One Titan can cost around 40-billion ISK (the in-game currency) in raw materials only, or around 70-billion ISK counting the man-hours needed to build it. In the case of Titans, the largest and most powerful class of warship in the game, that means claiming and maintaining sovereignty over a star system in which you have already created three or more defensible outposts. Like in real life, building a ship requires gathering the raw materials, researching blueprints, learning the skills required to build the technology, and having a place to build it. To understand the massive destruction and cost of “The Bloodbath of B-R5RB,” one first has to understand something of how spaceships are built in EVE Online. The battle was one of the largest and most costly skirmishes in the game’s 10 year history. This drive to build and conquer has led to New Eden seeing a fair number of large-scale space warfare (after all, what’s the point of spaceships in video games if one doesn’t blow up now and again?) but the digital carnage reached a new high on January 27th, when the N3/Pandemic Legion alliance lost control of an in-game system called B-R5RB. Players create large corporations, alliances, and coalitions to control star systems, mine and sell resources, build fleets of ships, develop new technology and weapons, and dominate the political, economic, and martial spheres of influence on the game map. Upwards of 130,000 players are still duking it out for in-game territory.EVE Online is a massively-multiplayer online game whose game play is centered on control of regions and resources in the star systems of New Eden. The most expensive ship destroyed during the battle, Grencia Mars’ Vanquisher cost an estimated $5,500 equivalent in $USD.ĭespite the digital bloodshed, the Massacre at M2-XFE is just one battle amidst EVE Online’s ongoing “World War Bee 2,” the game’s third universe-spanning war. Much of the ships however are the result of thousands of man-hours grinding for resources. The estimated total of damages in $USD is based on how much in-game currency (called PLEX) it would cost to replace each ship.
To commemorate the event (and the associated damage), an official monument bearing the names of all players involved in the battle is being constructed by developer CCP. However, in this rare instance it did indeed happen, causing the biggest fight we have ever seen, both for the numbers of players involved and the amount of assets destroyed. It is rare in EVE to see so much at stake in a single fight as the losses can undo years of effort from thousands of participating players.
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“One side started escalating the fight to the absolute maximum of their resources, and the other matched in full not just in terms of manpower but also in the value of assets committed. "This battle is a bit like a poker game where both players stockpiled weapons for several years and then went all-in,” said PAPI member Gobbins.
Among all classes of ships, PAPI lost a total of 1,810 ships while the Imperium lost 1,596. PAPI forces lost a combined 130 Titans while the Imperium lost 122. Of the 1,304 Titan ships that participated in the battle, a whopping 257 of them were destroyed.
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Fighting only ceased when EVE was scheduled to go offline for downtime maintenance. The ensuing battle lasted approximately 14 hours, with both factions losing supercapital ships (the largest kind in-game, roughly the size of seven Empire State buildings) at a relatively equal rate. Earlier in the day, a lone Imperium pilot managed to disable a “cyno jammer,” allowing the Imperium to bring in additional reinforcements. On December 31, 2020, 5,000 players EVE’s PAPI and Imperium factions collided in the game’s M2-XFE region near a “Keepstar” (a sort of extra large space station) when PAPI forces began firing upon docked Imperium ships.
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