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Burn Jita (Eve online)

Started by Hangthebuggers, April 29, 2012, 08:19:56 PM

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Hangthebuggers

In Eve online, Jita is the major trading hub, a heavily guarded and usually secure economic hotspot for trading, hauling and such.

Well anyway, a player driven event called Burn Jita has been taking place for the last couple of days - whereupon wave upon wave players of 'Goonswarm' have descended to plunge the usually stable system into chaos.

http://www.geekosystem.com/burn-jita/

More than 14,000 destroyer ships plunged, sniped and destroyed many foolish traders , haulers, freighters and in some cases some massively stocked and hideously expensive carriers. All with the permission from CCP (the game developers, who have actively encouraged the carnage by placing the hub on a bigger server).

http://i.imgur.com/0KWVq.jpg

Link to image ^^ of losses and expenses of the bigger ships. Some of which equate to thousands of pounds worth of £/$ in real money and many, many months nay years of hard work.

Anyway, I guess the point of my post was just to toast the developers for allowing such in-game freedom in Eve online , a massively sandbox MMORPG.

For the ultra-geeky here's a filtered map showing the killing activity in the hub.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jtgp/6973713146/

micanio

That is brilliant. Reminds me of when M0o were roaming around, wreaking havoc.

I played Eve for about 5 years from launch, but it got so dull as it became so work like. I would spend hours mining ice for my "corporation" and get feck all back. Saying that, there were a few times I was involved in huge battles. Now that was so good...

I've tried to start playing again a few times, but I just can't get back into it...