Originally by: Caanan

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So since theres so many threads about "ZOMG CCP YUR SERVERS SUCK I CANT LOG IN" because of Jita being so laggy why don't we all just discuss this in one thread so that we can have some form of organized discussion about the current problem Eve is facing with Jita.

There is no doubt that the immense lag in Jita is the fault of CCP. However people should be less harsh on CCP, and should refrain from making "ZOMG CCP I WANT MY MONEY BACK I CANT LOG IN" threads. Just ask yourself, in what other game can you interract with 30k people on the same server? Eve is the only one. People need to give CCP some credit for pulling this off at this level. Whining is not going to solve the problem.
The lag in Jita is something people have to deal with. If you realize how the server works, you'll realize that 700 people in one system is going to crash the node one way or another. CCP may add more servers, or develop some load balancing system or something. But if EVE continues to grow I predict we will see the same trend happening, Jita constantly growing and constantly facing the same problem.

So let me describe why Jita is why it is the way I see it.

Jita has has a lot of stations with a lot of agents ranging from all levels and types. This attracts a lot of newer players looking to make money by doing missions. These agent runners supply the market with some mods and items, but mostly they demand items that they need for running their missions. This attracts producers to supply the agent runners with ships and mods because they have a market for their products. Now Jita has become a center of commerce. Next, other players come to Jita for shopping since the market is so plentiful and they can get everything they need in one stop.

Along with Jita there are Rens and Oursulaert, which are all similar because they have lots of agents and have stable and plentiful markets. However they don't lag nearly as bad as Jita because their populations aren't as large. This leads me to think that people are attracted to Caldari space for a reason. A large amount of the population is newer players running agent missions which is what really makes the system of Jita, Oursulaert, and Rens. But Jita is larger because it is caldari. Caldari are the most favored starting race for new players and alts. Why? Because Caldari ships are the best for running agent missions. Why be Gallente and train for a megathron or dominix when a raven will fulfill your needs? The Caldari race is overpowered, and as a result Jita has a much larger population. Rens and Oursulaert don't have nearly as bad as a problem with lag because they aren't caldari.

CCP's mistake was concentrating all the agent missions in Jita, Rens, and Oursulaert. If they weren't there, then we would have a more distributed population, and no huge node crashes and whatnot.

Sure you can add more servers, have better hardware, or a load balancing system, but in the end the problem is going to get continually worse. My suggestion is to remove all the agents in Jita, Rens and Oursulaert and spread them out among their race's space. This will help balance the populations of each races space and will balance the lag on the server.

So what do you guys think?

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