BeanBagKing
The Order of Atlas
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Posted - 2015.04.02 14:07:59 -
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CCP FoxFour wrote:Arronicus wrote:CCP FoxFour wrote:Chi'Nane T'Kal wrote:I'm a bit worried about skin switching being abusable in large fleet fights. Do you yet have numbers on the traffic / processing demands skin switching in space will generate for clients with ships on grid?
If it has the potential to generate noticable lag i'm pretty sure you will soon see fleets come up with strategies like 'switch to new primary and then all switch skin to prevent the logi from adapting'.
Apart from the effect looking cool (which will probably lose appeal pretty fast) is there any real benefit from switching skins in space as compared to doing that only when docked (maybe also under a Force Field for players that can't dock)? We have plans for a mass test and have rate limited how often you can switch your skin. So we are aware of this potential use and are keeping it in mind for the design and implementation. :) We need to have skins switchable in space so if you get out of your ship it can revert back to normal. Is it not simply possible to block manual skin swapping in space (have it only an option when docked/moored), but allow it to happen in space when you get out of your ship? Just take away the option for us to change it in space, doesn't even have to be a coded prevention Yes it is possible and we may end up doing that, but we would prefer to let people switch in space if it doesn't cause a problem. We will know more after the mass test.
Would a possible solution be to revert all skins back to their default texture and disallow changing skins if certain criteria are met? For example, if there is TiDi above a certain percent, if you are on a reinforced node, if there are X number of people in local? Or, rather than totally turning them off, only allow X number of TOTAL skin changes per tick/per minute. I don't mean per person, I mean total for everyone. So for example, if you are on a node with 40% tidi, that node only allows 5 people per tick to change their skins. Everyone else can try again next tick. People can still spam it all day long, but the request doesn't get applied unless they are one of the lucky 5.
Yes, it would kind of suck to have a big fancy fleet fight and not have your cool all black Hel, but if it makes for a smoother player experience and prevents the other side from exploiting lag, then it might be something to look at. |