The biggest battle in the history of online gaming broke out. Why? There’s been an unpaid deal between two of the strongest alliances in the game. And where? In the EVE Online Universe.
EVE Online (Find out more about the game here: http://www.eveonline.com/) takes place in space , players can found corporations and alliances. And well, two of the most influencing alliances with the unusual names Goonswarm and The Mittani had a deal that that burst like a bubble. As an answer, the Goonswarm has merged with three further huge alliances to fight The Mittani together. One thing led to another and now there are more than 2200 pilots fighting for three whole days straight.
In this fight, there also are (I should rather say were) 50 titans. These are basically the biggest and strongest ships in the game. Building a titan costs around 4.000US$, so over 300.000US$ have been lost in the battle already if you take all the little ships in account as well.
The Mittani said that they could have won the war way earlier. According to them, they chose to prolong the war in order to demonstrate their power – one way to express their dominance over the Goonswarm.
The huge ships you see in this picture are the titans and to get an idea of how huge they really are: One titan is roughly twice as large as Berlin…
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