I saw this News on eve-online - it says: At 20:45 on Sunday evening (2005.11.27) EVE players broke their own Peak Concurrent Player (PCU) record with 17.816 playing at the same time.

Well the report is good news to EVE online developers, considering that its 3 yrs older than other games and it only has one server. That only means many players are now trying space MMOG or they got tired of the usual hack and slash to level up game, cuz in EVE you don't gain exp, rather you try to make enough money to buy new skills to learn, learning skills can take a few hours up to even a few days. These skills will allow you to mine better, knowledge yourself in different weapons, navigate jumps better and allow you to pilot better ships.