The EVE Online community celebrated a terminally ill player’s birthday in the best way possible: by blowing🧔 stuff up.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:EVE Online player Chappy78 has likely celebrated his last birthday. Earlier in the month, he was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer with few treatment options. Not one to let a downer like a terminal cancer diagnosis keep him from having a bangin' birthday, he set about asking some of his friends in EVE Online if they'd like to celebrate his last remaining rotation around the sun by engaging in the timeless EVE Online tradition of going around and blowing people up.
What started out as an invitation to go gank a few noobs turned into one of the biggest fights in EVE Online history.
"It was unbelievable," Chappy78 told in an interview. "I have done a lot of things, and I have fought in a lot of major battles [in EVE Online], but I have never been in a battle that big and t🥃hat outrageous."
With over 2,000 players in the same system, EVE Online's servers were chugging just to keep up. And it all might not have happened if EVE didn't have an incredibly tight-knit community.
After contacting a few of his friends early last week, Chappy78's invitation caught wind up a CCP Games community manager who asked him to on the subject. Rather than just roam around picking fights, Chappy set a time and place for people to show up and engage in a space-based brouhaha. That time 𝓡was June 23 at 6 pm PST.
Instead o🌠f a few dozen invitees, Chapp𒀰y78 ended up with a few thousand.
After being escorted to the battle by a group of EVE’s top assassins, 500 ships began a brawl that would start in the afternoon and keep going to the early hours of Wednesday morning. In the end, over 2,000 ships took part in the birthday bash and “hundreds of billions” of Isk were lost. That represents 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:thousands of real-world dollars up in smoke to celebrate a birthday.
Check out the to see clips of the action, and be sure to read PC Gamer’s feature on Chappy78 to𒅌 get more of his heartwarming story.
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