EVE General Discussion

I think the EVE server can be scaled

you would get a crushing time dilation factor, is all.

I am pretty sure the servers can handle another 100k players as CCP already took a lot of measures to prevent spikes from crashing the game. What I am more afraid of are the whiners and lamers, who seemingly love to destroy games by crying out loud and long enough till the devs destroy the game for them, so they can leave and destroy the next game, because the last one became so boring.

Eve lives because it is a vast difference to most other games out there. Actions have consequences, thinking is required and death is painful, if any of that changes, Eve might attract more players but will probably loose most of the current ones. And when the MMO-grasshoppers leave, it would die out like all the other "me too!" MMOs out there. MMOs are not played because of the engine, the amount of items you get or the power that is promised, MMOs are played because of the players and the community. Just compare these forums to the WoW forums and you know why that wouldn't work out well.

CCP is a business, as such they have to take customer feedback into account and decide to modify what they do accordingly.

This means attempting to make their product appealing to as many people as possible. Sadly this will not always be achieved in a manner that makes all customers happy, as such they need to balance new customers vs existing.

Will a huge number of new subscriptions kill EVE? In short no.

Will it change the way EVE exists and cause existing customers to leave? Possibly, it depends on the parent company's actions.

Will EVE survive without new players? NO, there will always be people leaving the game CCP and EVE can only continue to exist if the number of active subscribers exceeds the break even cost of development and maintenance. As such it is important for CCP to constantly look for ways to attract new players and make them stay.

While the loyal customer's (or Bittervet) views should carry more weight individually if there is overwhelming calls from new players for certain things CCP has a duty to their shareholders and ALL subscribers (even the ones who have only just started out) to listen to and gauge opinions. Ideally CCP should be looking to achieve balance, between playstyels as well as the in-game experience for both new and established players.

If EVE became a multi-shard game this would sadden me, if carebears or PVPers got everything they wanted this would sadden me. But I will voice my opinions on changes and give CCP a chance to either prove me wrong, or if a change comes which prevents me enjoying the game I will accept the time has come and it was fun while it lasted.

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Exactly.

TQ is not ONE server. TQ is a server cluster thats interconnected. This is what enables it to handle the tens of thousands of active players. A large influx of new players would probably mandate ccp buying new hardware, and since the game is not F2P it wont be a problem.

Edit: On the other hand sysmtems and regions becoming to small could become a very real problem. CCP would be forced to expand all types of sec-space by thousands of systems. Roaming around solo today is very different from 6 years ago.

I doubt, (actually, I'm pretty sure), CCP would have to buy any new hardware to handle more players. The only new hardware they are going to need, will be for Fleet engagements and Systems like Jita. The rest of the hardware is already in place, and, barring the creation of new Solar Systems, doesn't need to be expanded on at this time. Not for the forseeable future really.

There's so much CCP could do to handle this problem, a few are:


Get better hardware.(obviously)
Write software to handle bigger fights. (like ex. TiDi)
Write software to set limits that make sure the game stays playable.(See what happens to Jitagates right now)
Split the playerbase. (As much as this is hated it already happened with a lot of other games that couldn't handle a sharp increase in playerbase)
In emergency case introduce handicaps for huge trader-, missioner-, ratter-, pvp-blobs etc. to make the playerbase spread more across New Eden and make pvp blobs massively inefficient.

.. the possibilities are endless, the players may hate most solutions though.

And vice versa if you can read Chinese, or know someone that can. You'd need a Chinese ID # as well (not especially difficult if you know how to google).

i think the get allot of more money now. Sinds the know this happend with the better expand the have release. So in short i think the get more ccp employers and more ccp employers are going to work on new expandsions and we get better stuff.

Now the answer its about time, make the game a little softer increase more people.

My answer to the OP is "no."

Still shiptosting I see...

If that many new subs came into the game, CCP could easily afford better hardware. They could juice up each nodes and add nodes up to a node per system. The server architecture they have is super salable, and in that respect if I understand how their load balancing works, the game itself is very flexible too. Additionally, as moor's law guarantees that the game will be trending to more capacity regardless of how many people join. If you think back, the TQ server's ability to handle more players has been rising at a far faster rate than the increase in average concurrent logged in users since I've been playing...

No... more players wouldn't be a problem at all. The only problem CCP seems to have is actually getting more players.