EVE players from all over the world and all players need to connect the same server.
usually, there is no problem, because the tick rate is 1HZ, players will not feel anything if they have less than 1000ms lag.
but in the hacking mini-game. hackers need hack this site in 2 or 1min ( i die at 70 seconds)
In the first, I hack failure because I click an unknown node three times, the first click the unknown node comes to an Anti-Virus node ( the cube) then click this Anti-Virus node twice, I die.
I think this is my fault, maybe my computer is too lazy to tell me this node already became Anti-Virus node.
In the second time, I don’t have enough time to open one cargo, I died 70 seconds after warp in.
You died because someone else triggered the timer before you. I do that every now and then when I encounter those sites.
Lag and abysmal performance, however, are a problem. In particular with 1 or more restoration nodes on the grid the minigame performance goes down the drain with every click.
45k ehp buffer tank stratios with RAH does the trick for me…I think I’m sitting in the 60s for explo resist. I even had a 30s spell of packetloss on one and when the game caught back up the cans had already exploded and the rats had me…still never hit hull.
And the spool-up time for those virtual servers will likely be longer than the ping to the current cluster, unless there are constant requests to keep it warm - for each AWS server in question (multiple times per second).
Web services have very different usage profiles and latency requirements from real-time games. AWS (and all cloud computing in general) is very unlikely to be a good fit for that stuff.
Not to mention that CCP has been trying to reduce maintenance costs, and the solution you advertise would be so complex in practice that it would significantly increase them instead.
You make a ticket. If the issue is on CCP they will reimburse you, minus the dropped items.
if the issue is not their, “unfortunately, it seems there was no issue (…) we can’t reimburse(…) see you next time”
