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

[QUOTE=T553412;41628558]And to think people are fighting as if their lives depended on it just...wow[/QUOTE] some people on eve actually treat it like their job, and make a pretty good penny on it.

[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;41628408]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)[/QUOTE] Battles in eve can actually potentially play out like that. However, most pilots zoom out completely for situnational awareness and less lag. Fleets typically stay in formation, but the largest fights become massive brawls quickly with people scattered in a fur ball. Also, lasers, the most common weapon in fleet fights, tend to look sloppy when everyone is using different crystals (therefore shooting different colors) and people are in one big blob. Just a matter of practicality vs aesthetics.

[QUOTE=Cmx;41628595]I have no idea what the hell is going on in this picture.[/QUOTE] The minuses are scattered, attacking whatever they can. The stars are regrouping, trying to formulate a new strategy before the minuses destroy them like they did with the majority of pluses. Serious game of symbol wars going on here.

I'm in it right now. And it is Fucking. Epic.

[QUOTE=MasterFen006;41628643]So why are these two groups fighting then?[/QUOTE] Apparently a patch changed the value of certain moons.

BoodaBooda just blew up.

[QUOTE=MasterFen006;41628643]So why are these two groups fighting then?[/QUOTE] Same reason why anyone fights a war. Money.

[QUOTE=Lyonidis;41628683]Battles in eve can actually potentially play out like that. However, most pilots zoom out completely for situnational awareness and less lag. Fleets typically stay in formation, but the largest fights become massive brawls quickly with people scattered in a fur ball. Also, lasers, the most common weapon in fleet fights, tend to look sloppy when everyone is using different crystals (therefore shooting different colors) and people are in one big blob. Just a matter of practicality vs aesthetics.[/QUOTE] I quite like the tactical map feel to fleet fights here is a smaller more understandable one [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2dhShRCCE4[/media]

[QUOTE=MasterFen006;41628643]So why are these two groups fighting then?[/QUOTE] CFC (ClusterFuck Coalition, aka Something Awful) regularly butts heads with HoneyBadger Coalition (aka TEST Alliance Please Ignore, Reddit community) over disputes ranging from territorial disputes to asteroids. Think of them as massive, rival drug lords. Both are filthy fucking rich sitting on territory with the most valuable resources in the game. Greed and bureaucracy leads them to conflicts, and sometimes its the slight misclick of some very unfortunate players, which is how the last big battle started. This time, it is over the tweaked properties of materials gained from mining moons with player owned stations (nicknamed "moon goo"), or something related to that material, and now both sides are scrambling to claim what hasn't been claimed yet, or to fight over control of disputed systems with the "moon goo" in plentiful supply. Since TEST and CFC both have hundreds of thousands of real life dollars worth of warships (people don't actually buy ships in this game, values are loosely based off of Pilot License Extention (aka PLEX) in-game currency values, since people can technically trade in-game time cards as a commodity, and exchange it for in-game currency (AUR, used for character cosmetics, or ISK, used for everything else)), it makes for some pretty amazing displays of in-game wealth and power when they start shooting at eachother. For comparison, the largest class of ship in the game, known as Titans, were designed by the developers as the ultimate strategic weapon, like the Death Star from Star Wars. They take a month to just assemble, not including the time/money spent gathering/buying the minerals needed for their construction. You need to own a system via sovereignty for an extended length of time to get the right to build one. Having the infrastructure to build it set up in your station draws lots of hostile attention from neighbors. Nobody ever expected more than a couple to be built. [i]CFC and Test regularly field tens to hundreds of them.[/i]

[QUOTE=Gnomical;41628759]Same reason why anyone fights a war. Money.[/QUOTE] You just made the historian in me cringe. Pre-Military Industrial Complex waging war was the single most disastrous thing you could do financially. Even if you won you went bankrupt.

but in real life wouldn't that station essentially be vaporized with that amount of firepower floating around....

[QUOTE=MasterFen006;41628643]So why are these two groups fighting then?[/QUOTE] money, territory. Add the expenses of all those ships, there are thousands and thousands of dollars being destroyed right now.

[QUOTE=Manibogi;41628719]BoodaBooda just blew up.[/QUOTE] that is one of the reddit guys right? sweet!

Man, if only I knew what the Mumbles were for either side so I could record what the hell is happening on both sides.

[QUOTE=scratch (nl);41628809]that is one of the reddit guys right? sweet![/QUOTE] he's the leader of TEST

I'm trying to get into this fight on the Goon side. There are so many fucking people just in the staging system that it's not even funny. I tried to fly out and my game just got stuck in a black screen. :v:

Something awful speech is hilarious, here are both. This is Reddits [quote]I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of other alliances. A day will come again when the courage of Test fails, when we forsake our allies and break all nips and agreements. But it is not this day. An hour of prophecies and AHAC wrecks when the age of Test comes crashing down. But it is not this day. This day we fight. By all that you hold dear in Nullsec, I bid you, stand. Pilots of Test![/quote] And this is Something Awfuls [quote]The foe is doing morale pings with LOTR quotes. We're not going to bother with a morale ping because we're in the system first, we have seven Baltecfleets, one AHAC fleet, two Bomber wings, one FuckYouFleet, and yeah. GSOL are heroes: after the work of our capfleet in destroying every single hostile tower in 6VDT, GSOL threw up 26 towers in 6VDT last night , blocking every single moon. The enemy has no safe towers: nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, and must bridge into our force.[/quote]

This sounds awesome but I have no idea what im watching

go goons

Why are there so many people watching this thread

These battles make for the coolest stories, but aren't that visually exciting, as past a certain point there are simply too many ships to actually be able to tell anything about what's going on just from looking at the screen. You have to rely fully on your "instruments" in order to to do what you need to do, which is why you see people playing in battles like this with their entire screen covered by windows and tabs and charts. I prefer smaller scale battles, personally. Anything up to around 30 man fleets is fun and reactive and easy to follow, whereas things beyond that start getting pretty hectic. Though the time dilation does help a lot with that, since having everything running at 10% of normal speed gives you plenty of time to react if a bomber fleet tries to nuke you.

[QUOTE=katbug;41628868]Why are there so many people watching this thread[/QUOTE] because in some forums Eve wars get more coverage than real life ones.

[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] This is what the game looks like to me normally.

guys [url]http://www.twitch.tv/mad_ani[/url] there a stream of the battle

[QUOTE=katbug;41628868]Why are there so many people watching this thread[/QUOTE] This is a forum for nerds and this is a thread about one of the nerdiest things on the internet. Not sure why you're surprised.

[QUOTE=katbug;41628868]Why are there so many people watching this thread[/QUOTE] EVE is [i]serious business.[/i]

[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;41628872]These battles make for the coolest stories, but aren't that visually exciting, as past a certain point there are simply too many ships to actually be able to tell anything about what's going on just from looking at the screen. You have to rely fully on your "instruments" in order to to do what you need to do, which is why you see people playing in battles like this with their entire screen covered by windows and tabs and charts.[/QUOTE] You mean, like modern naval warfare? [QUOTE=katbug;41628868]Why are there so many people watching this thread[/QUOTE] Because this is a big-fucking-ass space battle, and we're all suckers for big-fucking-ass space battles, even if we can barely see shit

[QUOTE=DaysBefore;41628900]This is a forum for nerds and this is a thread about one of the nerdiest things on the internet. Not sure why you're surprised.[/QUOTE] Also this. My Automerge. [editline]28th July 2013[/editline] I still think EVE should have its own dedicated subforum on FP. Just Sayin.

I wish I knew what was happening

[QUOTE=Lyonidis;41628911]I still think EVE should have its own dedicated subforum on FP. Just Sayin.[/QUOTE] Aren't custom forums coming back? Make one then.