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What's your craziest multiplayer game experience?
I'll pick a winner at 1 PM pacific time (less than two hours).
GO!
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About a year ago, I was a member of a small alliance in EVE. We claimed one constellation of about 7 star systems in a mediocre region of space. The money was better further out, but we had staked our claim there, and things were going well. We had our territory, and the bigger alliances mostly left us alone.
So one day, one of our guys detects a foreign starbase deployed near one of our moons, belonging to a neutral character, name of Shinji Ikari. At the time, we were pretty understanding of neutrals, so we sent him a brief letter, informing him he had 24 hours to get his starbase packed up and outside our constellation. By rights, we could have cooked the starbase right there, but we were willing to give the guy the benefit of the doubt.
The very next day, we checked on the starbase. All of the industrial equipment had been stripped away, and replaced with a heavy complement of weaponry. Shinji had gotten our little love note, and instead of being civil about things, decided to declare war. The call went out that night, every available pilot was to furnish his vessel in a warlike manner and join the fleet in bombarding Mr. Ikari's starbase.
The seige lasted 24 hours. With pilots in every time zone, as soon as one guy went to bed, another woke up. During the bombardment, Shinji was spotted in his starbase, desperately trying to get his immobile guns to fire on our fleet, not realizing our fleet was well beyond his control tower's limited targetting range. When the starbase was destroyed, Ikari scurried away, vowing revenge, while we pillaged the wreckage.
A week later, things had returned to normal, I and two of my friends were in a dead-end system in the back of our constellation, hunting NPC's. Mostly it was a way to pass the time, make some money, and patrolling around in warships helps keep the rifraff out. This night, we struck gold. An NPC mining op. After dispatching the protectors, I got my cargo hauler out to recover the precious minerals they had so generously mined.
After about five roundtrips, I hear the sound every EVE player dreads, the trill of a hostile lock-on. I swing my camera around, and who do I see but Shinji Ikari! In a warship nontheless! As fast as I can, I gun my engines and make for my friends, calling ahead to let them know I've got company. My ship is fast and well armored, and Shinji only manages to get one ineffective volley on me before I make it to my allies.
When we all arrive, my friends give him a good sound thrashing before he retreats. Unfortunately for him, he followed me right into a dead end system. Shinji has some sharp words for us, but refuses to engage us, so we just sit on the one exit gate and decide to wait him out.
Eventually, I lose my patience, and tell my buddies "Shinji shot me first, he's mine, keep him here." I return to our station and retrieve my own battleship (the very same that helped bring down his starbase). I return and tell Shinji I'd like a crack at him, and that I'll engage him 1 on 1. He agrees. As soon as he shows his face, I hit his engines with electronic warfare. He isn't going anywhere. Now, his little ship is no match for mine, but I want to make a point. I call my buddies in, and we fire everything at him. In a matter of seconds, he's floating in an escape pod.
He's too busy with more of his sharp words to realize he needs to get away, so I lock him and jam the engines on his escape pod. I was going to let him go, but only once he knew he was totally, utterly beaten. Unfortunately for him, he kept yammering on about how killing him would only make his resolve stronger, and was really starting to grate on me. At one point he said "Go ahead and finish me!" So I fired a single torpedo, there was a bright flash of light, and as far as I know, he woke up in a clone vat somewhere.
We never saw him again.
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