Vaerah Vahrokha
Minmatar
Dark-Rising
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Posted - 2009.03.14 08:08:00 -
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/me thinks CCP needs to fire its networking engineers and half its software programmers and find new ones. :) <--- is a 20yr experienced network engineer with probably 5x more experiences than any of the guys at CCP haha.
You don't talk like one.
Plus you can be 20 years in a job without the skill or mental flexibility to be considered worth an important position like they got.
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A week or two later when a developer just stumbles across a few lines of code and starts his/her head on the keyboard out of pure frustration with all of them having overlooked the appearantly obvious a new patch is prepared and the problem is resolved
... and this is what in reality happens (unlike the first quote).
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This is a chronic scenario with CCP. In ways that seem beyond comprehension CCP is able to recreate old problems again and again. in my 45 years in programming
Because 45 years of programming don't count in specific scenarios like this.
This is a typical case of ancient code base that is passed thru "generations" to maintain. There's some old stuff (see the POS code, causing the infamous trillions exploit) that it's not touched with a pole because it complex and made with criteria now abandoned.
It's a relatively recent thing, to code with team tools, test suites and so on. Old coder = nights and beers and smokes spent slamming half assembler half C, getting asleep, waking up with "THE solution". Of course that stuff would not really be considered "industry strong" nowadays but coding was an odd kind of art for particular headcases in the early days.
I stumbled across a similar situation when I got contracted an huge para-military C software (parts in 16 bits for Windows 2.0 made with a DOS compiler, and we were using Windows XP already!).
10+ man years worth of software that took 2 people 3 years to constantly fix it for 8 hours a day.
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That's not acceptable to me as a customer, when I cannot get into my character to play the game that I pay a subscription on.....
A sensible behavior would be to do like for other MMOs: "we are giving X days of free subscription for those days you could not play".
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give the 4-4 cna station an extra node give the 4-4 cna station an extra node give the 4-4 cna station an extra node
Ever wondered why nodes cover whole systems (usually multiple of them, except Jita and except when a corp plans an huge fight and calls CCP to reserve them a server for the day?)
The "system" is not supporting multiple nodes per system, it's a fundamental design decision made at long time past.
The only supported "solution" would be to put Jita in 1 separate system as lone station, but the effort would bring marginal gains seeing how the huge majority of players in Jita use that station anyway.
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