EVE Online is a superlative MMO in many aspects: the most players online on a server or the largest battle within an MMO. However, the game only sets such records with appropriate hardware.
1838 iPhones connected in series
In EVE Online, there is only one server (excluding the test server) named Tranquility. Here, 65303 players can be online at the same time. It might not sound like much, but considering that players are all on a single server, it surpasses even the most populated WoW servers. 3936GB of RAM and 2574 GHz are necessary for this. That’s the performance of 858 high-end processors or 1838 iPhones.
B-R5RB Bloodbath
During the massive battle in the B-R5RB system, the CCP hardware often fell short. Thus, the battle was partially moved to another node. Through this additional node, a better transfer of user clients and the CCP server took place. However, a few players who were not actively participating had to be disconnected from the server; but the battle could continue fairly smoothly. 5000 players faced each other in this largest clash so far and wiped out an equivalent of 300,000 US dollars – not a small amount.
We have a battle of 5,000 players. Let’s disconnect 100 players so the battle can continue.
Lag? We call it Time Dilation!
Lags occur everywhere. In EVE Online, these brief interruptions can be particularly frustrating, as every ship you lose is gone forever. Reviving at the next graveyard is not an option. To eliminate the lag problem in larger battles, CCP introduced the Time Dilation system in 2010. As shown in the video, time is simply slowed down. This doesn’t eliminate the symptoms of lag, but the consequences can be mitigated. This makes the life of a fleet commander in a 2500-man fleet considerably easier.
The Cluster System
New Eden consists of more than 5000 individual star systems, by the way. As with the battle of B-R5RB, high player numbers in one of these systems are unpredictable and happen spontaneously. The reason is jump drives, which allow players to jump from almost any position in New Eden to another… and suddenly, you find yourself in the middle of the largest EVE Online battle. The star systems are arranged in a cluster system, and in the future, CCP wants to respond better to massive fights. To do this, more power will be allocated to the 0.0 systems.
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Source: techradar.com
