This sort of battle was only possible recently in eve history, so here's to hoping that in 5-10 years time we dusters will have epic stories like this to tell.

I look forward to facing you all in future battles the scale and complexity of which we can only imagine.

Suddenly the doomsday apparatus has a whole the size of a city block punched into it.

"Aw..."

...

"Fire the other one."

I know it wouldn't happen, but that would be hilarious.

And no, I have no idea how EvE ships actually work. The game was too slow for me to be seriously interested in.

You must have missed that one interview,

Doomsdays if ever bought into orbital strike will destroy planets surface entirely, thus not only ending the match early but destroying EVERYTHING on that map including all the buildings and infrastructure. You wont be even able to go back to fight/use the land as its going to require terraforming to fix.

(9:36:27 PM) [email protected]/3171d91f: Well! Last night sure was a thing. Here's a detailed report on what and how it went down from both our side and the PL side: http://themittani.com/news/asakai-aftermath-all-over-cobalt-moon with an important note from Shadoo at the end.

We've been long overdue for a serious welp and Goons Are Bad At EVE. Really goddamned bad. We're making some changes up top to prevent our entire strategic strength from being fed into a pointless meatgrinder after a fat-fingered fuckup, but from what I can tell basically everyone (except me lolololol) had a grand old time, and it was good for everyone to collectively Get It Out Of Their Systems (tm).

As Shadoo notes, this was a completely pointless fight with no strategic implications whatsoever. Reimbursements are going out.

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What was the point of fighting when we could just sit down and watch the explosions....

I don't think this has been linked here yet, but PL has a pretty good video of the fight in semi-real time here: http://youtu.be/yTQHv0FrgrE

Might be interesting to anyone who doesn't play eve and is curious about these large fleet battles.

Edit: Correction, the video was linked on our forums by PL but it was actually taken by a DND pilot. This is how the battle started and escalated. It went on for something like 6 hours, with the server so overloaded that time was reduced to anywhere from 1/10th to 1/100th of normal.

It doesn't work that way, does it?
I thought play speed is still the same (aside from aggregated framerate or lag) it's just a case of the timeframe changing in proportion to the usual speed.

ok so what happened in the battle was one of these multi billion isk super tanks(titan) was sending squads into a fight in NPC controlled territory(corp match although not for a faction) against other players but instead of selecting bridge(send squad) the pilot selected jump sending this very strong but vulnerable ship into the middle of an enemy fleet.

now normally in low sec there is nothing to keep a titan from jumping right back out so I can only guess that the jump depleted its cap(its a resource that regenerates like shield think of it like the cooldown timers on tank modules or a cooldown time on the turrets) this can take a really long time to regen.

So to protect this ship CFC jumped in every ship it could get it hands on in short notice, the other side wanting to turn a small victory into a large one did the same. Add to this that this happened in low sec where every on with a grudge or desire to get on titan kill mail could get to it and you have almost a third more non alined players in the fray.

The end result? 3261 pilots in that fight 280 ships lost(not counting the vultures) more then half a trillion isk worth of ships and gear lost. Thats about 50bil isk dust equivalent near as I can figure. oh and TiDi(Time dilation a slow down in time on eve servers to prevent server collapse and continued smooth, if slow, combat) was at 99% (battle was occurring at 1% of normal speed)

Y'know what would be interesting? Getting to participate in those massive battles as mercs

You must have missed that one interview,

Doomsdays if ever bought into orbital strike will destroy planets surface entirely, thus not only ending the match early but destroying EVERYTHING on that map including all the buildings and infrastructure. You wont be even able to go back to fight/use the land as its going to require terraforming to fix.

What happened to the pilot that jumped?