So many null sec players keep telling high sec ones to GTFO and come play the "real" game in null and then, when the population in null is high, they cry about it. Get your **** together and decide WTF you want...

It's actually a process akin to how nature works.

More grass crops up due to a good season? More herbivores will be able to survive because of that and they'll grow their numbers till they are again at a fine line below starvation. More carnivores will then be able to survive because of more herbivores and they too will push the line between growth and starvation induced "balance".

Same for blobsec, the more you allow to play in the same system, the more will join them till the server will (once again) barely manage to work.

Double ther server and double the blobbers will come, in a positive feedback process where CCP can't win because regardless of how powerful they make the server, N + 1 blobbers will join in till the server is brought down to its knees.

I have suggested to implement some diminishing returns mechanism to keep blobbers within less-than-pathetic amounts but alas, blobbers flamed me.

Seriously CCP its pathetic.

You KNOW a war is happening in fountain, and you KNOW 90% of nullsec will pile into a system when needed, yet its at the point we cant even leave the char selection screen to log back in.

Get your **** together ffs

I would rather go 90% slower than get kicked out of the game.

You don't need to conjecture too much.
In every PvP game that allows blobbing, blobs happen. It's all the sheeps and bads who tag along a core of competent players and ride their tails to success.

Sadly in EvE it's more difficult for good players to farm those blobs, this is why the blobs in EvE are so prominent and all encompassing.

Other, even "lesser" games (Warhammer and even WoW) show groups of few guys easily fending off 5 times their numbers and no, it's not (just) because those games are gear based. Even in GW2 where everyone have the same stuff, 1 group can still stalemate a blob and even farm them.

EvE ruleset (no diminishing returns on anything), instead, allows for "strong blobs", it really takes awesome players to counter them and even then, some will have losses (something perfectly avoided in other games).

In most games, blobbers are shunned and laughed at as they deserve to be. In EvE "numbers are quality of their own".

The fact that people really think that's an improvement, goes to show you how well CCP's PR department works....

Two pages of bitching, but I see nobody coming up with a real solution.
Wanna know why? Because there isn't one.

CCP is currently working on an algorithmic approach to allocating server resources (aka automatically throwing nodes to dedicated servers ), but until that's about as much as they can do.
This is not a problem you can just throw hardware at, a lot of the tasks that the server has to do are dependent on previous actions, so you can't really split it into multiple tasks, or do the tasks out-of-order.

So basicly a fight up in fountain, watched it on the livestream,

I really aint wanting to login to this crap. This is all.......

Already on the way to fix the issue, then.

Yes im sure fixing lag of 3000+ players in 1 system is an easy fox and CCP is just being lazy

Think about the mass of Data that has to be transferred, processed, sent back, every second with that many people. Optimizing this and improving what it can handle is a technical feat that will take time.

An instant fix isn't really expected either, but there hasn't been much communication and the system seemed to work better before the last expansion.

Sounds like some other feature(s) we know about... not much communication... seemed to work better before...

The biggest problem of tidi is, that it effects people, who try to stay out of massive fleet engagements. People, who are not even near the happening battles have to suffer from this giants blobs (performance wise).

Hehe sounds as if we should be thankful, that our game experience is only horrible instead of non existant

Hehe sounds as if we should be thankful, that our game experience is only horrible instead of non existant

[quote=Mother Drone]

TiDi is a solution to a social problem. Unfortunately it does not act much as a deterrent to the lemming behaviour of the player base that insist on bringing more and more people to a fight. CCP can never engineer away the human element, no matter how much hardware they dedicate to the problem.

The fact that people really think that's an improvement, goes to show you how well CCP's PR department works....

Where do you watch it on livestream?