EVE Online Records 45,000 Simultaneous Players

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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.

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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

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      January 5, 2009 2:48 PM

      do they shut down the server every day from 11-12h?

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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.

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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.

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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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