EVE Online : Fixing Lag: Drakes of Destiny
CCP Masterplan gives us a two-part, behind-the-scenes look into Destiny. What it is, why it is and why we should be reading these articles in the latest installment of the Dev Blog!
I've been looking at another area of server load: Things in space. Specifically, adding and removing them, moving them around, and how we tell your clients all about them. You might have seen mention of something called Destiny, and how it is something to do with physics. In this blog, I'm going to talk a bit about what Destiny does, and how I've been profiling it. In the second part, I'll show how one improvement in particular applies to my current nemesis: missile-spamming Drakes.
