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Arakash Mond
Amarr
Kings In The Back Row
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Posted - 2009.11.18 01:55:00 -
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I guess this is a question for the 03'ers out there.
When Eve first went live were all the ships available on the market or did someone have to build them first from a BP?
Also was it a bit easier to mine in 0.0 in the early days to acquire minerals for the more elaborate ships?
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Marcus Druallis
Quantum Industries
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2009.11.18 01:59:00 -
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There wasn't even autopilot lol. I remember trying it WAYYYY back in the day and was like, wtf is this game it sucks lol.
Too bad I didn't stick with it...
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Amitious Turkey
Gallente
TarNec
New Eden Retail Federation
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Posted - 2009.11.18 02:10:00 -
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Edited by: Amitious Turkey on 18/11/2009 02:10:02
Well, first we had to mine the rocks with our teeth, then transport it in our cheecks like squirrels up a hill both ways in a blizzard, all the while wondering where the heck the hill came from, and when you got back to the station you had to refine the rocks with a dull pickaxe and your mother's old apple cider.
Heck no, it wasn't easier, in any way. And I'm '04 
But it was more fun imo.
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Demetrius True
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Posted - 2009.11.18 02:16:00 -
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There were ships available for sale on the market, but none of us had isk to buy them. It took a very long time to get isk via ratting/mining before you could buy stuff. 0.0 had rats that could easily kill most ships. No building at first as no one had building skills for a while. We ratted and mined for weeks just to get a cruiser.
But once we got there, killing rats in 0.0 sometimes left clouds of cans in a system as ratters killed dozens of rats before motoring to each can to recover mods/ammo, etc. Them were good days
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annoing
Amarr
Mortis Angelus
BricK sQuAD.
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Posted - 2009.11.18 02:45:00 -
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I remember mining (with 5 others) for 2 weeks straight just to get enough isk to buy a hauler bp (itty 1 i think but it could have been a badger i suppose) and we built them to get enough isk to buy another and so forth.
Once i'd built up enough isk to get a cruiser, I got a maller and went ratting in 0.0 past misaba. Getting past the pirates on misaba gate was a challenge believe me. But back then the rats didnt come up close so you used to get in range, start firing and them move out as the ship followed then shortly the rat turned back so you followed it (rinse and repeat til rat died). You had to be careful what loot you took cos you'd be full soon enough. I remember great excitement at getting 3 skadi's in one trip ... sold them for enough isk to buy a bestower and still had change  .
I then found ark in the furthest most system south (no npc stations, pos's or player run stations back then, no warp to gate etc). Because of the way things were, one side of the belt was blind from the other. So I could mine and not be seen by anyone that came to the system (Tank CEO came in once ratting and I continued to mine less than 5km from him and he couldnt see me). I left my miner ship next to the roids cos it was safe as no one could see it. It took 2 hours just to make the trip back to misaba (bm's made in a straight line from one gate to another. You had to make the bm about 8-10km BEHIND the gate to land on the gate .. hell of a way to beat the pirate gangs).
After making a fortune with ark - about 12k PER ore (took a month or so making 2-3 trips back and forth daily (thats 8-10hrs just flying) I made enough isk for a armageddon (they were 100+mil then) and then arma bpo, large laser bpo's etc). I OWNED Faswiba system, killing everything that came in there (or dying  ). I had all the research slots for all my bpo's (only 4 to a station).
My generosity made Tyrrax into the pirate he was to become (a new omen every day, sometimes 2) and I was damn ****ing rich. Then like a fool I left the game and gave all my bpo's and isk to a player that became a bigwig in a corp that eventually became a co-founder of BoB ( I wont tell them who you are Cim  ).
So, in a long winded fashion, yes it was alot easier to mine in 0.0 but it was a bit ch to haul the stuff back to a station. The ships weren't on sale, they had to be built. There was a surprising amount of gang warfare in low sec in every system just for the roids.
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Drokar Gazer
The Dead Parrot Shoppe Inc.
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Posted - 2009.11.18 03:16:00 -
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Edited by: Drokar Gazer on 18/11/2009 03:19:21
When i first started this game back in March of '04:
 only 4-5 major alliances controlled all of zero zero
frigs could fit cruise missiles
3-5k online was average, sometimes as low as less than 1k users were online.
yulai was the galactic center and jita was more or less empty
Only ships were Frigs, ceptors, cruisers, battleships, shuttles, and haulers
no outposts, no t2, no t3, no sovereignty, no POS
we had deployable mines would could be setup even in high sec
no warp to zero - all travel required bookmarks
traveling 10 star systems w/o bookmarks could take you 20 minutes
we didint have tags in the UI yet... so no blue tag / red tag... you had to show info on everyone and check in corp chat for someone to look up the corp and tell you if they were red or blue or neutral (in zero zero / low sec). Friendly fire was all too common.
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forgot... everyone had to mine asteroids in cruisers or battleships... no mining ships existed...battleships... mining... lol... and everyone in a corp had to help mine.. pvpers were miners, miners were pvpers (at least at the alliance level at the time)
just a few of the changes... nowadays the game is just so much easier, but at the same time more complex because they added so much content. For eve to survive another 6-7 years they need to do something very soon, perhaps Dust 514 is the answer, however I predict it will be a flop - great idea but very hard to implement .. will have too much importance or too little... I am not sure how they will cross pc's and consoles but if they do it right perhaps it has potential.
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Slavemaster
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Posted - 2009.11.18 03:35:00 -
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Edited by: Slavemaster on 18/11/2009 03:42:15
Well, there was a rumor that one was given a BPO in space by a GM/DEV, and there was a lot of
Anger out there due to that. :D
I did find the hole BPO a bit fishy, we had to corp mine 7-8 3-4 days (8-10 h, per day) to get a BS,
how anyone could afford a BPO was... My guess only the devs, or some within CCP had it etc...
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Professor Jinmei
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Posted - 2009.11.18 05:10:00 -
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who was buying all the minerals then?
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Slavemaster
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Posted - 2009.11.18 05:53:00 -
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Originally by: Professor Jinmei
who was buying all the minerals then?
Stations for the most
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