Player Features and Ideas Discussion

This is where I actually have a few questions about how the server handles the names of drones as they currently are. From what I understand they are already named as 'Warrior II' separate from the entity name (similar as to how a ship is named), however the way that this is processed by the server and distributed to clients I'm not sure on. If the name 'Warrior II' is 'processed' (not sure if that's the correct terminology) by the server the same way as ship names are processed on ships then allowing for drones to have names should not have an impact at all on performance, however if their names are carried with the entity and then the name 'Warrior II' is generated by the client then it would have an impact on overall performance. If someone who know's more on the issue could clarify on how it works exactly that would be awesome. (Also if they understood what I said and could make it make more sense that would be cool too)

Client-side would definitely work. There would be no impact on the node. It might even be useful for situations where you need to swap out damaged drones.

Server side tho...as easy as I can put it, the node has to keep track of your warrior iI's and all of their properties. If you can rename them, it still has to keep track of the fact they are warrior ii's, but now it also has to keep track of one extra new property, what you've named it.

If renaming drones is going to hurt the server side systems that much CCP needs to upgrade their systems. Get with the modern times.

All my drones have names I wrote on little pieces of masking tape that I stuck to the drone window. Sometimes their names change though.

And every major fight still grinds down to 10% TiDi. It's a legitimate concern. This may only cause a negligible spike with 100-200 players, but as soon as you get 1,000+ carriers and super carriers on field the lag compounds very quickly and hits the server like a truck.

I didn't read the post you were quoting. My bad.

*Cough* Captain's quarters *Cough*

I support naming drones. The stupid one that always is the last to disengage and gets hit once or twice will be Steve.

Damnit Steve!

Short of a developer you're probably not going to get the kind of response you're asking for. The names might be fairly small individually, from a data standpoint, but the fact is when you compound that with several thousands of players with their own 3-10 drones with their own names then that is an unnecessary substantial increase in data that needs to be communicated.

As an example the simple elimination of the old missile system(which used individual physically tracked objects) and replacement of it with the new (from what I understand) dressed up modified turret has actually reduced a significant amount of lag from the system.

I'm by no means an authority on this subject, but unfortunately, while your idea might be fun and amusing, it unfortunately exacerbates the existing problems TiDi and the previously mentioned missile change were meant to placate(in all likelihood).