EVE General Discussion

Wrong... your point is off. Let's try again - before TiDi only fleet fights were lagged. Now innocent bystanders are getting impacted by a minority event.

One improvement might be for CCP to make systems more likely to be hosted on nodes that host neighboring systems? That would localize the issue (but might have some other very bad side effects).

I haven't yet gotten to try time dilation, but given my prior experience without it, I can only imagine it is one of the greatest things to hit nullsec since player-owned stations.

Fixes for your issues client side are on Sisi hopefully to deploy this week but most likely next week.

Remember all those mysterious reboots? Remember the DB corruptions? Remember the black screens?

Before, everybody paid, but it was all-or-nothing.

All you have to do is move to a different system if you're TiDi'd unintentionally. You can still adjust market orders. You are still in the game.

Before, not so much.

Think about it.

Welsige, you do realize what that battle would have been like without TiDi? I would not have been faster. With the server that loaded you would have sat there for the same time, just instead of watching a slow motion battle, you would have been watching targeting timers sit at zero for half an hour, or guns that should be firing sit there blinking at you for half an hour, or still firing while blinking red for half an hour, or perhaps just a black screen for the entire battle.

With or without TiDi an overloaded server will result in a slow battle. TiDi does not make it slower, it just makes it fair.

1) EVE is not only about fleet fights you know, one of your CSM members even defended CCP when I pointed out TiDi is another blob incentitive and useless for anyone bar the <5% that sits in those lagfests. So, how is it now, you mention fleet fights and want specific feedback on that, or is TiDi a feature for everyone?

2) Yah, my EVE experience has been negative in many, many ways.
- I almost lost a covert ops to unresponsive client. Had just jumped through a gate, system is empty, when suddenly a stealthbomber comes trough same gate I just went through. I've already sent command to warp off and cloak, but thanks to TiDi it still havnt' executed. I'm not able to stop and cloak either, no command work while the older commands try execute. But for some reason, this stealthbomber is allowed to approach and start lock me. Thankfully, his lock speed was delayed too and for some reason my warp command executed half a minute later.
- TiDi makes NPC's permajam, instead of having lag, or crash back to acceleration gates, you just sit there while being unable to do jack **** while they just re-apply their jam non-stop. A single scenario with ten NPC's on grid, one of which can jam, kept me permajammed for towards an hour..
- TiDi has no warning, and happens when it makes no sense. I been casually moving around, minding my own business, with systems having 0-1 people for several jumps, when suddenly - boom, my game is completely unresponsible due with TiDi going 65-90%. One would think players who deliberately stay away from blobs, blobby systems, blobby areas, wouldn't get this. And one would think that players who run 4-6 clients just fine, would get a warning instead of massive delays on all of them out of the blue? At least give us the option to log off in time..
- And since Crucible, sometimes one of my clients will randomly stop update the overview. Tabbing it down, swapping the 'hot-tab' on top, etc, has no effect, only way to solve it is to relog. I can run 4-6 clients same time and this just happens to one of them, seeminly randomly.

3) I'll be happy to give you some feedback to fight the lag monster: kill all blob incentitives you have. Remove moon mining or make it very weak, change faction warfare to actually be small scale combat over the bunkers or similar, remove all sov upgrades and spread out resources, make belt ratting more profitable then lv4/incursions, make belt mining highly sought after again, kill jumpbridges (both at POS and from Titans), spread players out. Let outposts be destructible, remove fighterbombers and give supers back their dronebay, etc. All small scale PvP buffs, and kill off all blob incentitives you keep adding. TiDi is not an improvement for this game at this current state, rather the opposite. And to not make this complete whining: one thing you have done good since the early days in EVE, is ship balancing, nos/damp fixes, missile revamps (multiple times), etc. We need highsec dwellers out in low- and null, but spread out.

Just get rid of the damn blobs, that'll be the best lag fix you could ever have done.

If only they had the option to just crash themselves, they'd be better off.

Tidi works nicely, I was in a rather large fight on homeland defence. We were TiDied all the way to something like 40% right as it started (all undocking at once) but then it improved to 90% and by the end of it no TiDi. Quite smooth all the way though despite us drakes spamming missiles everywhere.

What is up with this whole TD in locations not even near a fleet fight? We do not have a fight anywhere in our region and I have 50% TD while trying to rat or mine......

This is rediculas haing 12 min strip miner cycle times.