The game Didn't work. The game simply Didn't work.

It did work, just not as fast.

It is at this stage I point out CCP own the most powerful infastructure in the industry.

The very fact the fight happened at all is evidence that it does indeed work. TiDi is a technical marval and I for one love that CCP has returned to pushing gaming technology forwards.

Please point out these hundreds and which systems they were in.

I think the hundreds were busy "having their lulz" -- it was a fight of, what, 1400 people?

I think favoring the 1400 over a few random people scattered around the various nodes is preferable here....

You have no idea about how TiDi or nodes work or even what they are do you...

As for better stuff, do you have any idea how expensive a supercomputer is to buy and run?

Feels like a troll infiltrated this thread.

Because the best solution to everything is just throwing more money at it right ?

As it seems, it does work...

Compromises have to be made sometimes, it's not like there is over 1000 ships battles all the time everywhere.

u so stooopiiiiiiid

Curious how you would address the problem of increasing scale.

Let's say your answer is more nodes to achieve less systems per node:

Without TiDi the nodes crash anyway under the same load, making TiDi a necessary component of this method of fix.

Let's say your answer is 64 bit server codebase:

OK we bring 6.8k people to a future fight and without TiDi the node crashes anyway.

Let's say your answer is to disincentivize the formation of coalitions:

OK now more fleet fights happen more often, making TiDi a necessity as it becomes probable that there will be saturation on multiple nodes instead of just one (or in extreme cases two).

So I'm still wondering how TiDi is not a component of any valid fix you may come up with.

I am, along with computer scientists everywhere, on pins and needles awaiting your response to the dilemmas created by increasing scale.

You mean like they already do? Seriously, reinforced nodes (and the software to use them) have been a reality for years.

The simple fact is this: Without TiDi even a reinforced node is in serious trouble when module queues exceed the threshold at which the server can process them.

Meaning that no matter how robust a node is, that node has a breaking point. It's therefore only a matter of time before it is achieved by players. TiDi drastically changes that threshold in favor of the server.

It's necessary in any solution. It had to happen. HTFU.

don't you guys understand the true INJUSTICE here of noted space captain, professor alphane, having to wait a few extra seconds for his modules to cycle while ratting so nearly 2,000 players could enjoy a simultaneous fleet fight in the same system with no lag

I'm sure transitioning an entire system's worth of data across nodes, basically system-wide simultaneous session changes, would be a great solution during instances of extreme server lag!

Well maybe you could try session changing before you have maxed out your node, and one slight glitch in another system would be better than however long dilated

TiDi is necessary for any future combat against fleet fight lag.

No TiDi -> Cascade failure.

beliefs don't have to be based on facts, as you've amply shown 'professor'.

I don't believe this is the BEST solution implemented in the BEST way it can be sorry

I see you have no idea that EVE runs on a supercomputer...

Complaining about an interim solution because it is not yet the final solution is pointless.

Other projects are not a factor in this equation...

By your logic it makes sense to put all expansions on hold for a few years so that EVE can be rewritten from the ground up.
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as well as expanding their portfolio to remain financially solvent.

It's a matter of geometry.

Scales increase, therefore we need TiDi. You don't necessarily have to believe it, just try to understand that if you make a box twice as big, it can still be filled. If you make it twice as big again, it can still be filled, and so on.

In this analogy, the box is the maximum threshold at which the server stops receiving all the module queues and they start to accrue. The substance filling the box is the modules queuing. What TiDi does is stretch the box's dimensions on the fly. That's the genius of it: They are monitoring the node and balancing it.

If you've never been in a large fleet battle (multiple fleets even) or you've never stepped foot into Null-Sec just shut up now, your opinion is worthless, your argument invalid.

I wonder where Prof. was thinking CCP should source this better server hardware that doesn't actually exist in the real world. They already run one of the most powerful server clusters in the world,.

You're becoming less and less coherent as you go. Either you're a brilliant troll or you're drinking.

there are 75 systems on that node today.