Last Tuesday night, more than 2,000 EVE Online gamers gathered to celebrate the 42nd birthday of gamer Chappy78 by gathering into two giant fleets of spaceships and blasting them together to
For gamer Chappy78, who a week earlier was informed that his pancreatic cancer had returned and was terminal.
`Unbelievable,` Chappy78 said.
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Hours after the battle ended, EVE Online’s reddit forum was flooded with images and videos of the battle with nearly 2,000 players in one system, EVE Online’s servers were struggling to keep up with the immense explosion.
It is known that gamer Chappy78 once invited his comrades in EVE Online to celebrate a small birthday by forming a fleet to look for the hopes of a fun battle or two.
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`I think I put my Discord information up there so people can share with me and I can tell them how I’m doing a lot faster,` Chappy78 said.
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This is not the end, Chappy78 said that he plans to continue playing EVE Online for the rest of his life, thanks in part to the generous contributions of the EVE Online gaming community as well as his love of space.