As a result, fights unfurl in slow motion and literally drag on for half a day or even longer. Even so, node crashes still happen. Furthermore, the operations team has little recourse for scaling resources during the fray. “The only tools that we have now are proactive. Players will say, ‘Hey, a big battle is going to go down. Can we get reinforced nodes for that?’ And we will reassign that solar system to beefier machines at the next downtime,” he explained.