Firebyrd
Gallente
Crooked River Productions
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Posted - 2006.09.17 04:05:00 -
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Every game has growing pains, even when they have been around for 3 yrs....
And i as many dont expect everything to run perfectly. as one who has been here for almost 3 yrs, have seen more improvement every patch over the one prior...
And my experience with games both online and off is, sometimes the game doesnt load or work correctly every once in awhile, small glitches here and there, can make things look huge, and unplayable, now knowing that they reworked some major sections of the code with the Dragon release, how many actually removed the game, and did a fresh install of the entire game.. i did, and have had 0 problems... not saying thats it, but here is an example of a program not loading properly...
Eve lost a cluster or Node about a week a go(temp shut down, booted everyone in Domain region kicked off server), start up screen comes up(where u enter account name, and P/W), the game loads badly, from missing stuff, to picture totally screwed up, and its always done this for 3 yrs, so when eve crashes, or kicks me off the server i do a total restart of the eve client, i dont bother trying to do an auto relog in...
i also know not all lag comes from the CCP server sight, i see all the foreign routers it has to go thru to get to my PC..
But in all this i remember my 2+ years of playing another Game called EnB that was sharded, and when the shard hit 15-20% of server load, it was aweful, real awefull, imaging it taking 30+ min to warp from 1 gate to the other in Jita, and watching ur ship cover the same area 10 times, or aproach the gate 10 times before the lag caught up, and you could jump to new system....
We know there is lag sometime bad sometimes just minor spikes, but one thing that no MMO will ever be able to do is get rid of it totally, cause of the outside elements, (remember the chaos theory from jurassic Park movie, or the infamous Murphy's Law)...
So for now we adapt to the problems and work around it till it can be fixed, Node drops and crashes r serious software, or hardware instabilities... but i think should above all remember they r trying to run a Business and Game on 3 yr old code(outdated for sure), and update that code while still letting us play it...
Only other alternative for them to do as i see it, is take the entire game offline for 6+ months and do a total rebuild of this game, with a total rebuild of the code, not something i want, and niether do any of you other players, and neither do the Devs...
So until things work themselves out(they may never find this or that bug) we Adapt to the state of the game and find work arounds, its what we have done for 3 yrs... remember this is the only game of this kind, no other game offers the amount of different play styles or open ended styles then Eve and CCP...
and before u say anything about Paying for a work in progress, remember u pay for a doctor to practice on you, u pay a Lawyer to practice... and they cant get things right half the time either...
i look forward to the future of Eve, and glad the game is better then it was 6,12, 24, 36 months ago
 
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