Player Features and Ideas Discussion

"Yeah, let's change all the underlying logical infrastructure and see what happens!!!"

Digging into the wiki page about the Tranquility Cluster a assume that actual server process runs on Windows machine.
That may be the blocker in the past, but recently Microsoft announced windowsservercore as Docker container.
Mesos itself can run on Windows as well, considering the fact that Mesos is written in C++

Anyway, this is not related to the recent TQ problems, and may not solve this
Just sharing my thought on it

Why change?

What is the purpose?

What are the supposed benefits of this new server format?

What problems would this new server format correct?

Do you even have a clue how CCP has their server network set up, I mean the actual technical details of it like the software /hardware set up?

Or are you one of those fly by night guys that stumbled upon something somewhere on the internet and you think it would be better than something you know nothing about?

And the ultimate question is what training and experience do you have that might even remotely qualify you to make a judgement on what CCP does or does not do with their servers?

I freely admit that running servers on a scale needed to handle a game like EvE is something I know nothing about so I will leave it to those who developed the game we all enjoy to decide what is best when it comes to the servers.

I'd rather recommended Cassandra as DB, but transferring from a relational database like MS SQL might be a big pain

Why exactly do you think better resource management and scalability is needed right now?

If you wouldn't be so lazy, you could find the bottom Resources section, where is an old forum thread where CCP Yokai provided this info, you could see on the "editable website"

So you're calling for a massive (expensive) hardware change by CCP to solve a non-existent problem? This is why the tech guys need to leave business decisions to the business people. Different technology simply for the sake of having a new toy is useless, if it doesn't actually add anything to the game.

When you need to assume about a technical aspect as fundamental as the operating system of the server, you probably are just making an ass of yourself. If you have sufficient technical background to be a relevant expert, you would either be determining criteria which are known out of date or contacting CCP directly if you were serious about it being a good idea.

I'm pretty sure that CCP won't give me any technical details about their infrastructure.
And again, for all of you going mad on this, THIS IS IDEAS DISCUSSION FORUM!

I've made a proposal, that's all

Yes I do.

You are trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist for [reasons]. No change like this is ever smooth, quick or easy on a larger environments.

You are proposing a change that doesn't actually solve an existing problem and doesn't add any value to the game. Until you give a valid reason as to how this adds to the end product (the game) in a tangible way, it's a -1 from me.

Again, this is why you don't let the pure tech people make decisions on their own. They go for the new or different tech solutions simply to play with something different without thinking about the value proposition of the project first.

One more time, -1 until you prove this would actually benefit the game.