EVE General Discussion

Back when CCP bought their 'super computer' it was rated for 100K online.

If there was some sort of planet based mini game where players didn't need to undock I think it could handle 200K but the mini game would need to be on another system.

If you read this Dev blog you will see mention of underground colonies in the header fiction. There are at least 3 Sci-Fi MMO's that I know of coming out in 2015 and they all offer some sort of ground based content. I'd love to see this in EVE on a Civ/ Starcraft like level. Offered as the casual version of Sov endgame in EVE I think it would open up EVE to the 100K and up online at a time amount.

I would like to see numbers of players who undocked. I bet if you did that, 2014 would beat the heck out of 2008 in terms of numbers. Also once ccp makes the changes for SOV good god I wonder what the numbers will become?

There is actually a very logical and business reason why they would stop posting the tq numbers. Because we, and other people can take the TQ numbers, do some basic math and figure out how god or how bad dust is doing based off said numbers. The last official numbers was in 2012, in 2013 we got the 490k bu that included china. After Dust we got the 500k numbers. Here is the thing, as a company, if you launch a F2P game and it under performs your privious game, you will kinda want to hide that number. Esp if you have a hard core player base that will rip our your juggular if they feel you are ******* with the game they play for a game that is sucking profits dry. In addition, lets say eve lost 100k in 2013 and 14, and lets say dust made up the difference, you would be touting that **** as a sucess. they are not. So my guess is Dust under performed and eve had to pull up the slack. Base don the 1/2 yera financials, ccp is down about 2k subs a month, * 6 months so roughly 12k. But.. we have no idea how much of the total rev is dust and how much is eve. So eve coudl be lower with dust making up the slack. But it hink it smore likly dust is still under performing. And we had the Rouge wedding in the middle of that, so that last month was prolly a doozie.

Personally, I play EVE because it requires a bit of grey matter.

In time i hope more people will be joining eve. it just needs more activities for new players.

Be interesting to see what happens with player numbers after the next expansion pack comes out. There are some very big quality of life changes coming that make the game much more risky and harder to play.

I vote for a Necromancer class, so you can join that.

Eve is dyeing.

The colour of magic of course.