hooray!

Murishani

Murishani
from the 1.3.03 patch notes:

- Significant performance improvement to the exploration servers
For those Commanders with a lot of unsold exploration scans from before the release of 1.3, we've started to upgrade the older data to make them as quick to sell as more recent scans. This is a background process, so whilst we have added more server capacity, it will likely take most of the weekend to complete.

Apparently older pre 1.3 data is different than new data and they have to upgrade the old data? What does this mean?
 

iain666

iain666
I assume it means that they've changed some formats to make the data on a system smaller or more efficiently organised so that UC processing happens faster but the existing unsold data attached to each account still exists in the old format and is supported, but will be slowly upgraded invisibly in the background.
 

CMDR DoubleSkulls

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Hurrah! I guess that means for those wanting to sell old data they should wait until Monday.

Presumably it means the information they collect at the time of scanning has changed so there is less cross referencing to do when you finally do sell it. They are then augmenting the old scan data with this additional information.
 

Traveller_GG

Traveller_GG
This would explain why my very recent jaunts had the data being sold quite quickly. It was all modern format.

Elite just upgraded to .XML :)
 

Pete

Pete
My ship has been sitting out in the black with a sleeping pilot for about 2 weeks. With this news I think I can drop back into the seat and continue my exploration trip... :)

-- Pete.
 

Murishani

Murishani
Pete said:
My ship has been sitting out in the black with a sleeping pilot for about 2 weeks.
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God that sounds relaxing.

At the vacation planner:
"Island cruise, beach resort, skiing vacation?"
"No thank you."
"Two weeks in endless void surrounded by an infinite sea of light?"
"Yes that one please"
 
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certhas

certhas
Pete said:
My ship has been sitting out in the black with a sleeping pilot for about 2 weeks. With this news I think I can drop back into the seat and continue my exploration trip... :)

-- Pete.
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well, you know, after 2 weeks "sleeping" in space... you might look like this :D
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Kalpa

Kalpa
This means that if you've come from a long trip dating pre-1.3, you might want until next week to sell your data, because from this vague and cryptic patch note the sell procedure should be a ton faster in the future.
 

clavain

clavain
Traveller_GG said:
This would explain why my very recent jaunts had the data being sold quite quickly. It was all modern format.

Elite just upgraded to .XML :)
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Actually, they have been using XML from the get-go, which is likely the source of many issues as it is a parsing and bandwidth hog of the worst kind. With any luck they are gradually switching to binary data formats or other text based formats such as JSON that are much more efficient. Using XML for data that needs to be quickly processed over the net is a bad, bad, bad design decision.
 
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Engadine

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Is refreshing news!

Reading all the comments regarding others selling data I wasn't looking forward to that part of my trip.

Will by interesting to hear from others next week to see how they find it.
 

Traveller_GG

Traveller_GG
clavain said:
Actually, they have been using XML from the get-go, which is likely the source of many issues as it is a parsing and bandwidth hog of the worst kind. With any luck they are gradually switching to binary data formats or other text based formats such as JSON that are much more efficient. Using XML for data that needs to be quickly processed over the net is a bad, bad, bad design decision.
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I'll be over in the corner... playing with DOS if anyone needs me.
 

ASC

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*dancing*

Now I might be able to finish selling my data this weekend and see what that Powerplay thing is all about.
 

CMDR DoubleSkulls

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clavain said:
Actually, they have been using XML from the get-go, which is likely the source of many issues as it is a parsing and bandwidth hog of the worst kind. With any luck they are gradually switching to binary data formats or other text based formats such as JSON that are much more efficient. Using XML for data that needs to be quickly processed over the net is a bad, bad, bad design decision.
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Are they using XML on the server side for data storage too? That would be very inefficient compared even to conventional databases. My assumption had been that this is at the point the servers are processing the update request (not processing the request). I hypothesised they are looking up data from their galactic & system tables (400bn rows in a "systems" table, several million rows probably in a "planets" table) and this is slow, especially when combined with updating the "planets" table with first discovered tags. Database performance improvements and caching some of that data in the player's "explored systems" table would mean not having to look it up again as the data is sold.

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ASC said:
*dancing*

Now I might be able to finish selling my data this weekend and see what that Powerplay thing is all about.
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I'm really happy as my plan to return to the bubble in about 10 days should mean its lightning quick sales :)
 

Allitnil

Allitnil
I timed it at 4 or 5 seconds per page this morning, albeit with only about 180 systems and not many scans or first discovered tags.
 
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