re: Apparently there is a huge EVE battle going Update: Damages now over $200K

As someone who used to play this game, let me clarify that no one actually sells these ships for real money and I'm 99% sure all the Titans (the biggest ship in the game) that got blown up were made by the Alliances in the battle. These alliances are comprised of thousands of people working together to put together fleets of these things. The dollar amount listed wasn't actually lost in this fight, but it is nice to give a sense of scale to the amount of in game currency that got blown up.

Also, keep in mind most of the people piloting these things were probably just excited to get to use them in a real fight - I'm sure several of the titans destroyed were built years ago and once your pilot is in one of these ships, they don't pilot another ship until the Titan is dead.