if you played eve, can you explain to me like i'm dumb, the current war that just happened?
i think once you "playout" 1 mmo, it'd be nearly impossible to find the next "high".
i was the mt(maintank) of my guild, i was also the raid leader, my guild was also the top guild on the server for 2 years, coincidentally they became the top guild when my wife and i joined. also my wife and i combine, were the richest ppl on the server, this wasn't achieved from my guild, in fact no one in our guild or anyone for that matter knew we were "that" rich. (eq2 was able to rank every stat, and one of them was richest on server) No, we just ran the crafting/trading market, we inflated what we wanted, we drove our competition through the ground.
see, after this, it was going to be downhill, so we just left, and never played another mmo again.
we didn't try wow or the korean mmo's or vanguard or whatever, we just stopped, because we knew, nothing would top what we achieved. (my wife was also our main healer)
just give up mmo's, you'll never find the same "high" if you played 1 mmo for 6 years, especially if you were super hardcore, and not just some casual.
OK. The top two alliances in EVE, Goonswarm and Pandemic Legion, have been at war since Haloween. They formed two coalitions, Goon's CFC (consisting of Goonswarm and a few Russian alliances) and PL's PL/N3 (formed of Pandemic Legion and N3, inventive). Our alliances have been at loggerheads for a long time, for at least 2 years from what I can remember.
Now to make money on a large scale as an alliance in EVE, you have to do moon mining. This is only feasible if you control the sovereignty of the system where the profitable moon is. When you control the sovereignty, you pay a monthly bill in order to keep it. This is backed up by various structures floating in space.
Basically what happened, PL were controlling a very important system called B-R. This was also our staging system for this part of the war. For one reason or another, the sovereignty bill for B-R was not paid. Goons realised this and deployed ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING into the system to deploy structures and try to take the system sovereignty for themselves. This included dozens of ships worth thousands of dollars in real money, and hundreds of smaller ships too. Around 1500 players from the CFC came in to try and take the system. This was around 1500 GMT.
Unfortunately for PL, they had sent out a large contingent of their super expensive ships with an AUS TZ group of players to defend a few systems on the other side of the galaxy so they were unable to help. All hell broke loose and various PL leaders shouted across all channels to get everything logged on to defend B-R. At it's peak, there were a little over 2600 players in the system, with about half a million dollars worth of ships on the field of battle. Yes, HALF A MILLION DOLLARS.
So because of the huge weight of traffic in such fights, the game developers have introduced something called time dilation, which essentially spreads the lag so people with good internet connections aren't at an advantage. Time was running at 10% of normal pace, so needless to say everything was running at a pretty slow pace.
However, after 16 hours of fighting, over $300,000 of ships had been lost. The result was a resounding victory for the CFC, (one of the first times they have won a massive capital ship battle might I add) and the loss of the station in B-R. This meant that those from PL who had survived the battle could not get to their items that were stored in the station, resulting in a long round of diplomacy.
EVE has massive depth, but there is no ****ing way I want to sit looking at my computer for 16 hours doing pretty much nothing.
Sorry for the wall of text.
