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Those are some sexy graphs.

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But more seriously, looking good. Yes, tidi-ing the node is better than not dilating anything. Sure, it's a trifle annoying for other systems, but that's life. Good Job

Wormholes, being nice semi-population-capped things, group up very nicely. Your average wormhole-housing node is going to have a few hundred wormhole systems on it.

TiDi works wonderfully and is possibly one of the greatest improvements to large fleet fights in the past couple years. Add in client side optimizations in the coming months and null sec will be happier than it ever has been. Keep up the great work CCP Veritas and Team Gridlock! We love you long time for improving our overall game experience.

Congrats on TiDi guys - that and the compressed local were enough to make me resub for a year. Hopefully the coming year sees continued UI and performance improvements.

I think the major pain point right now is around session changes - not just the timer, but delays incurred due to jumping, docking, and logging in. TiDi really exposes how bad this is, since it makes the rest of the game much less painful. I realize it's probably a pretty fundamental problem, but it would be well worth the time invested if you guys could work out some kind of precache strategy or something to make session changes less costly.

Also, I think TiDi magnifies the effect of session changes during jumping. Before TiDi, traffic control would have a tendency to spread a large fleet out among several systems by keeping people from jumping. TiDi encourages a clumping effect, though - the main blob of the fleet slows down whatever node they're on. As people leave a system it speeds up, so they warp faster into the overloaded system where everyone is warping under time dilation. Traffic Control kicks in hardcore and annoys people, but it can't actually help the problem.

One possible solution would slow down the rate at which dilation reduces when people leave a system. The idea would be to keep people in the outbound system slowed long enough for people to pass through the inbound system, thus preventing a big traffic jam.

The soon-to-be-released client performance optimizations from Team Gridlock got a minor mention, but imho they are majorly full of win.

Does this mean you're fixing bracket lag?!?

Work has been done along those lines. I can't say if any individual will call it "fixed" with what's been done, but it's possible.

I remember your talk about it at last years fanfest Veritas, and how much I enjoyed the technical aspect of it. Really love to see it ingame and working, you, sir, really know your stuff.

Reppers go “wommm”, just fyi.