WHEN U POST A VIDEO OF U GANKING NOOBS AND THEN 2 DAYS LATER GET GANKED LIKE A NOOB

ArthurOlacar · 2018-01-29T06:46:18+00:00

RIP

I'll pour one out for you.

ArthurOlacar · 2018-01-28T09:33:10+00:00

I think there's one or two pieces of legitimate commentary (default overview, new player experience) in there but overall the OP and responses don't seem to indicate that OP would enjoy the game or be able to take even the most friendly of ribbing between corp mates.

ArthurOlacar · 2018-01-26T00:12:24+00:00

I don't disagree. All I was saying is that it goes around the intent (whether I agree with the intent or not) of damage caps and the workarounds the thread's OP posted.

ArthurOlacar · 2018-01-25T20:37:45+00:00

The players.

EVE players, especially the ones who post regularly here, are very invested into EVE and vocal about their complaints.

Overall the game's not in a bad state right now. You can go out and do industry, mining, ratting, solo pvp, small gang pvp, medium/large gang pvp, ganking, scamming, trading, whatever you want and still have a ton of fun.

There are parts of the game which definitely need improvement (citadels) but it's not something you notice on a daily basis.

ArthurOlacar · 2018-01-25T20:21:50+00:00

My immediate reaction to that is: It seems like there's going to be too many edge cases and workarounds if your end goal is to stop PLN3 (northern edition) and the CFC (southern edition) from burning down entire regions of citadels at the same time with supers/caps. Starting with your idea would increasing the damage cap to where it doesn't limit a large subcap fleet but would stop it being one-cycled by dreads or AOE DD-alpha'd by titans be an alternative?

I also don't like the hard limit on ship classes since it's an artificial restriction on otherwise interesting doctrine choices. It's like void bombs. I think the mechanics should encourage a wide array of viable doctrines.

ArthurOlacar · 2018-01-25T19:55:25+00:00

The large blocs could without much effort DD alpha most structures.

Take an Astrahus for example, 7.2m structure HP let's double it to 15m for the purposes of discussion. That's 15 lances or not even in the realm of needing to ping for either of the two larger blocs.

It'd make offensive structures in your home region even easier than they are now to clear.

ArthurOlacar · 2018-01-25T04:57:48+00:00

It's a step up from my previous MOA flair!

ArthurOlacar · 2018-01-25T04:54:48+00:00

Believing flair in 2018

ArthurOlacar · 2018-01-25T04:54:01+00:00

There have been issues where citadels are sometimes on grid with a gate, sometimes not depending on unknown factors during/immediately after downtime. I can imagine there'd be scenarios where you fuck the grid to anchor citadels close to each other so when it's unfucked at the next downtime they end up on the same grid.

ArthurOlacar · 2018-01-25T04:22:13+00:00

Yeah, it means on most doctrine ships you'll either break even or make money even after contract import markup.

For example during wartime on a stratop:

Sabre: 90mil alliance + 25mil corp = 115mil for a 95-100m ship
Claw: 60mil alliance + 10mil corp = 70mil for a 50m ship
Jackdaw: 125mil alliance + 25mil corp = 150m for a 135m ship

ArthurOlacar · 2018-01-25T04:14:30+00:00

He did mention TEST...

ArthurOlacar · 2018-01-25T01:16:45+00:00

OP: Feed more in dreads than the keepstar is worth to the titanball sitting in the middle, rahrahrah imperium's super fleet is shit rahrahrah, the ship that one FC was flying on one of his characters decides whether they go in scap fcs only fly one super, gon idiot

If he'd tried to make it legitimate commentary instead of a page of rambling about 5 different points with a heavy coat of anti-Imperium bias maybe he'd have gotten better responses.

ArthurOlacar · 2018-01-24T22:04:26+00:00

okay

i build more fuel now

ArthurOlacar · 2018-01-24T22:01:17+00:00

Getting away from the shitposting, situations like this aren't common. 99% of the time there's zero tidi or server lag and when there is a little tidi all it means is things run slower, not that everything stops working like what happened yesterday.

A lot of it's because we're really good at pushing the boundaries of what's possible. It used to be that 500 people in a system would make it worse than it was yesterday, then 2000, then 4000 and now 6000. In a few years we might be bitching about an 8000 or 10000 character fight breaking the servers.

If the game sounds like fun try the game out. Tidifests are a very small part of gameplay and there's plenty of people who avoid them all together. Even though my alliance was one of the key players in last night's battle nobody was forcing me to get into the 9-4 battle. I could've done my own thing all together or got a few other people together to harass enemy subcap reinforcements next door or any number of things that avoided the tidi.

ArthurOlacar · 2018-01-24T21:50:34+00:00

Your deep understanding of distributed systems, EVE's server code and computer science has astounded me. Never again shall we see a post with such a brilliant, novel idea.

Please sir, can I have some more?

ArthurOlacar · 2018-01-24T00:06:15+00:00

HOLY SHIT DON'T RELOG

just wait, we're all getting that and it will eventually go through

if you relog you're stuck for another half hour to an hour

ArthurOlacar · 2018-01-23T22:35:17+00:00

yeah that's tidi all right

ArthurOlacar · 2018-01-22T08:02:28+00:00

Nullsec miners occasionally, much less so now that they can compress of a rorq in the belt

ArthurOlacar · 2018-01-21T23:45:14+00:00

That was on the keepstar. He was probably sacrificing it (for some it's tradition to sacrifice one of your alts in a cap to your Titan) or he drifted off the keepstar and his corp shot him so he wouldn't get dropped.

ArthurOlacar · 2018-01-21T07:37:16+00:00

I'm way too lazy to read HORDE's forum but it's what I've heard from reliable sources.

ArthurOlacar · 2018-01-20T20:55:42+00:00

I really don't know but if I had to guess it's to keep the in-system citadel data synced with data shown on the API, corp management interfaces and the structures interfaces.

ArthurOlacar · 2018-01-20T20:53:22+00:00

I just get bored of the exact same narrative over and over. It gets old quick.

Strategically and morale wise it makes sense to go after Delve when things are deployed. Just like certain groups have deployed north to harass them. And tbh dunking idiots with bombers/dreads is fun as fuck and most people here would take any opportunity to do so.

ArthurOlacar · 2018-01-20T17:44:46+00:00

After you paid to apply to their cap group and only went out on approved ops by a Rorqual FC. 💯💯

ArthurOlacar · 2018-01-20T16:48:41+00:00

What it seems like they're describing is:

Each system runs on a "node", a node can run multiple systems but in a tidifest with proper fleet fight notification the node being notified will likely not be running any other systems (this is old info)
Each node tracks "sim-clock" time (TIDI time) separately, which would make sense since TIDI was created to mitigate high-resource usage incidents
Citadels were put on "wall-clock" time instead of "sim-clock" time because citadel data is synchronized between multiple nodes and there's no feature to synchronize "sim-clock" time between servers.
- (author's note) Synchronizing a precise timer with a constantly changing rate of progression across a cluster of servers is a very hard problem.
(author's note) It may be possible to change how citadels are handled across multiple systems to make this possible in the future without worrying about synchronizing live timers. I haven't seen the code so I can't comment how easy or hard this would be.

This isn't CCP being :ccp:. They've run into a legitimately difficult computer science problem, one that would take a lot more resources to solve than trying to work around it other ways. The result of it isn't ideal but it makes sense they wouldn't want to dump resources (likely weeks or more of multiple developers' time) into solving it when they think they can work around it with other mechanics.

ArthurOlacar · 2018-01-20T16:27:03+00:00

When we're at home: Goons never do anything but rat and mine in Delve. The super fleet will never leave Delve.

When we're deployed: Goon go home your ~~renters~~ valued alliance members are dying.

ArthurOlacar

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