EVE General Discussion

Actually, there isn't much a programmer could do about this, unless they happen to be sitting on some magical new techniques for dealing with server load that increases quadratically, and in that case, they almost certainly have better employment options.

Short of some amazing breakthroughs in computer science, lag-free, tidi-free multi-thousand-person fights probably aren't in the cards, and even if their load reduction efforts bear fruit, the end result will probably just be massive fights that pack **** into the system until it reaches the new breaking point.


You could potentially solve it as a design problem. Current conquest mechanics encourage 1k+ pop fights. I've always found it a bit silly and uninteresting, from a design perspective, that sov wars are effectively fought one-massive-battle at a time instead of across an entire battle line of systems simultaneously. Conquest mechanics that encouraged several hundred-man scale battles could be effectively load-balanced, while thousand-plus person battles simply cannot be because math.

Not seeing how that would fix anything that is broken in nullsec. In fact it would make nullsec worse...

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