As has already been said, Mad AniGÇÖs Twitch stream had over 5000 people watching including a number of CCP staff. The popularity of the steam got it onto the front page of Twitch and there were lots of people saying they would re-sub or sign up because they were really impressed by the scale of the fight.

I suspect it was the attention this was getting out of game that prompted CCP to try to improve performance. They should have just left it alone and made more effort to re-enforce nodes as these fights start to escalate in the future.

At the time the node went down, the Test Rohk fleets were dying like flies and server performance was picking up. With the TEST battleships out of the way all those carrier and dreads would have been next. CFC fleets were being constantly re-enforced so make no mistake, those caps were dead.

In my view CCP meddled with things to improve the spectacle for the twitch viewers and as a result prevented a truly great battle from playing out. ItGÇÖs now going down in Eve history for the wrong reasons. Such a shame :-)

Just my opnion of course.

Look. Im new to eve, about 5 months old. I support CCP for creating an amazing universe for me to dive into, but F nullsec alliances having pull on server status. None of the test/goon war applies to me and my friends, and denying us the time to play on our day off is ****.

You wouldnt pull the plug on the servers if I was about to lose my Myrm in a combat site.. If your friends alliance is about to lose a fleet, let it happen. Whats the point of warfare if you cheat your way through it.

Not being in the fleet myself but watching it on twitch with over 5000 others due to it being twittered and promoted in alot of different channels I can only say this:

1) It looked like the TEST carriers had their fate sealed, it must have been frustrating for CFC to watch those things slip away due to no fault of your their own and no skill from TEST. TEST got luck instead of skill there.

2) CCP dropped the ball in front of several thousand players and over 5000 viewers on Twitch while being on top 10. I can only imagine the feeling of having one of those "omg, this is an opportunity we must take advantage of" and turn it into a complete failure. I bet they're the ones that are feeling most down atm.