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Largest-Yet EVE Online Battle Destroys $200,000 Worth of Starships
Space MMO EVE Online has been providing stories of corporate espionage and massive space battles for years. A battle began yesterday that's the biggest one in the game's 10-year history. The main battle itself involved over 2,200 players in a single star system (screenshot, animated picture). The groups on each side of the fight tried to restrict the numbers somewhat in order to maintain server stability, so the battle ended up sprawling across multiple other systems as well. Now, EVE allows players to buy a month of subscription time as an in-game item, which players can then use or trade. This allows a direct conversion from in-game currency to real money, and provides a benchmark for estimating the real-world value of in-game losses. Over 70 of the game's biggest and most expensive ships, the Titans, were destroyed. Individual Titans can be worth upwards of 200 billion ISK, which is worth around $5,000. Losses for the Titans alone for this massive battle are estimated at $200,000 - $300,000. Hundreds upon hundreds of other ships were destroyed as well. How did the battle start? Somebody didn't pay rent and lost control of their system.
Similar results without the distraction of all those tedious fake space battles.
This just in, vitually NOTHING was lost.
yet another virtual FAIT currency, just like the dollar was lost. Nothing of real value was lost. News just in.
was to damn high?
5 girlfriends went to bed alone.
Yes, yes, but more importantly: how good of news is this for Bitcoin?
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
and the spreadsheets involved are less complicated...
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As beings raised in a mostly 2 dimensional plane,
I have stairs in my house, don't know about you. :)
Stuff that doesn't matter.
I eat only the real part of complex carbohydrates.
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You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
Right, just google pictures of people at EVE conventions and you are looking at the very definition of 21st century cool.
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I don't know about the demand for wine bottles, but I suppose the demand for doctors and caskets should increase.