Last Tuesday more than two thousand players from EVE Online gathered to celebrate Chappy78 Chapman’s 42nd birthday, terminally ill of cancer, dividing into two gigantic fleets that fought for hours.
Representatives from all major alliances joined the battle, along with some EVE Online developers, showing off and sacrificing their most expensive spaceships. Billions of ISK, the game currency, went up in smoke for fun. All to celebrate the companion who does not have much time left to live.
Doctors have told Chappy78 that his cancer is pancreas has returned and is incurable. This was probably his last birthday … and he was delighted to celebrate it this way, as stated in an interview with PC Gamer. If we want, this is also one of those moments when online games demonstrate all their aggregating power.
Cheppy78: “It was amazing. I have done a lot of things and fought in many field battles of EVE Online, but I had never taken part in such a big battle.“
A few hours after the end of the battle, the EVE Online subreddit filled up with images e video event. The servers struggled a lot to keep the 2,000 players, but they made it, thanks to some tricks taken by the developers, who dedicated more resources to him and activated a feature called Time Dilation to reduce the load.
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