EVE-Online, unsharded single game verse with PvP.

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Originally posted by Xpheyel
My only issue with the single shard design is the question of population density over the game area and content created. Games that manage to create enough "land" to get away with it are often buggy or have relatively low content density. Anarchy Online probably made enough map zones to have a lot of people on a single shard but it probably set a record for bugs at launch. Vanguard was, from what I understand, a less extreme example of the same type of problem.

Budgets and (possibly more so) time are finite, if the world design and mapping teams get all the time and money budgeted to their endeavors, there is none left for QA, scripting, and all those other little details.

EVE can do it, obviously. But there is a lot of empty space in space. The ships and space stations and probably the rocks and the backgrounds all have to look great. But it isn't the same as people running over a landscape on super-high settings inspecting graphics as closely as possible.

Obviously if someone can make a huge world that isn't painted with too broad a brush without skimping on the other important factors in the game's design, then sure. That would be great.

Not a technological impossibility but a financial implausibility. At least within a personal perspective.

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great post! ty!

If you were to consider a future mmorpg you wanted to play and had the choice of a single server or shards what would you choose and why?

For myself I think that a single server provides an element (or feeling of interaction) that is unique for a community of a mmorpg, theres an interest "ingame" to news and events that is totally absent in any sharded game.

Good to see a few still hang around, I'm sure more Gemini or Beta guys will be found at the next Sci-Fi space mmorpg.

I bailed in early 06, I've had a poke around the official forums and saw very few names there, any Gem guys/gals still play?

(Last mate I had that was still ingame bailed after CCP/BoB clusterF)

ne1?

Just one question, Is it dead yet?