Live: large war in EVE Online; may become one of the biggest fights ever - Polidicks

[url]http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/28/4565558/eve-online-biggest-space-battle-in-history[/url] [quote=The Verge]In less than an hour, a battle of interstellar proportions will break out in the MMORPG Eve Online, a spacefaring simulation with its own politics, economies, and wars — all controlled exclusively by players. Between three and four thousand pilots are set to do battle in one of the largest fights ever on Eve, which you can watch live below or on Twitch.tv.[/quote]

awww shit i love this shit one of the only games that is funner to watch rather than play

you can just smell all the time and money disappear with every attack

My game just crashed.. It takes an entire minute to lock a target. I bet if the game was running in realtime the battle has only been going on for about 2 minutes.

i want to pretend this is exciting but all i'm seeing is stuttering and some dots which i presume are spaceships

Heh, one of the comments on that site. :v: [img]http://i.imgur.com/WVsWGhV.gif[/img] [QUOTE=Period;41628116]My game just crashed.. It takes an entire minute to lock a target. I bet if the game was running in realtime the battle has only been going on for about 2 minutes.[/QUOTE] [quote=Verge]Eve Online's developers have slowed time to 10% of real-time to allow the fight to unfold accurately.[/quote]

there's really no point in watching a stream of it if they're zoomed all the way out like that

[QUOTE=Schmaaa;41628151]there's really no point in watching a stream of it if they're zoomed all the way out like that[/QUOTE] And he's getting about 10fps

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;41628164]And he's getting about 10fps[/QUOTE] Mind you, EVE's developers added a time dilation system. This was a major part of the Burn Jita event, which the devs posted about: [url]http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/28640[/url]

How does a game even have it's own politics

[QUOTE=Nightsure;41628240]How does a game even have it's own politics[/QUOTE] Different corperations and so on.

[QUOTE=Nightsure;41628240]How does a game even have it's own politics[/QUOTE] the same way real life has politics

EVE really blows my mind. People literally live this game. I wish I could get into it, but it's probably for the best if I don't.

Shit like this makes me want to reactivate my account, but I usually end up getting burnt out by stuff like this since my dumbass decided to play with the russians who tell me to wake up 4 am or some bullshit for a cta.

Found this image of the battle. [B][This is not an exageration][/B] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/zHYPDle.jpg[/IMG]

Who is TEST and CFC?

[QUOTE=Zambies!;41628324]Who is TEST and CFC?[/QUOTE] Reedit and Goons.

[QUOTE=Zambies!;41628324]Who is TEST and CFC?[/QUOTE] Test has reddit peoples and CFC is something awful in simple terms.

[QUOTE=Thlis;41628318]Found this image of the battle. [img]http://i.imgur.com/zHYPDle.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] I'm getting a headache just looking at that... is that what most large battles look like?

Oh shit, I should be there. Oops.

How you imagine EVE Online space battles to be like: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI9K8NIm2eY[/media] How EVE Online space battles are actually like: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNY-lNDyDrU[/media] (I was trying to find Battle of Endor, but YouTube doesn't have it)

[t]http://i.imgur.com/0AUiLkm.jpg[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/3r45VAw.jpg[/t] lightshow

[QUOTE=Period;41628513][t]http://i.imgur.com/0AUiLkm.jpg[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/3r45VAw.jpg[/t] lightshow[/QUOTE] And to think people are fighting as if their lives depended on it just...wow

[QUOTE=Thlis;41628318]Found this image of the battle. [B][This is not an exageration][/B] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/zHYPDle.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] I have no idea what the hell is going on in this picture.

As someone who's never really looked into EVE, I was kind of hoping for ships to be flying around blowing up and shit like that. Not someone talking about their pvp music. Is it worth waiting?

[QUOTE=Cmx;41628595]I have no idea what the hell is going on in this picture.[/QUOTE] orange and red are enemies blue and purple are friendly that is all I can really say.

[QUOTE=T553412;41628558]And to think people are fighting as if their lives depended on it just...wow[/QUOTE] you underestimate how expensive top-tier warships are in this game

[QUOTE=JohnnyGoGo;41628610]As someone who's never really looked into EVE, I was kind of hoping for ships to be flying around blowing up and shit like that. Not someone talking about their pvp music. Is it worth waiting?[/QUOTE] worth waiting for what?

So why are these two groups fighting then?

[QUOTE=MasterFen006;41628643]So why are these two groups fighting then?[/QUOTE] the goo must flow