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Demangel
Gallente
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Posted - 2009.12.31 04:11:00 -
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I'm pretty sure I'm not totally alone here, but as this is just about the EVE of a new year, I Got to wondering...
I am certainly one of the longest paid subscriptions in the game. Though I haven't always been active, it occurs to me that over the years I have paid CCP hundreds of dollars in subscription. IT is the one MMO I have played or at least kept paying for all this time, and the one that I never see myself completely putting down ever.
Though I missed out on tons of training time...
So my question is, Ho long have you been playing, or at least subscribed to eve for? I think I took a break once or twice for up to 6 mo's but I was actively subscribed pretty much the second day after EVE was released in the USA.
I was a fan of EVE back when we had the NDA and beta was a magic mystery... Back when EVE was quite embryonic compared to what it is now.
Imagine those first few weeks of EVE.
I can remember them... Despite a thousand and one bugs and Server roll back or two Oh and a Crash to Desktop issue...
EVE was a blast in the beginning... Back when earning your first million ISK was actually something of a challenge, when you had to basically mine, or ninja mine what ever you could find... I remember the first time I saw a Player in a cruiser... It was a week or two into the game, and it was an Exequeror... I thought it was the most amazing thing to ever see and here I thought I was bad ass in my Tristan...
Back in the days of module stacking, and lack of anything to do for money really besides trade or mine. Oh god, the TechII Mining laser fiasco...
The game has come a VERY VERY long way...
To anyone who thinks eve has problems now, you should have seen it's glory days.
Do you have ANY idea how balanced the game feels to a guy like me who has played just about ever patch and incarnation of EVE that was made public?
I remember when damage mod stacking was te ****nit, the first flavor of the month was projectiles with damage mods. Then came lasers, then caldari missile imbalance ruled EVE for quite a LONG time... It got so bad you could fit cruise missiles on frigates, and we're not talking your wimpy nerfy cruise missiles of today that do only a tiny fraction of damage to smaller targets, but when they did full on damage to everything... Imagine a time when you could have an interceptor (crow), or tI frig (Kestrel), which could volley 2 or more cruise missiles at you, imagine 3 being enough to smack even the feared taranis into next week...
Oh the safe spot fun...
Hell anyone remember deploy-able mines and mine launchers? How people would flood jump gate entry points with cans and mines and junk to cause lag for people jumping in... before jump cloak protection!?
So what does this ancient old fart think of EVE now?
Let me tell you something... EVE has only gotten better, Every time I check out the new expansion and play for a few months, the game is a marvel and has never really lost that sense of wonder...
Oh sure it's still not perfect, and I have plenty of things I wish would get added or change... but I'll be paying and playing for a long time...
What say you?
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Ascuris Wurm
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Posted - 2009.12.31 04:30:00 -
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Well, I haven't been in the game that long, but I've been in since Exodus, as have been many of you, I bet...
A co-worker one day started telling me about this great game he had started playing. After a couple of weeks of hearing about it I finally decided to use the 2 week buddy trial he sent. I was initially just going to play the two weeks for free and be done with it, just so I could see what he was talking about. I mean, after all, I wasn't going to pay a monthly fee to pay a game, right? RIGHT??
The website boasted it's peak concurrent player record of over 12,000! Woo-hoo! Wow, imagine, 12,000 people all playing the same game at once. It boggled the mind. So I made my character, began the tutorial, and as soon as I popped into space, I knew I had to find a way to justify to my ever-loving but, um... 'thrifty' wife why I was going to be paying to play an online game.
I remember the missile nerf. I remember when a Thorax could fly 8 heavy drones. I remember the RMR fiasco and getting one day free from CCP since the server ended up being down for a day. I remember the introduction of capital ships. I remember the introduction of Player Owned Structures and the sovereignty system that has now come and gone. I remember the article about BOB being posted on Digg and players getting banned and threatened to be sued.
I forget what all I remember... lol!
There have been a few bumps along the way, but I agree that we are better off now than when I started. Young up-starts don't appreciate what they have... darn kids.
Anyhoo, thanks for sharing... and to the rest of you, thanks for listening.
See you in space, Wurm
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Vaal Erit
Science and Trade Institute
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Posted - 2009.12.31 05:07:00 -
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Yay, nostalgia thread.
I don't go back very far compared to some oldtimers but I do remember the days of istab BS that moved like interceptors, 40m for t2 invuln fields and being able to cripple a system with lag by copying massive amounts of instajump bookmarks.
EVE has been constantly improved over the years and CCP has done a fairly good job, even though now and again they mess up like they are currently doing with Dominion...
Originally by: Jim Raynor EVE needs danger, EVE needs risks, EVE needs combat, even piracy, without these things, the game stagnates to a trivial game centering around bloating your wallet with no purpose. |
Danton Marcellus
Nebula Rasa Holdings
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Posted - 2009.12.31 05:10:00 -
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It's been a long ride, here's what I summed up when Rasa turned 5 some time ago;
'I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the gates of Yulai. I watched CU-vapors glitter against arkonor rocks in systems deep behind Curse. Lone battleships running blockades in the Syndicate 'Pirates Alley'. Bestowers motoring unmolested in the Outer Ring. Quafe monopolies build fortunes in Verge Vendor.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to suit up, time for something to die.'
Should/would/could have, HAVE you chav!
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Ryhss
Caldari The Templar Navy
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Posted - 2009.12.31 05:18:00 -
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9 months playing. I've played twice before, once like 3 years ago, once 2 years ago. I love the game. Billy Corgan is dating Jessica Simpson, my cousin has dubbed the celeb couple "Smashing Dumbkins".
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Pulivin Motic
Caldari Deep Core Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2009.12.31 05:34:00 -
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Im not even near being an old player, actually im relatively new, I started near the end of 2008 after being fed up with the ease and boringness of WoW. I remember going through I think.... 5 characters (this was when you chose your profession) All of them failed epicly with me losing my cruiser or badger in some low sec system. Then finally I found the mining profession. I wasn't quite sure what to do with my ore so I sold it without refining and made very little money, lets just say I burnt out quickly and quit the game for a couple of months. Eventually I came back during the summer far better prepared and now im 15 days away from my hulk and well versed in trading and... pirating. Its really been a sweet ride and the future looks good.
o7
- Just a newby player giving his two cents.
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Halcyon Ingenium
Caldari
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Posted - 2009.12.31 05:42:00 -
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I've only been playing since quantum rise, and so I'm not all that nostalgic. It has gotten better in the past two expansions, so I can only imagine how much better it has gotten since it was released. __________ Once you have their money, you never give it back. |
Reem Fairchild
Minmatar Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2009.12.31 06:15:00 -
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Originally by: Vaal Erit Yay, nostalgia thread.
I don't go back very far compared to some oldtimers but I do remember the days of istab BS that moved like interceptors, 40m for t2 invuln fields and being able to cripple a system with lag by copying massive amounts of instajump bookmarks.
I remember those. I started playing in the last few weeks of RMR in late 2006, right before Revelations 1 that made those battleships possible. It also added 'invention' (which brought down the price on tech 2 stuff and broke the monopoly of the blueprint holders), 800k skill point characters at creation, rigs, drone space, ecm nerf (followed by a boost to ECM ships the following year), and so on....
Later, in the spring of 2007, they had a patch that fixed the nano-battleships... ...only to pave way for nano tech 2 cruisers instead . Then people whined about those for a very long time until faction warfare came about in the next spring. At that point the whining reached a fever pitch until CCP finally caved and killed the fast ships. I stopped playing right before they put that into practice (but not for that reason).
Originally by: CCP Wrangler We are pleased to aim!
Or was that the other way around?
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Tbear
Cave Bear Mining
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Posted - 2009.12.31 08:48:00 -
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I cried when CCP flushed all the toons at the end of the final beta and then made us start from scratch when the servers went live a day later. Meeting TankCEO at a gate in empire for the first time and not knowing what a red flashing icon meant. Buying a 10 Mil isk 'Jump Drives' skill book three years before CCP put jump drives in the game. Watching MOO rise as the most feared PvP corp in eve. Arriving 15km to the gate to see my first hostile gate camp in my first hauler. Then later working for hours nervously setting gate bookmarks in 0.0 praying a hostile didn't jump in the system (no cloaks then) and ending up with hundreds of bookmarks just to get around. Always running out of cap on long jumps between gates and then nervously waiting for the cap to recharge. Then CCP introduces scanning in pvp, what was a safe spot no longer was. Empire rats that we always ran from while mining. Wondering how other pod pilots could afford the new battleships. Watching local spike as we sat in our first gate camp and thinking we had time to run to the gate from 15km out. First night we used vent and I actually heard my corpmate's accents. And in all of these years, I've yet to see a GM in-game....
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Reem Fairchild
Minmatar Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2009.12.31 09:01:00 -
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Originally by: Tbear Then later working for hours nervously setting gate bookmarks in 0.0 praying a hostile didn't jump in the system (no cloaks then) and ending up with hundreds of bookmarks just to get around.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I'm just barely old enough in the game to have been around when we didn't have warp-to-zero.
Originally by: CCP Wrangler We are pleased to aim!
Or was that the other way around?
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Aodha Khan
Minmatar Ghost Festival Naraka.
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Posted - 2009.12.31 09:30:00 -
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Been playing since beta. Never really had a break but did cut down on the amount of hours I am in Eve.
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Tarantoga
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Posted - 2009.12.31 10:06:00 -
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I remember when an Apoc with 8 Mining Lasers was the most profitable way of earning money.
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Haraldhardrade
Amarr Pax Amarr
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Posted - 2009.12.31 10:38:00 -
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Edited by: Haraldhardrade on 31/12/2009 10:40:03 First account started in may 2003.
I remember being in a 5 man corp, all mining for months in a thoraxes just to be able to buy one battleship. Flying 3 jumps just to get to a refinery, because not all systems had those.
Swarm of cruise missile kestrels, flying past yourself in a space, 3000 people online during primtime on a saturday, tomb, fighting concord and faction police and getting away with it, that player named borgcube or whatever it was who tricked people simply by locking them.
EVE is more *fixed* today, but back then, because of fewer players it felt bigger and more vast. Wormholes negate some of this of course. What I miss the most, is what people today would refer to imbalance. I miss that you could fly a blackbird and survive gatecamps because the 4 people camping got jammed by you as you got away. No insta web+damp+scamble like it is today.
edit : One interesting thing I recall, was talking to a player that had been playing since day one. He talked a lot about the backstory, and pretty much revealed everything that has happened to this date.....and more. Caveo of Minmatar , torva vacuus regimen of deus es plurrimi periculosus of bestia
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Marko Riva
Adamant Inc
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Posted - 2009.12.31 10:39:00 -
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Tried beta and saw that is was seriously flawed (cascading errors ftw) and forgot about it as it went live because I couldn't see how the game would somehow miraculously become "unflawed". Forgot about it till early 2005, did the trial, played for 1-2 months and stopped again.
Tried again beginning 2006 and with certain pauses have been playing ever since, oddly enough after every pause I make a new main character and start allover, I'm an altoholic hehe. I know it's dumb and weird but I always seem to be able to convince myself there's a logical reason for it.
----------- I think, therefore I'm single. New projectile damage PDF Alliance creation service |
Grimpak
Gallente Noir. Noir. Mercenary Group
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Posted - 2009.12.31 10:42:00 -
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Edited by: Grimpak on 31/12/2009 10:42:39
Originally by: Danton Marcellus 'I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the gates of Yulai. I watched CU-vapors glitter against arkonor rocks in systems deep behind Curse. Lone battleships running blockades in the Syndicate 'Pirates Alley'. Bestowers motoring unmolested in the Outer Ring. Quafe monopolies build fortunes in Verge Vendor.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to suit up, time for something to die.'
this.
oh 1000x this. ---
Quote: The more I know about humans, the more I love animals.
ain't that right. |
Nuctrai
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Posted - 2009.12.31 11:02:00 -
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Like others I have played and left Eve many times - one day will discover why I keep starting again :). If I say I can remember running away from the Moo Pirate Corp on our 1st trip into 0.0 will give you some idea of how long ago I started on this obsession.
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Xtra Bitter
hirr
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Posted - 2009.12.31 11:16:00 -
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From the old days
There was taking a bunch of nice new shiny rifters up against the first moo cruisers and dieing like a lemming.
Mining Ark in bestower off belt while sleeping overnight in great wildlands.
Holding off a whole 0.0 spawn with a 720mm fit Rupture for an hour.
Reaching the point were it didnt show when i joined the corp as id been it too long.
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Magnus Nordir
Caldari Nordir Industries
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Posted - 2009.12.31 11:32:00 -
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I'm not that old, I first started eve a few months before Trinity (the major graphics upgrade expansion), but between then and now, I've probably had an active account for less than half the time. --------------------------- Only those who surrender are lost |
Genya Arikaido
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Posted - 2009.12.31 11:52:00 -
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I remember when spider tanking someone wouldn't get you criminally flagged, even if they were.
I remember when flying Haulers around in Empire was ridiculously stupid, as any dummy could fit a volley of cruise missiles on his Kestrel and pop you instantly...with a buddy close at hand to scoop your cargo.
I remember the First time I ran into an interceptor in combat. Naturally, I lost my ship and my pod. There was no escaping them.
I remember fitting small guns on my megathron and tearing up the solo roamers that'd pass through detroid on occasion.
I remember seeing my first battleship on the way to Yulai, an Apocalypse...and I in my noobship was very very tiny.
I think the first cruiser I saw was a Vexor...I'd made a deal to basically mine with it to repay it to the person who built it for me. Took me 2 weeks of 0.4 mining to pay for the thing.
My first T2 ship was an Enyo.
My first battleship was a megathron which sat in Stacmon for about a year mining omber...since I couldn't afford the large hybrids skillbook or the guns themselves yet.
I remember "Exodus" when WoW originally released at almost the same time as the expansion of the same name and everyone vanished to Azeroth...some never returning.
I remember thinking 100m ISK for a battleship would take forever to earn. That 100m was beyond my ability to quantify...
I remember thinking the same of 10m.
I remember the "Sunday downtime", as the inevitable high player count every Sunday afternoon crashed Yulai, and in turn, the cluster.
I remember when EVE passed 3K players online and we thought it was amazing.
I remember Armageddon Day at the end of the beta where we were told that everything was going to be reset/deleted and so we were given max skills, tons of ISK and equipment..and blew each other up until the beta cluster went down.
I've seen every last one of the original major alliances, CA, SA, FA, NA, PA, CFS, XETIC...go through their golden ages, and die..and in some cases, revive once or twice.
I remember making billions by sniping escrows from people who mispriced their stuff.
I remember the NAGA Shop, your #1 source for named Tech 1 modules!
I remember the GHSC totally ruining an Amarrian RP corp and stealing their stuff...so overkill it was, that most of the corp members quit the game.
I remember my Thorax (and cruisers in general) going 16km/sec, allowing me to zip through blockaded gates without instas.
I remember falling asleep at the helm while mining bistot in Detroid...and my corpmates flying back over to check on me every so often to be sure the belt rats didn't blow me up.
I remember an EVE without Goons...and it was a better place. ;)
I remember my first pilgrimage to the EVE gate, in a Tristan.
I remember the first ship I lost to CONCORD...also a Tristan, for trying to shoot a friend in Duripant who hadn't accepted his invite to the corporation yet. Oops.
I remember when missiles had an explosion radius...and laughing at my CEO who kept blowing himself up while ratting in a Kestrel.
I can go on...I'm just dumping memories at this point...but EVE has been awesome..and simply always will be.
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Thenoran
Caldari Pelican.
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Posted - 2009.12.31 12:28:00 -
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I joined EVE during Revelations II, around September 2007. I only had a short one/two months break somewhere around mid-2008.
I remember very well my first days in my Bantam after completing the tutorial, utterly clueless as what to do other than mining. I remember finding out an Osprey would cost 2-3mil and thinking that it was an insane amount of ISK I'd never reach. I remember getting a Rokh for 90m total (40m first, 50m later) from a corpie and using it for literally everything from mining to missioning with medium guns. I remember recently coming across some of my old ships and being amazed and how I could've ever fitted them like that.
I remember ships such as the Moa, Omen and Zealot having only 4 turret slots rather than 5. I remember Jita being laggy as heck with only 400-500 people in it, killing it completely. I remember the previous exploration system, where you had to try and cover every planet with a 4 AU probe in the hopes of not missing a signature, on several occasions I scanned over 10 hours straight in order to get a signature nobody else would ever find. I remember seeing the new exploration system, being thrilled at first and somewhat dissapointed later on at how easy it is now to find even the hardest signatures.
I remember 11-14km/s Vagabonds that everyone was cursing and praising at the same time. I remember Battleships only being buildable at a POS with the Large Assembly Array, which you couldn't anchor in high-sec at the time. I remember the discovery of the POS exploit, which had a significant effect on the R64 moon materials. I remember the old classic client and how some ships looked terrible in it, such as the Moa, whereas the Rokh I had at the time looked good even then.
Things have changed quite a bit, haven't they? ------------------------ Low-sec is like sailing along the coast of Somalia...
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GM Horse
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Posted - 2009.12.31 13:04:00 -
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Dual MWD Ravens.
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Thuranni
FinFleet IT Alliance
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Posted - 2009.12.31 13:06:00 -
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Originally by: Thenoran
I remember Battleships only being buildable at a POS with the Large Assembly Array, which you couldn't anchor in high-sec at the time.
Yeah, this never happened. Starbases were introduced in 2005, Battleships were in at launch in 2003. Battleships have always been buildable in normal station factories, both hisec and lowsec.
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Talon SilverHawk
Caldari Patria o Muerte
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Posted - 2009.12.31 13:11:00 -
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Started in 2003
Remember saving up through mining in my first corp for a Merlin, the a couple of months for a MOA, seeing my first ever BS a scorp at a gate, back then BS where rare.
Taking my MOA into 0.0 in curse not seeing anyone for about 10 jumps till I met an Armageddon (only second BS I had seen) and getting blown up, was exciting.
I can remember seeing the population of EVE drop to around 5.5k peak time before CCP bought the publishing rights back. It was lonly out there.
I remember the CFS and FIX chasing and being chased by m0o down the pipe.
I remember the CURSE, STAIN, FOUNTAIN and XETEC wars.
Lots of fun with Celes fightng all the ebil piewats
And so much more.
The early days where the best though imho
Tal
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ChrisDude70
Imperium Technologies
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Posted - 2009.12.31 13:11:00 -
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Personally I have only been playing for a few months. But a few of my corp mates have been playing since day 1 of the beta, I know my corp was founded only a few days after.
I can't even begin to imagine what things were like back then. I would have loved to have been there from day one.
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SkiNupSkuNk
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Posted - 2009.12.31 13:42:00 -
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remember the good old days where you could do lvl 4's in a torp raven. Aggro the pocket and use 1 torp per frig 2 torps per cruiser and the rest for the bs rats :) Remember the sunday nights with 10.000 users online. Remember the first time you lost a ship.. omg cry. Remember when jita had no scammers spamming local (omg this never happend)
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BaliAgha
Gladiators of Rage Wildly Inappropriate.
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Posted - 2009.12.31 14:02:00 -
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I was very fortunate to be able to play in Beta and I have never stopped since.. Its absolutely amazing how far this game has come.. I shall never leave!
- I remember in Beta when mining didn't work correctly
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Aenachreon
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Posted - 2009.12.31 14:09:00 -
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My main has only seen about six months of inactivity (roughly) since May of 2004. He was one of the first hac pilots as well as one of the first carrier pilots. Getting his 15-strong cloud o' death cut to five measly ogre II's was painful.
One of the strongest memories I have of Eve, compared to now, is how rare battleships were back then and how most biggish fights were mostly cruisers.
I remember multiple AB's/MWD's on a single ship. I remember the constant battle with my buddy list/bookmark list that would damned near crash the client every time I opened it...back in those days we only buddylisted enemies...and there were a ton. I remember having one of the early Ishtars...loving it...and losing it to a desync that showed me taking fire from two ships that were over 15 AU away.
I REMEMBER MY FRIGGIN EXHAUST TRAILS!!!!
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Benco97
Gallente Shadow Veil Industrial
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Posted - 2009.12.31 14:10:00 -
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I remember when everyone was queueing patiently to pass through a construction ring a the Crielere project building site.
Most people were in frigs, I got my MKV wedged in it. People cried ______________________________________________
Originally by: P'uck
You're a DUMBASS - bold italic underline at the VERY LEAST.
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Burnharder
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Posted - 2009.12.31 14:12:00 -
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Like you, been playing since beta 6, on and off. Dumbest feature from the past: escrow and dual microwarpdrive crows .
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Chaos Incarnate
Faceless Logistics
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Posted - 2009.12.31 14:28:00 -
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Edited by: Chaos Incarnate on 31/12/2009 14:31:13 I remember starting out in open beta and the lag in the starter systems being so bad that you couldn't complete the tutorial because of non-working mining lasers, and everyone yelling at everyone else to get the heck out of the system they were in, 'cause there were other places to mine veldspar
Also, I purchased my fancy, original EVE box in the bargain bin of a kb toys for $10 _____________________ Horrors! Demons in the deep! |
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