EVE General Discussion

CCCP? You mean the Russian EVE server to comply with the Russian requirement of keeping all citizen's data in country?

No, we don't go there because politics... Also Ravenholm...


I, for one, will miss our Cyrillic text locals.

i'm surprised you didn't link that screenshot

It's beautiful, isn't it?

- Lego

Yes, I made a typo.

No, I do not "believed" in it. I posed a question, which is an expression of doubt. And doubt is the opposite of faith/belief.

I saw the screenshot someday in May and it didn't crossed my mind to check the date for April fools. And as I read about the new Legacy server in Everquest - Ragefire, where the progression and the whole lifetime of the game could be experienced from fresh, I remembered the Eve article. So I asked.

I know that by many veterans the idea of starting fresh is horrendous. Especially with a real time based skill system as Eve has. But my best time in online gaming was always at the beginnings of the game, be it WoW, GW2, SWToR or few other I have the pleasure to experience.

Well, nevermind, back to the vast fields of veldspars!

I can't believe the Soviets are back in business!

Listing reasons why NO is as meaningful as listing reasons why YES. Examples - New server means influx of new players (it is a great PR), bigger game activity (at least at start), and of course new drama. It is up to the reader to give more/less weight to these arguments. Its purely subjective.

New server also doesn't mean resetting the old one.

How is this still open?

Sure, but in this case, "Why bother?" is a more important question that "Why not?" Just like when making suggestions for new features, you have to show us why it's a good idea. The answers in the No column so far carry far more weight. While perhaps there would be more new players (which we can't be sure of TBH given EVE's high turnover rate) they would in no way be 'on an even footing', people who played on Tranquility would be so far ahead of true new players in terms of know how, the illusion of starting from scratch, or being on the same level is just that, an illusion. The vets would still come out on top because they understand the game and it's mechanics.

Bigger game activity is also not a given. The only way that's guaranteed is if your previous statement turns out to be true. Who's to say all the vets from Tranquility would keep playing if the population was suddenly cut in half? Would they even move to the new server?

I doubt there would be much new drama, in fact I think there would be less of it. All the large, established groups would have an even bigger advantage since they already have the 'social infrastructure' to hit the ground running on the new server. They'd leave any new, small groups in the dust in a huge way, far more quickly than on the original server. Most of these large groups were, surprise surprise, much smaller when they began, and their competition was too. Granted, there may be exceptions tat could potentially break through, but let's be real here, the only drama on server 2.0 would be the same drama from the same groups, in an identical, yet eerily different theater.

The player created history of the EVE universe in incredibly important to the health of the game. The fact that EVE is a niche product with a fairly limited audience (compared to other online games), further entrenches this fact. Splitting the EVE population, or wiping the slate clean would kill/severely cripple the game.

Being able to say those words means 2 things.

1. you are smarter than you think

2. you are smarted than 99.9% of General Discussion posters.

Posting in a thread that has run its course - because someone mentioned kittens.