Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Game performance still suffers from a fundamental problem: CCP cannot switch nodes for a system on the fly.
How about a local system shutdown routine thats immersive and does not interfere with fleets fights in an unfair way.
If you accept a special phase of gameplay of say 10 minutes and a hard pause of 2 minutes, a system shut down and switch to an inforced node could be done.


Roleplay background
Whenever a system is overcrowded, the number of warp-drive reactors can induce a dimension transition of a system wide X-Ray Storm into this system, which forces all players to move into Shielding Shelters, hence disabling all hostile activities for the period of the storm.

Phase 1
Application for system switch

Can only be done when a system is already in TiDi by right clicking the TiDi symbol

Can only be done when the switch to another node yields perfomance improvements (not possible on single system super nodes)

Phase 2 is triggered when a quorum is reached. For example 25% of people in local

Phase 2 (5 min)
Spawning of Shielding Shelters and System Broadcasts

When the Shutdown is triggered, forcefield-like Shielding Shelters are spawned (10 or so)

Shielding-Shelters have a 200 km radius, so no one gets bumped out by accident

A broadcast warns concering X-Ray Storm flashes

every 10 seconds there is a system wide X-Ray Flash of increasing power (after 3 minutes no ship in EVE can stand a hit)

Shielding Shelters disable all targeting

Phase 3 (2 min)
X-ray Storm blinds visuals for a node switch

for a period of 2 minutes all visuals a replaced by a client side animation of disturbed visuals

all movement is disabled

system is switched onto another node

Phase 4 (5 min)
Despawning of Shelters and returning to normal business

back to normal visuals

broadcast of despawning of shelter structures in 5 minutes

movement enabled after 1 minute

sidenotes

cynos can be casted with shelters

jumps onto the cyno can also take place within the 2 min hard shut down period, but are also queued with a client side pseudo blackscreen (client side animation of disturbed visuals)

TiDi is still effective, so 5 minutues starting and ending period may be delayed, but usually this is not very likely since performance heavy activities (battles , system jumps) are disencouraged by the storm setting.

This.

I really wish people who know nothing about coding in general (and how the Eve backend in specific) works would stop posting ideas about 'simple' coding changes to the core systems. It really isn't that simple. They have experienced coders working for them and any 'simple' idea you can think of to 'solve' core game engine mechanics, has already been thought of atleast once.

tl;dr: It just isn't that simple

Sometimes people who aren't immersed in the system can come up with a good idea that the programmers wouldn't think of on their own just due to perspective.

I don't think that this is one of those times. This idea is inelegant, the programming would be more difficult than the OP seems to believe, and the interference with gameplay would be horrid.