After some fantastically productive testing on Friday night, I'm patching up some holes. The next round of testing will most likely occur on Monday afternoon, GMT.

Seismic Stan wrote:
I love this feature, it's quite possibly my favourite element of Crucible.

I don't want to sound negative or ungrateful, but I was a little disappointed to read that my client will only render missed shots at or from my ship. I was looking forward to observing some spectacular dogfights between third parties.

Is there any possibility that the feature could be amended to provide inaccurate fire animation for whichever ship is the focus of the camera (and the target thereof)? This wouldn't generate any additional traffic, but would just shift the focus to allow convincing spectator immersion.


Thanks, and believe me that we're disappointed that we can't do this yet either!

The look-at suggestion is a great one however. It limits the amount of extra information sent whilst still allowing you to spectate on those dogfights properly, I'll have to bring this one along to Gridlock and see what can be done.

Plus, even if we get the client-side simulation working, it would gives us a properly accurate option for important targets layered on top.

Currently, after each damage calculation the server sends the relevant information to two parties, the attacker and the victim. At some point, shield/armour/hull values will also be sent to anyone targeting or watching the victim, but that's not necessarily synchronous and can be tacked on to other information once a tick.

So if you've got 100 ships all shooting at one other ship indiscriminately, you're sending out 100 hit/miss packets to the aggressors and 100 to the poor gankee.

Under the new regime, you'd be sending out 100 hit/miss packets to each aggressor, for a total of ten thousand, plus the 100 to the gankee. That kind of O(n^2) scaling is less than good.

you guys should also test if you can give the camera man a client that retrieves all miss hit information from all other ships and processes that into something that visually will make more sense to non- eve online players.

Yeah I've looked into that one.

Yeah I've looked into that one.