Taedrin
Gallente
Golden Mechanization Protectorate
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Posted - 2009.03.30 15:46:00 -
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There are so many flames in this thread, you could fry an egg on it.
Wait a second, that gives me an idea...
/me breaks out the smores and marshmellows
As for the original post..
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Did CCP prepare for it in any way? Psychologically, looking at how this many people react, how they are led, being FCed, would be very interesting too. Generally EVE has a potential for LOTS of experiments about many people working together.
CCP provides alliances with a means to request that a particular system receive a reinforced node during downtime in preparation for an expected battle. I have no doubt that the alliances involved in this fight requested a reinforced node ahead of time for this battle.
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Technically? Were there any examples of so many participants in one battle before?
If the battle will not be as big as its expected now, then my question is generally about the big eve fights. Do you CCP guys keep any logs about these?
I do not think that there have ever been any fleet fights as large as this before, as Jita actually ran out of memory (and crashed horribly) at around 1200-1400 people in local after the StacklessIO upgrade. This leads me to believe that until relatively recently, such a high number in local simply wasn't capable on the older nodes that CCP has been replacing.
I know this is not an official CCP log, but when I started a "large" fleet fight involved several hundred pilots. Through out all of EVE's history, people have been piling more and more pilots into fleet fights until the servers gave out. IIRC, fleet fights were around 100v100 when I started. Everytime CCP upgraded the server, this number increased bit by bit. IE, it went from 100v100 to 300v300 to 500v500, etc etc until now which is close to 1000v1000.
As for your comments about CCP Atropos, most of us believe that Atropos did nothing wrong. All Atropos said was "np" in reply to your sarcastic comment. Most of us forum goers encourage CCP to not act like they have a stick shoved up their rear when they post on the forums. We want them to be casual, unfiltered and human. We want them to portray themselves, not a business image that CCP wants projected. As such, when a dev makes a sarcastic response to a sarcastic statement, most of us approve. I would advise that you adhere to the golden rule - do unto others as you would have others do unto you.
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