Question: If EU had +5million active players...

Jorael · 05-12-2008, 14:49

Say for some reason the world discovers EU and by next week the game has 5 million active players, trying to get in and play. Suppose MA gets enough servers to hold all that traffic...

How would this game be like? What would happen? Would it be much different then what we know now, in your opinion?

How would MA manage bots, scam cases, server connections, etc...?

What about economy? Would it explode? Talk about loot balancing nightmare...

Just some food for thought and discussion...

Let us know ur opinion

Monica · 05-12-2008, 14:53

I guess here would be many servers like on many other similar games

Would be very hard to connect to the game if heres 5 milions online at once!!!

Gankoholic · 05-12-2008, 14:54

It would be rly bad for the newbs .. the sweat would probably sell for tt value :P

safara · 05-12-2008, 14:57

Quite scary really

The scaling up required of hardware/servers/developers/support/logisitcs etc etc would be quite staggering.

As far as gameplay goes - I guess we all find planets/corners/niches we were happy with and generally hang out there.

Imagine walking into a city 10 times the size of Hades with 100k avatars walking around the streets and in the buildings on all the floors etc etc........

NastyCenturion · 05-12-2008, 14:57

the pixie would reach TT + 1000

PkmX · 05-12-2008, 15:03

You will always see at least one green dot on calypso ...

Even the very remote outpost that you used to see nobody will be filled with traders like we have in twin peaks now.

Overwhelming passengers that pilots don't even have to shout for an hour because there are already 40 seats reserved ...

Over 50 globals passes over the chat every second.

Every second there are 1000 bombs dropped and 2000 creatures killed.

A101 will go up to TT+10K if they still don't drop

MA support will go crazy to handle 10K support cases every day.

You have to wait 1 hour to log into the game (You are currently #28372 in the query ... please wait)

Most likely the server will crash before anything above happens.

Anomaalia · 05-12-2008, 15:05

Servers will be overloaded, inflation in auction will be like in Zimbabwe but in minutes.
MA ability in solving support cases:

it's only thing that doesn't get worse -- it just can't get any more

1 spawning mob per 500 hunters, 1 spawned ore/enmatter deposit per 100 dropped bomb.... ect ect
Oh, and could you imagine 100 000 streettraders spamming in chat window simultaniously :P

I would be happy if 1/3 of current accounts would play actively. That is true goal for MA to reach.

Staffas · 05-12-2008, 15:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by PkmX

You will always see at least one green dot on calypso ...

I truly dislike to hunt in areas with other hunters except when I am on team hunts. The mobs around me are my mobs. I do apreciate if someone comes there before me and fill up the lootpool so I can global abit though.

If there was 5 milion new players joining tomorow, I would probably be a trader instead of a hunter.

D-Low · 05-12-2008, 15:40

Wow. This hurts my head just thinking about it.

MysterLV · 05-12-2008, 15:45

Servers to handle all payers would not be big problem, just requires a bit of time (few weeks) and if MA have programmed all that it`s easy to add servers.

NET connection .... hmm for 5 milion players it should be really good one, that is problem to my mind ... already entering new area there is a lot of info comming from server and when i get all info about players there is laggy (best example PA). But there are also some solutions so not so scary.

Support and etc .... omg there is a big problem, but again if 5 million players then MA should not have problem to hire new employees to handle all that, because with new players there are simple questions at most and there is 1 answer.

Economy:
I think there would be 10+ 10k+ HOF`s in each profession every day.
Every item would rise in value, even with bad eco. Don`t think that all would like to have settler and Opalo, all would serach for something better and armor like Paladin, Knight, Shogu would rise in price INSANE! (but that would be for few month, but prices would stay if playerbase grows also)

Average loot ... I`m sure that in hunting it would become really better ..
Mining ... mining would S*CK BIG TIME, I`m sure that in 5 min one spot would be carpeted for several times. Ore/enmatter prices rise for 3 times, Crafted stuff would cost a lot lot more.

That would be in first months, then all become balanced, prices drop a bit, MA makas new areas/planets to decrease lag (less players in same place), mining gets better end etc ...

AND if there was 5+ million players MA could not handle events like LandGrab and other where much ppl are concentrated in one area (like when orb opened).

Something like that.