EVE Online gets new hardware

EVE Online’s getting an upgrade on the 1st of November. The devs says they’re adding more internet backbones and stuff. But more importantly, they’re getting new hardware, including another RamSan Fibre Channel disk for more tables in their SQL server, and 33 blades servers by mid-November.

Now, you’re probably wondering why the heck are they buying all that hardware. No doubt that’s a lot of stuff, but thing is, they need all that to make way for the public testing of KALI, the second major EVE Online expansion. And what can you expect from KALI? Let’s quote our source:

Kali contains a lot of improvements, fixes and optimizations that are too big to deploy in the Tranquility codebase, the changes are simply touching too many systems. So Kali isn’t just “new stuff”, it’s a lot of fixes. A whole parking lot of fixes. A parking lot the size of Iceland of fixes. And Iceland is bigger than … oh, never mind.

Of course, that was a bit fragmented, but who cares? “A lot of improvements” sounds good enough, don’t you think? And it’s sure something to look forward to. We sure need to thank these CCP guys for continuously improving EVE Online for us. Kudos to you, folks!

EVE Online’s getting an upgrade on the 1st of November. The devs says they’re adding more internet backbones and stuff. But more importantly, they’re getting new hardware, including another RamSan Fibre Channel disk for more tables in their SQL server, and 33 blades servers by mid-November.

Now, you’re probably wondering why the heck are they buying all that hardware. No doubt that’s a lot of stuff, but thing is, they need all that to make way for the public testing of KALI, the second major EVE Online expansion. And what can you expect from KALI? Let’s quote our source:

Kali contains a lot of improvements, fixes and optimizations that are too big to deploy in the Tranquility codebase, the changes are simply touching too many systems. So Kali isn’t just “new stuff”, it’s a lot of fixes. A whole parking lot of fixes. A parking lot the size of Iceland of fixes. And Iceland is bigger than … oh, never mind.

Of course, that was a bit fragmented, but who cares? “A lot of improvements” sounds good enough, don’t you think? And it’s sure something to look forward to. We sure need to thank these CCP guys for continuously improving EVE Online for us. Kudos to you, folks!