Has Frontier bought Mega Hamsters?

[aRJay]

A recent trend in lower end Data centers is the replacement of hamsters for Capybara.
Processing speeds have increased quite understandably.
Technology is a wonder. What next?

So miniaturisation is no longer the solution.

 

[AngryAntz]

So miniaturisation is no longer the solution.

Bigger is better

 

[alexzk]

Do the hamsters work today ? I had to stop to scan planets overnight

 

[Rat Catcher]

Do the hamsters work today ? I had to stop to scan planets overnight

They have had plenty of energy drinks so far, finished jumping a FC from Colonia with no more than 16 minute waits.

 

[Bigmaec]

They have had plenty of energy drinks so far, finished jumping a FC from Colonia with no more than 16 minute waits.

Game's dead.

 

[[PS4 Pro - PC] earthtone99]

Perhaps it’s getting cooler in Cambridge, so the servers are not overheating from our incessant necessity as CMDRs on jumping everywhere all at once… if ELITE had floors, our jumping would’ve collapsed the building by now

o7 in a Coriolis, if we all jump together, does it spin the other way……

 

[Screemonster]

ah yes

a space murine

 

[Rubbernuke]

 

[Tifu]

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When one turns up with the number 42, let me know. I want to ask him a question

 

[Flimley]

Perhaps they have created a new kind of mecahampster.

Oh dammit @Rubbernuke beat me to it.

Flimley

 

[evanevery]

Who would have thought that adding thousands of outposts, stations, and markets virtually overnight would require a massive increase in processing power?

At least they are making boatloads of cash by selling naming rights (I expect)...

 

[mtfatboy3006]

I'm starting to wonder if the issue they discovered with colonization was that the servers couldn't handle the combined load of carrier and colony ship jumps. "No time slot" for carrier jumps might well have equated to colony ships failing to jump/spawn as well, and this would "greatly impact the ability to claim systems." That would also be the sort of thing that would take considerable time to sort out. Imagine if they have to do things like purchase and allocate additional hardware, separate colony ship operations from fleet carrier operations and allocate them to different system resources, and/or go through the game code like mad looking for ways to streamline operations. Maybe they are making upgrades.

 

[alexzk]

Good news, I have less than 30 000 ly to the Bubble
We need hamsters for a week more at least.

 

[Brammmers]

I'm starting to wonder if the issue they discovered with colonization was that the servers couldn't handle the combined load of carrier and colony ship jumps. "No time slot" for carrier jumps might well have equated to colony ships failing to jump/spawn as well, and this would "greatly impact the ability to claim systems." That would also be the sort of thing that would take considerable time to sort out. Imagine if they have to do things like purchase and allocate additional hardware, separate colony ship operations from fleet carrier operations and allocate them to different system resources, and/or go through the game code like mad looking for ways to streamline operations. Maybe they are making upgrades.

Elite runs in AWS, so "hardware" deployment can be measured in minutes per server. Whether your application stack can incorporate another server quickly (and is truely n-tier so scales out) is another matter entirely.

J

 

[alexzk]

Did hamsters get heart attack ? 19, than 40 mins ....again

 

[aRJay]

Did hamsters get heart attack ? 19, than 40 mins ....again

No the pause was removed from colonisation claims so the madding hordes are probably jumping FCs out to claim their next systems.
Plus the weekend is starting so school kids and workers get to play.

 

[HansAcker]

No the pause was removed from colonisation claims

Is it? Not here.

 

[alexzk]

Is it? Not here.

We need to "Save the Hamsters!"

 

[Ralph Vargr]

 

[Staarlord]

I'm sitting here jumping one of my FCs back to the bubble, it is EU peak time and my timer stubbornly remains in the 15 minute segment...

Brilliant! Whatever has been tweaked, I approve, 100%

Thanks!

I feel like they did something to resolve this earlier in the week. I feel like around Tuesday I was no longer seeing time slot errors or 1 hour 15 minutes jump times during peak hours. However today I am seeing Mauve Adder errors every 1 to 10 minutes.