Violent battle causes hundreds of thousands of dollars in loses, 50+ warships sunk.

[Incubi]

JEMC said:

Incubi said:

A Titan is huge Super Star Destroyer type ships in the Eve universe and is impossibly expensive. The first Titan was developed by having a 2500 man guild harvest resources for months on end. At the time, a 2500 man guild was huge. Now guilds in Eve have up to 12 000 members. This is what allows these ridiculously huge battles to take place as they fight for territories.

Silly question but, the players whose avatars where on those sunken ships have seen their characters die and are now forced to start over again or do their characters respawn in another place?

There's no permadeath, but like the emperor in Star Wars, each player have a clone lab. As their body dies, its spirit is transferred to a clone body. What hurts is the loss of ships and assets. So if you have invested heavily in a ship, it hurts like hell to see it lost - but that is part of the reason this game is so fun.

Here's one more picture from the battle. Imagine every single square dot that you see here being someone who sits somewhere behind his or hers PC.