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Dersen Lowery
Laurentson INC StructureDamage
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Posted - 2014.01.22 21:35:00 -
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Feyd Rautha Harkonnen wrote:Coming when, soon(tm)?
To quote John Carmack: when it's done.
It's one thing to say, "they're gonna need a bigger bus," as if it was just some incredibly simple solution that hadn't occurred to them for whatever reason. They've been working on this since 2011 or so. The dev blogs at the time show an absolutely lucid sense of what needs to happen. If it hasn't happened yet, maybe it's just not as simple as ordering a bigger bus.
Since this thread was started with someone who works on servers, the mentality here is that of an application developer who thinks that because the OS supplies him with a 64-bit address space he can use it all willy-nilly, and it's the hardware's fault if the application runs poorly because the server "only" has 32GB of actual RAM. Actually, it's the application developer's fault for working in a vacuum instead of working within the resources of the machine he'll be deploying to.
Freedoms come with responsibilities. If you want the freedom to pile as many people into system as you can, without a limit preset by CCP, then you must also accept the responsibility to work within the limitations imposed by the server. Nobody is forced to cling to the roof of your hypothetical bus.
The messaging problem--updating everyone on grid about the status of everyone else on grid--is geometric, or possibly a bit better than geometric if you're clever (if I remember CCP Veritas correctly). What this means in practice is that the benefit of increasing performance by a linear amount X is proportional to log2(X)--you get rapidly decreasing results for linear performance improvements, which will eventually decrease to the point of imperceptibility no matter how big X is. CCP's most optimistic estimates on how much will be saved by the brain-in-a-box and the threaded messaging service fall well short of the factor-of-ten improvement allowed by Time Dilation. The population limits you're looking at now are pretty close to the population limits that the current hardware will ever support.
No amount of complaining will change that fact. Proud founder and member of the Belligerent Desirables. |
Themanfromdalmontee
EVE RADIO ARMY
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Posted - 2014.01.22 21:46:00 -
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I do love it when actual intelligent people respond rather than mongos. |
Sentamon
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2014.01.22 21:51:00 -
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Best way to protest is to reduce the 2 sides in dullsec down to 1 with more recruiting and try to shove then all into one system for an epic tear fest.
Then the sane people can sit back and laugh at you some more. ~ Professional Forum Alt -á~ |
Bad Messenger
Nasranite Watch OLD MAN GANG
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Posted - 2014.01.22 21:54:00 -
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i do not see any reason why op should whine about 0.0 it is just how they made it. |
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ISD Tyrozan
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
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Posted - 2014.01.22 22:25:00 -
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Duplicate topic. Topic locked.
Forum rule 16. Redundant and re-posted threads will be locked. ISD Tyrozan Captain Community Communication Liaisons (CCLs) Interstellar Services Department @ISDTyrozan | @ISD_CCL |
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