We raise and lower the cap based on technological factors - if the system is getting hammered repeatedly, sometimes it has to be lowered to ensure performance. Simple as that.

Goonies are griefin CCP now?

do you actually have any concept of this game besides trolling the forums?
theres a dozen reasons to be in Jita atm and none of them involve curiosity

besides the point that it has nothing to do with the ability to log into a system and everything to do about lowering pop caps on a reinforced system with less actual shooting than there was last night with a higher cap.

like I said, do try and keep up with the bigger picture here

Last night I was in Jita the population was at ~2k and at 95% time dilation. Sitting in station was more or less fine and dandy but undocking and doing anything was miserably slow and choppy. From a layman's perspective it appeared the performance degradation was anything but smooth.

To give you a real life comparison on how dumb this statement actually is consider this,

If Jita was a football stadium (american football, or what the rest of the world considers to be football and americans call soccer, it doesn't matter) and was filled to capacity would you still expect to get in to see the game? The answer is no, it's a single location (shard) that just happens to be jam packed to capacity. If you got to the gates and it was full and the stewards sent you to another stadium to watch the same game with the same teams at the same time then that would be an instanced location.

Its probably a completely batshit comparison but it works for me.

Not really, no.
It's still a sandbox, because it still gives you the tools to shape your own game world. Just because they limit how many can go into a system (a limit that has been there since roughly forever) doesn't mean those tools are gone.

EVE had walls since the very start and was a sandbox anyway, because the existence of walls is not a factor in it being a sandbox. EVE is still a sandbox now because nothing has changed.


GǪso we can safely add the word GǣsandboxGǥ to the list of terms you are unfamiliar with, alongside GǣshardGǥ and GǣinstanceGǥ. Any other word you'd like to add while we're at it?

It's less about the hardware and far more about using a scripting language for heavy lifting stuff. It may have been a great choice back in the day but nowadays the fact it still has a single global lock for certain things is seriously eating a huge amount of performance right out by killing concurrency gains (and frequency of CPUs does not go up significantly, but concurrency/core count does).

So they have to run many seperate processess in parallel to be able to use up the hardware and while this gives concurrency gains, it's an increased cost in communication between those processes again.

Isnt this a rant? Why isnt this topic closed?