Eve players stage giant online space battle

BBC ^ | 29. July 2013

[1rudeboy]

One of the largest video game space battles ever seen has taken place in the Eve Online game.

For five hours on 28 July about 4,000 players took part in the epic battle between two of the game's biggest alliances.

The two sides were fighting for control of resources within several of the game's solar systems.

Time was slowed down in the virtual universe to help servers cope with the huge numbers of players and ships.

The battle pitted spaceships belonging to CFC against those from the Test Alliance in a region of space known as 6VDT. It ended in victory for CFC.

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By the end of the conflict thousands of ships are believed to have been destroyed.

Their destruction has a real-world cost as the game's internal currency can be bought with real money.

So far no-one has worked out the total value of the ships destroyed, but a far smaller battle earlier in 2013 laid waste to far fewer spacecraft that in total were estimated to be worth more than $15,000 (£10,000).

[Fire_on_High]

STO gives you a lot more direct control, but make no mistake it’s an action game. Gear is something you buy or work towards but the real fun is “Wheee, I’m flying a starship!”.

EVE is a very, very different game, not my sort of thing at all, but to each their own.

The free accounts for STO are pretty well off if you have any inclination to try it. It’s not bad at all to just jump right in.

[thescourged1]

I just recently re-subbed. I'm running faction warfare with the militia out in Black Rise.

Well-adjusted, employed, family guy, playing since 2004 and checking in on my fellow capsuleers on FR.