EVE General Discussion

As The Only MMO to Constantly Grow Its Subscription Base Year On Year (TM) you can expect much bigger battles in the future. In another 5 years we may see 8000 or even 10000 people try to enter a system on a regular basis due to the Constant Growth Of Subscriptions. I trust the developer of The World's Only Constantly Growing MMO have a plan in mind for such growth, which is constant, so that all these new players will have a fun game experience.

There is no other game out there at all comparable to EVE online in this regard though. I mean its neat you look at a 3.5K man fight and draw conclusions the server sucks...when 36K other people were playing the game despite the events in HED-GP.
and 2.7K of the people in HED were not inconvenienced, heck a large portion of the dreads were not inconvenienced and managed to load grid, fight and even leave.

So a couple hundred people got stuck waiting for calls to the server, so they could get the location of 10K objects before they landed....a fraction of the % of people even in the fight were impacted, and a fraction of a fraction of a % of the entire server population was impacted.

But please I would like to know what other server you are comparing to. As far as I can tell EVE is still revolutionary and the fact 2 years ago you could barely squeeze 1K dudes into a fight and today barely squeezing in 4K is a huge improvement and miles ahead of any other gaming service out there.

Come on man....the permanent solution is for the CFC to get a capital pilot who knows what they are doing within the confines of the game. If there truly was an issue why is there no N3 or PL posting regarding the integrity of the server or capability of the server. Quit being a sore loser.

Seeking out another goon tear thread.

Woohooo, lots of goon tears here.

CCP did a good job preventing your little node crash attempt.

You lost 350+ dreads because of it.

More crying is always welcome.

http://evenews24.com/2014/01/19/hed-gp-more-like-hed-gg/

Hey you could go cry on mittens forums, what did you only lose 70 dreads over there?

Epic stupid follows:

N3/PL had about 900 in system, they left room for CFC and pets to come in.

CFC dumped 1800 on the same grid, followed by another 1000 all at the same time.

We all know goon means stupid person, but really?

CFC is the one that caused their own problem.

How many dreads did you lose, ~350?

We love goon tears.

AFK actually. And you're kidding, you mean we brought a force capable of defending against a super fleet to defend against a super fleet? How could we!
Seriously though, are you to sit here all night spewing out misplaced smug and childlike hate on your little forum alt? Be my guest buddy. It literally means nothing to me lol.

My feels, much sad. :(

Seriously guy give it up. Some NPC alt too scared to post with conviction spewing propganda (not even new propganda, 0/10 for effort) and saying "tears" over and over is really not going to do much.

EDIT: Oh and fix your quote. At least work out how to use the forum properly if you are going to post so much high quality material.

The fleets in system should have been very much aware of how many players were present, and always need to be mindful of the limits of technology.

Another factor is the time it takes to get people into a big fight like this - not as much as it used to. Faster warp speeds on cyno ships allow the growing population of eve to converge on these massive fights much easier than ever before. Hell, a few weeks back I grabbed a 'ceptor with the intent on some KM whoring on a big nullsec fight and made the 30ish jumps to the combat site very quickly indeed. If they wanted to, all the players of eve could train for interceptors and do the same, crashing the node every time.

It is unreasonable to expect the server to be able to handle that many on one node for the foreseeable future, therefore the solution involves spreading out objectives (constellation sov perhaps) and taking steps to keep fights more localised (reducing range on jump drives etc)

To answer the original question: it depends on how you define "largest".

Going by simply ships in local, yes, 6VDT was larger. (4070 in 6VDT according to CCP Explorer compared to 3913 in HED).

If you count people on standby, people who never jumped into the fight, and related skirmishes in neighboring systems, then HED was bigger, and the biggest fight in EVE so far. (Source: what our FCs told us. If you want to believe that they intentionally lied to us in this, that's your opinion.)

In terms of total number of people involved throughout the fight (i.e. not necessarily on the field at the same moment), your guess is as good as mine. As far as I know these numbers are not published anywhere, or even gathered for all participating forces. (My guess is that HED was bigger, if you want to know.)

The HED fight also went on for twice as long as 6VDT, giving more people across different timezones a chance to participate. Source: live reports for 6VDT, 6 hours from first broadcast to conclusion; HED, 10 hours from CFC entering system to the last update, in fact lasted for another 3 hours more (source: I Was There.)



Edit: I keep hearing higher numbers for 6VDT, as high as 4300 by some people. Does anyone have a verifiable source of a bigger number than 4070? (Preferably a local screenshot or a CCP message.)

Edit 2: This dev blog specifically claims, "The highest number of players in system at one time was 4070, beating the old record of 3615 set in P-2TTL in 2010."

Lucas, A lot of people have posted threads about why they think Eve should be completely re-written to take advantage of all the new technologies since its inception, multi core processors for example, however they have constantly been shot down and mocked, most of the times your fellow Goons.

The fact is to completely to rewrite a program like Eve will be a very long and very complex job that would tie up considerable resources for it to be done in a acceptable period of time.

Resources that CCP do not have.

If you had a better understanding of the complexities and costs involved you wouldn't talk about it like its a five minute job.

Look kid im not automatically against you because you are CFC. I really could care less who you are with. You are nullbear and I am a carebear. So really it doesn't matter who we work for. My groups name is cooler than your groups name! so deal with it.

Fact is you could barely squeeze people into fights a few years ago...then poof Tidi became a thing and you could fit 4K and before CCP updated their hardware in like 2009 you couldn't even jump 100 dudes through a gate together without DCing.

The fact you and all your friends have stormed to the forums to complain is actually shocking. I didn't expect 4 days of different complaint threads. This is a new level of suck. Even CFC leadership admits it was there mistake that caused that to happen...did the line members not get the memo?

If the servers were such a huge issue it wouldn't be just CFC complaint threads it would be all of nullsec complaining. While there is always room for improvement the fact CCP was able to accommodate nearly 4K people into a playable environment is very impressive. Not only does it show that they care about providing that content, but that they care about improving it as well...otherwise the Jita Node wouldn't have been used in support.

Frankly i think people are just tired of the constant whine out of nullsec. All of you are whining about something. You blame Sov on CCP when there are literally thousands of systems to accomodate your 80K numbers. yet you all blob for one timer. Thats not CCP that is the lot of you. Did you know 7 fleets of 250 dudes can harass 7 systems at the same time. and that 14 fleets of 125 can do 14.

You guys are doing this to the server not CCP.

Its like -A- General Gree said. "If the node crashes we still win."

But the node didn't crash and here we 4 days worth of CFC and RUS tears.....

But do go on...I would love to hear the experienced opinion of a member of Space Monkeys Alliance.