Well, I don't actually play EvE-O anymore, but I keep seeing this pop up recently. It's basically the biggest thing to ever happen in an MMO (by player action before someone comes up with some big orchestrated in game event). And I do mean big, and I do mean ever.

One of the biggest alliances in the game just got killed.

Now, for those that don't know, alliances are groups of coorperations. Coorperations are groups of players. They are run entirely by players and are required for various things.

BoB was one of the biggest alliances in the game, consisting of thousands of players. They owned a lot of space, a lot of ships and a lot of various other assets.

They no longer exist.

It seems that one player "The Mittani" worked his way into BoB, on behalf of rival alliance, GoonSwarm, got so far up that he was in a position to take assets and pay the bills. Which he didn't.

The connotations of this for the game are very simple. Thousands of players just had hours of game time lost by the actions of a single player. The space that BoB owned is now a free for all, lacking the protection it used to have, which was granted by its sovereignty and defensive buildings. The lack of alliance means the sovereignity resets to zero and all the defences go offline. On top of that, I believe quite a lot of their stuff, we're talking cap ships and stations, stuff that is worth a lot is now up for grabs.

Can anyone say pwnt?

oh lord that must kill the game for some people seriously :O

Probably, but it is pretty awesome, I think. One of the things I liked about EvE-O was how much it was player driven, and how much players could do on a really big scale. But I never actually did it myself, so it's just interesting to read about it.

I read about this somewhere. Totally epic that one person HAD THE POWER. There were no limits set by the devs. A player-created company was destroyed by a player. Awesome.

Apparantly it's not easy to flat out delete an alliance, but he just let the bills lapse and it got auto-deleted. Semi-exploit, semi-lol you trusted one person to pay the bills.

lol thats kinda stupid.... You think someone migt do a background check and maybe check about bills? I can't believe what is essentially a banker managed to make the entire corporation go down

I'm sure there's some sort of outcry to get that guy banned, but he was

PLAYING THE GAME

so anyone that doesn't like him can get 'd

rofl awesome! and i though the mining tricks were good xD
must re subscribe to EVE-O

By mining tricks do you mean that time an alliance was suicide ganking high-sec miner to try and screw mineral prices in their favour?

Suicide Ganking?

Basically, in high-sec (sec being the security, rated from 0.0 to 1.0, with 0.5+ being high sec, and the higher sec having quicker response times than lower sec) space, there are police forces. If you attack someone without provocation they come to kill you, something which they excel at. One alliance was churning out ships cheaply, equipping them so hat insurance payouts pretty much covered the cost of the ship (you still keep your pod, so don't "die", just lose the ship) and then got a group of them together and alpha striked miners. Someone else then comes in to take the stuff and basically they have killed a miner for minimal loss.

They had about 5-15 seconds from first hit to losing their ship to kill the miner, so it wasn't easy.

lol not what i meant but sounds fun anyhow
i liked being the innocent noob minor then have someone steal your shizzle to try and bait you.
then having some allies ships drop in and pwn them

That was fun, shame I don't play EvE-O anymore. Would be good to get back into it, but it costs too much.

Pay per month is always a bad thing IMO.

But damn, that musta been a shock for Bo(o)B

This sums up what happened quite nicely. It's a sovereignty map, it shows who owns the areas. It's only a small area of the overall map, but it shows the BoB area nicely.

Hohoho, freaking OUCH.

Just been looking at some more stuff on this. Seems BoB has already reformed as KenZoku and reclaimed pretty much all of their space already - clicky (bottom left). That's quite an impressive feat, I think, though it looks like GoonSwarm didn't take enough advantage of their position to really do the damage.

good for them.

awesome xD might start playing again. capture one very small area for myself then taunt the bigger boys over it

I doubt you have the ingame capacity to do that successfully, McWill.

i just want to provoke some super power and run lol

look my scout ship owns this area of space >: D na nah ne na nah!

fly into KenZoku space and declair sovereignty

All your base belongs to me!! then try to out fly them......

Heh, you need to build a station to claim sovereignty, they would swat you like a bug.