We came, we saw...we were slaughtered.

[CCP]

We came, we saw...we were slaughtered.
24 November 2011, 4:12 pm

 As most of you are no doubt aware, many CCP employees were slaughtered in the Tama system yesterday in an unprecedented Live Event announced that same day. 71 members of the CCP in-game alliance took part and were (except for a handful of cowards who warped their capsules out!) eventually sent back to our home system of Polaris in need of new clones.

Our goal was to mobilize a sizeable fleet of devs that would be tough enough to not be wiped out in minutes, but eventually we hoped to attract enough attention to be overpowered and killed. We wanted to give people a fight to remember and we hope we did just that.

Click to enlarge (screenshot courtesy of throughnewbeyes.wordpress.com)

In total, CCP destroyed 430 capsuleer vessels belonging to 316 different characters. Included in this are three characters who were accidentally pod killed by the CCP horde, all of which have been reimbursed their losses (fun fact: One of them was Darius III of the CSM). To quote the infamous TomB, the pod he destroyed was because of “Lag!”. Sure, Tom…we all believe you ;).

In total, 2,009 ship/capsule losses were recorded in the Tama system yesterday, a rather considerable jump from the daily average of just 56 per day from the November 1^st to November 22^nd period.

CCP lost the following ship types in the engagement:

Capsule	59
Apocalypse Navy Issue	27
Vindicator	10
Guardian	9
Bhaalgorn	8
Machariel	6
Damnation	3
Raven Navy Issue	3
Nightmare	2
Dominix Navy Issue	2
Gallente Shuttle	1
Broadsword	1
Caldari Shuttle	1

The totals for ship losses in the system seem to suggest that CCP employees have a strange tendency for firing upon rookie frigates when they see them, though many larger ships were also destroyed:

	Kills total	Killed by CCP
Rookie ship	468	98
Frigate	330	73
Battlecruiser	163	63
Battleship	166	56
Cruiser	93	32
Stealth Bomber	112	25
Interceptor	64	14
Destroyer	51	13
Assault Ship	44	13
Covert Ops	47	6
Force Recon Ship	16	6
Heavy Assault Ship	12	6
Logistics	15	5
Strategic Cruiser	6	5
Capsule	363	3
Shuttle	27	3
Industrial	8	2
Interdictor	6	2
Combat Recon Ship	3	2
Command Ship	5	1
Transport Ship	3	1
Electronic Attack Ship	5
Heavy Interdictor	2
Total	2009	429

Lots of assorted parties joined the fray once word got out. The majority of ships destroyed were destroyed by characters who were not a member of any alliance, with CCP (thankfully!) coming in at the top spot for the alliances.

Not in an alliance	727
C C P Alliance	429
Pandemic Legion	419
Important Internet Spaceship League	85
Goonswarm Federation	50
Only For Fun	40
Test Alliance Please Ignore	34
Northern Coalition.	31
Tactical Narcotics Team	21
RvB - RED Federation	18
Other	155

Our congratulations to the players who made it on to the list of top 25 killers in Tama yesterday, alongside eight developers. This list excludes capsules, rookie ships and shuttles that were killed (because come on, that’s not really sporting, is it chaps).

CCP GingerDude	37
CCP Klumpur	35
Space Chi	33
Sekh Ondaari	32
Jack bubu	24
Beastoria	21
Joe Public	21
CCP TomB	20
CCP Soulless	20
Margido	16
CCP Diagoras	16
MhG29L	16
Jirad TiSalver	16
Blood r4ge	16
The United NPCs of Tama	13
CCP Space Cadet	13
DeVoT1oN	13
Mang0o	12
CCP Zirnitra	12
Murtific	11
CCP Sreegs	11
Gallactica	11
James Damar	11
Mijstor Jedann	10
DarkXale	10

Additional props to Beastoria for landing the final blow on four CCP ships, with Fattymcbutterpants (a name which had the CCP fleet unified in laughter when called out as primary on EVE voice) and another character who should probably be renamed, both achieving three final blows each. We’re also happy to report that whilst NPCs did indeed manage to destroy 13 ships in Tama yesterday, no CCP ships were lost to NPCs. And that's despite CCP Sreeg’s Nanobot Accelerator rigged buffer tank.

After the last CCP pilot was blasted full of holes and sent on his merry way via the clone express, players kept fighting in the system for almost four hours.

We had our backend tool construct a word cloud from the biggest thread discussing the event, and judging by that, fun was had.

Many thanks to everyone who took part and had fun with us, all of us here at CCP who were able to be there had an absolute blast. I’m certain that this is far from being the last time a fleet is spotted leaving Polaris.

If you have any tips or feedback for us for future events, or want to make fun of our fits, please visit the comments thread for this blog.

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