I've played it for years, have done just about everything there is to do and am richer than creosote. The nice things about that particular fight is that it happened by accident*, and while not the largest by any stretch of the imagination (big fleet bashes in 07-08 out-sized it by some margin), it was [i]actually playable[/i]. I think the local count peaked at 2700 players in system, split across a dozen or more fleets, and while time dilation took the game down to about 5% of realtime, people could jump in and out, maneuever, activate modules, shoot things, kill things, GLORIOUS. Only three or so years ago the game effectively had a hard cap of 600 players in a single system, and if it got anywhere near that level the game became unplayable. *Idiot titan pilot jumped to a cyno rather than bridging his friends to the cyno. The bridge allows sub-capital ships to jump directly to the beacon, usually used for lame-as--blam!- ganks, jumping takes the titan to the cyno. Consequence? Lone, unsupported supercapital ship, utterly incapable of defending itself, jumping into a low-security system (that means no infrastructure support from structures/stations etc.) with no support. End result? 3,000 man, 6-hour slugfest at six in the morning. It's exactly the kind of thing you play eve for.