In the universe of EVE Online, players from every timezone around the
globe have been waging wars on a massive scale for nearly 11 years. Some
conflicts have been relatively small grudge matches between rivals from
adjoining solar systems with maybe a dozen or so frigates and cruisers facing
off in fast-paced combat. Others, like the Great War, are fueled by tens of
thousands of players and blossom with all the same propaganda, diplomacy (and
espionage), supply-chain logistics and military tactics that might fuel a real-world
conflict, taking months to resolve and changing entire industrial patterns
across the star map.
The Bloodbath of B-R5RB or Battle of
B-R5RB was a massive-scale virtual battle fought in
the MMORPG space game
EVE Online, and was
possibly the largest player versus
player battle ever. Pitting the CFC and Russian alliances (CFC/Rus)
against N3 and Pandemic Legion (N3/PL), the 21 hour long conflict involved over
7,548 player characters overall and a maximum of 2,670 players in the B-R5RB
system at one time. The in-game cost of the losses totalled over 11 trillion
ISK, a theoretical real-world value of $300,000 to $330,000 USD.
This theoretical value is derived
from training credits which are available in-game but which players can
purchase additional amounts of for a small subscription fee.
In all that time one kind of ship has always
been the most coveted target for any fleet, thirsted after for the glory of
defeating it as evidenced by this recording
of the first one to die in combat.
Titans, the largest ship class in EVE Online,
take thousands of man hours to produce, take months to train to fly, and are
capable of fitting massive doomsday weapons that obliterate lesser ships with a
single volley. To get a good understanding of the size of these Sci Fi
monsters, check out this comparison chart (the Amarr Avatar is the brownish
“mushroom” looking behemoth with the similarly sized Erebus above it and
Ragnarok and Leviathan below it. Other EVE ships are found throughout) or watch
this to-scale player-made video comparing several classes of EVE
ships.
EVE Online has proven to be one of the most important Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game of all time, just by the number of players and the amount of money invested in the game is enough to back-up my statement. I apologize if the information is not in a 100% accurate, but I am just a casual gamer that ran across this information and I thought it was worth sharing with all of you who love gaming and entertainment in general.
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