This message greeted players after downtime today:
http://myeve.eve-online.com/news.asp?a=single&nid=2375&tid=1
star system player limit deployed to tranquilityreported by CCP Wrangler | 2008.09.21 13:38:10 | NEWDuring the downtime today, Sunday 21st September, we deployed a new feature to Tranquility. The Stargate will now check how many players there are in the system and deny access if you attempt to jump into it when too many players are present. In addition to this you will not be able to login on a character if the system has too many players. We have also increased the amount of GMs this evening and if you are unable to login, please press the ESC button and submit a petition in the Stuck category.
This is a temporary solution to this issue, we are working on a permanent feature which has the highest priority and will be implemented as soon as possible.
Now, I understand making this change to deal with the problems that have been plaguing Jita as of late, but I can see this getting abused. It’s only a matter of time that the “exploit of this mechanic” threads start on the forums.
CCP, please make this temporary change as temporary as possible.
January 7th, 2010 at 6:19 pm
Happy New year and keep up the good work! From all the sgu team at <A href="http://www.watchsguniverseonline.com" watchsguniverseonline.com
Hope you all have a super new year
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