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"More than 4,000 ships fought in a huge battle in EVE Online, a massive multiplayer space game.\nSince EVE Online users play in a persistant universe, as opposed to the game being divided into multiple worlds, like in World of Warcraft, it routinely breaks records for most populous in-game events.\n\nAccording to Erlendur S. \u00DEorsteinsson, the Sofware Director at Iceland-based CCP (the company that develops EVE Online), 4070 ships participated in this battle, making it the largest-ever in EVE online and squashing the previous record by some 400 ships. \n\nThe fleet fight in 6VDT-H tonight is the largest ever in EVE, topping at 4070 pilots (so far). Previous was P-2TTL at 3615. #tweetfleet\n\u2014 Erlendur (@erlendur) July 28, 2013\n\nSo, how did this battle start? Two huge player alliances, CFC and TEST Alliance Please Ignore, were fighting over one region of the game called Fountain, where the game's developer recently placed some valuable moons. \nIn the end, CFC was victorious, with members of TEST retreating to a region called Delve. According to a post on TEST's forums, the fight was never seriously meant to be won \u2014 TEST just wanted to go out with a bang. \nSee also: Accidental Click Ignites Insane 3,000-Ship Battle in 'EVE Online'\nAnd that they did. In the screenshot above, you can see thousands of ships fighting in one region, which slowed down the game to about 10% of its normal speed. \nJust to give you a sense of scale, most ships you can actually see in the screenshot are enormous battleships, and the structure in the middle is a space station, hundreds of kilometers in size. \n\nWhile EVE Online is far from an easy game to master, its unique persistent game world that's constantly evolving, as well as CCP's ability to keep the game operating even with thousands of players interacting constantly produces marvels such as this galactic battle.  \nImages: Imgur/Unkdoom, Bryan Murph\n      window._msla=window.loadScriptAsync||function(src,id){if(document.getElementById(id))return;var js=document.createElement('script');js.id=id;js.src=src;document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0].parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);};\n_msla(\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\",\"twitter_jssdk\");"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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