Shad0wsFury
Habitual Euthanasia
Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2012.01.19 17:08:00 -
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It's probably close to 2 years since I actually FC'd anything, but one of my biggest gripes as an FC was jump-in lag from the People and Places window.
For some reason, the People and Places window, which is something I almost always had open while FCing to make bookmarks with, would give me an extra 5-10 seconds of loading time whenever I jumped into a system with the window open. This was probably due to the fact that I had a pretty crap computer at the time, and that I had more bookmarks than I could count. This same lag-spike always happens when I open the People and Places window, even on my new PC, but I don't FC much anymore, so if there is some sort of jump-in lag associated with it, I haven't noticed.
Anyway, I'm guessing that the game client calls information on bookmarks from the servers when session changes take place (or something like that), and maybe you guys could work it so it calls for that information when the client starts up, then new bookmarks can be stored locally until the user makes a session change, then can be sort of queued up to send any new bookmarks to the server for storage when that session change happens.
So for example:
- When you log in, all your People and Places information is retrieved with other client info during login.
- When you make a new bookmark, it is stored locally (unless it's a corp bookmark, obviously), and when you make a session change it updates the server with any new bookmarks you made since your last session change (corp bookmarks would probably have to instantly update both ways). Hopefully this won't cause more lag with session changes (which is what I'm suggesting needs to be addressed), unless you make a few hundred bookmarks, I'm guessing any amount less than 15-20 new bookmarks won't have a noticeable effect on session change lag.
- Essentially all People and Places info would be stored locally on the users machine, to reduce session change lag spikes, and improve client-side performance.
Alternatively, just add an in-space right-click menu item to "add bookmark" or "save location" that has the exact same functionality as the same button in the People and Places window. That way people can add bookmarks without opening up the laggy People and Places window if they don't want to. |