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Title: Server cluster upgrades are serious business
Post by: Yegolev on January 26, 2006, 01:56:40 PM
If you have not read up on the upgrade details in the Dev Blog, here is the most important point:

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7. How many PVPers do you estimate will be able to blob each other to death in a single 0.0 system?
Enough to make the baby jesus cry.


Title: Re: Server cluster upgrades are serious business
Post by: Jamiko on January 26, 2006, 01:59:41 PM
I  :heart: CCP. But still, I'll believe that when I see it.


Title: Re: Server cluster upgrades are serious business
Post by: Alkiera on January 26, 2006, 05:51:54 PM
How many PVPers do you estimate will be able to blob each other to death in a single 0.0 system?

Someone wanna explain this?  If I had to guess, it has something to do with the number of players in a single system.  but that's just a guess, specifically because the phrase 'blob each other to death' makes no sense.

Alkiera



Title: Re: Server cluster upgrades are serious business
Post by: MahrinSkel on January 26, 2006, 06:34:49 PM
When a lot of ships are in the same system, it makes that system into a yellow blob on the "Show Pilots in Space" view of the starmap.  When a bunch of ships are gangwarping together, they arrive in a tight cluster, also known as a "blob".

--Dave