Malcanis
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Posted - 2011.09.07 21:13:00 -
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Tippia wrote:GǪbut the thing is (and this is what those numbers actually mean) that no matter what you pick as a limit, it will be wrong.
Some people will need much more; some will need much less, or even none.
So I'm still wondering: why is a per-pilot limit needed? Won't the low-end users balance out the storage needs of the high-end users? What's the worst-case scenario of letting the high-end users run amuck until the DB gets unwieldy?
Put another way, if you give everyone 100 slots, how many will actually be used across the entire population? 3 million? How much will actually be used if everyone gets "unlimited" slots? 4 million? 6? 10? I have a sneaking suspicion (but that is all it is) that 300k user +ù GêP slots will be less than projecting for 300k users +ù 100 slots.
One wonders how much space a saved fitting requires? I have a 300Gb SATA sat around doing nothing. If I donated it, how many fitting saves could it hold? If each save needs 100Kb (this seems pretty generous to me, and I'd expect it to actually be more like 1-10Kb), then it should be able to hold ~3 million or so.
What's the total number of saved fittings?
Incidentally, if PrismX is worried about saving space and unnecessary duplication, then having an option for alliance fits would obviate a huge amount of duplication. Rather than have hundreds of alliance members each needing 10-20 standard fits saved, they could all reference a single instance of each. As an additional bonus, this would be such a huge administrative bonus to alliance FCs that many of them would probably weep for joy. Some might even go so far as to log in. Instead of having to chase hundreds of individuals or multiple corps to update their saved fitting, they could change a single fit once and know that every single one of their members had instant access to the latest fits. We already have corp fits, which is a good start - please can we have alliance ones too?
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