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Epic Online Space Battle

Posted by Unknown on from the get-the-hell-out-of-our-galaxy dept.

New submitter nusscom writes "On July 28th, as has been reported by BBC, a record number of EVE Online players participated in a record-breaking online battle between two alliances. This battle, which was essentially a turf-war was comprised of over 4,000 online players at one time. The load was so large that Crowd Control Productions (CCP) slowed down the game time to 10% of normal to accommodate the massive amount of activity." This is the largest battle to ever occur on EVE Online.

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  1. Re:This story sounds familiar by AdamWill · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Its the same boring shit about how eve's terrible servers can't handle all the buffered state updates and slows to a crawl"

    Or to see the half-full glass, it's a story about how EVE is the only MMO game that really even attempts to let stuff happen on this kind of scale; it's the only major single-server MMO, i.e., the only one that doesn't just cheat by only having as many people on any given 'instance' of the game as their server code can handle.

  2. Re:Who cares by Andy+Prough · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You do. Only a complete lack of response would show otherwise.

    And then you hid your screen name, afraid that others will find out that you actually care.

    Which means that you not only care - you care whether others perceive that you care. And you try to obscure it by pretending not to care.

    Amazing that you have time to think of anything else, actually.

  3. Re:This story sounds familiar by iczerjones · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's actually pretty slick how they throw in some uniform time dilation to ensure fair and timely performance across all n number of pilots in a fight while the resources are dynamically allocated to reinforce the fleet battle nodes. Definitely an improvement from the prior lopsided disconnects and variable frame times. Rather than the network or cluster deciding the battle, the players do. Since they are the *only* game in town that provides this sort of scenario, I find it rather intriguing to hear about the ceiling being pushed further and further. There are many more questionably appropriate and even dull topics that are seen daily here. Internet spaceships and clever realtime server management don't seem so unwarranted.

  4. Re:Snore fest by Dominare · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In EVE you're the captain, not the helmsman. If you're looking to wiggle your joystick, I'd recommend the Freespace series.

  5. Re:These big battles are a rarity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So what you're saying is that EVE is a great way to be an asshole?