Previously...

In the first part of this blog, I talked about what Destiny is, and showed how a tool called Telemetry is helping us visualise where we should focus our efforts to improve server performance. I ended with a highlight of a particular problem - missile spamming Drakes causing excessive Destiny load.

This time, I'm going to show how I changed the situation for the better.

Listen Up

Hi.  I'm CCP Masterplan, one of the members of Team Gridlock.  Our job in Gridlock is to tackle the issues of degraded performance under excessive load - in particular making EVE's signature massive fleet-fights more fun.

Whilst CCP Veritas has been having lots of fun switching modules on and off, I've been looking at another area of server load:  Things in space.  Specifically, adding and removing them, moving them around, and how we tell your clients all about them.