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Re:Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (2009) by chongli on Monday June 08, 2020 @09:20PM (#23462640)
EVE Online definitely caters to the portion of UO players who loved large group politics and economics. I don't know how well it would suit the player who likes to decorate their home and role-play as a small-time leather working merchant.

EVE definitely does support different play styles, I just don't think it's as many as UO.

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Re:Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (2009) by the_af on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @08:29AM (#23466022)
Good point, I didn't consider that.

I feel weird about games like UO. I obviously won't play it now, and for whatever reason I didn't play it in its day, and now I feel I missed an important milestone in gaming history. I'm familiar with it only by reading about it. EVE Online is different: I know it exists, I know it has some interesting emergent properties, but I don't feel I missed anything by not being a part of its community.

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Re:Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (2009) by Alex3917 on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @11:03AM (#23467249)
> I feel I missed an important milestone in gaming history

It was a magical time and place, but there will be more magical times and places in the future. Once VR gets good enough, we may get a similar kind of magical time and place for the first couple years there also.

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