No lag would allow multiple targets to be destroyed at once. Old-fashioned target calling could actually become a liability. But then we may never know how it would work…

Since you claim to be software dev, you know that single-threaded servers don't scale. CCP had known this for *years* and CCP is not interested in making the game scale on SMP systems or they would have done something about it already.

In view that the game (the fleet fight engine on the server) is single threaded, It is not surprising that game cannot handle more than a somewhat fixed amount of players per fight. It also perfectly explains why bunch of drakes shoot, server stalls. Or 500 drones are launched, server stalls. These should be tracked in other threads, on other cores (in simplest parallel computing model), but whatever…

Grats to Yaay for further cementing his reputation as the eater of supercaps

But you see, EVE Online is supposed to be ENTERTAINMENT. Go look it up in a dictionary, because you seem totally unable to grasp the concept. As a software engineer, you are probably thrilled at the thought to use thousands of EVE players as labrats to see how far you can push the envelope, but NO THANKS, I am not gonna participate in your gigantic scinetific experiment.

It gives you the ability to do things that others cant like replace all there ships, all the time etc. So that is what brings numbers, you.

There are a million other great groups of guys in Losec who are hundreds of magitudes more talanted in PVP who would get just as many numbers if they had incomes to steal from the Carbears in 00 sec.

You have numbers because of Mining ores and Sanctums, Moons and there are few who come out only for the Pew, so if this happened your numbers would shrink.