I agree they should reduce each person's game time by 1 day, so we can compensate them for working overtime to keep us playing.

What I see is a little bit of animosity towards the new players - the downside is flooding the server, the upside is more subs to keep this game going and growing. If they give 1 day to each account, they will be giving away at least 500 days for which they will not earn money. I would rather have a well paid dev fixing my game.

As Gargaj mentioned here we will definitely compensate lost game time after we solved the current server issues.

I'm used to this since I lived through the 900+ exception error windows that would tile across my screen in Eve or the eternal black screens of death upon session change...for months on end. Not really concerned about getting comp'd on time because of servers having issues.

A big lag spike about two hours ago cost me a Yagel + fittings (all T1 stuff) and it kind of hurt the wallet a bit being a new player and all, but really it is just par for the course. Already made enough NIC to be able to buy one on the market and just keep going.

Glad to see devs trying to get it situated

Wait... what... your logs show *something* ?!?!?

Of course it's a shame that the first few days have been so unstable for me and the other EVE refugees. However, any long-term EVE players will be more then used to some slight instability and server issues here and there. I personally have no problems with server issues as long as the communication between the Devs and customers remains so good.

A quick "Damn guys, server is dying, we're limiting logins for a while" is worth way more to me then some slick Dev Blog written by some PR-bastard.

It shows me that the Devs are basically just cool internet geeks that want to create a cool game and know what their players are also just internet geeks that prefer being talked to like normal people and none of this "Dear Customer" bull.

So take your time to fix the issues - we'll still be here when you're done.

And to my fellow EVE refugees I'd like to say: be gentle and think back to EVE a few years ago. Yes it was a little more unstable but it was a game made by gamers for gamers (instead of what it is today - a cash cow for ex-CITIBANK investment bankers to maintain their undeserved high living standards on our backs).

Personally I'll choose the server issues any day!

Cheers
Melor

PS. Yes, I know I'm bitter. I'm already visiting a shrink for it!

As a player who has been here since launch, I have experienced both ups and downs. I can't help but feel that a lot of these "devs are great!" posts are from the afterglow of leaving CCP. I am afraid that once that "glow" is over, that people will jump on the anti-dev bandwagon. I want to point out that while the devs here are great people, they are still people, and will make mistakes. However, what they do best is that they listen to the playerbase, and they work tirelesly and quickly to resolve issues. I have stuck with this game for so long because I do believe that the dev's in this game have been the most professional (and quirky) than any other I have played. Above all, they churn out content very very quickly.

To sum up, the devs have been the best since launch and are not putting up a "show" just for new players. If ever the 'glow' from leaving CCP disappears, please don't jump on the bash-the-dev bandwagon!

I've yet to see a Dev here pull a Captain Arogant, nor do they appear eager to demonstrate putting a fire out with petrol and putting sand in the vasaline

They are, it's one of the :rage: things the other company finds funny: crappy customer service.  OFC, it's not like I've got saved copies of a pettion closed with "there are no bugs in <mmo>" and another with "there is no lag in <mmo>" but only because I didn't export them from the website.

There's an issue in their softwarez (Them hampsters broke a bone :<). We can only hope for a fix but it's looking better and better it would seem.:)