head out with a CCP event FC to lead a side into battle!

OR only people that are in FW could join the navy fleet.

Also, plan for the event to go either way, so that the outcome should reflect the outcome of the battle instead of scripting it. It is a sandbox after, let the pilots choose the story line!