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Kalaratiri
Skadi's Call Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
216
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Posted - 2012.08.10 01:36:00 -
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Solo pvp existed. |
Jypsie
Wandering Star Enterprises
29
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Posted - 2012.08.10 02:03:00 -
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Jerick Ludhowe wrote:8 no stacking penalty dmg mods on a geddon
I was just thinking that. Full rack geddons. Also remember nanovagas face raping everyone w/o a huginn/rapier. |
Jerick Ludhowe
Toxic Waste Industries
130
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Posted - 2012.08.10 02:32:00 -
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[M00] corp :) |
Ptraci
3 R Corporation The Irukandji
574
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Posted - 2012.08.10 03:04:00 -
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Mag's wrote:Vertisce Soritenshi wrote:How do you "loose" a battleship? That sounds like it would hurt. Bits falling off, as there was not enough tape?
Nah back then no one flew Minmatar... |
Mr M
Agony Unleashed
193
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Posted - 2012.08.10 03:19:00 -
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Damned younglings! Back in my days ...there was no tutorial. ...there was no auto pilot and you couldn't "set destination". ...there was one (1) tech V mining laser.
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Ruah Piskonit
PIE Inc. Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
104
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Posted - 2012.08.10 03:24:00 -
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did not have Wt0 and had fights. . .
oh I could go on. . . |
Lilianna Star
State War Academy Caldari State
53
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Posted - 2012.08.10 03:27:00 -
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Back in my day the game wasn't nearly as good. |
Lyrrashae
Crushed Ambitions Reckless Ambition
326
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Posted - 2012.08.10 03:35:00 -
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Not a "vet" by most peoples' reckoning, but far from newb, soooo:
Back in my day:
Salvage was worth something.
L4 missions were hard (aggro'ing the room was not something you did unless you wanted to pull some insurance-fraud with a bare chassis). Saying you could solo "Enemies Abound 5/5" in a Vargur --and having a Vargur, for that matter-- put you out as a cut above.
Insurance-fraud for high-skilled industrialists with nicely-researched BPOs (Anyone remember the few days before the nerf on the Jita 4/4 undock?)
People ratted in losec belts.
Rigs were one size, and very, very expensive, only the very rich used them, and only on at least BCs (rare), BS, or T2 variants, which they usually would never risk in PvP, because losing them would genuinely hurt. (ISK 1bn wasn't the new million then, to put it mildly).
No wormholes or Tech III.
Probing was much different, and much harder.
"Free-Form" contracts.
The community in general was much smarter, much more aware, and much more self-reliant. And infinitely less whiny and self-entitled. Because it was often CCP who were first to tell that ilk to "HTFU or give me your stuffs" when they whined.
Forum-trolling was an art, and proper trolls were worthy of respect instead of [/facepalm]
People didn't start whinge-jihads to nerf things into uselessness just because they didn't like them. And those that did got properly sacvaged in the forums.
The forums actually worked.
"WiS/Ambulation" was a vision that everyone could respect and be inspired by, not a bitterly ironic/cynical curse.
Space --yes, even hisec-- felt properly huge.
"Our logs, they show nothing."
There is a fine and proper artistry to wielding verbal scalpels, such that the crap-poster you've slashed doesn't even know they've been cut. But verbal bludgeons -- Those are just fun. |
Shalia Ripper
152
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Posted - 2012.08.10 03:43:00 -
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There were no rigs/salvage.
There still were no salvage drones.
One guy in the corp had a Covetor and he was BADASS.
T2 was freaking expensive as hell. Not cheaper than Meta 4. Why can't I just delete my signature CCP? WHYYYYYYY? |
Urgg Boolean
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
204
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Posted - 2012.08.10 04:07:00 -
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Long ago at the gas pump, the gas numbers went up faster than the money numbers ... oh wait, that's IRL... |
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King Rothgar
Path of the Fallen
275
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Posted - 2012.08.10 04:31:00 -
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Back in the day:
1) I GCC'd in high sec accidentally by shooting a wreck instead of salvaging it, there were no warning messages for such stupidity.
2) I jumped into a high sec system with GCC from low sec thinking it was another low sec system, see above explanation.
3) I killed many freighters who accidentally set their AP to travel through low sec and didn't realize the mistake until long after they were podded.
4) I flew BC's without rigs because rigs cost several times more than the rest of the ship and fittings combined.
5) I still own an anathema with large probing rigs.
6) I had my own personal carrier and that made me the envy of nearly all of eve, people shat themselves when I bought a second.
7) People used vagabonds instead of cynabals, cynabals were crap.
8) I ran lvl4's in low sec in a t2 fit BS with nothing but reds in local and this was considered a reasonable thing to do.
9) A Plex cost 200M isk.
10) 200M isk was a lot of isk.
11) You could count the number of titans and motherships in game on one hand.
12) Pods had a delicious squish sound when they died.
13) Snowballs and launchers every Christmas.
14) I saw a machariel orbiting a station at over 10km/s.
15) My hurricane then was faster than your dramiel today.
16) an 80 man fleet was big enough to make eve news.
17) My stealth bomber was ideally suited to ninja alphaing careless frigates.
18) I went on a freighter escort mission through low/null sec. The Troll is trolling. |
Vaerah Vahrokha
Vahrokh Consulting
1818
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Posted - 2012.08.10 04:53:00 -
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... we had some issues with boot.ini
... almost nobody had rigs and they were all large
... we had an outdated, yet functional and features "rich" forum.
... being a 0.0 seccer did not immediately recall: "blueball blobber"
... when one of the 5 or so titans moved, the news went "oooooh.... aaaaahhhh".
... guys like Kil2 were recording epic PvP videos attracting new players to such an awesome game and the same videos still do that.
Auditing | Collateral holding and insurance | Consulting | PLEX for Good Charity
Twitter channel |
Liafcipe9000
Smeghead Empire
25
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Posted - 2012.08.10 05:58:00 -
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ships were shiny and EVE was weird(which is what pulled me into the game in the first place).
characters started with an actually acceptable sum of skillpoints and list of skills.
what else...? umm...
some modules required their skill at level 5 and not 4 or 3
new player training tutorials made use of a whole training complex in space instead of a single area with a sad and lonely rat.
rats in training complexes used to drop items that gave newbies some isk when sold.
rookie ships had a damage control instead of a single ****** piece of tritanium.
Minmatar ships had actual rust, and if you looked hard enough you could see bits falling off of em.
you could actually tell the attributes of your character prior to completion of the character creation.
also, you could give your character a few more attribute points.
the introduction video was actually interesting and told you of the story. (there was a time when I used to check the 'play introduction at next login' checkbox every single day)
no ships and/or modules had a preview button. |
Jack Miton
Bite Me inc Elysian Empire
452
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Posted - 2012.08.10 06:03:00 -
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King Rothgar wrote:5) I still own an anathema with large probing rigs.
I still have a buzzard and a cheetah with larges. and my original large purger drake :)
back in my day, people were silly enough to attack bait sitting off WHs :P |
King Rothgar
Path of the Fallen
276
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Posted - 2012.08.10 06:10:00 -
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Back in the day, we didn't have WH's The Troll is trolling. |
Qel Hoth
0igital Anarchy Sev3rance
0
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Posted - 2012.08.10 06:13:00 -
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lanyaie wrote:a alliance with a few Jump freighters was unique
There were jump freighters?
Back in the day logistics was carrier-jumping module compressed low end minerals from highsec. |
Lord Wamphyri
Starside Lost
159
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Posted - 2012.08.10 06:29:00 -
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Seeing more than 5000 players logged in was a record.
I could travel through hisec and half the systems would be empty, and the roid belts would be huge.
[IMG]http://go-dl1.eve-files.com/media/corp/ChrisW73/WampsigFinal.jpg[/IMG]
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Kryss Darkdust
The Skulls
87
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Posted - 2012.08.10 07:40:00 -
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Deimos was awsome and feared.
You could make a fortune making and selling T1 anything
Hating BoB
Complaining about Hybrid Track..... eh wait... nm |
Kakk0 Warui
Tatsu No Tsurugi
0
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Posted - 2012.08.10 09:15:00 -
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If your mission ship wasn't cap stable , you were laughed at and called a noob. |
Smohq Anmirorz
State War Academy Caldari State
30
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Posted - 2012.08.10 09:25:00 -
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Lord MuffloN wrote:We warped, uphill, both ways, and there was no warp to zero either, and god damn if your WTZ bookmark was incorrect.
...in the snow! and if the ship stalled, you had to get out and push! and we didn't have fancy scanners, we stuck out head out the window and looked!
You kids and your fancy jump freighters, we hauled it all with bantams! Sometimes for over a hundred jumps!
Whippersnapper!
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Halcyon Ingenium
Dreddit Test Alliance Please Ignore
160
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Posted - 2012.08.10 09:40:00 -
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The character creator was interesting and fun, even though I had no clue what I was doing or signing up for. Then they replaced that with the freedom of starting with almost no skills and no racial bonuses to attributes, and an avatar creator that is better on graphics, but somehow not better at making characters interesting to look at. At least Caldari don't have that stupid shoulder flashlight laser thing though, that thing was stupid. They say that in learning the game Go, it is best to lose your first 50 games as soon as possible. This is because Go is complex, and the only way you will start to get an idea of strategy and play is by first sucking and failing as hard as you can. So...In EVE, it is best to get your first 50 deaths by combat as soon as possible. |
Liafcipe9000
Smeghead Empire
25
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Posted - 2012.08.10 11:34:00 -
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I used to drool at this (Speaking of which, did any expansion after Trinity exceed the size of it or is it STILL the _BIGGEST_ expansion _EVER_?)
and this gave me goosebumps
as for character creation: I tried convincing my friends to try out EVE Online. Sadly, they're the jump-in-and-start-shooting type. The old character creation allowed one to do just that... you know the rest. |
RaTTuS
BIG Gentlemen's Agreement
202
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Posted - 2012.08.10 11:37:00 -
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you had to grind missions to get a t2 mining laser print [and if you thought current missions where bad...] and havesters [t5] where the best mining drones http://eveboard.com/ub/419190933-134.png
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aadom
V0LTA Verge of Collapse
2
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Posted - 2012.08.10 11:47:00 -
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Gankageddon, full rack of heat sinks Ravens popping frigs with 1 torp |
Arox Dax
Posthuman Society Elysian Empire
12
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Posted - 2012.08.10 11:54:00 -
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Eos with 5 Heavy Drones, I almost cried when they nerfed that.
No WH's, no FW, Null was actually somewhere you tried to get to, I too still have a couple of BC's with large rigs fitted, the list goes on.
Oh and my Chopper Bike was Orange and only had 3 gears and I think Slade were in the charts at the time
Quick edit because I just realised Slade are in the charts nearly every Xmas, but I'm talking about first time round |
Ptraci
3 R Corporation The Irukandji
574
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Posted - 2012.08.10 11:59:00 -
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Back in my day 100 players in Yulai would bring the servers to a crawl. It was such a big problem that the jump-bridge network was changed and super-highways were removed. |
Agrapena
xLegion of the dammedx.
15
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Posted - 2012.08.10 12:03:00 -
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Having almost 200 bookmarks for warp to 0 positions on null sec gates.
Escrow was the place to get your faction stuff.
seeing another player in 0.0 was rare.
there was a handful of different probes for the different signature types.
no wrecks, just lootcans, no tractor beams or salvagers. Slowboating to the cans.
SNOWBALL LAUNCHERS!!!!
THE OLD CYNO EFFECT! The lightning vortex, then WOOSH!
Fleets were called gangs
Man, theres alot. Its been a long time, and theres been alot of changes, not always for the best, but you eventually get used to them. |
Lister
Galactic Shipyards Inc
9
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Posted - 2012.08.10 12:14:00 -
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Mining in an Apoc as a Corp because it could run 8 miner I
Also
Running 10 drones from a Thorax and giving your entire gang lag. (I remeber it as 10 but it might have only been 8) - it was frigging 10 years ago. |
Velicitia
Open Designs
1062
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Posted - 2012.08.10 12:48:00 -
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Liafcipe9000 wrote:I used to drool at this(Speaking of which, did any expansion after Trinity exceed the size of it or is it STILL the _BIGGEST_ expansion _EVER_?) and this gave me goosebumps as for character creation: I tried convincing my friends to try out EVE Online. Sadly, they're the jump-in-and-start-shooting type. The old character creation allowed one to do just that... you know the rest.
Not to mention the player-made propaganda videos... like this |
Liafcipe9000
Smeghead Empire
25
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Posted - 2012.08.10 12:56:00 -
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Velicitia wrote:Not to mention the player-made propaganda videos... like this
that one reloads my "cannon" every time I watch it |
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