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Almost like the good old days in 2006, its like meeting a old friend :) Now wtb the same old engine trails. They were 'im going thi----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------s fast'. Or is that yet to be finalized?

Ok it take my praise back:

Why did you go public (testsection does not count) before it was ironed out?

why do missiles hit when i tracking disrupt? BUG

Ah, that would make sense... Didn't think of that.

nvm dumb answer, in all the excitement i forgot to read properly

Nice improvement to the game!

So... This miss effect will only happen correctly when someone shots at you and when you shot at someone? It is good enough!

But I think that you can solve the always hit effect of the fleet combat making it a %hit chance for every size, like:

Large weapon shooting frigate size 20% of the volley will hit
Large weapon shooting cruiser size 50% of the volley will hit
Large weapon shooting BS size 80% of the volley will hit

So there will be always a hit on the ship that justify its destruction and you will have the effect of the missing shots based on some sort of average hit-ratio... I think it will look nice...like a spray of bullets ( more real then the always hit effect )...and will not have to waste a single bit of information, all client side =D

It's actually more like the client gets information when someone else starts to fire, and when they stop, but nothing inbetween. Individual damage or hit information packets aren't sent to you unless you're directly involved, your client just renders the pew-pew every few seconds until the other guy stops shooting.

It's not the single bit added to the payload that's the problem, it's that currently we don't send a packet at all unless absolutely necessary.

edit: beaten, thanks Rakshasa Taisab

As a method of showing other ships in the fleet getting hit (or not), here's an idea....

10 seconds after a fight starts, and every 10 seconds after that, calculate how many shots that are fired actually hit. This will give a Hit Ratio.

Send the Hit Ratio out to the clients every 10 seconds or so, and let the clients randomly show that number of targets getting hit.

Each fleet gets its own Hit Ratio sent out....and the client does the work of just randomly picking members of that fleet to show the hits on. If you want finer detail, break it down by a weight on which target:
Total: 25% are hitting...of that:
-- Foe1: 10% (2.5% total)
-- Foe2: 20% (5% total)
-- Foe3: 70% (17.5% total....must be a logi pilot)

Then, as the client figures out that a gun was fired, it also knows the weighted chance that it has hit which target.

Technically speaking, this should fit into just one or two packets of data very easily.

how does this affect the client performance when you get primaried in a fleet fight?

This gets me to think about the often requested using ray casting to calculate shots fired (ie you could hit something else between you and your target) which would give a much more strategic game when it comes to fleet position and such.

However, as hard as it will be on the server to calculate all that ray casting, that isn't the main problem. The main problem is that every single shot on the grid would have to be transferred to every client for it to look good. That's just crazy.