SpaceDrake Storyteller
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Posted - 2005.08.19 05:48:00 -
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A few of you may have played Jumpgate way back in the day. Interestingly, EVE and JG both got content patches in roughly the same timeframe.
EVE got Dreadnoughts, Freighters, combat rebalances (missiles), entire new constellations full of PvE mission content, new Tech 2 modules, new skills...
Jumpgate got this.
I don't get why Netdevil is keeping Jumpgate alive. It hasn't pulled in proper numbers for the entirety of EVE's duration. Granted, it WAS on the market and active back when EVE was still just a website, some pretty pictures and a lot of promises, but EVE has lapped it several times over. Jumpgate is capping at around 70 players a night on the newly unified worldwide server. In other words, we have roughly 185 times the number of active players. (13000/70) EVE surpassed JG graphically at launch, and has improved slightly since then. (JG's gotten better starfields, which do look pretty slick, but that's about it.) EVE's market is ten times more dynamic than JG's (no player production of ships and no direct player to player sales without using direct trades, WTF?) And the EVE backstory makes the JG backstory look like a joke.
I also kinda wish a lot of the JG crowd would come over to EVE. I know Karash and his crew would love fighting for an empire that actually acknowleged their service. I bet some of the other JG RPers would like it over here more, as well. I also wish they'd free GM_Istvan (no, that isn't our Istvaan) from Jumpgate so he could head over to a more worthwhile project. Like, I dunno, EVE. (The guy does seem to be a pretty wicked coder. He's basically sorted out most of JG's bugs and compatibility issues all by himself.)
As far as I'm concerned, Jumpgate is dead. Love live EVE, which carries in it the spirit of what Jumpgate could have been.
And of course, my PlushyFlux(TM) shall guard my monitor until the end of time. If I could ever get a PlushyProph(TM), then the Flux would be reassigned to console-system-television guard duty.
Thoughts?
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