Posted - 2007.02.16 05:20:00 - [1]

 

True story. WE had about 450 in local, most of us on the gate or ready to be on the gate. THEY had about 400-450 on the other side of the gate. We all expected lag, even a node crash (or two), but it's been about an hour now and we still haven't had a fight. EVE keeps crashing. I'm frapps-ing some of the discussion, thinking of making a movie with my "entering the game as Haas Tabris" screen as the only visual and just letting folks listen to the ts banter.

CCP, I'm really not here to *****, I just think you may have reached the limit of 0.0 warfare with the game as it is.

I'd suggest rethinking the stargates. I understand this is an integral part of the game, BUT, when 400+ players try to jump through all at once it just plain doesn't work.

Perhaps give all ships jump-drives that work without cynos. Your ship then has a light-year range, and a light-year per minute speed, and you just go to the map and jump. You wind up somewhere in the system, and then you need to group up with your fleet by warping to gang members.

The defenders will need to have their probers out and working and the defending fleet commanders will have to figure out where the hostile fleet(s) are forming up and coordinate a defense. The defenders would also need some sort of sensor to alert them that hostile ships are inbound, but I sure you can imagine something.

I think it could be pretty cool. Plus, it might make it easier for you to shift the server loads around. If it takes 3 minutes to jump to a nearby system (as opposed to 5 jumps that also take about 3 minutes), your servers then have a few minutes to ready themselves for the new load. I know I'm anthropomorphizing a bit, but I think you get the idea.

Anyways, just a few thoughts as I sit here waiting to load back in...