I know that it's well documented. But being able to link a DevBlog and say "look you blistering barnacled baboon, here's exactly how it works, straight from the horse's mouth" would be nice for some of the denser people who cling tight to they're myth.

But increased tick rate would improve the feel of eve by alot I think, more specificly in actions like accelerating, turning your ship... basic manuvering :P like stopping your ship too... all that would react faster then? But I bet that would be much more work than "simply" making prefired modules activated on lock.

Just currious though... have you guys experimented before with making the tick rate of "Destiny" faster?, I mean, say it was 0.5 sec instead of 1 sec... does that increase the load of the servers by 100%? would the servers even be able to finish all the operations? or wouldn't it be able to finish the database queries faster, and thus relieve some stress?
That is something I would be interrested to hear about also in your dev blog if you make one soon :)

- edit: This would also allow frigs to increase their survivability a bit, as they can then change alignment faster, and thus decrease the chance they get one shotted by a hurricane or other snipers

Isn't that covered here already? I remember when I read it back then, I found it very informative. Didn't read it today though. Maybe it's not what you had in mind.

Yeah, I've played around with it. It's really easy to change the update rate - it's just a number in a source code file. The effect it has on performance is non-trivial though. While it's not a straight linear increase because it doesn't change the amount of events that happen directly, it does increase the communication overhead and things like that. I'm hoping that we can get to a point with optimization where we can increase it a bit and see how things go. As you say, there's a lot of elements in the game that would benefit from smoother physics.

I know that it's well documented. But being able to link a DevBlog and say "look you blistering barnacled baboon, here's exactly how it works, straight from the horse's mouth" would be nice for some of the denser people who cling tight to they're myth.

There is no benefit to the ship and how long it takes to get into warp; in EVE, ships are modelled as vectors, and the actual orientation of the engines has no relevance to the direction in which thrust is applied. Therefore the time to warp when passive aligned is the same as if the ship were pointing in the opposite direction but stationary.

Please give us a nice devblog and faster heartbeat! :D

Everyone knows this man, my post was in half-jest. It's the same as when I warped off a gate with no hostiles on it, then (while in warp) I got teleported back to the gate I came from, killed and podded. My client told me I warped off the gate 30 seconds before I was teleported back. Logs (obv clientside) shows me I initiated warp 30sec+ before I even got damage notifications. We were less than 50 people in local, they were ~20-25 landing on the gate and we were 4-5 leaving it. No visible lag, no module delays, etc.

The non-jest part in my post is this; your client tells you ALOT of stuff, and sometimes impossible/should-not-happen stuff happens. Like me being teleported back, half a minute after my sub 4 sec align time ship had told me it was warping. Like when your modules tell you they are activated, you even see them run a full cycle or start a second, at times, and yet they seem to have no effect. But in the end, what matters, is what the server says. CCP cannot check what our clients tells us, it's unreasonable and the workload for GM's would be immense, and so much potential for players to try cheat themselves into reimbursements. So when the server tells CCP that our modules did not activate, or that targets was out of range, even tho we saw something different..

TL;DR we have to suck it up.
Players don't want this to happen, CCP don't want this to happen, but you won't be able to "fix" this, and this is one of the rare cases I actually trust CCP will try to make this as good as possible.

Mhmm also greatly interested in this possibly being rectified. Nothign more annoying than calling point and watching that frigate warp off as it says in local something about fail. DEATH TO TEH FRIGATES -.-

Been along time, but have been victim of the phatom warp more than once. One time I was setting on a gate in my ship and I couldn't activate it. While complaining on comms, corpmate informed that he not only watched me lose the fight back on station but he has looking at my corpse has we were speaking.

Been along time, but have been victim of the phatom warp more than once. One time I was setting on a gate in my ship and I couldn't activate it. While complaining on comms, corpmate informed that he not only watched me lose the fight back on station but he has looking at my corpse has we were speaking.

:3 would love to hear this thing being one of the things looked at for winter expansion (prefired modules being server sided) on a side note.... I noticed I can basicly bump into a cloaking ship before it cloaks on a gate, and then run directly past it (trying to lock it the entire time) and because I am too fast, it never gets decloaked as I enter the 2km radius and leave the 2km radius in much less than a sec... which because of the 1hz ticks registeres as me never having been within 2km of the cloaked ship...

Gate camping is a terrible mechanic, don't fix this.