The largest battle in video game history is about to happen in EVE Online

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The largest battle in video game history is about to happen in EVE Online. : gaming

https://www.twitch.tv/zarvoxtoral

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M-O FIGHT MEGATHREAD : Eve

[Xevross]

What's happening?

[the-pi-guy]

What's happening?

Yuge voter turnout.  

[Xevross]

Yuge voter turnout.  

What?

[the-pi-guy]

What?

No idea.
*Shrugs*
Watch the twitch.  

[Xevross]

No idea.
*Shrugs*
Watch the twitch.  

I am doing.

This guy isn't explaining what's going on at all

[Xevross]

It sounds like the battle is already over tbh

[the-pi-guy]

I am doing.

This guy isn't explaining what's going on at all

Basically, you've got two sides. You have the Imperium (previously named Clusterfuck Coalition, and dominated primarily by the Goonswarm Federation) and the Allies (also known as the Coalition of the Billing, the Moneybadger Coalition, or the Good Guys). The Imperium has been 'top dog' for years, controlling a huge chunk of space. They've been taking territory from a lot of people, going to war with basically everyone, and their leader is somewhat controversial to say the least.
A huge chunk of other people, including reddit's official alliance (TEST Alliance Please Ignore), ganged up to fight back.

This fight is over a Station, specifically a station that's home to one of the largest alliances in the game in the largest coalition in the game, home to over 43,000 people. This station contains a significant portion of the assets of this alliance, which means that if they lose it, they'll have essentially lost not only the fleets they put out to defend it, but also almost everything they own. This would obviously be devastating.
Thus, the CFC/Imperium, the aforementioned largest coalition, has done a max form, with everything from interceptors to Titans and Supers, the largest ships in the game. They, in total, have currently brought out about 1200 people in fleet.
Meanwhile, on the other side, is the Moneybadger Coalition/Good Guys/Coalition of the Billing/Etc. Names may vary, as it's not a coalition in the traditional sense. More a group of pretty much everyone else of note in EVE that isn't Russian. They've banded together to take down the CFC, and have been seeing wildly good success, with the CFC evaccing 2 regions, losing thousands of people to other groups, and suffering easily over a trillion isk in asset losses. Converted to RL money, that's well over US$20,000. Obviously, they did not actually spend that RL money, but it provides a nice anchor point.
Fortunately, EVE just upgraded its hardware, so it's doing better than before, but this is obviously a massive strain. To compensate for this, EVE has something called TiDi, which essentially slows down everything, preventing lag and lost commands. So in 10% tidi, which is what we're in, everything takes 10 times longer to do. This allows the server to process all the actions. However, the maximum tidi is also 10%, which means that past that, you'll start to see very strange things happen, where modules don't activate and similar.
If you have any questions on this, we'll likely be here for a few hours, so I've got plenty of time to answer literally anything you could ever want to know about EVE. Seriously, my guns fire once every 210 seconds.
Also, if this appeals to you in any way, I highly recommend trying out EVE, the trial is free. If you'd like to sign up, just click this link and it'll set you up with a 21 day trial for you to explore EVE. Once you're set up, I highly recommend joining Dreddit, it's an incredible newbro organization, you can read more about it here.
Also, if you do sign up for the trial, feel free to poke me at any point in game for help at Cornak Firefist, I'll make sure you're all set up and good to go.
EDIT: As Gav correctly points out, this one is the hub, had my timers confused. Losing this hub means that a significant amount of assets in terms of system upgrades die, and that all the special things in system like Jump Bridges, which allow you to easily move between distant systems, and Cyno Gens, which allow you to jump ships with jump drives into system 24/7. This would significantly impact their logistics. Further, the death of this ihub resets the strategic indices for this system, which makes it much easier to kill the other structures in system, like the aforementioned station.
EDIT2: Also, if you want to watch the progress semilive on the capture, you can go here or watch any of several twitch streams up not here.
EDIT3: Currently 3100 people in system, with hundreds en route.
EDIT4: Now up to 3400 in local.
EDIT5: 3500, the servers are dying in a fire right now.
EDIT6: Servers are somewhat sorted, still pretty crazy. Stuff is starting to die.
EDIT7: Looks like the momentum is swinging against CFC, there was initially some issues with the servers, which gave the goons who got there first the advantage, but now the overwhelming numbers are against them.
EDIT8: Killmails are starting to come in, you can see the damage here: EVE Kill Report Repair Tool Left is CFC, right is notCFC. 1b equals $20.
EDIT9: Goons are retreating from the field, better BR: EVE Kill Report Repair Tool
Also, interesting thing is that CFC is running around killing the entosis boats, so while they may lose the battle horribly, they might actually win the objective. Of course, that just postpones it another day.
EDIT10: For the love of god why won't my guns fire.

[Xevross]

Thanks for that Pi!

This game sounds great. I've never bothered looking into it that much any more

[Legend]

Thanks for that Pi!

This game sounds great. I've never bothered looking into it that much any more

IMO it's a lame spreadsheet game.

If you're not planning to invest a lot of time, it's not worth it.

[Xevross]

IMO it's a lame spreadsheet game.

If you're not planning to invest a lot of time, it's not worth it.

Oh yeah there's no way I'm playing it. I'm just saying it looks cool    

[BananaKing]

yeah this sounds awesome. so "the bad guys" won?

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