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Epic Online Space Battle

Posted by Unknown on from the get-the-hell-out-of-our-galaxy dept.

New submitter nusscom writes "On July 28th, as has been reported by BBC, a record number of EVE Online players participated in a record-breaking online battle between two alliances. This battle, which was essentially a turf-war was comprised of over 4,000 online players at one time. The load was so large that Crowd Control Productions (CCP) slowed down the game time to 10% of normal to accommodate the massive amount of activity." This is the largest battle to ever occur on EVE Online.

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  1. Re:Who cares by Cosgrach · · Score: 0, Redundant

    As are you.

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    Why is it that most of the people that I encounter seem to have been shat from the Sphincter of Mediocrity?
  2. Re:This story sounds familiar by Urza9814 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    And that's news again every couple months because...?

    Also, if the story is about how their servers handle the load, then talk about how their servers handle the load, not who the alliances were and what they were fighting over. The only people who care about that crap are active EVE Online players....and I'm guessing this isn't really news to any of them.

    Of course, I'm just reading this while I wait for more comments to read on the next article, so...guess it's better than nothing? ;)

  3. Re:This story sounds familiar by Urza9814 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Would be nice if the summary talked about *that* then instead of just who was fighting over what....