EVE General Discussion

Setting aside for a moment that we're on something like EVE 22.5 already, rebuilding from scratch is a very good way of ensuring that you will end up with two useless products: the old one that you didn't maintain, and the new one that doesn't work.

Beyond that, what parts do you feel as if they can't fit in? No amount of recoding will make a game that requires 1Hz ticks to resolve the kind of massive scale of conflict on one tier work well with a game that requires 30Hz ticks to resolve its small-scale conflicts. Different types of gameplay require different back-ends.

EVE in its implementation is still cutting edge, only the military comes close in raw processing power.

To be honest, Eve 2.0 as you suggest it goes against what Eve Online is. Eve Online constantly evolves instead of being reinvented.

A reinvented Eve would divide the player base and spell the end for both games, as it has to other games in the past. A constantly evolving single game has much better chance of survival.

The most common reason people suggest an Eve 2.0 is because of "how long it takes to catch up" which shows how much they miss the point of Eve Online. Its not about catching up. Its about teamwork and being good enough to win.

You can be 80% capable of a vet in about 20% of the time. You can be par on a vet in a specific ship in probably 20% of the vets SP, but you don't need to be on par, just good enough with a few friends.

In regard to code, I think the majority of the Eve codebase has been rewritten a few times, but there are probably a few systems that haven't been touched since launch.

So, depending on how you view it, we could be on Eve 3.5 or Eve 7.5, depending on how you look at it. The work was simply done to update the existing game and codebase, not branch off into something else, that divides the players.

I'm not suggesting we change this at all, one bit, that's what makes eve unique. What I was talking about was the change of the fundamental core of our game. The code eve is built around. Eve is built on a set foundation that seems to have limit itself within that foundation. When it was created i doubt the devs were planning on 50k players on at one time within their universe. It's like a country developing, you eventually just run out of space on your given amount land. But if you built on a bigger piece and/or had the ability to expand on that foundation(Which we don't, *insert legacy code issue* or "its to game breaking"), both the options and longevity of game play expands.

You can only build a skyscraper so high without it collapsing in on itself.