EVE General Discussion

a don't quite cut it I would prefer a beer thanks

Middle of the day GMT for most people is called lunch time. So what?

Look at the timing of downtime, then look at the time in Sydney, Auckland, Singapore, Brisbane, Melbourne, etc etc.

EVE is like going to a really fun movie at the cinema with your friends after dinner, only every night the cinema randomly closes for not just a brief intermission but hours so that all your friends have to go because they have work tomorrow and no-one actually has any friggin idea any more when the cinema will be open, only that it will take 40 minutes to get to anything fun anyway.



My prediction : if EVE does not move to an in-game shop model rather than pay to play, it has a 60% chance of crashing when Star Citizen opens. I don't want that to happen, but honestly there is an entire time zone of players getting messed around every night, year after year, with little more than a 'oh I'm sorry'. This is the 21st century, server issues and frequent massive errors in patch code means only one thing - wholly inadequate per-deployment testing. That such sloppy work has been acceptable for 10 years is no basis to expect customers will accept it going forward, and the critical factor is credible competition in the game-space.

Oh and if the servers cannot handle the player load I have a terribly simple concept, that 90% of games already use. If you have been idle for more than 15 minutes in the game world, you get logged out. How hard would that be, huh? And hard cap 'assign drones' to make the receiving player unable to command more than 2x their ships' drone bandwidth. Make people have to actually give their own commands, rather than on player clicking once that has 2,000 drones instantly trying to comply - and crashing the server. For real, either get better hardware, better systems coding, and better testing, or make design changes like the two simple ones in this paragraph to stop your old systems crashing under the weight of poor design choices.

Oh and another half an hour? To quiote one of my friends in teamspeak "Yeaaaaaahhh ... maybe no EVE tonight.'

Lol u mad brother?

Dear CCP ,

The playerbase has checked the logs and can find nothing unusual please restart without patch meantime hers's some music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH5DpBU5ohk

Hey look the server is back up.

Ha. I was away for a couple of years and decided to check out all of the changes that have occurred since I last played.

Sorry to see there are problems.

Everyone have a great thanksgiving!

S. Go

VIP mode FTW

Anyways servers backup and I am a Verry Interesting Person... Fly safe all!

No worries, needed a break any ways,lol