Damn I love the internet. More specifically online games..

Seems a heist was pulled off, one worth 16.5k $US. Now that is what I call non care bare pvp.

Wonder how this would have gone down in Korea…

Simply Amazing

Thank god for color scanners. MMODIG refers us to this simply amazing PC Gamer article by Tom Francis about a simply amazing PvP coup/heist pulled off in Eve Online (which is a game I find simply amazing anyway). Through a

Amazing article, thanks for posting it. And amazing illustration of how rich Eve is. The fact that this kind of thing is not only possible but is actually taking place is testament to the success of Eve’s design, in my opinion.

I like the story, and having played EVE I have seen many similar situations. The one fact I question is where they claim that there is only 2 Apocalypse ships in the game. I would be shocked if that was true.

Great story - I really enjoyed it. Rare to see an article where even the sidebars are fascinating. It seems like the best MMO stories come from either Eve or UO, two games where there is more player freedom and less hand-holding.

The Good Kind Of Drama

MMODIG linked to an absolutely amazing story about conspiracy, assassination, and theft in EVE Online. All I have to say is… Wow. This is the sort of thing that makes me think, “Maybe these Virtual World things aren’t total wastes of…

“I like the story, and having played EVE I have seen many similar situations. The one fact I question is where they claim that there is only 2 Apocalypse ships in the game. I would be shocked if that was true.”

Only two Imperial Apocalypse class battleships. Apocalypse class are quite common.

Ethic: They’re talking about Imperial Issue Apocalypses. Only 4 existed, which were given our to the victors of the Amarr Championship Tournament. Two were destroyed; Grickle lost his to a m0o Corp gank, and Ecliptical lost his to a Curse Alliance blob. The other two were sold, and found their way to the Guiding Hand.

If you want a standard issue Apocalypse, you can get one anytime.

Okay, I’m severely impressed.
Definitely going to have to keep Eve Online in mind if I ever decide to venture beyond City of Heroes.

Whoa.

I played with those people, I was in that corp, I flew with all of them…

It’s like seeing your best friends from highschool in the newspaper for bombing an embassy or something…

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Applied Machiavellian thinking at its finest. Now if this kind of warfare could be applied in the real world, we might be able to get rid of some real a-holes.

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MMO Game heist worth $16500 in real money

Over at MMODIG there’s a fantastic story about how a guild on EVE online pulled an almost Danny-Ocean style heist, and took out the head of one of the major corporations. The amazing thing about it isn’t just the scale of the heist, but th…

I dont realy understand why they have to mix in “real world money” into the equation. we all know trading ingame currency for real life one is against EULA.

CCP (devs. of EVE) is doing a great jobb banning people for selling money over the internet, alot better jobb then Blizzard ever will.

One thing with eve that no other Online game has is characters. Eves skill system revards those who use the same character (face) for the entire span of the game. You dont need to create a new char when you hit some kind of “level” limit (there is no limit in eve, you can learn everything there is, given time). In other mmos there is difrent severs (shards) and everyone creates new characters all the time. This is effectively preventing “fame”, in EVE there is people that EVERYONE knows about and is as old characters as the game (my char and my friends had their 2 year birthday a couple months ago, and i have been in EVE since beta).

EVE is like NO other mmo out there, its more like real life then any other just for the fact, you gain a reputation for doing these kind of things and it effects you in so many ways. And Im not even going to start with the economic system in place.

Selling isk for money (after a such a big coup like this) will get you banned, almost guaranteed.

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