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EVE Online moves to Python 3

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Re: EVE Online moves to Python 3

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Post by causality0 »

HappySweeney wrote: post #30
efromvt wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah if I ever have the need to occupy an inordinate number of hours of my life again I’ll log back in, the temptation to dust of the account(s) arises sometimes. Think I managed to log off in lowsec but who knows!

This is why I had to quit. I enjoyed it way too much and would spend nearly all my free time playing it, much to the detriment of the rest of my (non-professional) life.

It was kind of a blessing for me that I was forced to quit after they introduced PLEX and in doing created a conversion rate for ISK to dollars. Suddenly I was too aware of how worthless everything I was doing was. It's one thing to spend an evening grinding to buy that new ship, it's another when you know you were grinding for 73 cents an hour. Risking losing a ship you spent a week earning the ISK for is thrilling and scary, losing a ship you can replace for eight dollars is just annoying.

Re: EVE Online moves to Python 3

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Post by zulux »

cyberpunk wrote: post #21
7bit wrote: post #7

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Or insane

Python is used as a kind of 'visual basic' language in a lot of banks especially in front-of-house trading software, e.g murex or frontarena. Migrations between major versions of these can take years, costs 100s of millions and involve thousands of devs. Mistakes can be _expensive_. It is kind of 'insane' but also, meh.. There's more dragons out there than we've been led to believe :}

It's a great 'glue' language to tie a lot of systems together, especially when you think of MS Excel as a system.

Re: EVE Online moves to Python 3

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Post by elmo125 »

zulux wrote: post #36
cyberpunk wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Python is used as a kind of 'visual basic' language in a lot of banks especially in front-of-house trading software, e.g murex or frontarena. Migrations between major versions of these can take years, costs 100s of millions and involve thousands of devs. Mistakes can be _expensive_. It is kind of 'insane' but also, meh.. There's more dragons out there than we've been led to believe :}

It's a great 'glue' language to tie a lot of systems together, especially when you think of MS Excel as a system.

Although i really love or maybe have some memories, but isn't ms excel outdated , kinda, except the idea that it's always have easy fast solution

Re: EVE Online moves to Python 3

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Post by larnon »

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #19

Can an experienced player gives us a summary of what's the "vibe" of the EVE online community these days? I was lightly involved ~15 years ago.

I started more than 15 years ago and recently got back into it. I would say that game has stagnated a lot more, character numbers may seem like it isn't that low but in reality most people who play it has around 5 accounts which they multibox with. So number of actual people who play it went really down. It is looking bleak for the future, and i can confidently say that it is all CCP's fault (called Fenris Creations now). They started aiming for short term gains and they probably realized themselves long ago it won't last so they started investing in other IP's but they were all mega failures so far.
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