EVE General Discussion

No thanks.

And besides some could argue that you already have that on the current server.
And they wouldn't be wrong either.
There are lots of players who have never seen a war or anyone ganked during there entire stay in EVE.

1) I imagine the number would be large, but the new server would just shrivel up and die within few months.

2) It wouldn't attract any more new players than eve currently does.


3) A new, pvp free (or limited pvp) server would only expose the utter mind numbing terribleness of eve pve. See for example how many people right now are on the test server mining/ratting for the love of it. Or even doing any industry.

so you want to do away with one of the main draws to this game? a single-shard universe is why many of us have remained here for years and years. non-consensual pvp is what makes this game exciting. i'm no pvp'er but i love matching wits with passionate sci-fi fans all over the world. as other's have mentioned, if you want a safe place to play, download the test server client. if memory serves, there are designated PVP systems there. you can mine or shoot red crosses all you want, without any risk.

You're questioning an integral part of what makes the game function. If you had actually taken the time to research your question or testing the pulse of the community before posting, maybe you would have understood what type of reaction it would cause.


There have been hundreds of threads suggesting additional shards. People are sick and tired of having to explain why it's a dumb idea.


EVE is a single-shard game. That's kinda its defining feature. Talking about a hypothetical multi-shard EVE is pointless.

To anyone who has spent more than a few months on the forums, you do look very much like a troll, and your incessant insisting of the contrary is only making it worse.


Let me see if I can explain the issue...

EVE is a single-shard game. That is pretty much its single biggest unique selling point. There aren't a whole lot of single-shard games out there, and I dare say none that do it as ambitiously as EVE. Most of EVE's meta-mechanics, such as the market, map painting, bloc warfare, and industrial consumption, relies entirely on having a single highly active server. EVE's second major unique selling point is lawlessness, and the idea that nowhere is safe.

To create not only a new live server, but a new server where PVP was strictly regulated, would in a single decision undo both of EVE's biggest unique selling points. In an instant after the press release, there would be nothing special about EVE except its difficulty and crappy user interface.

In addition, the new safe server would require new code, to enforce the new PVP system, and it would require dedicated staff (or at the very least man-hours equivalent in cost to additional staff) to run it, service it, and upgrade it. GM and administration tools would have to be re-written to deal with two live servers. All of this is time and money that would be taken out of Tranquility's pockets. Every single dollar spent on the new server would be a dollar that could have been spent making Tranquility better, faster, bigger.

A more interesting question would be: why do you think this is a valid idea? Why on earth should we give such a boneheaded suggestion a second glance, when it has been pounded into the dirt repeatedly?

I propose a new thread rule. I propose the rule for this thread be changed to not keeping it clean. At all. You filthy **********ing ****suckers.

If you have "seen it all before", why do you bother asking the same, mundane and troll-provoking question again? It's not original. It has been answered many times before. Therefore, your topic serves a single purpose: to get a rise out of people, and can be at best considered a troll itself. So, why the surprise at the responses you are getting?

The consensual PvP server is named Tranquility, the server that you need permission to PvP on is called Singularity. Hope this helps!

Absolutely not. Single shard pvp everywhere is what makes EVE great. Anything else is questing, gathering, crafting and instanced pvp clone #2614

EvE is a PVP Game no matter what you think. I started out with my original alt a total carebear saying i just wont play their PVP bit of the game.... and then i got fumped... EvE is PVP no matter what you say, there is no way to take what is quintessentially eve and remove the PVP aspect and not have it all collapse...

How many time can you rescue the damsel in distress or run through some random anomoly that causes 'invisible rays' to damage your ship before your brain shrivels, atrophy's and dies... how long can you sit and stare at rocks before your mind addles... for me about 5 minutes now after trying PVP....

If that's your idea of fun then fine but bear in mind that there is consensual AND non consensual PVP that is an integral part of the game... Dont fly what you cant afford to lose... ever, when you undock it and assume its gone... if it comes back its a bonus...

And just on a tangent slightly, in real life, having spent a month scraping and saving to buy a shiny new phone, would you then immediately wander round the streets flashing it off? I doubt it, so why do people do the same in eve, they buy stuff, ships and then wander round even the high class areas as though there are no thieves and scum in the world... last time i checked you could get mugged in Kensington and Chelsea just as you can in Camden town