EVE General Discussion

how is that exaggeration, given what had happened in the 6 months leading up to Crucible? Are you completely unaware of the massive downturn in logged in players there had been during that time frame? If so, here's a definition for you to work with:

ig·no·ra·mus   [ig-nuh-rey-muhs, -ram-uhs]
noun, plural -mus·es.
an extremely ignorant person.

and, before you come back with any more ill-informed definitions, take a look at the server stats over the last three, six or twelve months and then tell me that there wasn't a serious drop in the number of players logged in.

Either way, the 50k two weekends in a row IS an indicator that things may be moving in the right direction again.

I am at two accounts and my wife is already pissed!

Personal Preference for one. As much as i hate WoW i do feel everyone should play it for a little. It is a good game, levvel to max and quit. But what keeps Eve far separate from WoW is it isnt necessarily the same thing every expansion.

WoW- lvl and raid for gear. another expansion rinse and repeat. Your kinda in the same cycle no matter what with pvp as your only other option. 40 vs 40 and no one seems to work together. With 2 main factions with one making up at least 60% of server pop its completely unfair to the other side (90% of the time). Personalty I dont see WoW being this big in a few more years. People do eventually open there eyes.

Eve - With each new expansion comes something new most of the time. New ships, new systems, or even worm holes. A whole new set of rules and new parameters affecting your ship. from 1 vs 1 to 1000 vs 1000. or even 1 vs 20 ( I was the 1 and i pissed off the wrong person many years back lmao) . But what im trying to say is almosty everything even if its the same thing is different. every single time. Even missions with the ninja salvager. Even if odds are unfair it was probably your fault for not studying your enemy more.

From what i see although MMo fatigue will occur Eve will have it at a slower pace and just needs to keep drawing newer players in to off balance the tired vets. Also keep us older players playing as well.

Back on topic.

It hasnt been that long since we had dual core and now were above 8. terabytes from gigabytes. When they need it the tech will be there and for the same price as what were paying now for current. Just remember we arnt limited to what we have now. And currently we can still handle alot.

Fly Safe.

Mort

According to EvE Offline the current record is 63,170.

Thanks for that link.

Me thinks that somewhere between 60 k and 100 k we get EVE 2.0 - new game engine. Space and physics upgrade.

I'm not sure I agree. I think the amount of space out there will be somewhat proportional to the number of people on the server. Since our numbers still haven't recovered from monoclegate, I don't forsee new systems in our near future. Moreover, CCP still needs to get around to fixing existing space and making resource distribution less conformal and slowing teleportfleets/logistics, and... you get the idea.

There aren't hundreds of systems in the jove regions though, are there?

Fixing existing space? I'm not sure CCP even has the balls to admit what's actually wrong with it.

230, if memory serves well.

There's plenty of room for growth, dozens of barely inhabited nullsec systems that could be filled if people were forced out of empire, WH space, Jove space. It's just High-Sec that'd get even more overcrowded.