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Originally by: Evelgrivion Edited by: Evelgrivion on 28/07/2007 20:53:00 I do wish people would do something other than complain about lag
Have you ever wondered what exactly happens when a large fleet jumps into a system? The following is approximately what happens.
1. Everything on the grid is loaded to each person 2. All special effects and turret effects of anyone and everyone are broadcast to the people in question. Every person who hasn't turned off turret effects and effects adds a considerable amount of lag. 3. The information of their ship, and relevant statistics are loaded for every ship. Damage, tracking, etc. 4. The X Y Z coordinates of every drone is controlled and broadcast to everyone on the same grid.
The amount of processing required by the node increases exponentially with every person added to a grid. Unfortunately, that is the nature of the code at this time. Until someone finds out a fantastically amazing way of reducing the amount of processing required for each individual, and more importantly, how to spread the data processing load past one processing core, things will not change. Until then, the more you blob, the more you lag. Don't complain about it; you know what is going to happen.
Its actually not about processing power, the problem is synching everybody up with everyone else. Turrets arent a concern. Drones are though. If the server indeed controls the flight of drones then yes THAT is an issue cause now every player potentially counts as 6 as far as synching up is concerned.
If thats the truth about drones, then god almighty, CCP needs to make drone movement and locations controlled by the client ASAP. That needs to be done yesterday, screw better graphics, I agree. Cause, oh man, 400 people in grid means that the server is... possibly controlling 2,400 entities.. holy god!
And consider missiles, what if the servers coordinate missile flights in the same way.. /hurl. I doubt that would be much of a problem though cause current processors can handle a crazy amount of math.
Maybe if CCP fixed drones and had some super-computers to handle fleet combat then the playability would get soo much better. And I think its a needed investment seeing as eve is CCP's meal ticket.
I love eve I just hate to see the servers keep owning the players so hard.
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