EVE Online - The Battle of Asakai 

+SWBGTOC i feel nerdy, cause even tho i dont play eve i have a general idea of what everything means. #fleetadmiral

Even people present on the battlefield had no idea wtf was going on.

The big ship in the background at the start (the leviathan) is a Titan class ship. When someone lights a beacon called a cyno, only large capital ships can jump to them unless a titan creates a bridge which allows small ships to jump to that cyno. Titan pilots screw up sometimes and jump to the cyno instead of creating a bridge and this is what happened here. This was meant to be a small skirmish but the titan accidentally jumped to the beacon so the attacking group wanted to destroy it while the other wanted to protect it. The titan jumps out at 3:24 and escapes but both parties had already committed a large amount of ships into the battle and what ensued is a massive battle that was never intended to take place.

CallmeRoth true I was there

@@turse8201 Basically what was supposed to be a small skirmish snowballed into a massive war between two coalitions?

they were cap repping it, it's like mana regen

Actually the Leviathan is around 15 kilometres, not 18. That's more the Avatar Titan. Still pretty damn big though

Sorry, but you're wrong. Go into the game, then the Market, then the ship preview image/model. It says the length there. The Leviathan is a bit over 18 km, the Avatar is a bit over 13 km. There are also various other size comparison videos/charts kicking around that verify what I said.

Kiljaedenas Oh whoops, I actually looked at the mass volume instead of the actual length in the wiki. Also I don't the game. Sorry about that.

Meh, no big deal.

Kiljaedenas The camera battleship is actually a vindicator. I was part of the corp you hear comms of during opening (Wolfsbrigade) . Standard fleet was 1-2 vindicator, 1-2 bhaalgorn, guardians, rest apocalypse navy issue. Went for balsy fights most of the time (heavily outnumbered), always had a pantheon carrier group + dreads on standby for escalation and a batphone to Pandemic Legion incase shit really hit the fan (like this) . Everyone was required to have a carrier with most lineships in the ship bay, could get fleet to anywhere in eve within a few minutes by getting into carrier, following cynoing chain to system near fight and changing ship to one you had with you. Had added bonus of having plenty of reships close by and being able to eject a HIC and change ship in space incase you dropped onto a super.

Work it out and present it to tue Developers. This could make you rich:-]

they do now, they now have camera ships called flagships, immune to everything, 0 slots,

insane

@@mallenkennelsuk5854 a few years later there was even a much bigger battle. Search for "The Bloodbath of B-R5RB" 11 trillion ISK (300,000 $), were lost this day :O .

It was. One person fuck-up triggered one of the largest battles seen in EVE. The result of the battle had a huge impact on alliances and the political world of of the game for some time, due to the amount of ships and resources lost. What you need to know about EVE, is that the entire economy is player driven, e.i. close to every ship and all their modules are made and sold by players, and when lost it combat, are lost for good. Along side that, then is the wast majority of the game world player controlled, e.i. Corporations (player guilds) hold the systems, where the resources and production facilities are located etc. So an alliance loosing the a large part of their fleet, special capital and super capital, means they cant wage war and hold their systems. Individual Corporations would then shift from one alliance to an other, taking their resources with them (ships, equipment, pilots). EVE is very complicated but also epic as fuck, because of that. These giant things have a seriously impact on the meta game and they all have a meaning. This is also why I love to stay partly in touch with events in the game, even years after I stopped playing it. It just produces epic and cool stories.

Lungomono Basically someone dropped a suitcase worth $4000 in the border street between the east side and the west side and all the EastWest brothahs went crazy, throwing way more than $4000 in guns and gang members at it, even though the owner picked it back up hours ago.

是的 EVE是个他妈的超级难得游戏！！！ 我玩了半小时的教程就受不了了 妈蛋 删了！

If you start playing here is a link for an extended free trail secure.eveonline.com/trial/?invc=567ca927-0fc9-4f6c-8711-f764f6749dd6&action=buddy :)

Elijah Ramer Yup that just about sums it up. Course the guy did come back and throw the suit case at the mod of death at some point in an attempt to make it stop. Welcome to EvE where monetary risk stops mattering when someone tried to take whats your.

They actually did. If you warp to the site of that battle you can see several of the capital ship wrecks permanently anchored

Chris Jacklin That's awesome.

PurpleStorm8 No they didn't, that was for BR-5RB.

Simon Barabash You're phrasing your comment as if I made a statement of where the monument was located, it would of made more sense if you directed it to Chris Jacklin.

PurpleStorm8 I was providing you with the correct information. Chris will likely see the comment as well.

They were probably like 😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨

looks out the station coffee window...IT'S A GUNDAM!!!!

D H lol

Never before has this statement be more true then here. ^^

He could afford paying for EVE ^^

in most eve vids it gets much interesting to know whats going on, but in this video it doesnt after like 5 mins because TIDI and shitty 2013 EVE servers. even B-R5RB vids are better imo because 2014 had much better

Umm... Beams?

That battle was started when a lone Goonswarm ally accidentally jumped into enemy space, leading to rapid escalation on both sides.

If you want to play this game, be prepared to spend REAL LIFE MONTHS to do anything even close to this on a MUCH smaller scale. Literally MONTHS.

Kaguchis Are you sure? I read something on Reddit about it. Is it possible, that you mistake it with an other battle? Because I think this was the reason for an other big battle, here it was so: One group forgot to pay rent for a base. And than the security field (idk how this really is called) disappeared. The other group used the situation and attacked them.

Aldo Raine That was the battle that just surpassed this for the largest battle on Eve. /watch?v=RCK-E5AopVI

As far as I know, PL only dropped super carriers, titans are useless in lowsec, only dumb people like DBRB would tell their titans to jump to a super capital brawl in lowsec.

Bobamelius Brave Newbies are always hiring, and is a good option if you haven't played in a while. Or you could try Karmafleet, the reddit-based segment of the CFC.

Bobamelius No opinion on a nullsec corp, but just curious - how was the salvage after the battle? Was it a free-for-all or did corps fight to control the salvage too? I didn't hear too much at the time.

Keon31415 I wasn't really there for that, but from what I understand that grid was busy for pretty much a full day after the battle, if not more. Could be wrong though, it's been a while at this point =)

Bobamelius Join Black Legion m8

Bobamelius Reikoku is recruiting.

Red things? You mean, the explosion-like, lightningy thingies? Those are Jump Drive and Bridge Drive animations.

NonciclopediaForEver I was thinking they were something like a slip space rupture(Halo). I'm assuming jump drives and bridge drives have pretty much the same effect as slip space jumps.

gipro1 Yup, you're pretty much right. Jump Drives allow jumps without using stargates, between systems within a certain range. Jump Bridge Drives allow Titans to create a jump bridge between two systems, so that a sub-capital (aka Battleships and below) fleet can move without using stargates. Anyway, welcome to EVE.

gipro1 They pretty much are. They use the same engine style. UNSC ships use the Shaw Fujikiwa (sorry if it's wrong spelling) which allows the ship to enter slipspace, which is similar to warp and cyno tunnels.

Heavy interdictors (and regular interdictors) are cruiser and destroyer class ships, respectively. Those are the third and second smallest player controllable ships in the game and they actually play the most important role in battles like this because they keep the enemy fleet locked down and unable to warp/jump away. Other subcaps can be important in the capacity of destroying said interdiction ships, but aside from that they don't have the damage output to really put a dent in a large group of supercapitals on this scale. Almost all battles in EVE are way smaller scale than this though and subcaps pretty much do everything in those.

Hmm... Anyone know any good videos with some good small to medium scale PvP where frigates to battlecruisers actually have a legit role? Guess I'm just asking for proof that small specialized ships can actually be part of respectably sizable PvP operations, and not just something to laugh at and shoot down.

Nogitsune Clearing enemy HIC's is a legit role. Look at the overview and warp scramble notifications. There is everything from fights between frigs to support like ABC's and Bombers contributing to DPS on dreads. Recons and HACs that are trying to clear subcap dps and HICs to guardians repping sub caps like the vindi this vid was shot from. This fight is primarily a DPS race against caps, but each side has its support fleets that are duking it out in their own little fights.

frigate and cruisers are always needed in everyfleet, interceptors for tackle, covert ops for information gathering and safe spot scanning, Heavy interdictor cruiser for tacking capitals, heavy assauilt cruisers for damage, recon cruisers for EWAR ETC.

in addition to what eastie87 said you could fly a command ship and provide fleet boosts to your fleet

The "Leviathan" that is mentioned over and over in the beggining of video is a titan-class ship (the biggest and most powerful in a game, think of a Death Star analogy and tripple it) that triggered an incident by accidently jumping into a hostile system instead of setting a bridge for a fleet (most of the systems in-game are player-controlled regions, it was just like if suddenly an armada of Russian nuclear submarines just parked near the U.S shore. In a middle of a Cold War). And then the escalation begun, they started to send reinforcements to aid that Titan that fucked up and is now under heavy attack (the loss of a ship in EVE is permanent, and Titans usually take months to years to build), the Leviathan eventually escapes but the things are already in motion and hostiles are sending their own Titans and capitals with huge subcapital support, of course opposing coalition do the same, plus a lot of "neutral" corporations that hold grudge to both of the sides are joining the battle too, hoping for the chance of payback. The whole thing lasted for several hours, welcome to EVE.

TheExtremeGamer1712 People loose years of progress on daily basis in EVE, there is a reason it is considered to have the most thrilling PvP among MMOs. The Asakai incident wasnt even one of the biggest instances of warfare in EVE, it is just famous for it's background of human error that caused it. You should really give it a try, just be patient with it's learning curve, once you get past it, the game can be very rewarding. Also with few exceptions like mentioned capital ships, death penalties an average player will face are harsh compared to other mmos yes, but not so devastating it would ruin the experience, most of the ships are designed to be very expendable, there is also no such thing as best ship or "ship progression" like getting better gear in other MMOs, every ship class has it's place and is useful in it's own way, so it is totally possible to enjoy the game and be useful compared to more experienced players being a complete rookie, flying basic, cheap frigate or so.

TheExtremeGamer1712 It's all for fun of course.

TheExtremeGamer1712 The mere mechanic that you CAN lose all of that is what makes it one of the best PvP games there is. Who cares about dying if you can just respawn with everything you lost. The risk is what makes people fight for their own, rather than blindly running around hoping to kill someone.

Someone goofed

The only appropriate reaction.

+DogsRNiceMineCraft commonly known as the space penis

ISBoxers just all got banned/shut down. And Plexes are crashing. Crashing hard, in the passed 2~ hours they've dropped 200 misk.

I've been reading about that....I may resub

***** That's excellent news... reasonable PLEX might actually get me playing again.

Bobamelius just check its price, see if it drops to what you like before actually subbing. they were at 1 bil

***** Yeah I've been watching it. I'm a little disappointed that they haven't dropped more, looks like it was mostly panic selling after they announced the isboxer thing. I guess I could start a solo C5 operation again, but I really don't want to have to concentrate that hard to make a living any more.

Very often, as far as numbers go. We've had about a dozen 2000+ engagements last month. Capital/Supercapital engagements of this size are a bit more rare (such ships are strategic assets, committing them is very dangerous), but we've had four or five of these in November. Titans die very often, at least one a week, usually.

Depends on the current political situation in null. Right now most of the major factions are directly participating in a major war, (n3,INK,PL) VS (SOLAR,-A-,BL,) with support from the CFC.

You've never been in one. While big battles like this are not as much fun as 20-50 man running engagements or small gang its still cool to be a part of such a huge effort.

I have been apart of one. It takes all the high speed action away from space battles

Mate, EVE makes space travel at physics-fucking speeds boring. At least until you get to Amarr and everyone starts shooting eachother with fireworks for a week after New Year's.

+kakhi sharashidze Is this just fantasy?

Caught in a landslide...

kakhi sharashidze no escape from reality

open your eyes,

Look up to the skies and see

Yea thats about 9 hours of video which properly wont ever be uploaded.

GoodOldN1ghty Not even by parts? Or at least the reaction to when shit starts going down.. I can just imagine them "Fuck, fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck" and "OMG WHY DIDN'T THE JEDI'S SENSE THIS?" :(

Because in a 9 hour fight that simply doesnt happen. a 9 hour fight ios tedisou with very little action to speak about

in the annotations he specified that after the cap ships started warping into the system temaspeak was cut, and vid speed was increased to compensate for lag. so even had the music been cut all you would hear was the random effects playing through the lag

teamspeak*

В субботу 26 января 2013 года развернулась еще одна эпическая битва с участием 3161 кораблей между блоками CFC и HBC в системе Asakai. Как утверждают игроки в своих блогах, к этому сражению привела ошибка пилота корабля класса «Титан» из блока CFC, который, вместо того, чтобы обеспечить флоту союзников телепортацию в собственную систему, армейским способом произвел проёб своего титана во вражеское пространство. Пару раз протерев глаза от нежданно свалившейся на них почти халявы (титаны не могут использовать свой главный калибр в лоусеке) местные разводящие («Test Alliance Please Ignore») сыграли КТА своему альянсу и заорали «Памагите, лохогопота на титане прикатила!» всём дружественным, или хотя бы не врагам. После минут ступора, осознаваниия ситуёвины, сборов, на веселье начали подтягиватся желающие, спешно пересев на пригодные к разбору титанов посудины, а то и на чём попало. На удивление быстро собрали кучу дрендоутов, организовали поток генераторов бубла. Флитком(ы?) проявили недюжинные способности к организации сброда, в очередной раз подтвердив прописную истину - лучше организованное войско влегкую пиздит лучше оснащённое. У ClusterFuck же, (коалиция, в котором состоял пилот промахнувшегося по кнопке титана) случилось помрачение сознания - из-за квакнувшей на всю галактику жабы - «ПТИСЬКУ ТИТАНА ЖАЛКО!!!» Сгоряча для начала созвали на подмогу другие титаны (с, опять же, невозможностью их полноценного использования.), но присоединили к ним слишком мало вспомогательных капиталов-субкапиталов. В общем, первый титан разобрали ещё до подхода, собственно подкреплений. Итог - 222 корабля уничтожено. Для HoneyBadgersCoalition потери составили 6 Дредноутов, 11 Карриеров и один Суперкарриер. Для Clusterfuck все обернулось хуже - 4 Дредноута, 29 Карриеров, 5 Суперкарриеров и три Титана. Битву при Asakai называют полным разгромом. В бабле это составляет 700 миллиардов игровой валюты или 24 тыс. неиллюзорных долларов. Правда, 50% или около того покроет страховка кораблей (60% стоимости кораблей минус те суицидники, которые не страховались) - с учётом того, что стоимость фита страховкой не охватывается. Просрали пол Форд Фокуса!. Другой вопрос, что пока заводы и фабрики накочегарят новых игровых вундервафель будет потеряно много времени и парочка систем.

это просто невъебически сложная игра на первый взгляд, поэтому даже нету желания покупать

Chemaxspb Не покупай.

спасибо что написал. Было интересно прочитать... 2016й уже.. эх eve.. романтика