Eve Online soaring high

Posted on the www.eve-online.com website:



"17k Peak Concurrent User barrier broken
At 19:45 on Sunday evening (2005.10.23) EVE players broke their own Peak Concurrent Player (PCU) record with 17.032 playing at the same time.

This is only days after a highly successful installation of TMS RAMSAN 400 Solid State Disk Array virtually eliminating all Database related LAG in EVE Online.

Congratulations to all involved in making history once again."

eve-online is probably the best MMORPG on the market atm. Although I can't be sure, 'cause I haven't played them all.

17k players is on a single shard universe, rather than the multiple shard system employed by most MMORPGs on the market atm. Anybody connecting to the server connects in to the same game world. But the Eve Universe is so huge that you probably only ever see the same 100 players or so on a regular basis, unless you're involved in some wars!

If you haven't tried it, then I recommend you do, and if you have tried it a long time ago, then I recommend you take another look. I'm sure there are plenty of free trials to be had if you ask around!