EVE General Discussion

Oh, that's ok. I gladly lose some small part of profit in exchange for more comfortable movement and, often, time economy.

Exactly. It's like how water "chooses" easier ways. When some part of this "river" of traffic will be unable to fit into the Jita's "river-bed" - it will fork. Actually there is a strong start of it already (go visit Amarr).

But nevertheless, performance must be increased for all solar systems - to allow more epic fights and events. Above, I've suggested to reduce minimum piece of eve from a system to a "cluster" (not as a computer term, but kind of 'slice') of solar system.

There is a group of devs, including some seriously clever ones, who have been working on this for several years now.

The problem remains that EvE was originally written as a quite nasty hack, on a shoestring budget by an indie garage developer (they're still kind of indie but have moved from Helmar's garage).

Rewriting core functionality in a 10 year old game, without breaking too much stuff that currently seems to work (even if few or any knows how or why) is not an easy task.

Doing it behind the scenes with no obvious new features to show the paying audience (and share holders) isn't making it easier ;)

I know, I've been in similar situations, and it's not just an issue of throwing more hardware at it.

Seems you misunderstand me. I don't mean "stronger engine", I mean fragmentize the universe to smaller parts. No need to give more computer clusters (there are enough, eve-wiki says eve server can handle 2k people in every of 5k systems), but it could be effective to break solar systems into clusters --- "clusters" in astronomycal meaning of the word, like 'cluster of a galaxy' etc. I.e. slice a system like an apple and attach each slice to a different node. Different stations and/or gates often will be in different slices (more correct word - "cluster", I repeat, not a computer term) thus letting people into the solar system but arranging their access to inner parts of the system accordingly to the load of a particular cluster they want to warp to. For illustration: you jump into Jita, try warping to CN 4-4, but its part of the system is overloaded; so you can use another station in Jita -- instead of waiting in a line at a gate outside. Illustration for epic battles in 0.0: 1-2 thousand people fight in one part of the system, experiencing TiDi, but other parts of the same system are not highly loaded; or again one part is overloaded but a cyno gets lit near another pos or whatever in the same system and we get 2 fighting locations with 2 heavily loaded nodes, but still we have some more free nodes available in another part of the same system.

But I agree with Lors Dornick that doing this can't be easy.

This issue is now self-perpetuating. More and more people are logging into Jita as soon as they can after downtime to "get a spot". Meaning that Jita becomes more congested, causing MORE people to log in after downtime. So things are only going to get much, much worse.

They'd grow faster if you'd implement a congestion fee of some sort on Jita. Either slightly higher broker/sales taxes or a stargate entry fee (based on ship size).