Dude.  I'm from EVE as well.  I am fighting, very hard, my natural urge to reach for my pitchfork and set the forums on fire whilst setting fire to the nearest outpost in game.

And yes, that is getting harder to fight the longer this continues I will admit.   But ultimatley, I say to you sir.

HTFU

Except the physical hardware can take a lot more than 350 - 400 people.
The main game server (i.e. running around, spawning stuff, shooting people in the face, etc) can take more than 350 - 400 people.
It's the machine dealing with the market/chat system that's struggling.  However that machine is only at 2% load according to the Dev's.

BoyC was quite honest (when I was in chat over the weekend) that this is something they, the Dev's, have broken in the software.  So they're fixing it.  But as with most software issues it's figuring out where the bug has appeared then how to fix it with out the little sod jumping else where.  Unfortunatley doing that right takes time.

If it were a simple "we need to upgrade our bandwidth with the carrier" problem then the lag would not be comming from one specific element of their system; you'd have lag all over the place.  Having been in the game when it had 500+ in it and the bug began manifesting I can atest that moving around and shooting things was a-ok.  Couldn't talk to anyone or buy/sell/get assignment for love nor money though.

So no.  It's not bandwidth.

Just to quickly point out EVE expansions are free and always have been.  Other than the original boxed Simon & Shuster release the client is also free (several boxed versions have been released recently though).

So in that respect Perpetuum and EVE are pretty equal.

Not many and whilst not being able to play the game is annoying there is an upside.  To paraphrase the dev's the clock isn't ticking and won't start ticking until again until this is fixed, so your sub is being comp'd these days for free and still gathering EP as per usual.

Fair... if annoying.

Mac users have never been "happy" with the solution offered, it got to the point I was compiling wine and doing it that way to get semi-reasonable performance.  Saying that, even C's stuff suggests the usual useage curves are going down.

I still think we should deliver the tanker of RedBull to the devs.  Just to be safe you understand

With the exception of us :bittervets: causing headaches for the dev team they actually have someone/people who know how to build a backend:  24/7 uptime as a matter of course.

So once the current issue has been fixed Perpetuum should be avaliable to play at whatever insane hour of the day you choose.  Unless it's patch day of course, in which case I'm sure there will be pony threads to enjoy instead

It's worth keeping in mind (and this is aimed at Dev's, want to be Dev's and such... except you CCP you can just keep going LALALALA in the corner becuase we went blue in the face trying to explain it to you) that WoW is the exception rather than the rule when it comes to subscription games and microtransactions.

Sparkle pony (and flying derp lion) might well have generated, seemingly insane figures.  $25m USD from what I've read, queues (lol) of people waiting for the transactions to clear.  All very impressive.  All very tempting.

What's not so impressive is the figures behind that. WoW makes about $2B (B as in Billion) a year. That's only 10% of WoW's total subscriber base handing over the cash for those items, if WoW was any other other MMO (and it could be argued that if Blizz had pulled a Richard Bachman then even WoW wouldn't be WoW) then 10% of it's subs buying something would generate nowhere near as much money, press or indeed subsequent PR material. 

WoW's playerbase are also starting to squirm over the nickle and dimeing they see happening (cross-shard dungeons for MT, paid realm shifting, etc), Star Trek Online is a virtual wasteland, apparently, due to excessive microtransactions and yet that 10% figure generally holds true; only 10% of your customers will use the cash shop.

So if a small game like this one, still in its infancy, only has (for aguments sake) 3,000 subscribers... that's at most 300 people willing to buy the PO equivilent of Sparkle Pony.  That figure also drops if you game allows/pushes multiple accounts... people are only going to buy one sparkle pony for their main after all.

I am being calm and I do understand the problem.  That does not stop it being rather annoying.

Ohhh a patch.

Edit:  From admin only to server limit in the space of a few clicks.  God damn.

Dude.  Ouch.

Frankly I'm playing it the same as EVE, sticking with my native race (well the race and weapon I started with lvl 1 in) and I'll move to the others sooner or later;  it seems most of the skills (more accumulator, more HP, faster reps, rapid fire, run-away-quickly, etc.) will work, to a degree, whatever I'm driving.  With the obvious exception of a mining bot  

I can see in the skills selection the other 2 races, just requires some cash and EP to activate it so I assume if I tried it wouldn't give me the finger and tell me to reroll (if it did why are they shown).

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