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sir pball

(4,726 posts)
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 12:13 PM Jan 2014

Biggest-ever EVE Online battle destroys a QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS' worth of ships.

I haven't gamed in years, but thought y'all might get a kick out of this. From the Slashdot summary:

A battle began yesterday that's the biggest one in the game's 10-year history. The main battle itself involved over 2,200 players in a single star system…the groups on each side of the fight tried to restrict the numbers somewhat in order to maintain server stability, so the battle ended up sprawling across multiple other systems as well. Over 70 of the game's biggest and most expensive ships, the Titans, were destroyed. Individual Titans can be worth upwards of 200 billion ISK, which is worth around $5,000. Losses for the Titans alone for this massive battle are estimated at $200,000 - $300,000.


Here's a summary. EO is always an amusing reference whenever a winger starts yapping on about the Libertarian Free Market..
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Biggest-ever EVE Online battle destroys a QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS' worth of ships. (Original Post) sir pball Jan 2014 OP
Those numbers are misleading. Orsino May 2014 #1

Orsino

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1. Those numbers are misleading.
Wed May 21, 2014, 01:23 PM
May 2014

The ships destroyed are all constructed by players in-game from materials mined and refined in-game. Yeah, one could maybe replace them all by spending real money, and some of that will occur, but the equation of game money and real money is tricky.

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