Matrix Aran
Legio Immortalis
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Posted - 2006.10.05 03:28:00 -
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This is one of those threads you don't even have to read after one look at the title. On this forum, if the word PVE and especialy the word shard are seen together you can expect an insane flame fest. The whole reason Eve works, the whole reason the player economy functions is because people lose ships. and I don't mean the 3% who lose them due to dumb NPC encounters, I'm talking the 97% that are lost to pirates and wars. Eve is driven by PVP in more ways than one and to make an exclusivly PVE server would defy the point. I pity those who can't see eve as the sum of its parts rather than individual aspects of it.
Then you have sharding. This is the one thing CCP has promised will never happen till hell freezes over. The second big idea about Eve is that it is one single universe. This is what allows players to actualy establish themselves as legends, what drives people to do things in this game. In WoW you can say your guild was the first to down some dumb raid boss, or that you were the highest ranked PVPer ever. But there isn't a history like eve. Your reputation on one WoW server doesn't carry over to the other, you can't make yourself known as the richest player in eve, or the most infamous pirate ever. We'll always remember Tank CEO, The Great Northern War, and the GHSC roberies. What can people actualy claim as a memorable event that at least half the WoW population was aware of if they were playing at the time, even without visiting the forums?
Add to this the huge debates and flames over creating an asian shard of the game that would never even be avalible to European users generated on the forums. Think of the probably revolt over a new shard of EVE on the Euro servers. Forget about the PVE side of this idea, just a new shard would cause a major revolt.
These reasons why your idea, while it might be well founded, will never be implemented by the CCP devs. Just on principle alone CCP could expect 1/4 of thier playerbase to quit overnight, even if they were not forced to play on a PVE shard.
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