What's wrong with considering new ways to fix it as opposed to hardware upgrades?

You've specifically said that you want this information before you get on the same grid as the gate.

Or are you just suggesting they wave their magic wands and make it so that isn't a massive drag on the server? I mean, if your suggestion has merit and you aren't just stomping your foot with your lower lip sticking out, then you have a concrete idea, right?

This mechanic already exists. If you warp to the Jita gate in Perimeter and the Jita system is full, you get a popup that says, "Jump Prohibited" because the system is full.

Working as intended. I'm so glad we got that sorted.

the jump button not working. and jita not letting you in because it's full and that's an intended effect are two different things.

EVE Online is not a twitch based game. It's slower, more thoughtful and requires players to plan ahead. You need knowledge based intelligence to survive and prosper in this game. This means scouting via the starmap, checking intel channels and knowing what your choke points are when hauling.

Why is "Knowing that Jita is a heavily travelled, reinforced node with problems during US peak times over the 4 day weekend period" any different to using the starmap, checking intel channels and generally knowing what is going on in the game?

i'm not suggesting they do anything. i'm suggesting knowing if a gate is open or not, is a better system than "warp to the gate and flip a coin" at current.

i'm not suggesting they do anything. i'm suggesting knowing if a gate is open or not, is a better system than "warp to the gate and flip a coin" at current.

So claiming that the system that lets you jump in isn't working as intended isn't the same as claiming that the system isn't working as intended?

Yes you have. Multiple times. Stop lying. You can also stop lying about the need for your supposed solution GÇö it's already in the game.

considering your fix of the problem, is the problem, i see you've read and understood the thread.

That doesn't justify dying on gates due to lag.

Even if you know it's there, traders, haulers and manufacturers in particular NEED to get in and out.

i haven't, saying i did doesn't change that fact.

You're wrong, because any feasible way for such a thing to exist, would cause more problems than it solves.

And since it would be trying to solve something that isn't actually a problem (autopiloting afk morons getting ganked on a locked gate), then it's not even worth consideration.

I honestly consider it insulting that Jita is wasting one of the cores that could be used for fleet fights. One of those is a big new player and recruitment draw. One of them is utterly boring.

So here's my solution to your "problem". Take Jita off the supernode entirely, FORCE people to shop elsewhere, and spread things around highsec.

Best part is, it's more technologically feasible than anything you're saying in this thread.

That doesn't justify dying on gates due to lag.

Even if you know it's there, traders, haulers and manufacturers in particular NEED to get in and out.

Bearing in mind GMs treat empire lag losses that are server based differently to combat losses, I'm pretty sure people are petitioning and probably getting a few reimbursed. It's not an invalid argument.

My fix for the problem is going somewhere else. The people in Jita are the problem, not the gates. We've been over this.

however the system we have now is still terrible and could be improved.

How is it terrible that we have all the information we need at our fingertip; that it's trivially easy to get in even during congested times; that we have plenty of functionality that entirely removes the need to get in and out?

read the original post.

read the original post.

Nothing in the original post has merit.

Literally nothing.

actually the hardware running the game isn't sufficient for the amount of players the game has is the problem.

So, you're suggesting that, before anyone, anywhere, warps to any gate, that the client pings the server to see if the gate is locked or not? And that this information be available on demand, yes?

So it's not actually terrible at all then GÇö the problem is that people because they're sloppy, which is as it should be. Well, that's sorted, I suppose.

That doesn't justify dying on gates due to lag.

Even if you know it's there, traders, haulers and manufacturers in particular NEED to get in and out.

Bearing in mind GMs treat empire lag losses that are server based differently to combat losses, I'm pretty sure people are petitioning and probably getting a few reimbursed. It's not an invalid argument.

i can't actually be bothered to type a proper response

i can't actually be bothered to type a proper response since you refuse to even read, let alone type a proper response.

Why? This isn't Ender's Game. The enemy gate is not down.

GǪexcept that the gate is not malfunctioning and it is not a game fault. *snip*

I noticed.
I gave you a proper response anyway, since I'm a kind and gentle person like that.

The OP was about the implementation of a hideously idiotic gamebreaker just to cover for the fact that the OP had been sloppy and failed to use the information and mechanics at his disposal. This is, of course, not a problem, but rather the way it should be. Less sloppiness on hiss part would have resulted in less death.

So instead you make another childish, petulant reply. Excellent work.

And the transition is what should happen when you activate the gate.

If the server could handle it, there would be no locked gate. Therefore the locked gate is a result of the game's fault to handle the load.