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• • Under constant attacks

  • No, he's not that guy. I had the same feeling, so I took a peek in his posting history, and it's been mostly pro-EVE, or at least reasonably sane neutrality.

  • Posted: 10/30/08 5:56 AM
    EVE Online
• • Ghost training to be removed

  • Okay, have a nice one, mate. Good luck with your MMO-travels.

    I'll see you at Jumpgate Evolutions release, as I don't think I need to stop playing one MMO to try another one.

    PS. As for the server cluster, it resides in London, hardly 120 hops from civilization, unless you adopt the Gandhi appreciation for Western World.

  • Posted: 10/28/08 6:57 AM
    EVE Online
• • My experience trying out EVE

  • Dammit, I think you might have just put your finger on the reason why my computer suffers random reboots when playing music or games. Have to look into that.

  • Posted: 10/28/08 4:41 AM
    EVE Online
• • WHAT U HAVE TO KNOW ABOUT CCP

  • I agree with Bato's point of view that this is a *shrug*worthy issue. Or non-issue.

    At least for me.

    However, we see once again that once something is given freely for a while, suddenly changing that behaviour couses much consternation in people who enjoyed the idea of getting something for free suddenly feel they're now getting 'shafted' by someone, even if they didn't really use the feature much anyways.

    It comes down, I think, to the feeling of entitlement and loss of it, and also identifying CCP as some sort of Other, the threat of 'The Man', the thing always out to hurt the little people.

    On the maths side, I think CCP will lose some revenue, based on that previous calculation on account sub times and the number of upkept accounts. Since that is readily apparent, either they will recant on this issue rather quickly, or there is another reason why they did this aside from amping up their revenue stream.

    CCP has stated that this change was because the GTC market and the trained alt market were experiencing mudflation-style inflation and getting way out of hand. Perhaps that is so, and we all know the price-per-day of GTCs has risen sharply lately.

    It could also be the philosophical issue of trying to slow down the trained-character market so that people couldn't 'cut in line' with money anymore, as well as reducing the amount of accounts a single person has (I have 2, some have as many as 5-10) and curbing the amount of alts. If so, it is very largely a philosophical issue of EVE, and indeed does reduce their revenue stream.

    However, both of these are pure conjecture that happen to fit known facts and projected outcomes. I do not have enough information that could explain CCPs sudden decision to run this change more clearly. Perhaps they will clarify their position on this later, and perhaps someone will eventually believe them, no matter what they say.

    Hell, they could say they did this because they hate their playerbase and eat babies for breakfast, and people would still claim they're lying and they have ulterior motives that have something to do with BoB paying them off.

  • Posted: 10/21/08 2:42 PM
    EVE Online
• • The truth about EVE and CCP

  • ISPs can and do change their systems and implement different filtering; I find this to be unlikely as well, but it's something to look at. There's other potential problems as well, such as them limiting your bandwidth for some reason (anti P2P measures maybe?) for non-HTML data transfers...

    Hard to say, but do check with your ISP to be sure, might also be they're having problems with their cross-border provider if they don't have their own link, might be just getting too much latency so that when you get packets from the server, they come out spaced so far apart that sessions timeout...

    Of course, contacting CCP's customer support could also provide some revelation to as to what is going on, and perhaps allowing them to analyze what happens when you log all your clients on might be informative as well. In fact, I recommend doing that before calling your ISP, as then you'll have more information about the problem to relay to them.

    ...Personally, I don't think I could run five accounts on my (fairly powerful, runs Crysis) computer, let alone control them all at the same time. Props to you for mad multitasking skillz.

  • Posted: 10/13/08 11:57 AM
    EVE Online