Upon browsing DOTLAN this morning (typical morning at work), I found an interesting update under the live ticker: “Alliance RvB – RED Federation has been disbanded”.
I was quite interested in why or how this happened. Was there a sleeper? Did someone simply pull the plug for the lulz? After a bit of digging, I found this post on the RvB forums:
As some of you no doubt noticed upon logging in this morning, Red’s alliance no longer exists. The reason for that is not entirely clear. Current working theory is that due to the thousands of buggy wars we switched some isk out of the alliance account to avoid massive wardec fees. This may have led to the alliance not paying its maintenance bill.
We will not know for sure what happened unltil Del wakes up and can check the alliance account. Rest assured that we will then petition the matter with CCP.
What does this mean for you, the members? Absolutely nothing. Thanks to the same wardec bug Red and Blue are still locked in a mutual war and can keep on shooting each other as normal.
More info to come whenever we have it.
RvB unable to pay the bills due to the current wardec system? Interesting…
RvB is one of the most well known groups in EVE as they allow new pilots to join their ranks and pew pew their sister alliance in a constant war. To have a sibling go missing, I can only imagine how hurt the Blue’s feel about this. 
It appears they will be getting the Red Federation back up and running soon enough tho. New players can still join the corporation “Red Federation” which is still at war with the Blue’s.
In my opinion, this is a very good example of a broken wardec system. The idea of Red vs Blue and the way they have implemented it is a very solid idea. It’s fun and it allows new pilots a way to jump into PvP with no real dangers. Losing frigates here and there is fun. But, when an in-game system causes stress to this idea, there is something wrong. CCP needs to look into the wardec system sooner than later.
- Exversion
o/ BLUE WINS o/
o/ Yay, we win!
Blue poweeer
Regardless of the mechanic, I think we all should acknowledge that Blue wins the First RvB War.
Technically it's the second win for blue… WIth the new wardec system in april, we had to restart the war. This means someone had to "admit defeat" and it was red.
Blue doesn't win. Red simply called a time out.
That's some sort of an evil tactical maneuver by reds.
refreshing to see people having fun getting their pew pew on.
RvB you guys are trully awesome
Stealing is bad, mmkay?
probably the only guys in game playing eve the right way
Dat logo is da sex
Word is that Del got disillusioned with his alliance members and the incompetence he was constantly coming up against so has left EvE and disbanded the alliance as his parting shot.
Yep it is definitely the games fault that certain people are either unable to work out how much it is going to cost to service the reoccurring bills or work anything else out.
You know the EVE client actually has a calculator built into it & there are probably a shitload of other apps that could of helped avoid this if it turns out it is due to someone not being able to do basic maths.
Talked to a guy in RVB, they got a mail saying that someone disbanded it intentionally, and they WILL RISE AGAIN!!!
Anyway, of all the alliances someone had to go and do a Goon V BOB disbanding on, they had to do it to RVB? Why not go disband SOLAR or -A- or PL or someone who would cause a scene that would be a SPECTACLE
I am going with the usual one so grab your tin foil hats: "Its a Goon plot to coin the market on Noob ships!"
it's the ncdot fault.Why you wardeck us mortherfucker?''???'9'???'?0??'
Red federation is Stalin, Castro and Mao doctrine
Blu republic is Hitler, Franco and Mussolini doctrine
No one wins :-S
brownie loss again, this is for you Vile Rat <3
love RvB, love everything about it, its a game inside a game. After playing SOV warfare for months, or grinding sleepers, its so nice just to chill out, kick back a couple of mildly warm beers and loose frigs while drunk.
Some of the best times i have had were in red fed.. get the alliance back up quickly!!
someone has already claimed the alliance name now
hopefully someone in rvb thats keeping the name, would fucking suck if they lost their name
more likely to be a troll who will either A) sell it back or B) keep it to be a dick
If you have never been in RvB Then you are missing out. As a years long nullsec pvper I thought that RvB would be boring n crappy but I was so wrong. Contstant fights, people who actually fight. All sorts of gangs, yes there's lots of t1 frigs n cruisers but there's plenty of chance to fight and use better ships / better pilots too.
I hope RvB get it all sorted.
best way is the blue way
One of the few good things left in high sec, hope they fix this.
The name is arbitrary, its the people and the instituion that make RvB sooooo much fun.
It happened again!