During the battle 75 Titans were destroyed, along with 13 Supercarriers, 370 Dreadnoughts, 123 Carrier-class vessels, and huge numbers of smaller craft in an orgy of violence that cost 11 trillion ISK of hardware. The largest spacecraft in the game, the Titan-class warship, takes many alliances to build and operate, and each one is worth an estimated $3,000 in real money. 'To give a sense of scale the battle involved 717 corporations with 55 unique player alliances.' Multiple alliances will form coalitions with other alliances, and the size of this conflict saw two or three coalitions on each side,' CCP spokesman Ned Cooker told The Register. 'Game characters form coalitions of dozens of people, which then link into alliances with other groups.

Getting the credits and learning the skills needed to become a contender can take months of real-time play and the game is designed so it's almost impossible to buy your way to a serious position. Players pony up $15 a month to enter an online universe as characters who earn Interstellar Kredits (ISK) by mining asteroids, salvaging ships or attacking other players. Ships valued at $330,000 have been destroyed in a 21-hour battle in which 7,548 gamers destroyed assets that had taken years to accumulate.ĮVE Online players are a special breed. Setting two world records for a single battle is humbling and just shows the amount of dedication EVE Online players have for our game.The Titanomachy monument (click to enlarge)ĬCP Games, the Icelandic firm behind the massively multiplayer online role-playing game that has over 500,000 subscribers, said the battle in the B-R5RB sector of the Immensea game-space region had dwarfed anything seen in the game's 11-year history. 'It still blows my mind that EVE's players are able to break these records for massive player battles. The player-run factions in our game often rival those of real-world governments, with some even adding US politicians into their ranks, so we knew it was only a matter of time before something big happened,' said Bergur Finnbogason, EVE Online's Creative Director. For every ship you see there, there are approximately 15-30 of these smaller ships that you cant see. 'We've been sitting on the edges of our seats this entire war. The many thousand other ships are nearly invisible at this scale, the largest being battle ships which around 1km in length but most were likely frigates destroyers and cruisers in the 50-400 meter range. Congratulations to all those involved – even those off licking their wounds will agree it was a battle to be remembered for a very long time,' said Craig Glenday, Editor-in-Chief for Guinness World Records. No game has the kind of passionate, invested, and empowered community that EVE Online enjoys, which is why it's still, nearly 20 years on, reigning supreme as the ultimate MMO space game.

'The limitless potential of EVE Online provides once again an epic, record-smashing battle that's a test of both human and technological prowess. Their support and dedication are what makes EVE Online the game that it is today.' Our players deserve all the credit that made these record-breaking achievements possible. Their ingenuity created the impressive logistics networks, both in-game and in the real-world, to field such a high volume of ships in one battle.

'CCP may have created EVE Online, but it's our community who built the universe of New Eden. Every time a big battle breaks out or our community comes together for a cause, it's always a sight to behold,' said Hilmar V.

' EVE Online is no stranger to massive in-game conflicts. Snapshot of two world records in progress, courtesy of CCP Games. You can read some quotes from the announcement below about both records, as well as images from the fight being called 'Fury at FWST-8' and a video. It's one hell of an achievement that probably won't be duplicated for a while, as it took 14 hours between the two biggest factions in the game to make it happen. According to the devs and GWR themselves, the two world records broken last week were the Largest Multiplayer Video Game PvP Battle with 8,825 players, and the Most Concurrent Participants In A Multiplayer Video Game PvP Battle with 6,557 participants. Some kind words are owed to CCP Games and the team behind EVE Online as they have broken two Guinness World Records.

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