Nullsec.

The servers already struggle over 1000 pilots with a 1Hz tick, exponentially increasing client polling simply won't help

Likely nothing that currently exists.

Network performance isn't the issue. Raw number of calculations per second is. When you double the polling rate the absolute number of calculations increases to the square.

So say you have 400 pilots scapping, and say (totally made up number) that it requires 100,000 calculations a second. This is firing solution, ship vectors, bumping, refits, damage calculations, bonuses going up and down, session calculations, drawing models and what not


100,000 square is 10 billion, its not a linear progression.

Doubling the calculation frequency is a linear progression... Pay more attention in class.

not only drones, it happen more and more often that you activate a module and it take a second more to actually activate.

when this happen on a gate, where you try to point something, you succesfully ock, you are in range, but the module just doesn't start....... or some odd times, it cycles, but you don't have agression and the tgt still warp out .
no stabs involved, talking about shuttles or hictor focus point, also occurs with regular point vs regular ship but then, the wcs is a possibility so hard to tell (well, i'd say if cycle + aggro timer => wcs, if not, server fail).

tbh, this is infuriating, to actually point something and see it go anyway because of this tick crap

point should apply on same tick as lock if preactivated, you lock it with preactivation, point is applyed 100%

just checked, and whther a point is preheated or not, it take at least 2 ticks to actually apply, 1 for lock if lock < 1s (in fact, minimum lock time is 1sec as per the srver tick), then next tick, point apply.

wich mean, anything warping under 2 sec is uncatchable, and under 3 sec almost incatchable at a gate (because of the reaction time when he decloack).

as now, any ceptor / shuttle / pod (and some fast frig) cannot be catched unless smartbomb / bomb / bubble if the first order given is a "warp to" order (and provided they are still cloacked when order is issued)

it is so bad that such fast entitys often show up on overview being 200+ km away @ 3500+ m/s (i.e. already in warp)

and yet i have a very good connection, with a 16ms +- ping, i can't imagine the nightmare for AUS or NZ ppl for example, when their ping adds to the reaction time and stuff

just for giggle, i tested, and a cynabal flown by a pilot with a full low grade nomad, shield dps fit witha t1 polycarbon rig and a nanofiber align in 1.97s..... so even some cruisers can achieve it

Yes, but if you take the number of quamtum calculations and multiply it by a finite number of idioms, then the resulting equation is equal to the number of server ticks multiplied by the quantum capacitors ability to keep pace with the full cycles of the square root of the hypotinuse. And all this depends on the processing power of the current hardware minus the overhead of the cycles lost in heat generating calculations of the parallel equations...

wut?