Nemesis 002
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Posted - 2009.01.23 20:06:00 -
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ok, for the record, im in no way a computer expert, i only know a limited amount about computers, however i think this idea is somewhat valid.
CCP has introduced tons of different ideas to help reduce lag, for Jita, they gave it its own damn server, then they introduced Stackless IO, and now, most recently, the ability to turn off drone models, and now, weapon grouping
ive been thinking, would it be safe to assume that Drones cause a **** ton of lag, i mean, if there are 100 ships on the field, you can easily expect 300 drones at the LEAST, and the server has to support all of these, their models, their animation, and think for them
then, thats what hit me, the server has to think for each individual drone, i think this is suupported when you have the option (although i know it is rarely used of course) to control each drone, you could, if you want, put one drone on 5 different targets at one time, not very practical of course
now, when you press that Triangle, you are given the option to "focus fire" and although im not sure its exactly what its supposed to do, im venturing to guess that the drones are supposed to attack the same target you are shooting at with your ships weapons.
now, i know CCP introduced weapon grouping partly for ease of use (you now dont have to drag your finger from f1-f8), but we also know it was to help reduce lag, with weapon grouping, it allows all 8 guns to fire with ONE line of coding to the server, which in turn fires all your guns at once
i figure, we did it with weapons, why not allow it with drones as well? make it so when you select your drones for focus fire (or an option through the ESC menu) that you can send your drones as a group, just like is done with weapon grouping, all drones would attack with one line of code from that group as opposed to you pressing "engage target" and having 5 drones send the information to the server individually, then the server telling them to attack, i think this would free up a tremendous amoutn of Server space, now (assuming everyone used it of course) when there are 300 ships on the field, as far as the server is concerned, each ship has "one" drone so to speak, it would turn the drone into at most a Graphically Taxing weapon platform
this would also help with smaller gang warfare, and in addition to all the other wonderful mechanics CCP has introduced (weapon gruping, models off, brackets off, ect)
any ideas? comments? flames? |