Comments on: Nosy Gamer: Eve Online’s Hostile Environment for Illicit RMT

By: MaelstromPilot

MaelstromPilot — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 18:12:22 +0000

this all ends with ccp buffering the mining barges and exhumers, it will make it easier for them not to get ganked you will see more bots

By: Imigo

Imigo — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:57:10 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_server Just sayin.

By: YAY

YAY — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:08:16 +0000

Caps lock is cruise control for cool…

By: CARGO WINDOWSSUX

CARGO WINDOWSSUX — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:14:16 +0000

CCCP sucks.They changed the cargo windows.ONLY to mess up botters but we suffer.
I have 4 miners and a roqual pilot>i open the roqual corp hanger on each of the 4 toons.
I can transfer ice there fast.IF I CLICK THE CARGO ICON you think the mining ship cargo window opens? NO!!! IT REPLACE THE ROQUAL CORP HANGER WINDOW…why ccp???? CCP REPLY.
hold shift and press the icon.Why would they screw it up.OL LET ME ANSWER IT… IF THEY BREAK SOMETHING THEY CAN FIX THEN PEOPLE WILL NOT FOCUS ON THE REAL PROBLEMS.TIME DILATION. I WAS IN DELVE NO ONE ONE AROUND AND I GOT 169SEC TIME DILATION…REALLLY…

By: cyberwiz

cyberwiz — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:08:47 +0000

To elaborate further on this, the term shard was originally and even now used, because it was part of a group of shards. Still shard was always used to define a single game world. And while most mmorpg's have many of these shards, EVE Online has only 2 of them.
In most mmorpg's, shards are also a combination of servers and nodes, like in WoW, different continents can be hosted by different servers or nodes, only in EVE it is on a much bigger scale.
Why would you want to invent a new word for a single game world, if we can reuse the term shard?
Either way the point is moot, because the general consensus is that a single game world = a shard.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:00:43 +0000

" Indeed, the mechanics allow for a player to kill a bot, loot the ship and then report the botter and get the botter banned for a period of time. "

I've been doing it wrong! got to gank the bot first…doh!

By: cyberwiz

cyberwiz — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:51:05 +0000

A shard does not mean that it is part of a server network.
A shard is a term that refers to a single game world. Some shards may be part of a network and may communicate with other shards, but that is not what defines a shard.
In WoW they communicate with eachother because of crossrealm ( aka cross shard ) instances and PvP.
In DAoC, shards stood entirely on their own ( at least in the old days ), no communication happened between them, they were completely seperate gameworlds.
A correct definition of a shard is :
A collection of 1 or more servers that make up a single entity or game world, in principle, all players can go to all the places inside this game world as opposed to going to another shard, which is generally not possible.

By: raknor

raknor — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:03:29 +0000

Dont the roids there deplete real quick?

By: No Shards Here

No Shards Here — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:38:40 +0000

"Umm, that's precisely what the term "shard" is generally referring to. "

No, because "shard" means that it is part of a server network. The servers of EVE are distinct, separate servers. There is no connection between them and they run different versions of the software. You cannot chat with the players on the other servers, you cannot send them mail, you cannot lookup their bios, etc., and what you see on one server may not exist on the others.

The EVE server does however consist of nodes, which is like shards only did CCP take the idea of shards further and made it transparent and flexible to create one universe. Not only can you chat with players on other nodes and send them mail, but you can get onto their node without reconnecting or doing much else but to jump through a stargate.

By: eve pilot

eve pilot — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:25:33 +0000

the reason RMT is doown is because the russian alliances lost their nice comfy unwanted pre inferno drone space thats why RMT is down.but on the onther hand goon and cfc RMT is going form strength to strength.

By: Shames

Shames — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 05:24:38 +0000

Just as an idea ( and maybe a bad one ) what if it worked like the newbie channel, which you can only get into until your character gets to a certain age then it's unaccessable.?

By: herp_de_derp

herp_de_derp — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 04:22:26 +0000

You say potato, I say pimp.

By: derp2

derp2 — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 04:18:15 +0000

The dude was trolling. Do you really think an individual has 15+ personal titans and 25 supers? If so, where have they been utilized? What are the characters? Besides the obvious troll leadership logs, what evidence do you have?

Do you think CCP Skreegs wouldn't be beating his meat furiously at the thought of banning someone who RMTd 15+ titans?

By: derp2

derp2 — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 04:15:28 +0000

shart*

By: herp_de_derp

herp_de_derp — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 03:17:15 +0000

A shard is also a term for shitting yourself, just putting that out there.