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

[QUOTE=Deiru;41630910]What's that in real money equivalent?[/QUOTE] Conversion calculator says $70,051.62 USD.

[QUOTE=meppers;41630920]550 million isk = $15.00 usd[/QUOTE] Which makes it approximately $60,000 lost in this battle...holy shit.

That's $54,545.45 USD worth of spaceships lost so far

[QUOTE=Deiru;41630910]What's that in real money equivalent?[/QUOTE] If you estimate 1bil isk to be around $30, then $60000USD or so? [editline]28th July 2013[/editline] fuck

Update, 9:18PM ET: The battle is over. After more than five hours of combat, the CFC has defeated TEST Alliance. Over 2,900 ships were destroyed today in the largest fleet battle in Eve Online's history. TEST Alliance intended to make a definitive statement in 6VDT, but their defeat at the hands of the CFC will no doubt prolong Eve's war of the moment.

Whenever I see stuff like this it makes me want to get into Eve. But then I realize I don't have money.

the only huge battle that makes me excited is Arma 2 [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KK6Fo3Y0AU[/media]

Not surprised honestly, from the start it seemed like TEST was not only outnumbered but also outgunned. Welp, we lost.

Are there any documentaries about Eve's inner political workings? Seems very, very interesting to study.

I wonder if some people have a regular ship, and then a backup ship for stuff like this so they don't lose all of their hard-earned money.

[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;41628781]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.[/QUOTE] Tell that to the Normans, the Carolingians and the Romans

[QUOTE=Chief Martini;41631040]Are there any documentaries about Eve's inner political workings? Seems very, very interesting to study.[/QUOTE] i think one guy spent a decade dismantling a corp from the inside.

[QUOTE=Copper;41631112]I wonder if some people have a regular ship, and then a backup ship for stuff like this so they don't lose all of their hard-earned money.[/QUOTE] Using a ship for PVP basically means you are prepared to loose it. I can't speak for everyone, but you don't fly something you can't afford to loose.

[QUOTE=Chief Martini;41631040]Are there any documentaries about Eve's inner political workings? Seems very, very interesting to study.[/QUOTE] Before I let my sub die about a year ago, a cartel named OTEC was formed, and this group became the primary supplier of Technetium to the economy of EVE (Technetium is a necessary material for making expensive ship hulls.) They started up a bounty system which functioned in tandem with Hulkageddon (Hulkageddon is an annual event where whoever kills the most Hulk mining barges during the event wins prizes and stuff). The formation of OTEC created somewhat of a permanent Hulkageddon. A vicious cycle ended up forming: 1. Hulk is destroyed 2. Person buys Technetium marked up to insane prices from OTEC 3. OTEC makes loads of money 4. OTEC pays people to blow up Hulks 5. Repeat 1-4 The end result was an economy more inflated than America's.

[QUOTE=Chief Martini;41631040]Are there any documentaries about Eve's inner political workings? Seems very, very interesting to study.[/QUOTE] A bunch of dudes spent a year infiltrating and getting to the top of a corp. Walked away with like 88,000,000,000.00 ISK.

[QUOTE=ShazzyFreak0;41631161]i think one guy spent a decade dismantling a corp from the inside.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=haloguy234;41631181]Before I let my sub die about a year ago, a cartel named OTEC was formed, and this group became the primary supplier of Technetium to the economy of EVE (Technetium is a necessary material for making expensive ship hulls.) They started up a bounty system which functioned in tandem with Hulkageddon (Hulkageddon is an annual event where whoever kills the most Hulk mining barges during the event wins prizes and stuff). The formation of OTEC created somewhat of a permanent Hulkageddon. A vicious cycle ended up forming: 1. Hulk is destroyed 2. Person buys Technetium marked up to insane prices from OTEC 3. OTEC makes loads of money 4. OTEC pays people to blow up Hulks 5. Repeat 1-4 The end result was an economy more inflated than America's.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Alec W;41631182]A bunch of dudes spent a year infiltrating and getting to the top of a corp. Walked away with like 88,000,000,000.00 ISK.[/QUOTE] That's exactly the kinda stuff I want to see articles / video documentaries about.

The cash wise is pretty mad to convert, you can buy gametime and sell it on the market (PLEX) but you cant sell it back out for real cash, so take everything with a grain of salt when you see "SHIP LOST! $5BILZ IRL CASH GONE OMG" PLEX on the market is an item and like everything else and goes up and down in price depending on supply and demand. Give it a while, and I can't really say so don't quote me, but give it 3/4 months round about in my opinion depending on where your skills are and you can easy afford to buy gametime with in game cash and afford ships to blow up for the laugh on the side. It's kinda', Either spend 5 hours playing to make loadza' mone' in game, or take your 5 hour pay from your wage irl and buy a plex or two because your time isn't worth grinding for in game cash, which is honestly pretty fun because it's loads of teamwork and teamspeak(?) craic' just having a laugh with other people.

You think this is going to effect TEST big time? I barely know the group but the fact that the battle cost both $70000 looks pretty bad.

[QUOTE=doomevil;41631233]You think this is going to effect TEST big time? I barely know the group but the fact that the battle cost both $70000 looks pretty bad.[/QUOTE] People like my Dad who have 4 accounts and just move important resources across the game are going to make a lot of money, regardless. As for TEST, sometimes you need to check yourself before you wreck yourself.

[QUOTE=Chief Martini;41631208]That's exactly the kinda stuff I want to see articles / video documentaries about.[/QUOTE] [url]http://evenews24.com/2011/08/14/the-1-trillion-isk-ponzi-phaser-inc-speaks/[/url] [url]http://justinandrewjohnson.com/gaming/The-EVE-Online-Monopoly-Part-1[/url]

[QUOTE=Lyonidis;41630748]Big Dumb, sometimes I think you should just apply for a job at CCP. This is one of those times.[/QUOTE] Pfft. I don't know jack about the wider EVE community! I'm a total casual. I hop on for a couple months at a time once or twice a year. I've often thought it would be pretty cool to do an EVE Historian thing for fun, though. Fly around the universe in a covert ops ship, collecting cool stories and recording neat events, and whatnot. EVE is about the only thing where I can imagine that being interesting and worthwhile. Eve is cool like that.

that is what redditors get for fucking with goons

The leader of TEST sounds so sad..

I wonder what the largest non-ai battle in video gaming history is

[QUOTE=KingArcher;41631460]I wonder what the largest non-ai battle in video gaming history is[/QUOTE] This one, most likely. Eve seems to completely dominate the field for massive PVP battles, and this is the largest in EVE history!

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;41630895]I'm curious. How does this work? Do they agree to terms or something after the ships are destroyed/routed?[/QUOTE] This war is an invasion, with the goal of taking systems and eventually a whole region of space by force. To take a system with a station, you have to take the station. Taking a station means shooting it until its shields are almost depleted, at which point it enters a 'reinforced' mode and hunkers down, becoming invincible for a day or two. That amount of time can be determined by the defender so that they can plan their further defense. Once that's up, you finish depleting the shields and then through its armor until it hits is second hunkering down threshhold. And after that one, you finish wiping out its armor, structure, and then it transfers control. Today, the station in 6VDT came out of its shield reinforcement timer. So apart from wiping the floor with Test's forces, the Goons won by taking the station down into its armor reinforcement cycle. Had Test held the field, they would have been able to repair the station up past the shield cycle threshhold.

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[QUOTE=16bit;41631563]The fight is still going[/QUOTE] It'll prolly be going into downtime. The main force has dissipated, but you'll have stragglers and gangs and shit rolling through all night.

[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;41631572]It'll prolly be going into downtime. The main force has dissipated, but you'll have stragglers and gangs and shit rolling through all night.[/QUOTE] Disregard it, the goons are shooting fireworks at each other :v:

Couldn't you go there and salvage some of the loot :v: ?