With Time Dilation introduced on Tranquility, Crucible has brought a substantial number of improvements to EVE Online. TiDi was quite successful at reducing module lag in fleet battles, with response times reduced from as much as 40 seconds to just 1 s. This time devs have focused their efforts on the client performance as well.
In a recent dev-blog, CCP Veritas has described a new set of client optimizations, which will result in increased window drawing performance. To achieve that goal devs have focused their efforts on what is rendered most often: fonts. Additional improvements have been done to the Overview, which is by far the most commonly used tool in EVE.
Overview is much more responsive now, and because of the performance gains, devs have decided to make it refresh every 1 second instead of the current once every 2,5 seconds. Because in-space brackets share the same code, their performance has been increased as well.
Let’s hope these improvements further reduce lag in these huge 1500+ fleet battles, so favored by many New Eden pod-pilots.