As we had explained yesterday and reported through the weekend the “EVE-Bet.com kill a revenant” event turned out to be one of the most successful and popular events in EVE Online history, in fact the event was more popular than EVE-Bet or anyone else had expected. As one of the main partners of this event, I must admit that we were forced to ramp up our server configuration to cope with the flood of traffic after the solar system announcement.

CCP Games managed to keep the server alive with, the record figure of, almost 5,000 simultaneous players active in the solar system; which despite criticism from players toward the TiDi rates seen, a few years ago, having 5,000 players in the node without it going poof was unthinkable.

So big kudos to CCP Games for keeping everything working in one of those “one-off” situations that sets EVE Online apart from any other MMORPG. Also the player response deserve a lot of praise for enduring the heavy lag the event created, and finally I should praise, the organizers, Dark Razer and the EVE-Bet crew. They proved that all you need to make history in the EVE universe is a bit of imagination, initiative and a chunk of isk.

Hours later the question remain, who got the killmail? Well, apparently killmails were never designed to support almost 5,000 players or as one of the organizers put it:

Yeah 5k people completely fucked the server, we might end up constructing one from the logs

I asked them again regarding if there was any progress on the killmail and this is the final word:

Well we paid out the winners based on logs. But CCP Games have confirmed to us that they won’t be able to make a km.

Butcher’s Bill

During the event I heard a lot of people saying stuff like “bah, there is no use for this” and “this shit is pointless” among other demeaning comments on the participation of the event, what they seemed to miss out was not only the prizes which were a stake but despite being in heavy Time Dilation they were making history, this being the second Revenant to ever be killed on Tranquility. Whilst there were no kill-mail for this, here are the raw logs for the Revenant kill, there are over 3750+ participants logged, you can ctrl + f if you wish to find your name:

And then there are the lucking basterds who nailed the Revenant so hard, they actually earned isk, reproduced below as authorized by EVE-Bet.com

Manic M1ner – 5 PLEX for Final Pod Blow
Justykek – 5 PLEX for Final Revenant Blow
Emily X7 (Hound – 46074) – 8 PLEX for Highest Damage by a Frigate Hull
Razar51 (Talwar – 7852) – 8 PLEX for Highest Damage by a Destroyer Hull
Dograzor (Ishtar – 23410) – 8 PLEX for Highest Damage by a Cruiser Hull
VoDnuy Apparat (Tornado – 34286) – 8 PLEX for Highest Damage by a Battlecruiser Hull
Rebbeca Neresh (Hurricane Fleet Issue – 19548) – 8 PLEX for Highest Damage by a Battlecruiser Hull
Bagehi (Tempest Fleet Issue – 13070) – 8 PLEX for Highest Damage by a Battleship Hull

We have a bit of a conflicted result on the BC top damage…so we decided to just pay out both of them.

Thanks again for attending ladies and gents!

All in all, EVE history was made that day and it paid big for the brave players who participated.

Congrats.