EVE General Discussion

Right now, I am in a high sec system, at least 4 jumps from low sec, let alone null.
And we have Tidi at 77%, (was 87% a moment ago) with 33 people in local.

Yeah, this TiDi thing is working great.

After what I used to go through I'll take TiDi and be happy.

Jita is another interesting case.

Because there's such low risk hanging out with the most dangerous and unpredictable entity (other players) while in highsec, people will flock together in a centralized location to do trade. There's little point in doing business other hubs because for the most part, things are most efficient and cheaper in the same singular location.

The result is a single system for trade that has a huge hardware requirement with player limits and TiDi.

I absolutely hate being involved large scale fights now.

I simply do not have the time to sit there for hours and hours on end and knowing that nothing will be accomplished because there is a very good chance the node will crash.

So question is what is the point?

I do not blame any alliance for wanting to bring more people to a fight.

The point of any engagement is to win and it is usually those who have more numbers that do win.

The fact is CCP has needed to do something with Sov Warfare Mechanics and have totally ignored it.

The entire nature of Sov Warfare means you need large numbers to grind structures which in turns means large fleets.

The problem will only get worse as alliances / coalitions grow in size and are able to bring more people to any given fight.

…and what does the distance to null or low have to do with anything? How do you determine how many people are on the node with you?

It sure is. Or were you just being erroneously sarcastic based on not really understanding how the server is set up or how TiDi works?

By providing multiple objectives scattered around attacked space that have to be dealt with at the same time you don't need to prevent players from woking together. Current political map allows this to happen as we live in the era of power blocks. Leave massive fights for main objectives (stations, for example), but have a way of contesting space that would require engagement spread through multiple systems at the same time. That way we will still have massive collaboration, huge numbers involved, open possibility for coalitions and still have a potential solution to regular 3 FPS fights.

+1 OP, I like this thread.

I think LOS should be a thing because it adds so much to the tactical possibilities. I'm sure nVidia or someone in the graphics hardware domain has a piece of ray-tracing hardware which would make LOS calculations trivially easy to do in parallel on the same motherboard as the processor managing the combat simulation. It might even be possible to offload hit/miss and effective damage calculations to such a piece of hardware. Then all the simulator would be responsible for is physics and marshalling inputs and outputs. Then some of that could be offloaded, since vector processing belongs on a maths unit … and all that's left is marshalling data and keeping track of time. Of course that's the paper-napkin plan from the person whose crowning achievement to date has been porting apps from badly written PHP to badly written Django

It would be better to offload the physics to a discrete graphics processor instead of the hit/miss calculations, as they are both better at those respective tasks. But that's beside the point.

The problem with line of site is that all the server knows (for the purpose of this discussion) is your position and velocity, and that you are firing at a target. It could make an educated guess as to whether you hit a friendly based on their position, but it couldn't know their bounding box accurately. All the graphics stuff is handled on your computer based on info sent from the server. There is no ray tracing happening on the server. It would also have to make this calculation for everyone on grid each time anyone fires. That's a lot of extra server load.

AOE from exploding ships would be easier because it would work just like a missile explosion calculations. However, if you want TiDi to go away, you need solutions that require less server load and not more.

Removing drone models altogether might help. I don't remember anyone that liked drone models.

I also think there should be more AOE in the game, and along with that, have formations that people warp into on grid.

EDIT: I reckon it would be very well received