[dholowiski]

tl/dr: Sharding and slowing everything down.

[lflux]

Eve isn't sharded in the common MMO sense.

[dholowiski]

No, but they talked about disconnecting the battle from the surrounding solar system, and the negative consequences. Essentially sharding.

[lacksconfidence]

Actually they do not disconnect the battle from the solar system the battle is in.

What they said is they run many solar systems on one server. During a major battle they migrate those other solar systems to different servers so that the server only has to deal with the one system.

So in a sense, yes, each solar system is its own shard.