Seeing this sub getting a little hot, I figured I would take that opportunity and praise the genre of sandbox mmos and shove EVE Online into all of your pixels :>
Honestly I could write up a wall of text that will put even that great thing of whatever in China to shame regarding this subject and EVE Online, and I was in the process of doing so when I came across a video on the subject that actually sums up most of what my wall of text would consist of.
Here it is:
Now then after that I thought it might be fitting to go into detail what I actually do in EVE Online, which is PvP almost strictly. In more detail however, I run in one of the most well known and notable Alliances within the game itself, we're not known as one of the super alliances infact we're one of the smaller ones and we specialize specifically in guerrilla type warfare (with a very high rate of success) as well as capital/super-capital ganking and in general are known as a group of player who often fight far outnumbered. When I say smaller alliance, you have to keep in mind that when we form for CTA (Call to arms) in the USTZ (Our main timezone, however we also operate in EUTZ, AUTZ and even RUSTZ) we get anywhere from 90-200 people, individual people, from our alliance for these. Again I point out "SMALLER ALLIANCE" as we have fought with ~240 people against upwards of ~900 people on not-so-rare basis. I am in the alliance Black Legion.
This name may mean nothing to you if you don't actually play the game, as I said we're not a super alliance, and even if you don't play the game you are probably familiar with names like Pandemic Legion, Goonswarm Federation, Razor Alliance, and TEST Alliance (IE: Super Alliances) However you might be familiar with some of our exploits like
http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/07/08/ship-destroyed-in-eve-online-worth-approximately-8-000/ and the role we've played in multiple high escalation super-capital fights. Hell, you might even be familiar with our epic failure and losing 30 super-capitals which you can see here:
or even just all out brawling capitals with a super alliance (Razor Alliance)
One thing I can say is, there are some things that are truly great and reach such epic place in this world when it comes to gaming, and with my alliance I got to be a part of that just last week in the battle of B-R5RB.
http://evenews24.com/2014/01/29/dev-blog-the-bloodbath-of-b-r5rb-gamings-most-destructive-battle-ever/The week before this as well yielded a high escalation super-capital fight (albeit not as large as the one above) but again, my alliance was a part of that as well, yet again as a contributing force. (Unfortunately my internet was out for this one).
Anyways, that's all I have to say about the subject for now. It's late after all! However if you would like to look at more pvp videos from my alliance's point of view (recorded by our people) you can check out these channels:
https://www.youtube.com/user/JoachimWeissEve/videoshttps://www.youtube.com/user/billyjoel22359/videoshttps://www.youtube.com/user/xidjazulix/videosAlso, how could I forget the single most controversial fleet doctrine that we created which shook the ground of every super/mega alliance in eve and forced them to change the way they fight. The Doomcat/Doom Portal doctrine.
Also some actual footage from the B-R5RB fight:
