A player has now received an official recognition for the long time he has invested in EVE Online. His achievement has been entered into the Guinness World Records.
What has the player accomplished? It concerns the player behind the character Katja Sae, the American Ethan Richards. He explored the entire galaxy of EVE Online back in March 2019. This adventure took him nearly 10 years.
EVE Online included 7,805 star systems at that time. Richards set out to not just fly through the corresponding systems, but to properly explore them and the planets within them.
As if that wasn’t enough, the player also stayed out of fights and managed not to lose a single ship throughout the entire time. Apparently, this was worth an official mention in the Guinness World Records.
However, this is not the first time that players of EVE have made it into the Guinness Book. Previously, a rather disappointing battle was recorded there.
The Honor of a Masterpiece
This is how the developers reacted: To complete the discovery, the developers at CCP even had to help Richards. He was missing the system Polaris, as it is only accessible to Game Masters.
However, to really check off all systems as “explored,” they specially invited him to Polaris. After Richards completed his journey, he received numerous honors.
In a video from the fictional news service The Scope, which publishes news for EVE “in-game,” Sae was celebrated as the first person to travel the entire universe. In honor of the pilot, there is also a monument depicting her.
He documented his journey in a blog so others could follow it. Now it is over, and it remains to be seen whether anyone will undertake something like this in the near future, as EVE is facing a significant upheaval:
