I understand why it’s like that but it’s hard to explain, it all makes sense now
It’s probably why they also changed how the small portals load. Gotta be closer to them after a certain update as to not needlessly load them.
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I’ve heard more people saying that but I’m still not quite understanding it from a technical standpoint. I mean they need to read the data from the planet on the other side to show you what’s there. We can move about in front of portal and see a large area, when a portal is bigger it shouldn’t need to download more data…
Of course I might be wrong, just never got the reasoning…
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Read my 2nd to last comment. The small ones actually cost more. Straight from a dev quote
Ehmm, where does it say smaller portals are worse?
In what you quoted it says “it is much better for our servers if there is a single portal making a big jump than lots of smaller ones”, where ones = jumps
Right here
Also
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Maybe that just means ALOT of small ones close together rather than just one small one? I dunno.
His last comment about making it better fuel wise for bigger portals would suggest otherwise
That’s distance
But from what Luca has told me, portals between same-region same server are cheapest for WS, portals between same region diff server (say Raxxa to Tana) are a tiny bit more expensive and portals between regions are the most expensive.
I really don’t think number of conduits matters in any way except client side
I presume Aenea is saying the same thing right now
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Yes, that’s the exact same bit I quoted!
But ‘smaller ones’ refers to ‘smaller jumps’
What is costly is the amount of portals, not the size. Five smaller jumps means 5 planets that need to be loaded for the player, one big jump means only 1 needs to be loaded.
But the comment about changing the fuel he made seems to suggest against what you’re saying. But hey what do I know. I can only comment on how I view what he said since it doesn’t come straight out and say.
I’m also pretty sure janes said something about portal and data before too. But too lazy to dig thru everything. And I also could be wrong so there’s that too lol
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Yes, because 5 shorter jumps and thus smaller portals costs them more than 1 big portal.
If they then change it in game that all small portals cost more than it encourages us to use more larger portals because it IS cheaper for them to have LESS JUMPS and thus LESS PORTALS…
It’s all about the number of portals, the more portals going to different planets/areas means they need to download more data from the servers than if we would use 1 portal (which in game means bigger) straight to the destination…
I get it, but how I read it it’s about the number of portals between point A and B. If there’s one portal going straight to B they only need to load data for B. That it means that it’s farther away and thus needs a bigger portal is not really relevant.
I miss EA 2x3 cheap portals.
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Try testing
Unlimited free shards
I still don’t understand why t5t6 is the way it is. All those hops are such a waste of server resources.
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In testing it is better use amalgam.
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I also don’t understand how one portal makes 5 jumps. So there’s that too lol
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That’s not at all what he said or what I said at all!
Planet A and planet F, I want to go from A to F, I can open ONE LARGE portal to F straight away that costs a heck of a lot of oort
OR
I can make several smaller portals A → B → C → D → E → F which costs way less oort for me so I take this route since oort is expensive and/or hard to get.
BUT
for the game it costs more because they need to load data and send it to the player’s client who uses the route of planets B, C, D, E and F, while the more oort costly route only would need to load data from planet F.
So if they change the oort costs of smaller portals which have a shorter distance than bigger portals which have a longer distance to make bigger portals cheaper than we will open A → F portals more easily!
If I open a 1x2 portal from A → B it costs the game as much as if I open a 5x4 portal from A → B. It’s not about size really, it’s about the amount of portals and amount of different planets/areas that need to be loaded…
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He said 1 portal makes 5 jumps tho sooo.
But I guess if you put it as A,B,C,D,E, F and A->F that would be 1 portal making a jump 5 planets away
Also as none of it really spells it out in a cut and dry no interpretation kind of way. I’m left with only how I read it and then get input from how others read it without actually knowing who if anyone is right
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