On January 23, the biggest battle of all time was supposed to take place in the space MMO EVE Online – but due to lags, the fight flopped – nonetheless, the battle entered the Guinness World Records.
It was supposed to be the largest battle in EVE Online to date. Over 6,000 players wanted to participate, which would have destroyed ships worth about one million dollars. But the battle flopped. Server issues and lags led to an early cancellation of the fight.
The servers of EVE Online simply buckled under the pressure of the players, making it impossible to think about conducting the fight.
The battle that wasn’t
Since then, fans of EVE Online have expressed their disappointment and are demanding that developer CCP Games make optimizations to allow for such gigantic confrontations to be fought. The development team promised improvements but cannot guarantee that the situation will change anytime soon.
Entry in the Guinness World Records
Nonetheless, the situation had something good: The battle that wasn’t makes it into the Guinness World Records. Not because so many ships were destroyed and so much money wasted, but because so many players were online at the same time in a PvP-based online game and participants in a battle.
6,142 players were in the game area at the same time and wanted to participate in the battle. Even though there was no large fight, the players were still online. And this alone was enough for the record.
During the EVE Fanfest, the developers dedicated this award entirely to the fans. However, they continue to wish that such huge battles can really be carried through to the end.
The developers of EVE Online are currently working on single-player “dungeons”.
