EVE ONLINE KEEPSTAR FULL

On the day of the timer, each coalition began to put their plans into action. This set the stage for another fight on Saturday, January 3rd, when the Keepstar would exit its final invulnerability window and be susceptible to being destroyed. By all accounts, the Titans lost in the first battle at M2-XFE were replaced by their respective alliances within 48 hours. In the following days, both groups spent hours reinforcing their Titan fleets either by purchasing extra Titans from their members or moving cache Titans to the front line from all corners of space. Estimates from multiple sources said anywhere between 25-40% of the PAPI supercapital fleet were trapped in the system, unable to log in without a substantial force to defend them. Though the Keepstar was reinforced into its final timer, the PAPI supercapital fleet was left logged off in a cluster of interdiction probes, ships, fighters, and assorted other deployables under the Keepstar. The fight itself lasted until downtime when the server shuts itself off for the day. Over 250 Titans were lost in the Massacre of M2-XFE, more than triple the number lost in the previously record-holding Bloodbath of B-R5RB.

The initial doomsday volleys from the Massacre of M2-XFE This, coupled with the determination of the PAPI coalition to kill the Keepstar, led to the most costly battle in EVE OnlineвЂ™s history. In this case, however, the Imperium was able to successfully reinforce and destroy the online jammers and prevent the onlining of new ones, allowing them unrestricted access to the system in any way they saw fit. As strategy dictated, PAPI gained control of the infrastructure hub and held it for long enough to deploy the cyno jammer. This brings us to the system of M2-XFE, an inconsequential system that holds little strategic value but does contain an Imperium Keepstar. Up until now, there has been little to no contest over Keepstars (outside of the few killed in Fountain) as PAPI has been able to successfully reinforce, destroy, replace, and hold the infrastructure hub in each system long enough to allow them to deploy Tenebrex Cynosural Jammers giving them total control over when ships can jump or bridge into the system through any other method but stargates. PAPI has destroyed nine Imperium Keepstars so far, with two others that were stolen while unanchored or killed in a freighter after being scooped from space. If you want to know more about whatвЂ™s happened, we provided a summary of the war so far back in November. Throughout the last few months, we have had several massive battles, including the attempted anchoring of 5 Keepstars in NPC Delve, a Titan trap gone wrong in YZ9 thanks to server performance, and the record-breaking battle in FWST-8.

This fall, however, the war hit home for the Imperium when PAPI started knocking on the front door of their home region, Delve. In their quest to evict the Imperium, PAPI has stormed through several regions of New Eden, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. SETTING THE STAGEДЇor months now, the PAPI coalition, made up of such names as Legacy, PanFam, and WinterCo (and most of the rest of the null-sec population), has been waging war against the Imperium, a coalition made up of Goonswarm Federation, the Initiative, the Bastion, among others.

A Titanic graveyard, where 169 or more Titans were laid to rest.

EVE ONLINE KEEPSTAR FULL

Instead, we saw a field full of Titan wrecks from one group of combatants while the other side remained completely unharmed ( save one unlucky Avatar who jumped to the wrong cyno). The only problem was that there wasnвЂ™t actually a battle that took place. At its peak, the number of capsuleers in the system spiked to around 6,600 with more than 15,000 characters formed up and ready to launch themselves into battle 6,739 with a combined total of 13,770 players (approximately 35% of all online pilots in the game) ready to jump in. It also now lays claim to, presumably, the most concurrent players fighting in a single system and most characters involved in a multiplayer battle, records previously set by the Fury at FWST in October. History was, once again, made in the system of M2-XFE: the system that now lays claim to hosting the costliest battle in EVE OnlineвЂ™s history. Some elements in this article have been struck through and replaced with more accurate information. Update: CCP posted a devblog detailing the events that took place in M2-XFE.

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