Jita Park Speakers Corner

I'd really like to see a second Jita sized node available for Eve. I'm even willing to pitch in some plex to make it happen. I figure there's other null pilots and even Jita traders who feel the same. I know it would just be a band aid. I acknowledge my bros in the CFC or my enemies in PL/N3 can just bolster even more numbers with even more sentry drones. But that's OK! Here's why:

Hardware architecture and underlying code for Eve are not likely to change soon. This investment would remain valuable for 3+ years. Any optimizations and improvements made by CCP will not negate current hardware design, but instead improve functionality on the existing platform. Thus, and improvement that benefits normal nodes also improves the super node and raises the soft-cap on huge fights. Lastly, there are limited nodes available and staging systems alone can require reinforcement. Rather than add +1 to that pool, better to add +1 Jita level node to allow for truly epic fights.

Naturally I would want CCP to pony up the cash themselves as part of their SLA to us. I can see how this may not be optimal or high enough on their priorities. CCP is likely focusing resources at the code level to address these problems, and I think they should continue. I think that a plex drive would demonstrate just how important this issue is, provide a vehicle for quick resolution, and give both Null Blocs and Jita traders a means to 'help themselves' without waiting for red-tape and budget cycles.

Transparency: I'm in a Sov holding alliance to participate in big fights with big toys. I want to know that when all sides of a bloc war say 'CCP ****'s gonna get real.' there will be no hesitation in providing us the best node available.

Lisara, you are factually incorrect.

6VDT-H had 4.1k in local yes, but that node resource was not shared with Jita local as well. Jita had a separate node with less horsepower. I think Jita should not suffer whenever 0.0 has epic fights, there should be two Jita sized nodes (or 3 if Amarr also has its own Uber node).

B-R5RB was random but big warzones could benefit from more reinforced nodes anyway. B-R was a staging system. I'd like to see each staging system in a major bloc war have their own node.

The 'tool' is a form submission. CCP reviews the submissions and chooses which node to use. 6VDT got the best node in the game because literally every null sec group said 'we're bringing big numbers.' and the Fountain war was plagued by awful server accidents. 6VDT had to go perfect. In contrast B-R got a normal reinforced node because Halloween War has been pretty smooth from a server perspective (HED the one exception).


I don't mind you disagreeing with me, just please know your facts first.

So the obviously dumb questions ......

Why are we using physical nodes instead of virtual ones?

Wouldn't it be easier to add/remove resources on the fly when big fights happen?

Why couldn't those "big fights" be moved to a virtual "mega-node"?

Would the server side code prevent these ideas from happening?

In a virtual environment, you should be able to move a virtual machine from one physical box to another when the first physical box doesn't have enough resources to function normally. We do this all the time with Windows (I know, bleh) servers when a particular physical machine can't handle the load of the multiple virtual machines running on it.

The principle would be the same here by moving a particular node from one physical blade, or to a virtual server, to another with more resources. You could also move underutilized nodes to the same blade or blades without a significant load to free up other nodes for some of the big battles that have been known to crash servers.

This way, we don't have huge null-sec/low-sec battles affecting game play on the other side of the known universe.

That's some great info I missed earlier. Thank you.

I wonder if a separate machine with its own RAM/chipset would be faster than sharing those motherboard resources between 3 Jita sized overclocked nodes or processors. Maybe just marginal gains though.