Virtual Battle damages worth $200,000

Eve Online experienced its biggest battle yet with damages valued at $200,000. EVE Online is an online game where players can make their own fleet of starships and send them into battle to form alliances, claim territories, and battle against people all over the world. Players use the games currency, ISK, in order to purchase ships to sent into battle. Players also have to pay a monthly fee in order to continue playing this game.  You can either pay the fee with your own money or use some of your ISK. Using this information it was possible to determine that $1 is roughly 4 million ISK.

The largest ship in the game is the Titan which can cost around 222 billion ISK, which translates to $5,500. 75 of these ships were destroyed in yesterdays battle which makes it easy to see how this battle has such a costly price tag.

But why did this battle happen.  Apparently someone missed a payment so that freed up a section in the game which could be taken by other players. Major groups in the game rushed over to secure the open section and battled furiously in order to take it. Over 4,000 players participated in this battle and it was easily the largest and most brutal battle in the game’s history.  Eventually the battle ended and someone won, but at a large cost to their fleet. Now all the combatants struggle to restore their fleets to their former glory as they have to build up their material and ISK to make their ships all over again.

Jacob Carpenter is the writer for TSCN.TV and also a blogger under the name JSnakeC on IGN