EVE Online player loses tiny ship worth over $6,000

[RobinHood]

EVE Online is well known for its sandbox gameplay and ruthless citizens, with monumental kills and record-breaking scams popping up year after year. In 2010, one player lost over $1,000 US worth of 30-day game time codes (PLEX) when he transported them in the cargo hold of a tiny, fragile frigate. Thinking his ship too fast to be caught, that player lost his entire alliance's budget in a single mishap.

That record was thoroughly eradicated today by player "stewie Zanjoahir," who reportedly lost over 213,000,000,000 ISK when he tried to transport a huge cache of valuable blueprints through nullsec in a tiny, unfitted frigate. That much ISK could currently buy around 367 30-day game time codes (PLEX) at around 580 million ISK each, for a combined total of over 30 years of game time. To put that into perspective, 367 PLEX bought with real cash would cost about $6,422.50 US.

Some players doubt the authenticity of the kill report, but the killboard it was posted on claims to have verified it with EVE's automated API service, and CCP Games itself posted about the kill on Facebook. Kills of this scale may have happened before, but it was previously impossible to tell whether a destroyed blueprint was a cheap copy or an expensive original. The value of this kill may even be higher than the reported figure, as several of the blueprint copies that weren't counted are actually worth billions of ISK. Today's kill may be the largest confirmed kill of any ship in EVE's history and could even be the most expensive character death in any MMO to date.

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Whaaaaaaaaaaaat???

Can you imagine if we had the capability to lose items with that much money in COD?

That's insane.

 

[FFFSpeedy]

That quote was like reading a russian bible, so way over my head it hit an aircraft......

 

[FFFShooter]

What it slipped off your head baz?!!!!!!????!"!!?##"!"!?.

Well Bilko Cloggy and Elf Would be broke if it went on money for kills.......!!?*//+##""'':;,.

 

[FFFMayhem]

thats the sort of loss that would make a player quite the game, or they done it on purpose to piss off an alliance?

 

[sjc2tk]

i am on eve quite regularly and the stuff that people transport and think they will get away with it is quite amazing sometimes ....... i think one guy had loads of plex in his cargo and got podded and lost something like 50 billion ......


UPDATE : .....may be hoax >>> http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/10/23/eve-online-6-000-ship-kill-may-be-a-hoax/

 

[Kitto525]

WHAT THE HELL IS THIS ABOUT ????????