EVE General Discussion

You know, something's been bothering me since Z9PP. It doesn't really have much to do with CCP, it's more a concern with the "generals" orchestrating this war and the way they think. Everyone has a "singularity" mindset while fighting this war....hey, fight's going down in Z9PP, lets all pile on the node!!!

Did at any point anyone consider sending forces to B-D or elsewhere in the pipe to stop CFC reinforcements from arriving on the besieged node? Was CFC even aware of a regional theatre of operations outside of *PING* GET ME MOAR SHIPS TO Z9PP NAOW!" ?

Would Mad Ani lose his giblets if he was trying to jockey two or more clients simultaneously to actually observe fighting occurring in more than one spot? Would potential customers have been more likely to stay and watch if it wasn't just one system with red and orange squares that hardly moved in the course of 20 minutes, but rather mad ani frantically trying to catch two live battles on drastically improved nodes because regional forces were spread out over them?

Maybe it's been talked about, done, and I'm beating a dead horse, but it just seems to me that everything revolves around the timers, and everyone needs to be in one spot for the fight. No one seems to think about cutting off access in surrounding systems...I really wish I could log into the main eve news websites and read about multiple engagements in fountain that had a profound effect on the battle for a particular system.

I say let Zhila Man decide what should be done.

Confirming large fights are important.

It's not the pipe, it's the mass.

CCP can't split it in manageable bites within their system. This is why they have to be on call to work voodoo to fix a problem their setup can't handle.

So spreading the mass around in the zone itself doesn't fix the problem, when the mass can't be deferred without closing things down or capping nodes as the alternative.

Have to offload it out of region, to nodes that aren't used much. That's not possible for now. In effect CRZ for EvE.

That's pooling system resources to an area, it's not offloading the load itself. Pooling system resources is like on your computer if you take 2GB worth of 4GB of memory and 1/2 it's CPU and put it on another task. The overall computer becomes sluggish.

CRZ operates on totally different servers that are merged virtually. So any traffic in one area is not on one node. It's even out to how many players from various servers are in that zone. So, technically they can have 10 x 40 players in one zone, without needing to cap the zone of players or reroute system resources to that zone. Each realm is independent with their own system resources, but share the same zone.

That's the beauty of that tech. Maintain autonomy but can also pool many otherwise independent servers together in a one virtual world, without the problems seen here with capping and rerouting system resources. Blizzard isn't calling Ghostcrawler at 3am to manage a 400 man raid in Orgimmar, it's pointless waste of human resources.

Tech now is available to do this. How CCP will do it, I don't know, but it's there now.

You got it, there are usually 70 done odd systems on a logical node......they are in no way geographically related in game.

Which makes perfect sense when you are trying to spread processor resources.

If CCP wanted to REALLY improve server performance they should limit the size of fleets. MOAR fleets = MOAR FCs = MOAR Primaries = MOAR ships going POOF faster which should equal an increase in the battletimes removing players faster from the area and hopefully keeping up their hardwares ability to process the information.

Fleet Cap is what 250 players or so? The fleets i sat in seemed like this, "primary x", and then everyone shoots anything but them anyway. Why shouldn't fleets be cut down to like 50 ships or so. Then you'd have 5 fleets hopefully killing 5 ships at a time instead of the 1 they are hoping to kill now.

Of course i'm just a scrub and know literally nothing about how this stuff works, just a thought that seems to make sense.

The same problem still exists of the mass will always follow where the action is. Which just changes the mechanics of smaller fleets, with the same amount of players in the zone.

It's a hardware issue, fixed by hardware/tech (like Blizzard is doing it with virtually merging servers).

Once it is fixed, EvE can have some good things like dynamic big fleets, and CCP Falcon can sleep at night!

What doesn't?

Bluzzard's server architecture.