![]() The sheer number of ships meant that many ships were destroyed instantly by sheer weight of fire, with even notoriously tough ships such as Damnation Command ships being vaporized in mere moments.Įventually, the CFC warped in its capital fleet, comprised of dreadnoughts packing massive firepower and carriers with incredible battlefield triage abilities. Deadly bombing runs claimed as many as 60 ships at a time, sometimes killing as many friendly ships as they did hostile Goonswarm Federation ships claimed 15 of their own. With the numbers and firepower on the CFC’s side, the battle began to turn against TEST. With this system, the node supporting this fight was maintained and the battle was not brought to an abrupt halt. In total, 19,070 seconds of simulation were lost to TiDi. For most of the battle, time was moving at only 1/10 of its normal speed, with ships firing and explosions going off in slow motion. Named Time Dilatation, (or TiDi for short), this system slows down time in the system to give the servers enough time to process all the commands from thousands of players. The number of pilots in system quickly spiked to just over 4,000 as the two sides began the final battle for Fountain.īattle is underway - Image Courtesty of The Verge ( With so many ships in system, our system for accommodating such large battles kicked in. CFC’s Megathron fleets were already surrounding the station in a massive cloud of battleships, waiting for the onslaught to begin. Just before 21:00 UTC, with the station about to come out of reinforcement, TEST moved their forces into the system by using a number of Titans to rip open portals directly to the system. This, alongside any gatecamps on the system’s exits meant that when the assembled TEST horde descended up 6VDH-T, they would either emerge victorious, or die trying.ĬFC fleet waits around the station in 6VDT-H ![]() This would provide safe haven for their own forces, and deny it to their enemies. Both sides had in excess of 1,500 pilots, with reports of CFC’s force totaling over 2,000.Įarlier that day, CFC’s forces in system undertook a cunning plan to take control of all the moons in system, assembling large outposts armed with large arrays of weaponry. CFC managed to gather a number of large battleship-class Megathron fleets, while TEST assembled battlecrusier-class Prophecy fleets of their own. ![]() With this in mind, both sides made the call far and wide for every ally to bring every possible pilot and every possible ship to attend. If the station timer was lost, it would likely mark the end of any resistance in Fountain from TEST, and decide the outcome of the entire campaign. When this happened, TEST decided to drop everything to rush to its defense, deciding to make it their symbolic last stand. Recently, the CFC damaged the station enough to activate its shield reinforcement timer, which gives the station invulnerability for a limited amount of time before having to be repaired. While not strategically important at the time (TEST had moved to Karan), it was where the alliance had previously staged itself when Fountain was invaded. However, in the past week, the war had turned against TEST, and the CFC was beginning to make steady progress.ĦVDT-H in Fountain was the traditional home system for TEST in the region. TEST had previously taken the region from IT Alliance in 2011 and had been comfortably holding it ever since. These two gigantic war machines were both coveting the valuable moons in the region after the changes to moon mineral distribution in Odyssey, our latest expansion to EVE Online. For the past two months, two massive groups of EVE pilots, the coalition CFC and the alliance Test Alliance Please Ignore (shortened to TEST), have been waging war over the Fountain region.
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