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Zetaomega333
HIFI INDUSTRIAL The Kadeshi
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Posted - 2014.02.19 13:46:00 -
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Im wondering if i can get some accounts from the people who were playing when drone regions were introduced. Here are a few questions i have.
For those living on the regions that border drones how pissed were your corps/alliances at how your pocket systems turned into region gateways?
How did the grab for sov go? Was it one big alliance or were there multiple small alliances that sprung up and got them.
How was living in them with no seeded stations and how long untill you started seeing seeded stations?
Were the first owners constested constantly or for those that took them first did they get to sit there for a little and collect thier drone poo?
How was the community reactions to the new regions?
Any and all other impressions or memorys from this event/time would be awsome. |
Rashnu Gorbani
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.02.19 14:08:00 -
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I don't know / remember a lot, may have been inactive... but only thing I vaguely remember, everyone knew there's a new worthless part of space where you need to collect drone poo haul it out and sell it as minerals... think I remember it crashing zydrine prices though so someone was obviously doing it. But it sounded like a lot of work to live there so I personally was never really interested. Some of the questions are interesting like how the eastern residents reacted :) I wonder who lived there, RA, maybe some others too but really don't know... |
Zetaomega333
HIFI INDUSTRIAL The Kadeshi
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Posted - 2014.02.20 06:24:00 -
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No one playing anymore that was then? |
Kuronaga
Fatal Rainbow Holdings
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Posted - 2014.02.20 06:30:00 -
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All I really remember was the minerals being way too high at the start, so there was a small rush... and then the nerf came, and everyone was like "meh whatever".
And then it became a lonely russian bot farm for the rest of eternity. |
DaReaper
Net 7 The Last Brigade
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Posted - 2014.02.20 06:40:00 -
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If memory serves me correctly, and bare in mind 10 years of eve the years tend to blur, when they first announced new space in the next expansion (i totally forget which one)there was some excitement that maybe people could grab space that was not part of the northern power block (Razor.. and i think phoenix was still around...) GBC, or the southern coalition (IAC, AAA, ISS, KOS) people were building up for a land grab. Then we got word about it would be drone lands and people started seeing the connections to get there and the excitement kinda fizzled. when the area was playable via sisi and more info came about the drops and things, a lot of people decided it was not worth the time.There was at the day of release a kind of gold rush, but much smaller then would of been had say the npc's been jove with bounties. A few alliances got out there like IRC and crap i totally forget the old failed drone land owners, and fights broke out but only among the drone ppl. BoB and other large enties pretty much ignored the drones area except for roaming. And then it eventually settled down to xxxdeathxxxx IRC and a fe wother groups there for YEARS. On the whole, the excitement fizzled and no one gave a **** about drone lands. Its why when you saw the bounties show up on drones that there was a huge war there, because people now cared |
NightCrawler 85
Phoibe Enterprises
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Posted - 2014.02.20 07:41:00 -
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This is how things seemed from my perspective.
The new space gave some alliances the opportunity to get out to 0.0 and be independent. Not having to actually fight for the space made this easy enough. So, you had a lot of smaller alliances that went out there. For those who remember j- ops as an example which was several smaller alliances such as Orion federation and Eden's fire. I can't remember who else right now except Frege which is the alliance everyone in the coalition merged with.
For your question regarding outposts. They showed up pretty fast side people had planned everything in advance and had the "eggs"ready to go long before the area was actually opened.
Mostly Harmless held the space for a while but then the Russians took over. At that point I had stopped paying attention to 0.0 politics but think they have more our less had it ever since?
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Kagura Nikon
Mentally Assured Destruction The Pursuit of Happiness
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Posted - 2014.02.20 09:51:00 -
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Zetaomega333 wrote:Im wondering if i can get some accounts from the people who were playing when drone regions were introduced. Here are a few questions i have.
For those living on the regions that border drones how pissed were your corps/alliances at how your pocket systems turned into region gateways?
How did the grab for sov go? Was it one big alliance or were there multiple small alliances that sprung up and got them.
How was living in them with no seeded stations and how long untill you started seeing seeded stations?
Were the first owners constested constantly or for those that took them first did they get to sit there for a little and collect thier drone poo?
How was the community reactions to the new regions?
Any and all other impressions or memorys from this event/time would be awsome.
First were multiple small alliances that grabed it. It took more than a year until large forces moved up to dislodge them and it took antoher 6 months for that to be complete "If brute force does not solve your problem..... -áthen you are -ásurely not using enough!" |
Mag's
the united SCUM.
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Posted - 2014.02.20 10:04:00 -
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I was a part of the the first Corp/Alliance, to place an outpost in the drone lands. This was within days of them opening if memory serves me right. Initially things seem fine, but iirc as the market was seeded with lots of extra mins, the prices took a nose dive.
Not only that, but riods were bugged and did not respawn correctly. This went on for months and months and although we placed even more outposts in anticipation of things being corrected, it never happened. We became disillusioned with the place and our love died soon after.
We held quite a large area of the place and did have friendly relations with most, but as always fights did break out and we were involved on some battles for regions. But it's been so long and I forget much.
I now don't ever want to see the place again tbh. Not sure what it's like there now, but we really hated it at the end.
One killer for me was the changes to pos's at the time. I'm a little OCD and had all the pos's looking quite neat with their guns etc. Then CCP decided to move guns out of the shields, but in a way that made my heart sink. Literally just dumped in a lump and it took me weeks to get things back right again. Not drone land related, but the final straw to a badly implemented place tbh.
I also never want to run another pos network, ever.
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Knights Armament
TDSIN Application Sent
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Posted - 2014.02.20 10:14:00 -
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I am from the future, the drone regions are currently owned by CFC once the fall of pandemic legion/n3 cfc secured the remaining space, they are now renting out most of the space you speak of to pubbies. The blue donut of sauron is ever watching, must trying times are ahead for EvE players as the Mittanis mongoloid friends bot endlessly driving the price of plex up to unattainable levels thus causing the great crash called the Zion complex, many accounts lost forever due to the increasing costs. Star Citizen became a refuge for players trying to escape the end times of eve online. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZOdADD5RNs&feature=youtu.be http://evemouthbreathers.blogspot.com/ https://secure.eveonline.com/trial/?invc=29554516-05f9-4eca-a942-32e1701a6569&action=buddy |
DaReaper
Net 7 The Last Brigade
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Posted - 2014.02.20 16:43:00 -
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Knights Armament wrote:I am from the future, the drone regions are currently owned by CFC once the fall of pandemic legion/n3 cfc secured the remaining space, they are now renting out most of the space you speak of to pubbies. The blue donut of sauron is ever watching, the most trying times are ahead for EvE players as the Mittanis mongoloid friends bot endlessly driving the price of plex up to unattainable levels thus causing the great crash called the Zion complex, many accounts lost forever due to the increasing costs. Star Citizen became a refuge for players trying to escape the end times of eve online.
Don't mean to derail this thread, but this made me laugh. Anyone who has done any looking into Star Citizen (and I have done some) will quickly see that it is NOTHING like eve, and when it comes out, I doubt you will see a huge exodus to SC. Some will go, but prolly come back, as what makes eve well eve is not anywhere in SC. So you will see people who are disillusioned with eve jump over, and people who play eve for what eve is will return.
Not going to get into the differences but meh.
Anyway back to topic, no one cared about drone lands its why some alliances that should of died ages ago lasted as long as they did |
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Spurty
Dimension Door
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Posted - 2014.02.20 16:54:00 -
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Drone regions were too weird to warrant much concern from anyone (except miners because shooting things for ore >>> superior to any other way to get it.
Now, faction warfare regions are way more interesting and populated.
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Destination SkillQueue
Are We There Yet
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Posted - 2014.02.20 19:40:00 -
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One time bump to fix forum. |
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