[Developer Blog] We came, we saw...we were slaughtered.

[EVE News]

As most of you are no doubt aware, many CCP employees were slaughtered in the Tama system yesterday in an unprecedented Live Event announced that same day. 71 members of the CCP in-game alliance took part and were (except for a handful of cowards who warped their capsules out!) eventually sent back to our home system of Polaris in need of new clones.

Our goal was to mobilize a sizeable fleet of devs that would be tough enough to not be wiped out in minutes, but eventually we hoped to attract enough attention to be overpowered and killed. We wanted to give people a fight to remember and we hope we did just that.



Click to enlarge (screenshot courtesy of throughnewbeyes.wordpress.com)

In total, CCP destroyed 430 capsuleer vessels belonging to 316 different characters. Included in this are three characters who were accidentally pod killed by the CCP horde, all of which have been reimbursed their losses (fun fact: One of them was Darius III of the CSM). To quote the infamous TomB, the pod he destroyed was because of “Lag!”. Sure, Tom…we all believe you .

In total, 2,009 ship/capsule losses were recorded in the Tama system yesterday, a rather considerable jump from the daily average of just 56 per day from the November 1st to November 22nd period.

CCP lost the following ship types in the engagement:

Capsule

59​

Apocalypse Navy Issue

27​

Vindicator

10​

Guardian

9​

Bhaalgorn

8​

Machariel

6​

Damnation

3​

Raven Navy Issue

3​

Nightmare

2​

Dominix Navy Issue

2​

Gallente Shuttle

1​

Broadsword

1​

Caldari Shuttle

1​

The totals for ship losses in the system seem to suggest that CCP employees have a strange tendency for firing upon rookie frigates when they see them, though many larger ships were also destroyed:

Kills total

Killed by CCP

Rookie ship

468​

98​

Frigate

330​

73​

Battlecruiser

163​

63​

Battleship

166​

56​

Cruiser

93​

32​

Stealth Bomber

112​

25​

Interceptor

64​

14​

Destroyer

51​

13​

Assault Ship

44​

13​

Covert Ops

47​

6​

Force Recon Ship

16​

6​

Heavy Assault Ship

12​

6​

Logistics

15​

5​

Strategic Cruiser

6​

5​

Capsule

363​

3​

Shuttle

27​

3​

Industrial

8​

2​

Interdictor

6​

2​

Combat Recon Ship

3​

2​

Command Ship

5​

1​

Transport Ship

3​

1​

Electronic Attack Ship

5​

Heavy Interdictor

2​

Total

2009​

429​

Lots of assorted parties joined the fray once word got out. The majority of ships destroyed were destroyed by characters who were not a member of any alliance, with CCP (thankfully!) coming in at the top spot for the alliances.

Not in an alliance

727​

C C P Alliance

429​

Pandemic Legion

419​

Important Internet Spaceship League

85​

Goonswarm Federation

50​

Only For Fun

40​

Test Alliance Please Ignore

34​

Northern Coalition.

31​

Tactical Narcotics Team

21​

RvB - RED Federation

18​

Other

155​

Our congratulations to the players who made it on to the list of top 25 killers in Tama yesterday, alongside eight developers. This list excludes capsules, rookie ships and shuttles that were killed (because come on, that’s not really sporting, is it chaps).

CCP GingerDude

37​

CCP Klumpur

35​

Space Chi

33​

Sekh Ondaari

32​

Jack bubu

24​

Beastoria

21​

Joe Public

21​

CCP TomB

20​

CCP Soulless

20​

Margido

16​

CCP Diagoras

16​

MhG29L

16​

Jirad TiSalver

16​

Blood r4ge

16​

The United NPCs of Tama

13​

CCP Space Cadet

13​

DeVoT1oN

13​

Mang0o

12​

CCP Zirnitra

12​

Murtific

11​

CCP Sreegs

11​

Gallactica

11​

James Damar

11​

Mijstor Jedann

10​

DarkXale

10​

Additional props to Beastoria for landing the final blow on four CCP ships, with Fattymcbutterpants (a name which had the CCP fleet unified in laughter when called out as primary on EVE voice) and another character who should probably be renamed, both achieving three final blows each. We’re also happy to report that whilst NPCs did indeed manage to destroy 13 ships in Tama yesterday, no CCP ships were lost to NPCs. And that's despite CCP Sreeg’s Nanobot Accelerator rigged buffer tank.

After the last CCP pilot was blasted full of holes and sent on his merry way via the clone express, players kept fighting in the system for almost four hours.

We had our backend tool construct a word cloud from the biggest thread discussing the event, and judging by that, fun was had.

Many thanks to everyone who took part and had fun with us, all of us here at CCP who were able to be there had an absolute blast. I’m certain that this is far from being the last time a fleet is spotted leaving Polaris.

If you have any tips or feedback for us for future events, or want to make fun of our fits, please visit the comments thread for this blog.

CCP Diagoras



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