You say “we have never fielded more than 12 combat assets at a time” as if you don’t know that 12 comprises half of the allotted players allowed on a playfield. C’mon Ran, you know that’s excessive.
I don’t know why base clusters on EU stand for so long, but I can tell you why the ones on NA GG do. It’s because nobody bothers to attack more than 10 bases when half of them have OP turned on. It’s not worth anyone’s time to get shot at by things they can’t shoot back at, so we let you point drills at the dirt and hold your mouse button down. We have better things to do with our time.
PS: I have advocated several times for the removal of OP, but Rex doesn’t seem open to that. We did just fine in v6 without it though.
PPS: I’m talking less about ACP, Ran. I liked PvPing you guys in the start of the season. You attacked/defended with reasonable numbers and we had some good fights. You can’t say the same for all of your allies, however.
We already tried fighting on GG, with quite a few allies, however as admiral already stated the lag was ridiculous, so much that at one time I had to wait about 5 minutes for my SV to sit to see the damage it took. Hell just fighting with Beetle last night was a lagfest and it was only one SV and one HV. The devs need to wake up and do something about the network coding, otherwise we might as well play no mans sky (i.e. Single player)
At this point I could give 2 shits less about new plants and textures if you can’t fly or fight without it being a slideshow. Fighting used to be a lot of fun in previous seasons, now it’s a nonstop memory leak caching to SSDs and constant “cannot send more to server” when attempting to enjoy the aspects of PvP. This is unacceptable, and if you cannot take care of the player base you might as well fold up shop. Nobody here enjoyed single player, otherwise you wouldn’t be here. That’s why this game is running into. A single player experience until people get bored with it and find the next fad unless they do something about addressing the glaring disappointment that is PvP.
Well, not going to argue with you guys there - definitely lots of lag. Though it sounds like GG - EU seems to hold up with 10 - 30 combat assets running at a time.
What’s your memory usage over time usually hover around?
I have seen empy use damn near every bit of memory, highest was 14gb just for empyrion, rest was system processes.
It’s time to upgrade my system though, I’m not sure how the mobo is still holding out (pci-ex sockets lost power years ago, integrated nic hit by lightning last year).
Roughly 30 percent of my cpu time. 37ish percent of my ram in use and 22 percent gpu time just sitting at our gg bases with not much going on (including all my background processes etc)
Might ask you to check after a lot of fighting though, narrow down any possible memory deficiencies. Thinking of Ryzen or threadripper this next go-round.
Not saying you in particular but i find alot of gamers will buy the best gpu they can then skimp on everything else but Ive always thought having the best of everything else then a lesser gpu is superiror
Lol, I don’t like to skimp, I prefer overkill when I build a new system so I don’t have to upgrade it anytime soon. I bought the mobo and proc back in 2012 shortly after it came out, was running 6970’s in xfire, bought a pair of 290x’s and a 290 when they came out for tri-xfire, smoked the 290 (rma and sold), swapped out for a newer power supply (corsair ax1200), eventually pulled the second 290x cause it really wasn’t being used that much.
But some time has passed, and I think it’s time for another ridiculous spending upgrade.
Just need to justify it with the wife… that’s another battle.
Yeah I think multi gpu systems are a scam honestly I had 4 way at one point for testing and then sold 3 of em off on craigslist cause they made absolutely no difference
Back in 5.0 days, when I was running around in a one-man faction I regularly took on the big guys. I almost never completely wiped them out, but I destroyed countless HVs/SVs and the odd CV. Some of my most enjoyable operations were assaulting Op4 on Iceworld, setting up a base on the right angle and putting massive holes in their hvs.
I think alliances are okay, but there needs to be a better limit on base clusters. Maybe if the faction limit on GG included allies as well then things would be more interesting. It looks like Offline Protection is being addressed, but why can’t anyone use a little self control? If you know something is an issue, complain about it, then use it constantly that makes no sense.
Well yea, he finally found his calling in a group. Ranz has been around just doing solo killing for as long as I can remember. Wont forget the capture the base event, and that bastard spawned an HV with a single arty right next to the stands where everybody was spectating the event.
I’ve spent 50% of my time solo and 50% of the time in a faction holding a gold planet of some sort.
3.0 - Was part of a small faction
4.0 - Part of a faction holding gold/fighting RAT
5.0 - I was part of various factions, but decided to go solo after I didn’t want to deal with Nautdog’s politics.
6.0 - Part of RAT for a month and then got bored.
7.0 - Part of ACP.
So really, most of my time was spent in a faction of some sort.
