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Posted - 2010.09.21 22:36:00 -
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k Originally by: Izuru Hishido
If walking in stations happens, then most of the 1500 people who were in that fight would be unable to replicate that ever again in the future just because of the sheer amount of server resources dedicated to each person in each room wandering around rendering the hair, the eyes, the clothes, and the character picking their nose while outside the station people are trying to fight.
Tranquility is not a single server, but a cluster of many, many blade-servers, known as "nodes".
With the recent system architecture changes there are different roles assigned to different nodes - SOL Nodes (space simulation), Character Nodes (market, evemail etc.).
Ambulation a.k.a Walking in Stations a.k.a. Incarna will be hosted on different type (dedicated) of nodes, that's for sure!
One more thing - rendering hair, eyes, clothes will be performed by your EVE Client, i.e. on each player's PC. Tranquility has nothing to do with visual rendering.
Of course, some players complain even now that Incarna would require serious PC resources (DirectX 10 GPU, I suspect), but that's optional game aspect, isn't it?
Originally by: Izuru Hishido
Walking in stations and 1500 man fights (and Tranquility could barely support that then, and certainly can't support it now) simply cannot be supported without CCP inventing some phenomenal new server that could support it. No MMO can handle that. Not now, anyway. Maybe in five or ten years, but not right now.
a) Incarna will be separated by the 1500 man flights, at least in the first iterations. So, don't worry - there will be no direct influence on big fights.
b) Jita recently managed to support 2023 playes + many hundreds of CONCORD ships + frenetic market & chat acitivity. 
SS01: 1997 Players @ 60FPS / Gate View
SS02: 2003 Players @ 55FPS / Outside 4-4 Station View
SS03: 2025 Players @ 41FPS / Outside 4-4 Station View
SS04: 1979 Players @ 20FPS / Outside 4-4 Station - Concord Fight
SS05: 1992 Players @ 24FPS / Outside 4-4 Station - Concord Overview
SS06: Windows 7 x64 - Resources @ 5 EVE Clients
That said!
P.S. I KNOW JITA MASS TEST WAS NOT A FIGHT SIMULATION, BUT INCARNA WILL BE A DIFFERENT TYPE OF SIMULATION AS WELL!
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