EVE General Discussion

Is something wrong with the server CCP?

CCP has server banks in a data center; your solar system may be on the same physical server blade as a busy 0.0 system with a large scale war going on.

1000 lag infested players is more important...


. they need system player caps.

This should not be affecting people 10 jumps away. Enough with this crap.

Yes I agree. I was think that the increase in sub price and a more P2W system is obviously going to be needed to support such a heavy system in order to keep things in check.


50$/mo lets go.

Shrink the node size.

System caps are stupid and you know it.

This is one of the things thats good and bad about ccp's server model.

other mmo's split into servers, so a 'node' in eve is housing a single server for say wow. that server gets full you move to another. you can;t bring your assests but...

eve has a single server (we will ignore Serenity) so this is what happens. it cost money to make more nodes. And that matters not anyway.

Parts of eve were still written for the age of 'oh its slow now, but we will just add more GHZ!' When AMD and Intel came out with multi core, ccp couldn;t chage there core code. A lot of systems in eve still suck at scaling between cores. This will create bottlenecks. Adding more servers, and less nodes won;t actually fix this.

The underlining code, which still is being rewritten, won;t allow for scaling.

Its like, if you had the most perfect road ever made, with zero friction, and zero wind resistance, and you wanted to dive your car at 500 mph, but your car is a ******* pinto. It doens;t matter how awesome the road is, your car is still a ******* pinto and will be limited by thats cars design. Same with eve. She is an old girl, and slowing improving. Reducing nodes will just cause them to need more servers and then they will charge you more. eve today is much better then eve in 04 when i started. i rarely hear of random tidi today, and i used ot hear it all the time in 04

That of course requires more servers, but installing additional servers involves initial capital cost, maintenance costs, administration effort and other associated asset management and accounting.

So there is always going to be a balance between the game performance overall and the cost of the server cluster and its upkeep.

Why install a server just for 13 people (or other servers just for 1-2 people in other systems), for the very rare case that you might experience TiDi?

It's a decision of CCP and it isn't really inconvenient. Just move one or two system over.

If some e-clown without any knowledge of the subject, both in general and as it specifically pertains to Eve, thinks it's a good idea, surely it must be.

They have to strike a balance between hardware costs and performance. The node needs room to accommodate surges in computing requirements (battles) while also being adequately utilized outside of those events so as to not be wasteful.

But hey, suppose that sounded like a good idea. They shrink the node. Every system gets its very own.

What happens, now, when even a modest battle kicks off in a system, and there's no additional resources to utilize because maintaining reasonable hardware costs meant that the smaller nodes couldn't be much more than a Raspberry Pi?