The largest battle in MMO history took place a few days ago and you know where.

[eljefefx]

Eve Online '6VDT' Battle: Largest Space War In History Claims 2,900 Ships, Millions Of Lives

The largest space battle in history has claimed millions of lives, and resulted in the destruction of 2,900 battleships in a few short hours.

And yes, it took place in a video game.

But as The Verge notes, while the combat might not be real, the fury, honour and despair of the warriors fighting it - let alone the real-world cost in terms of lost equipment - was far from fake.

The ridiculously huge battle occurred inside the massively-multiplayer online game Eve after months of tension, arms build-up and threats.

The two sides - the Test Alliance and the CFC - joined battle in a star system known as 6VDT.

More than 4,000 players took part in what has been confirmed as the largest online battle in video games history. A similarly-sized battle which took place earlier this year cost the losers around $20,000 in real-world terms, after its ships and equipment were wrecked after months of preparation. Another incident earlier this year saw a single ship worth $9,000 destroyed.

....More in the linked article.

The guys at CCP knew the battle was coming and switched the SuperNode that runs Jita -the main trade hub- over to 6VDT. It pissed off the market trading weenies in Jita and it still wasn't enough to completely handle the battle.

I know I post about it a lot, but this is what makes this game special - the fact that WE make the story. Where else will you see 4,000+ people all fight at the same time on a shared server?

Not WoW.

[ictponder]

I have been involved with that war for the last couple months. The number of Megathrons was amazing to see.

Hopefully someday they will be able to host battles like this without time dilation.

[eljefefx]

I have been involved with that war for the last couple months. The number of Megathrons was amazing to see.

Hopefully someday they will be able to host battles like this without time dilation.

Wish I could have joined. Sniggwaffe didn't get involved however.

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[ictponder]

I've been waiting for a good opportunity to use my Panther for some black ops but this war has taken over alliance priority.

[eljefefx]

I've been waiting for a good opportunity to use my Panther for some black ops but this war has taken over alliance priority.

CFC vs TEST, of course it took top billing. The devs and commentators for the AT did a roam today in dual prop Scythe Fleet Issues. Was hilarious.

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[jbuhrman]

You guys lost me after MMO

[sergechronos]

Bah..I need to get back to EVE eventually. Just so many other financial issues to get past first

At least RIFT is F2P to keep me semi-entertained for now.

[IPD]

1980: "Grandson, I fought in the battle of Leyte Gulf. It was the most massive naval battle in the history of the world."

2030: "Grandson, I once lost 900 hours of game-time in the most massive make-believe battle in the history of the internet."

[vroom4]

My buddy was in this one. Tells me on our drive home from works how some guy purposly lost a ship worth like 10 grand to try to win the war...and it failed.

[FluffyCow]

Would love to play this. But A) it costs money, and B) I have a wife and 2 year old. I'd lose both as I got obsessed. Lol

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