The problem is client-side lag, not server-side.
Turn off drone models and their brackets. Problem solved

CCP has stated its not the drones or number of drones, its errors that come when trying to process that many units on field at once, which they are fixing.

Despite what people think we simply use whatever ship comp we need to use to be able to handle the task at hand. When you are fighting a foe that brings Domis , Phoons , Tengus , Ishtars , Bombers , Ceptors & other fleet comps at the same time and outnumbers you on average 4:1 you need a durable fleet comp. Slowcats & Wrecking Ball provide that . The hostiles knowing we are going to bring slowcats have a multitude of options on how to deal with us. The most obvious one is using there own capitals and supercapitals. The gist is there is counterplay to slowcats and wreckingball. Which is the definition of balanced gameplay in a sandbox.


Now drones are entities much like missiles once were. The same missiles AAA & Stainwagon used with wild abandon despite the fact that using a missile based concept caused massive lag. They didn't use missile base ships to intentionally cause lag they used them because it was the best tool they had at their disposal. Do drones need to be reworked so they don't create excessive server load? Maybe so maybe not only CCP can answer that. As CCP stated in regards to the last few node crashes they had nothing to do with server load and everything to do with a error in the code.



I think the discussion CCP is having about drone assign is the correct approach. Its not a question of is this or that overpowered . Instead they are looking at it from the pov of : How much control should of your ship should you give over to another person. So things like fleet warps are part of that question. I personally think bombers are way overpowered. In heavy TIDI there is near 0 counterplay to stopping bombers. Since bombers can warp cloaked together you have 0 warning till they decloak and launch bombs and tidi removes the problem of having fast reactions. So bombers are already prepared to drop their bombs and warp off.

Bring even numbers to all fights and ill fly something other than subcaps. Don't say to me to make more friends because all 0.0 pilots are either on your side or mine and your side is much much much larger. I would love to fly a BS concept or a T3 concept and have a fighting chance but when you are so greatly outnumbered by such a diversity of fleet comps you must go to a tank concept.

Slowcats are the tank. So your side then has a choice to counter slowcats by using your own capitals and supercapitals. To this point you fail to make that leap and one can speculate why. But that is your problem not mine and not CCP's. We are not flying some spaceship that your party doesn't have access too. This isn't 2004 where most of the game couldn't use T2 guns making those that can overpowered. This is 2013 in a game thats been around for 10 years. You're group has very old alliances and players within it. You have carriers you have dreadnaughts you have supercarriers you have titans. Use them and stop crying "UNFAIR UNFAIR".

I am sorry that a knife loses in a gun fight 99% of the time. I am sorry that a machine gun will kill better than a pistol. I am sorry that a grenade will kill better than a machine gun. I am sorry a bomb will kill better than a grenade. " ITS UNFAIR WHY CANT I KILL THE GUY USING A IED WITH MY BUTTER KNIFE". Moron go buy a nuke.

How do you know exactly that drones cause those lags btw?
There are rumors that it has something to do with tons of crap in cargo. The unified inventory, when introduced, was a completely broken feature, and had huge performance issues. CCP did some quick urgent band-aid, and proceeded to creating shiny white ships. So imo these rumors look quite probable.

Russians are unhappy that fights take so long in real time. This is because TIDI because when you shove 1k+ dudes into a system no matter what activity they are undertaking it will load the server and create TIDI. We can all go mining with 1k dudes and it would TIDI the system. All the lazorz hitting asteroids people turning off/on modules. Putting things into / pulling out of cans etc. However TIDI is still better than what we had before where some people just would be black screened or modules would be stuck for hours. Russians need to remember they started this war when they stated they intend to remove N3 and PL from the map. N3 might have struck first but that was only because we have spies within your command structure that tipped us off to your plans.


So I am sorry that you put yourselves into this position only to find out you don't enjoy what you asked for. I am sorry that you are outmatched in every aspect of this conflict other than Warm Bodies. I am sorry that 30 minutes of PVP takes 300 minutes under heavy server load. Remember you (RUS) wanted this war you (RUS) started this war and you (RUS) will now live with your decisions.

I like how you told all your members to go on the forum and make they sure they like this thread. You made your decision to go to war, don't blame N3 and don't blame PL for it. It was a war that YOU wanted, now you suffer the consequences. Instead of having an actual fight you decide to go and have a forum CTA where all your members like a post...for real? Is this how low you have dropped?

I wish you luck in your forum war. Perhaps your time is better spent finding more blues however.

What caused the difference? Well, we can't be completely sure of that as we don't run our performance analysis tools during such insanely high load since they add load of their own, but we've got a couple pretty good guesses. Those guesses are increased drone use and the extended length of the fight.