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I was in a testing system when a GM set the dialation to 99-100% while i was trying to warp a dread :3 all effects basicly stoppede in on the spot :b looked awesome

I am looking forward to it, and i know its a better alternative to lag, and will encourage even larger fleets ;)

From a pure player standpoint, this will be amazing to have for pvp. As was said by others, it shouldn't really have an effect on highsec where most lag is player's computer based. This is only server side lag. I assume what it does is slows down the cycle timer for the programs running. Ie if you remember old games before it ran off a clock speed and solely off cpu cycles with instant event resolutions?

Had with a few people a very good discussion on how it will affect, and most in unpredictable low/nullsec pvp. The biggest effect won't be in combat, but outside. A large fleet performing combat ops will take longer for a resolutionof combat to complete, allowing reinforcements to arrive. This is going to to be huge for defenders. Defence of systems in sov is going to be alot different.

In combat itself, uneven number fights should become more commonplace. An outnumbered FC will have better time to react, and for the fleet to get into position, jump through etc. More time to make calls, broadcast, people to start locking, etc. Reaction time period will be greater. So logistics will be more effective, for better or worse?

Just the main issues we thought of, lots more little ones. But will reiterate. Highsec lag is more often on the player side as the cpu tries to load stuff. Dialation does not fix it. Highsec traffic is predictable and as jita shows, now fairly under control. This stops cycle lag. Modules not turning on, locking, gate jumping etc. The stuff that really peevs most people in pvp.

The cause of this "feeling" comes down to one very specific type of camera motion where there is an expected halt location & differing actual halt location.

Under non-dilated circumstances, if in space and you casually move a camera around a ship partially spinning the camera and abruptly halting its movement at an intended specific location, it will naturally stop. Where it precisely stops tends to be a minor fraction of space beyond the absolute stop point (at the time your mouse stopped moving and you willfully halted its movement) and where it actually stops moving. You might term it a very minor form of faux-inertia. It's barely noticeable.

When an environment is time-dilated this minor inertia effect is magnified. Everything swims across the screen, its movement and perceptual physical constants exaggerated. So?

The problem is that this exaggerated effect is playing havoc with the human balance system. The moment you begin fooling with proprioception and exteroception ( http://www.sectiononewrestling.com/documents/components_human_balance_system.html ) in multimedia that the public/your customers encounter you're guaranteed to find a % who become violently nauseated and prone to unexpected porcelain alter worship.

Solution: remove that specific camera exaggeration, keep the rest if you want it.

Further, look to CQ and the overwhelming lag and low performance many were getting in it and still do. 4 FPS, 5FPS, 6 FPS and slow, jittery movements while trying to explore the CQ. Yet while slow, the camera halt points as you move within the fog of low FPS, are where they are expected to be by the user's sense of balance. Their physics of camera movement, amidst 3FPS performance is never exaggerated beyond average human expectation. While this drastic graphics card crushing and obviously beta software had much to be criticized for - how it handled camera movement from a user's biological / physical stand point was not one of its many glaring issues.

That is interesting, so for example... serious **** goes down in a system... like someone trying to compromise the eve database or trying to crash the server in some form or manner.. CCP could just freeze the entire node to figure out what is going on?

If they are using in-game means, yes, they could. Actually, it should kick in automatically...

Any chances of you telling us where we can find some systems with heavier dilations (more slowdown than 50%) for some messing around and sexy slowmotion fraps?

Or setting a few ones up - remember to pick some that have stations with seeded markets.

OP is dumb. Stop feeding trolls