Bloodiest battle in MMO history causes a quarter million dollars in loss

[ictponder]

Once again Eve delivers as no other game in the world can. Since currency in eve can be purchased with real money and likewise sold for real money (against EULA) it's easy to convert in-game losses to real dollars, which was around $200,000 - $300,000 in this case. The fight was between two of the largest coalitions in the game, one of which I belong to. All in all the fight consisted of around 2 - 3,000 pilots simultaneously and was the result of a simple error of not paying a sovereignty bill by the corp in charge of the solar system.

The biggest contributing factor to such a huge loss is the amount of Titans destroyed. Titans are the largest and most powerful ships in the game. One of the Titans destroyed in this battle was owned by a guy named The Khan and was worth around 200,000,000,000 isk or roughly $5,000. Unfortunately I belong to N3/PL coalition, which was on the losing end of this battle but it was definitely an epic experience to be part of this.

This wasn't the largest battle in eve but was definitely the most costly. It made news on Fox, ABC and CBS.

One unfortunate side effect is the market price for minerals has jumped up significantly as industrial pilots across the entire game are now tasked with making more Titans, which take about 3 months to build and an enormous amount of resources. This puts a damper on my alt corps capital ship assembly program but we will manage.

Here is a video recorded by a third party showing part of the battle. The entire fight lasted 20 hours until the server was shut down for daily maintenance. The video may look slow due to the time dialation caused by such large numbers. Time dialation basically slows down time in the game, allowing the server to process all the data.


For a reference to the size of an Erebus (Gallente Titan)


Also some 4K stills
B-R Battle - Imgur

I've been playing Eve since early 2005 and it keeps getting better and better. Hopefully one day we can have battles like this without time dialation or lag but I'm not sure humans could actually coordinate effectively in real time during something like this via teamspeak.

[sergechronos]

Given thought to giving it a shot again, was going to install it Tuesday and play with class closed due to the snow but the power supply in my PC failed unfortunately. I'm sure there'll be a boon in population after this battle.

[eljefefx]

Yeah, we lost 59 Titans that day. Not a fun time in that aspect.

[GTO Assassin]

Who's cleaning that shit up?

Scooter

[eljefefx]

Who's cleaning that shit up?

Scooter

Whoever can could get in and get out fast enough.

[wingnut]

Not that i have any idea what its all about, but the battle even made Forbes...

B-R Station High-GFX 2701 - Imgur

[eljefefx]

Not that i have any idea what its all about, but the battle even made Forbes...

B-R Station High-GFX 2701 - Imgur

Probably because that when you convert the ISK value of the ship losses involved into dollars, it comes out to around $300,000 to $330,000.


A better article explaining it all with large pictures to help those who know nothing about EVE.

http://themittani.com/features/large...al-battle-ever

[wingnut]

Probably because that when you convert the ISK value of the ship losses involved into dollars, it comes out to around $300,000 to $330,000.

So...when is the revenge attack

[sergechronos]

So...when is the revenge attack

Based on my limited knowledge of the situation, probably not happening. As I recall, the presumption before was that N3/PL had the stronger force and would win in a straight upfight against CFC, but the opposite happened. Whether or not N3/PL could've stemmed the tide with more time, who knows. At any rate, likely would be more expensive to try to counter attack given the losses sustained already.

[eljefefx]

Based on my limited knowledge of the situation, probably not happening. As I recall, the presumption before was that N3/PL had the stronger force and would win in a straight upfight against CFC, but the opposite happened. Whether or not N3/PL could've stemmed the tide with more time, who knows. At any rate, likely would be more expensive to try to counter attack given the losses sustained already.

Didn't know you played. PL took a huge hit, somewhere around 4Trillion ISK worth of ships. The renter empire will help feed some of that lost money back into the alliance wallet but it will take time. Also, the problem on the PL side was two fold. B-R is a dead end pipe system with only one gate, so with forces camping the other side they were effectively cut off from outside aid unless it had the ability to Cyno in. Hell, OZ3C-G only has two gates into it, making camping even better. It was a risk staging out of there. Also, for whatever reason the PL FC who took over called a primary switch and went after Sort Dragon. In the time it took for them to bring his Titan down, CFC forces had already taken out 4 PL Titans.