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News Editor Jon Wood sat down with Nathan Richardsson, the Senior Producer at CCP to talk about the present and future of EVE Online:

You can read the article here.

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Originally posted by Stradden

News Editor Jon Wood sat down with Nathan Richardsson, the Senior Producer at CCP to talk about the present and future of EVE Online:

Moving on to what exactly our friends at CCP have planned for the game’s future, Richardsson gave me a long list of things that they are working on or thinking about: Faction warfare Exploration Combat boosters Upgrading the graphics engine – starting with ships and moving from there Increasing the interaction within the game Involving the avatars more but creating planet and space station environments to move around in. He said that they were looking to make additions that won’t disrupt the existing gameplay too much, taking smaller steps to improve the game, saying that “You give the tools, and it’s amazing what people do with them”.

You can read the article here.

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Originally posted by Willshire

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Originally posted by Stradden

News Editor Jon Wood sat down with Nathan Richardsson, the Senior Producer at CCP to talk about the present and future of EVE Online:

Moving on to what exactly our friends at CCP have planned for the game’s future, Richardsson gave me a long list of things that they are working on or thinking about: Faction warfare Exploration Combat boosters Upgrading the graphics engine – starting with ships and moving from there Increasing the interaction within the game Involving the avatars more but creating planet and space station environments to move around in. He said that they were looking to make additions that won’t disrupt the existing gameplay too much, taking smaller steps to improve the game, saying that “You give the tools, and it’s amazing what people do with them”.

You can read the article here.

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I asked around, but I was told every time I asked that this was NOT going to happen. If it does happen it will certainly add an interesting element to the EvE world. However, I thought the reason that the server is able to handle so many concurrent users is due to the absense of player models that move and whatnot. Having just a curvy polygon is a lot less of a load on a server than a model with thousands of polygons. Perhaps...when someone was to enter into a space station, they could be seamlessly implemented into another server that allows only contact with players on that specific station...hmmm...

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It is their very long term goal. Most likely it is going to take at least 4-8 years. Before they are going to add real character avatars, they are more likely going to add planetary control methods, planetary flight and other fixes to current gameplay.

Server capacity is not problem, curvy character doesn't need more server processing than simple space ship. For server curvy character and space ships are very similar: they just are objects that have x,y,z coordinates, 3 angles and other simulation data. It is player (client) side problem: player's computer need to draw and animate those curvy characters and store their polygons to memory. However, most likely when they are ready to publish character avatars, average player's computer is at least twice more powerful than these days. Certainly there is going to be limit how many curvy characters average player's computer is able to show same time, but similar problem is in all games.

Currently EvE-online "server" (cluster) is consisted from multiple servers that are cooperating with each other. There is no single computer serving all players - there is about 70-100 computers that are working together in the cluster. Servers in the cluster have different functions: there is for example server that is handling market trading and Jita system simulation (Jita is one most populated systems). In quiet areas of galaxy, single server might run simulation for multiple systems. They could easily allocate own servers for busy environments like Jita's space station. (Scaling EvE-Online)

I have been playing EVE for almost 2 1/2 years.

The evolutionof the game has made it so that there is always something to do. Carebears and PvP'ers can always find something interesting, from blowing up the Macro Miners's to defending my home and building items in my own station.

Man, I love this game

Thank you CCP for the continued excellant work.

I have played this game for a number of years.

Its a great game with excellent content that has kept me hooked throughout.

I look forward to Kali, my only hope is that the current server can cope with an ever increasing player base.

At the moment you can get together in gangs of 10/20 without any major issues, however once you have more than 50 players in an area at the same time the lag begins.

Should CCP be expanding the content and increasing the player base? The answer is yes...lets make it bigger better etc etc...I just hope it doesnt cripple an already 'exhausted' server.

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Originally posted by Willshire

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Originally posted by Stradden

News Editor Jon Wood sat down with Nathan Richardsson, the Senior Producer at CCP to talk about the present and future of EVE Online:

Moving on to what exactly our friends at CCP have planned for the game’s future, Richardsson gave me a long list of things that they are working on or thinking about: Faction warfare Exploration Combat boosters Upgrading the graphics engine – starting with ships and moving from there Increasing the interaction within the game Involving the avatars more but creating planet and space station environments to move around in. He said that they were looking to make additions that won’t disrupt the existing gameplay too much, taking smaller steps to improve the game, saying that “You give the tools, and it’s amazing what people do with them”.

You can read the article here.

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I asked around, but I was told every time I asked that this was NOT going to happen. If it does happen it will certainly add an interesting element to the EvE world. However, I thought the reason that the server is able to handle so many concurrent users is due to the absense of player models that move and whatnot. Having just a curvy polygon is a lot less of a load on a server than a model with thousands of polygons. Perhaps...when someone was to enter into a space station, they could be seamlessly implemented into another server that allows only contact with players on that specific station...hmmm...

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