Will the game ever had a large player count?

[Vilusia]

I was just wondering if the game will support a lot of players later down the line. I think it would be really cool to have lots of players playing on the same server.

[koonschi]

Not without a major upgrade to the server hardware it's running on, which would imply running it on computer networks / clusters or without simplifying the game mechanics like combat, flight physics and collision.

 

The former (hardware and server infrastructure upgrade) takes a lot of time and I while I've thought of it I can't tell you whether we're ever going down that road or not.

The latter (simplification of game mechanics) won't happen.

[Vilusia]

If enough players request a higher player count would it be considered?

[koonschi]

This is truly difficult and large amounts of players requesting it won't make it easier - just more urgent. As I said, I can't tell you when or even if we're going down that road.