
Iratus Caelestis
KIA Corp
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Posted - 2007.01.12 22:45:00 -
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Eve has been MSSQL from day one.
All the self proclaimed guru's (I see about 3 people in the thread that actually sound like they have experience of large scale solutions) put their money where their mouth is and have a look at http://www.ccp.is/jobs/default.asp and show ccp just how good you are. Nice little Software Development Director job there.
Its amazing how many people read a text book, and speak to 'friends' and thus become experts on a subject.
Eve has flaws in its design, everyone knows this, the developers acknowledge it all the time but they never expected it to get this big, no sensible person would have put in a system that processed the damage, relative positioning and transactions (each round of ammo having a database entry and so its corresponding transaction and log) from 8 turrets and 10 drones moving relative to each other constantly and firing every 1.5 seconds for every avatar in the game if they expected groups of 200 people to be shooting at each other on a cluster holding 33,000.
Making posts like these where you point out the obvious like they are just a bunch of amateurs that don't know where their problem lies is patronising and self effacing at best.
Just remember that eve is the equivelent of 5 very smart guys sitting in a pub, deciding they wanted to grief people in space and then just ran with the idea. They're getting there. A project this ambitious and not top loaded with cash, or even having the technology available, is always going to have problems.
They've had some of the top people in the world come in and help them and do that reguarly, do you think you are actually pointing out something they don't know or do you think instead that they are trying to get all the 'little' (in the loosest possible sense) issues resolved first, no use dedicating 80% of your resources to rewrite the architecture if its only going to fix 20% of the problem is there? Perhaps the hardware upgrades are just to keep things ticking over until all the 'quick' wins are all solved. We just don't know but if you speak to some of them they do have a fearsome intellect (Oveurs however is just a drunk though :D ) so I think they problably do have a good idea of whats wrong and are doing all they can to fix it, privately owned company remember, its in their interest :)
lol@ the person saying their was no lag in the GNW incidentally.
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