Developers have had years to figure out the lag, and have'nt yet. And your asking me? lol

I believe it will only partly solve the problem considering that the likely cause of so much lag is that the server is having to account for so many variables. How much DPS/Alpha your weapon is suppose to make for a given skill level you have, the speed, stamina amount and recovery of your suit, the amount of resistance your suit or vehicle has to a given damage type, the location and effectiveness of every equipment deployed in the match, processing every module being turned on in each vehicle like hardeners and armor repairers, and the scan precision/profile of your suit along with range of the scan plus active scanners.

MAG didn't have much of a problem in the PS3 because I heard a lot of the players had the same stats so the servers didn't have to struggle much. Dust, however, has a ton of stats that fluctuate every time a player respawns in a difference suit. It's like a fleet of 1,000 Drakes in Eve firing their missiles all at once at each other with all sorts of different fitting arrangements. It's going to cause some strain either on the server or client or maybe both.

The best way to go about this at this point is to port Dust over to either the PS4 or the PC. Either way is good enough since both platforms have nearly identical architecture to each other and are more capable of handling the stress of processing so many variables.

I'm not whining. That much is certain. What I'm pointing out here is that reducing the player counter per match can only help much before the real issue becomes apparent. Also, it should not surprise you that people are talking about porting now more than ever before considering that the PS3 is slated to stop production later this year (though Sony will continue supporting it for longer than that). Thankfully, I can see the PS3 lasting another few years due to so many PS3s currently available in the market in stock. I even see PS3 still being sold in bulk at a local Gamestop or Best Buy.

But we have to face the reality that the PS3 is coming to a close. If you think about it, the PS3 is already about to be 9 years old later this year. It came out in 2006. To give you an idea of how long ago that is, George W. Bush was still president of the United States, the great economic recession was only a year away, Eve Online was only 3 years old at the time, EA's Earth & Beyond closed down only 2 years earlier, and PlayStation Home wasn't due to be released for another 2 years (it's now shutting down at the end of this month).

That's a long time for a console. And now with over 20 million copies of the PS4 being sold worldwide, it's only inevitable that we talk about this now.

And reducing the player count per match will only be a short-term measure that will not completely address the underlying problem of the PS3 not being able to handle so many variables at once.

@LOOKMOM

Perhaps you are correct that Sony might not cancel production anytime soon.

But I'm not sure about your comment on people wanting to stay on the PS3. The PS3 is already old as hell. Many of us, including me, are already prepared and willing to purchase a PS4 as soon as news comes out that CCP will move it over to next-gen... assuming they even choose the PS4. They might choose to go the PC route instead which doesn't really affect me since I already have a PC for Eve Online.