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Last I checked (and remember right) they used Stackless Python. Very interesting, it can serialize tasklets and send them to another machine to continue executing. Seems no longer maintained though.

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zipy124

1 hour ago

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They moved away. Details in this blog post: https://evefrontier.com/en/news/moving-into-the-future-upgra...

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NooneAtAll3

1 hour ago

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> Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).

...why did they make a website not html-first?

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tjpnz

1 hour ago

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Is this unique to Stackless Python?

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ManBeardPc

5 minutes ago

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Don‘t know any other runtimes that have that by default. Probably kind of possible in Erlang or so by transferring the state, but stopping and moving a green thread in the middle of execution I’ve not seen elsewhere.

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strobe

1 hour ago

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at least while ago they used Stackless Python

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zipy124

1 hour ago

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They moved away. Details in this blog post: https://evefrontier.com/en/news/moving-into-the-future-upgra...

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cassianoleal

1 hour ago

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I've wanted to try out EVE Online for a while now. Never found the time, and it seems to be a bit of a time sink. Since I have no idea if I'm actually going to enjoy it or not, it never took priority.

These kinds of news make me want to find the time. Good job!

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weberer

23 minutes ago

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It is definitely a social game. You're not going to have a good time if you try to play it solo. At least that was the case when I played it 10+ years ago. No clue if they changed it significantly since then.

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Cthulhu_

21 minutes ago

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It hasn't, at best since then they've added more ship personalization options in the form of ship skins, and some gamification via events, daily login campaigns, and now seasonal-like content where they promote different activities. The current one started yesterday, you can track down and / or follow NPC haulers (or something like that; the event does not appear in sov null. I moved there a month ago after it seemed like that's where all the fun stuff happens)

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Dzugaru

58 minutes ago

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Depends on the way you play can be a time sink, or session-like game. It is extremely deep and complex to learn from scratch though.

I've made some of the best friends playing it when I had time, friendship formed out of high stakes in this game (you regularly lose hours of grind or real money if you pay for the game - in seconds) and respect you have for each other skill.

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hparadiz

37 minutes ago

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Not a fan of space engines where locations are fixed.

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cultofmetatron

29 minutes ago

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what you want a game where they take into account the expansion of space? are we also going to model the complete breakdown of causality on the otherside of the ftl?

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hparadiz

20 minutes ago

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They don't even do orbits of basic solar system objects. Lol.

Eve online has always just pretended to be a space sim.

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forgetfreeman

11 minutes ago

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That's inaccurate, orbital periods are a thing at least for moons. It's one of those things you'd have to spend a year or two piloting an Orca to notice though.

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hparadiz

8 minutes ago

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Are stations and jump gates still fixed in place?

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jdw64

1 hour ago

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I followed and forked it on GitHub. When Eve Online first came out, the graphics were stunning. I'm planning to dig into the code and take a close look at how the graphics renderer was implemented.

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lyu07282

1 hour ago

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Seems like a huge chunk is missing there, these mostly seem to me like a bunch of smaller reusable components with nothing really tying it together.

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adrian17

53 minutes ago

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Makes sense, they probably don’t want to leak _the_ secret sauce driving the game itself.

I saw some eve-specific logic in Destiny repo, like warp enter condition and warp velocity math, or entity visibility between grids.

(Also, it’s full of std::(unordered_)map/set. Surprised they didn’t try squeeze some more perf there.)

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Cthulhu_

20 minutes ago

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I hope this will lead to some AI bros quickly finding performance optimization options; the game can be very heavy on graphics despite most of what's visible being a skybox and UI elements, and the UI is often very sluggish and unresponsive, that is, they seem to be doing too much on the main thread.