Eve Online is a unique game in numer­ous ways.  For many MMO I’ve played, I find their community-generated enter­tain­ment mostly con­cen­trated on drama-rich offi­cial forums and myr­iad of game­play videos.  Eve Online has those, too, but read­ing Kill Mails turns out to be the most enjoy­able activ­ity of this kind.

“Per­ma­nent record of glory and humil­i­a­tion”, is how I’d describe them.  It is true that play­ers can learn about fit­ting their ships and com­pos­ing a good fleet from these kill mails. But more often than not, kill mails enter­tain sim­ply by pre­sent­ing the vic­tim in the light of ques­tion­able san­ity and intelligence.

A famous exam­ple would be the story of how a player had 74 PLEX cards destroyed in his ship cargo.  That’s equiv­a­lent of giv­ing CCP $1,295 USD for free, or remov­ing over six years of redeemable sub­scrip­tion time from the game.

Many other kill mails–mostly involv­ing “fail fits” and overly expen­sive cargo–are sim­ply fun to read, as they invoke var­i­ous degree of “wtf” moments.

Irony, on the other hand, is harder to incor­po­rate into the art of con­struct­ing enter­tain­ing kill mails.  The image above, how­ever, has stood out quite nicely.

A Freighter of Gal­lente origin–a cul­ture cher­ishes indi­vid­ual free­dom and democracy–is caught trans­port­ing mas­sive amount (160,800) of Slaves.  It took place in a solar sys­tem named “Utopia”, and when the ship is destroyed, all the slaves died with it.

Enjoy it your­self: http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=13706468

I sup­pose the best and worst part of it is: the mail is actu­ally API Ver­i­fied.  Irony troll is best troll anyone?

PS: Don’t mind the crappy thumb­nail thingy… it’s the result of upgrad­ing to Word­Press 3.4… in process of find­ing a solution…