sallymorganmoore
Senior Community Manager : Elite Dangerous
Greetings Commanders.
For transparency and keeping you more globally in the loop, today we will be closing a notable ticket on the Issue Tracker, which shared thoughts and concerns on the general consistency of timings for the 'BGS tick' across galaxy systems.
Issue Tracker ticket for reference: //issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/41735
A personal message from our dev team!
The numerous components of the BGS simulation (economy, faction, etc) have had multiple updates over the years to ensure these take the least amount of time and happen as close to one another as possible. However, due to the vastness of the data required to run the game's simulations (which we collectively call The BGS) and the complexities of processing all of that information, this can still result in the whole process taking several hours to complete.
It is a requirement for us that the game continues to be playable during this time, that any player actions are processed correctly and never wasted and, due to the variable length of the process, the system should output any completed information to anyone that is logged in as soon as it is ready.
This does have the slight downside in that there are opportunities for some game systems to receive updated data that appears to disagree temporarily with the existing data held by the game. This is either caused by the continued processing of a simulation or the flow of information through caches that are required for Elite to operate at this scale.
Whilst there are alternative options that would reduce or remove this effect, they each come with their own drawbacks that we believe are all less preferable.
We hope this insight into some of our discussions is helpful and explains a little more as to why we believe this remains the correct approach to maintain a thriving, dynamic BGS.
To echo the developer here, we hope this helps shine some clarity on the reason behind the imminent closure of the ticket in question.
As always we are forever grateful for your feedback with thoughts and reports, as well as your patience as we interact with them on this side.
o7
For transparency and keeping you more globally in the loop, today we will be closing a notable ticket on the Issue Tracker, which shared thoughts and concerns on the general consistency of timings for the 'BGS tick' across galaxy systems.
Issue Tracker ticket for reference: //issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/41735
- "BGS tick is still pretty inconsistent and not happening everywhere at the same time".
A personal message from our dev team!
The numerous components of the BGS simulation (economy, faction, etc) have had multiple updates over the years to ensure these take the least amount of time and happen as close to one another as possible. However, due to the vastness of the data required to run the game's simulations (which we collectively call The BGS) and the complexities of processing all of that information, this can still result in the whole process taking several hours to complete.
It is a requirement for us that the game continues to be playable during this time, that any player actions are processed correctly and never wasted and, due to the variable length of the process, the system should output any completed information to anyone that is logged in as soon as it is ready.
This does have the slight downside in that there are opportunities for some game systems to receive updated data that appears to disagree temporarily with the existing data held by the game. This is either caused by the continued processing of a simulation or the flow of information through caches that are required for Elite to operate at this scale.
Whilst there are alternative options that would reduce or remove this effect, they each come with their own drawbacks that we believe are all less preferable.
We hope this insight into some of our discussions is helpful and explains a little more as to why we believe this remains the correct approach to maintain a thriving, dynamic BGS.
To echo the developer here, we hope this helps shine some clarity on the reason behind the imminent closure of the ticket in question.
As always we are forever grateful for your feedback with thoughts and reports, as well as your patience as we interact with them on this side.
o7