He was the one behind some infamously alcohol-fueled remarks towards another player from 2012. The Mittani is one of EVE Online’s most notorious figures. “The reason people don’t like fighting us is we’re a very well-oiled machine.”
“We don’t fuck around when it come to sov wars,” said Alex “The Mittani” Gianturco. N3 recently intervened in a clash called the Fountain War, which was unfolding between CFC (Clusterfuck Coalition, primarily led by the massive, troll-y Goonswarm Alliance from the website/message board Something Awful) and the TEST alliance (which stems from Reddit).
What’s happening in EVE Online right now is known as The Halloween War, an ongoing clash between the N3 coalition (a grouping of Northern Coalition, Nulli Secunda, and Nexus Fleet, a trio that formed up during the fallout of a massive war from 2012) and the Drone Russian Federation (aka “The Russians”). Pandemic Legion benefited from a glitch in the EVE Online matrix just a few weeks back.īut before we continue, let’s set the stage. What’s done is done.”Įven if the bill payment was a mistake on the game's part, Manny doesn’t have much room to complain. “Even if CCP came back and said ‘hey, this was a mistake, we’ll reverse the sov,’ it’s not going to change the fact that we had this giant fight and all these ships were lost,” he said. When that bill went unpaid, that territory was no longer in control of Pandemic Legion. But the bill, whether through oversight or a glitch, wasn’t paid, and it was owed to the CONCORD, EVE Online’s NPC police force. Two other members of Pandemic Legion even double checked his work. The interface seemed to reflect the payment, and he moved on. Manny told me most players refer to the interface for such matters as a “sucking chest wound.” Manny didn’t forget about the bill. Thousands of players could be operating out of one during an important mission.ĭespite being set in the future, paying bills is still a pain in the ass in EVE Online. Staging systems are used to coordinate and launch ships. B-R5RB was one of Pandemic Legion’s staging systems. There are thousands of systems in EVE Online, each controlled by a variety of warring factions, but B-R5RB was controlled by the alliance Pandemic Legion, and Manny leads Pandemic Legion. It was the sovereignty bill for a system called B-R5RB. It would mean CCP could be treated like a bank and be subject to financial regulations.)Īll of this over a bill? Yes, but this particular bill was very important. (ISK cannot be legally exported to real-world money, however.
ISK is EVE Online’s in-game currency, and when 11 trillion ISK is converted to USD, it's more than $300,000. This battle resulted in 11 trillion ISK in damage, according to developer CCP’s estimates. Manny, the man at the center of B-R5RB.Ī friend sent Manny a text, and alerted him to the issue. When Manny forgot to pay his bill, it was the catalyst for the largest clash in EVE Online’s 11-year history. When you forget to pay your cable bill, you get a warning and move on. Manfred “Manny” Sideous was away from his computer when it happened.