EVE General Discussion

The server still has to send that information to the client. It's all getting bottlenecked somewhere.

Looking forward to the next thread: "Regarding ZJA-6U last night".

super pilots tend to be primadonnas, which is just another reason that all supers should be destroyed

It's a very simple vector calculation. Even in 4000+ man fights, at most there'd be about 2000 per server tick, which even gets stretched out with tidi. Vector calculations are extremely cheap to do computationally so i don't see how it would significantly increase server load.

Maybe I am just terribly naive, but couldn't this all be resolved with more/better hardware that was able to deal these kinds of fights?

I'm sure there is money for it.

I'm not too savvy with computers, so I figured it was worth the question. You say it is unrealistic to have it run like that for days on end...would it be possible to just have something like that kick in when major activities such as these battles happen? then it'd be a max of maybe 6 hours at a time, whenever there was a huge fight?

If you do that, doesn't that negate a carrier/super carrier's main strength?

There is a constant stream of people who believe that a stream of poorly equipped poorly skilled people should trump anything else in this game, and that having the most friends is all that should matter.

Those people will constantly seek to undermine and nerf anything that doesn't fit that form, hence all the crying about carriers. We've been using sentry carriers for years in huge fights, the nodes didn't die then, they're dying now, its not about the carriers its something else thats been altered in the code somewhere that's changed the way the game operates in a negative way, and instead of simply admitting that, the 'warm bodies' crowd is simply blaming it on what's currently in their way.

Got it! Thanks for the clarification.

I'm still rather new and exploding around in cruisers as it is :)

Think of it as having a fuel system for your car which can only feed it for like 20 mins and to do a longer run, you have to re-fill that reserve while the car is running or your engine will blow-up. You can't just stop to fill it either because something actually relies on the car being kept running.

The real solution is not in hardware but in a better game engine but asking for a better engine is really like asking to re-invent the wheel to make the engine use more core for a single system. Right now, from what I remember reading, they are trying to offload some stuff from the node to other unit so the system can have more resources dedicated to it in the form of more clock cycle not being clogged by it. There is probably some gain to be made more easily than re-doing the whole game with parallel processing.