![]() ![]() To counter-act this, they prepared better and got more numbers. Gradually they got a little better, but they almost never did "well," almost always losing, and continued to be demolished by fleets that at times were a quarter their size or less. By this I mean they'd lose full fleets and kill only one or two ships in return. Instead of steamrolling the LSV groups with minimal preparation and effort, they got crushed in pretty much every engagement. To counter-act this, they declared war on LSV to take their moons (the passive income thingys) and force them to fight. The LowSec entities (known collectively as LSV) are constantly fighting over "moons" (a way of passively generating income for a player group), and their hallmark is obscenely expensive and skill intensive doctrines, to make up for comparatively very small numbers of players.ĬFC, the big group up north, have been stagnating because no one wants to fight them (they're known for making fights not fun, by intentionally lagging servers, avoiding fights and when they do fight, bringing so many people they can't possibly lose). ![]() Low Sec (0.1 - 0.4 space) is another area of space, and has some laws (not many though). They were considered to be totally unassailable, possessing manpower and resources far beyond even the most powerful of entities in Eve. The hallmark of CFC is enormous numbers of people in generally cheap doctrines (doctrine being a set of ships and tactics) to outnumber an enemy. The political structure of Eve before the war was CFC, a super-coalition of 40,000 members+ having total dominance in the north of the map, in an area called null sec (or 0.0 space, it's lawless and can be player owned). So I've been seeing a bunch of wtf is going on posts from travelers or people not fully aware of the war going on in Eve, and I got a few messages to post my writeup on the reddit rather than as a comment. Skip to the TL-DR for the quickest overview. This great writeup was posted on Reddit by ShadowPhynix. ![]() Rather than recap it ourselves, we’ll let the players do so, as this conflict is entirely player-driven. Here’s an edited video from a member of Triumvirate showing parts of the battle Images courtesy of Lord Maldoror and Vizitionįamous EVE videomakers Rooks and Kings provide a dramatic video of the war And all one single shard (game server) which has hosted a unified, uninterrupted, amazing player-made emergent history of empires and shenanigans since it launched in 2003. ![]() What a time to be alive in New Eden! Tens of thousands of pilots fighting tens of thousands of pilots in a real time war with strategic battles, advances, retreats, propaganda (check Reddit!), “betrayals” and diplomatic maneuvering, with opportunities for non-aligned players to make lots of money off supplying the war itself. Reports from all Alliances involved show both an influx of new players and corp applications and old friends returning to fight in what is the largest conflict in EVE in years. Interestingly, it seems to depend on the players point of view of the hostilities as to what they have called it thus far. There are many names floating about for the conflict which began taking root many months ago, but since the relatively new escalation the player community has yet to reach full consensus on whether it’s the Easter War, Northern War, World War Bee, Mercenary Wars, or something else. The best part is this is just one of the first few battles of a new “great war” in EVE, with months of conflict ahead and likely bloodier fighting to come. The most costly of course still belongs to the supercapital Bloodbath of B-R5RB. In fact, with a participation of 5,806 pilots over the course of the multi-hour fight, it is the second largest in EVE Online ever. On March 28 th in the constellation 1P-VL2 in the Tribute Region of EVE Online, the solar systems of M-OEE8 and J-GAMP and surrounding saw a truly massive sub-capital battle between the Imperium Coalition and the newly formed coalition of a huge amount of other Alliances in New Eden, the Moneybadger Coalition. ![]()
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