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I have to learn how much CPU I have before I can use it?

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Dirk Magnum
Spearhead Endeavors
#21 - 2012-03-04 01:30:59 UTC
Computers that interface with the user's brain directly in the year 5,000 or whatever work like our computers today. C/D

                      "LIVE FAST DIE." - traditional Minmatar ethos [citation needed]

Shogun Archer
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#22 - 2012-03-04 01:41:51 UTC  |  Edited by: Shogun Archer
Velicitia wrote:
Macrathleachlainn Lucian wrote:
It is almost the only reason I rant about these things since I have had a lot of friends/people of whom I know would enjoy EVE flake off because of the wall of time they looked up against before they could do certain things.

I have more patience and reap the rewards, and yes I agree it does filter a select crowd of people and that is in many aspects a good thing.



so, just for comparison ... how long does it actually take to get all the purple sparkle fittings so you can be ~elite PVE~ in that other MMO?



Welcome to generation now. I want what I want WHEN I WANT IT !!!!!!!

Personally, I'm glad those kinds of people quit.

If you run into more than 2 a**holes in a day, you should probably look in the mirror.

Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#23 - 2012-03-04 01:49:41 UTC
Dirk Magnum wrote:
Computers that interface with the user's brain directly in the year 5,000 or whatever work like our computers today. C/D

C.

What the skill does is teach you which device drivers to disable, what bloatware to uninstall, and how to kill -9 the correct pieces of integrated malware — all of which lets you squeeze more CPU cycles out of your space canoe.
Johan Civire
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#24 - 2012-03-04 02:18:49 UTC
I love the SP system realy but (sorry for the bad english and grammer iam not english so dont be rude) but wat about the 24 hours people spending so many hours in this game and get like 0 more sp, how about abonus for that kind of people because the are spending so many hours in this game to set op a corp and try to hold ground enc. I mean like a sort of xp gained. A special "skill or social tree or whatever you can think about it" to gain xp to. Like Wow and the other mmorpg out there. This will reduce the sp bots in eve but the hardcore players got a more rewarding system just to gain some special xp perhaps a small sp bonus or whatever people help me out here. You guys are better in english then me.. But you get the point. Idea
Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#25 - 2012-03-04 04:11:54 UTC
Real life situation:

I visit a customer's site. They've installed PostgreSQL and are running a Django based web site. Their system is getting really slow and they want help speeding it up.

So I do the simple things:

  • see how much data is used, tune PostgreSQL's buffers and the system's shared memory size to boost responsiveness, I get about 5% better performance
  • look at the queries and find that some queries are performing linear searches over many hundreds of thousands of records, so add an index on the relevant columns, achieve another 10% better performance
  • see far too many "select * from x" queries, examine the Python/Django code and find that someone has decided to retrieve Class.objects.all(), then loop through the list in Python to extract all the records with creation dates between X and Y. So update that code to use Class.objects.filter( date_created__gte = X, date_created__lte = Y). Achieve order of magnitude improvement in response times.


So my expertise has enhanced the performance of that product to bring what used to be a two minute response time (on a web app) down to a couple of seconds. There are other improvements I could make, such as using memcache to hold query results.

How long does that performance improvement last, considering that once I leave the people that built it are the ones that will be "improving" it?

Skills are not transferrable. It makes no sense that I would be able to boost the CPU of a ship, then give it to someone else and have them achieve the same performance with no training. I could train that person to get the same results as me, but then they'd be trained.

Then consider that for privacy and security reasons, I'd want to reformat the storage and erase the memory of that spaceship before it was given to anyone else. Why should the random stranger buying my second hand Caracal have access to my list of bookmarks?
Ladie Harlot
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#26 - 2012-03-04 05:26:12 UTC
Johan Civire wrote:
Like Wow and the other mmorpg out there.


Get out.

The artist formerly known as Ladie Scarlet.

Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#27 - 2012-03-04 05:37:37 UTC
Johan Civire wrote:
I love the SP system realy but (sorry for the bad english and grammer iam not english so dont be rude) but wat about the 24 hours people spending so many hours in this game and get like 0 more sp
They should turn off their bots and go jump off a bridge. Giving them more SP for being cheaters is out of the question.

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how about abonus for that kind of people because the are spending so many hours in this game
How about not, since the lack of a skill grinding mechanism is one of the parts that makes EVE great and which lets you play the actual game rather than engage in some bone-headed SP chase. They had something akin to what you're asking for in the early days, but it was removed due to the awful gameplay and behaviour it created.

You are already given ample rewards for playing a lot — you don't really need more.

And no, EVE should not be “like WoW and the other mmorpg[s] out there” — the largest point in EVE's favour is that it's completely different from that garbage.
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