Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Due to the recent discussions about large fleet fights and the impossibility to win the fight against lag (better hardware -> more players stream in. TiDi -> more players now even have more time to get to the fight), I thought about the problem and... well, btw, I found a solution.
Maybe a bit exotic, but judge yourself.

The basic idea is very simple:
If a system experiences to high load for the node to handle, SPAWN WORMHOLES!
Not just randomly in the system, but right there. On the grid, where there is the biggest jumble of drones and spaceships.
Needless to say, these wormholes lead to a better place, somewhere on a reinforced node, that has no load at all.
Players will move through the wormholes, distributing the load between 2 nodes.
Problem solved, you're welcome. :-D

More details:
The wormholes are no regular wormholes. They do no lead to any known W-space systems, but most likely to empty space with nothing in it. There will be no way out of these systems, so this is no easy way for ships to escape.
It's more like "the second floor" of the battlefield. They literally expand battlefield in the forth dimension if the ground floor becomes too crowded.
There might be more than one wormhole of this type on a given grid, but all should lead to the same "second floor" which means that ships that disappeared in the original system can continue to fight on the other side.
Going in in one hole and reappearing from another, dodging the fire from ships on the outside.
The wormholes would be quite short-lived. If they close, everything on the inside would be forcefully ejected in the same space where the wormhole would have been.
That means one cannot hide inside forever.
This idea scales nicely: Should the load ever get too high for 2 nodes, there could be a "third floor" and so on.

The lore aspect:
Why would there suddenly wormholes?

Well. Either too many spaceships with all their warp drives an lasers and scrambling and stuff massively disrupt the very fabric of timespace and then strange things happen.

Or this could be some sort of new device, putting the responsibility into the hands of players.
Think of a dying titan using an emergency jump command and leaving behind a short-lived wormhole.
(if this was restricted to ships with jump drives, the solution would not work for battles without capitals)

Tactical implications:
Large battles would become very large, they would become more complex as well. Depending on how exactly this is fleshed out, fleets could use the new possibilities to their advantage and do hilarious things.
If it was a device, it could be used to set up ambushes/login traps as well.
The place behind a wormhole might have a synchronized TiDi or the "natural" TiDi of the new node (meaning time would run faster on the inside - would allow faster subfights or emergency repairs)
The meta in fleet fights would ofc change, because ships would be able to dodge enemy fire through wormholes, but that does not need to be a bad thing. :-)

Ok, that is basically it. Inherently no more upper limit for engagement sizes, more complex battlefields.
Plenty of small details left open, plenty of options how to do these, but what do you think?

How are alliances going to launch ambushes from these wormholes if they appear in the middle of battle?

If these spawn naturally, ofc this would not be feasible for ambushes.

But if it was a jump-me-to-my-pocket-universe device (activate module-> create WH), THEN it could (as a side effect) be used for ambushes.

But considering that it's going to take you half an hour to jump out, and you're adding a ton of load to the server doing it, you're going to be dead before you make it out anyway.

Unless you're a super, which can't use wormholes.

I will like this idea if you also solve Soul Crushing PVE.

That's even worse than the existing PVE methods.... :(

OP, I have a question.

Do you know how lag even works? I will assume not.

Lag, or internet latency: is the time it takes for a single packet to travel to a server, and then for it come back to the client computer. Normally people call call when call lag, it takes an non-normal amount of time for the packets to perform a round trip.

internet latency is always measured in milliseconds which is 1/1,000 of a second so if you have a ping of 1000 or higher, that means it takes one second for a packet to get, then a response packet to be received, what this means in a FPS point of view is your reaction time will always takes one second(plus) longer ontop of your normal human reaction time.

Lag however can be created from a number of different problems.

The major problem actually involves the client's connection. Which is where the joke comes from stop downloading porn. Upload and download speed caps are shared, that means if you are running other programs in the background that are downloading and uploading. Like lets say other eve clients, this creates lag for you, as your packets are stuck in a "que" in attempting to leave and come in.

The major problem is lag created from the server internet. This is less common for big MMO companies, but more common for those that want to host servers on machines they built themselves. They have a nice server machine, however they don't have a nice connection, and if you have 16+ people connecting to that one server at a time, it does a number on one's internet capacity.

Now, we get more into EVE online's problem, which is a problem with all MMO companies. Server hardware. The problem we are having is that there are so many people connecting to the same node/server/shard that it overwhelms the server thinking capacity.

Your solution doesn't solve the node problem, just cause you create a wormhole doesn't mean you get rid of the capacity of the node. So now instead of having condense fight on one grid, you create many many more grids for the server to keep track of, and thus more node lag. :(

The only way to counter this (until the code is amended) is to encourage players to spread the combat across multiple systems (nodes), for which there has to be some incentive to do so.

Increasing the power of the servers just leads to players warping more ships in and consuming the extra resources.

Creating wormholes in a system to separate people in the system does not separate the node load you just make more ******* work from the node to do cause now it needs to not only keep track of all the players, but each wormhole that is created. You think making wormholes magically makes new nodes? :|

STOP soul crushing lag? Stop the Goddamn Blobfests then!