Trial Log on limit

kb4blu

Well I am on the 14 day trial and guess what I cant log in because Eve limits the number of free trial people to 800.

While I like the game and will probably get it when the trial is over I dont understand the limt.

Seems to me they would do everything they could to make you feel welcome.

How does having more than 800 people using the free trial affect anything ??

Seems CCP needs a course in PR.

 

Unknown

Its quite simple really, the server is already very busy at peak times, and if they allowed 2000 people on trial to suddenly jump in we would get quite a large increase in lagg.

When i did my trial 5 motnhs ago, the 800 slots were never taken for me however.

kb4blu

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Originally posted by Vullcan

Its quite simple really, the server is already very busy at peak times, and if they allowed 2000 people on trial to suddenly jump in we would get quite a large increase in lagg.
When i did my trial 5 motnhs ago, the 800 slots were never taken for me however.

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HMMM that does not say much for their equipment then.  If their player base grew by 2000 (and I am sure they would like that) I guess that would also increase lag. 

Unknown

Ahh but you see, they would upgrade servers for PAYING subscribers.

_myko

its also to prevent lots of current subscribers abusing the free trial system with loads of trail accounts doing stuff like mining...

raising the limit to 2000 probably woulnt affect the servers too much, i doubt they've hit that limit all that often (and its probably only saturday's and sunday's that the 800 limit is anywhere near being reached).

thinguy

I've been playing for 3-4 weeks and the first 2 were a trial. I never got denied due to the 800 newbie limit. In fact I never had a problem logging in. And I've never noticed a problem with lag.

Because you were denied entry I wouldn't hold that against the game or their systems.

Take a look at the metering of the system at www.eve-i.com  Right hand side of front page.

It list 12849 connections on 2/4/05 as the all time high. I was playing when that was hit and didn't notice a thing.

I think the Eve infrastructure and support has matured to a very stable and reliable system.

Something I hope WOW can get to soon -I'm getting tired of that red lag bar.

 

sole

The limit are there to prevent alt mining from alredy subscribers

has nothing too do with the system performance

 

you must be the one of the unlucky who even been denied acces to the servers

but right now CCP are making a drive with trails account

I would relogg and try after 30s

 

JelloB2000

..odd not that long ago the most trial users I ever saw online was about 290. Did some magazine hand out trials or something?

Phoenix_Hawk

It depends on when they log in as to how many are on. Then MMORPG.com here is giving 14 day trails to its users and current paying EVE Online users can give buddy trail accounts that last 7 days I think.

NFWolfDude

The trials from the buddy program are now 14 day trials. As for the limit, let's face it, CCP is a business and they want to get you in to get a look around and see if you might be interested in dropping some cash on their product. They are not giving away free accounts. Besides 14 days is not enough time to get fully into the game, only to get an idea and get your feet wet. As a business, would you give away your product as a "sample" to the point where it negatively affected your paying customer? It's not that they have hardware issues, as much as you want to jump on that bandwagon and it's easy, they are more concerned about a ton of "free" accounts affecting the real players experience in a negative way, swinging the markets, being a bunch of snerts, etc. But whatever, this seems more like a troll to get CCP bashing going than being thankful there is any kind of trial, which costs nothing, for a person to get an idea of what the game is about.

Cheers!