EVE Online Records 45,000 Simultaneous Players

January 5, 2009 2:10 PM

Developer CCP today announced that its spaceship MMO EVE Online recently reached a peak of 45,000 concurrent players. The impressive number tops the previous record of 35,000 simultaneous users.

Unlike most MMOs, EVE Online is operated as a single instance, allowing every player to communicate and meet up within the massive universe of New Eden.

The game has been a technical challenge to maintain, with users often testing the limits of CCP's technology by swarming single systems en masse.

Nick Breckon

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semaphore

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January 5, 2009 2:19 PM

Cool, I had noticed the online count was starting to spike higher recently.

http://eve.coldfront.net/status/summary
- umegastar
  
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  January 5, 2009 2:48 PM
  
  do they shut down the server every day from 11-12h?
  - semaphore
    
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    January 5, 2009 2:55 PM
    
    yep that's the daily maintenance window. That is GMT though so its around 7-8am EST I believe? It is only down longer for patches.
    - AlexW1203
      
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      January 5, 2009 3:09 PM
      
      'Maintenance window'. Pah. It's CCP-Enforced EVE Player Daily Sleep Time.
      
      A noble goal indeed.
      - loboca
        
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        January 5, 2009 4:16 PM
        
        Considering there are 10,000 people logged in within about 15 minutes of the cluster coming back up.. ya, they gotta let us sleep sometime.
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  January 6, 2009 1:59 AM
  
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  - Stebet
    
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    January 8, 2009 6:34 AM
    
    Propably people logging in to make sure their skill training covers the maintenance window.
    - [deleted] 528698662
      
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      January 8, 2009 12:38 PM
      
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