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Demangel Gallente	Posted - 2009.12.31 04:11:00 - [1] 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? I can't... Get this... Booger... Off my SWORD!
Ascuris Wurm	Posted - 2009.12.31 04:30:00 - [2] 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
Vaal Erit Science and Trade Institute	Posted - 2009.12.31 05:07:00 - [3] 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	Posted - 2009.12.31 05:10:00 - [4] 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! Also Known As
Ryhss Caldari The Templar Navy	Posted - 2009.12.31 05:18:00 - [5] 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".
Pulivin Motic Caldari Deep Core Mining Inc.	Posted - 2009.12.31 05:34:00 - [6] 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.
Halcyon Ingenium Caldari	Posted - 2009.12.31 05:42:00 - [7] 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	Posted - 2009.12.31 06:15:00 - [8] 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?
Tbear Cave Bear Mining	Posted - 2009.12.31 08:48:00 - [9] 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....
Reem Fairchild Minmatar Sebiestor tribe	Posted - 2009.12.31 09:01:00 - [10] 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?

Aodha Khan Minmatar Ghost Festival Naraka.	Posted - 2009.12.31 09:30:00 - [11] Been playing since beta. Never really had a break but did cut down on the amount of hours I am in Eve.
Tarantoga	Posted - 2009.12.31 10:06:00 - [12] I remember when an Apoc with 8 Mining Lasers was the most profitable way of earning money.
Haraldhardrade Amarr Pax Amarr	Posted - 2009.12.31 10:38:00 - [13] 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
Marko Riva Adamant Inc	Posted - 2009.12.31 10:39:00 - [14] 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	Posted - 2009.12.31 10:42:00 - [15] 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	Posted - 2009.12.31 11:02:00 - [16] 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.
Xtra Bitter hirr	Posted - 2009.12.31 11:16:00 - [17] 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.
Magnus Nordir Caldari Nordir Industries	Posted - 2009.12.31 11:32:00 - [18] 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	Posted - 2009.12.31 11:52:00 - [19] 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.
Thenoran Caldari Pelican.	Posted - 2009.12.31 12:28:00 - [20] 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...


GM Horse	Posted - 2009.12.31 13:04:00 - [21] Dual MWD Ravens.

Thuranni FinFleet IT Alliance	Posted - 2009.12.31 13:06:00 - [22] 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.
Talon SilverHawk Caldari Patria o Muerte	Posted - 2009.12.31 13:11:00 - [23] 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
ChrisDude70 Imperium Technologies	Posted - 2009.12.31 13:11:00 - [24] 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.
SkiNupSkuNk	Posted - 2009.12.31 13:42:00 - [25] 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)
BaliAgha Gladiators of Rage Wildly Inappropriate.	Posted - 2009.12.31 14:02:00 - [26] 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 --------- --------- [GLD] Gladiators of Rage -WI- Wildly Inappropriate Alliance
Aenachreon	Posted - 2009.12.31 14:09:00 - [27] 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!!!!
Benco97 Gallente Shadow Veil Industrial	Posted - 2009.12.31 14:10:00 - [28] 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.
Burnharder	Posted - 2009.12.31 14:12:00 - [29] Like you, been playing since beta 6, on and off. Dumbest feature from the past: escrow and dual microwarpdrive crows .
Chaos Incarnate Faceless Logistics	Posted - 2009.12.31 14:28:00 - [30] 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!

fairimear Gallente Esto Perpetua BiffCo.	Posted - 2009.12.31 14:48:00 - [31] when the jove came to DSS. *Bringing a type of class to PL.*
Talon SilverHawk Caldari Patria o Muerte	Posted - 2009.12.31 15:01:00 - [32] or when the Guristas invaded empire, Can't remember the system but the first player shipd where beeing spammed with torps each surrounded by several ravens from a distance they looked like little stars Tal
dtyk	Posted - 2009.12.31 15:04:00 - [33] Lots of MWDs on a scorpion. Missiles acting as both warp disruptors and smartbombs. Kestrels being the most awesome ship, ever.
Mister Xerox	Posted - 2009.12.31 15:29:00 - [34] Yeah, this is something the devs need to re-visit. Oldest characters (and their SP) Oldest still operating corporations (with consistently active members/leaders). Richest oldsters Oldsters with the most stuff.
Naomi Wildfire Amarr Stardust Heavy Industries Majesta Empire	Posted - 2009.12.31 15:33:00 - [35] I remember Abalest Siege Launcher going for >60m I remember Atuk popping my first Battleship (hard earned stuff) I remember a Geddon surrounded by 10 drones I remember when the goons started. It was like a turkey shoot, i started to pvp because of them. --- New Horizons Stand your Ground
Regat Kozovv Caldari Alcothology	Posted - 2009.12.31 16:00:00 - [36] The days of yore... =) April 05' here, after I got sick of Star Wars Galaxies...Exodus was being advertised, and I thought it looked cool as hell. =) Ferox was everyone's favorite mission ship, sporting 5x heavy launchers. =) Iteron V was the last word in hauling. Local Hull Expanded Cargoholds were crazy expensive. A Cerberus was 350 mil; I remember going "oooooh!" whenever I saw one in Empire.
Nick Curso Black Nova Corp IT Alliance	Posted - 2009.12.31 16:05:00 - [37] Edited by: Nick Curso on 31/12/2009 16:05:32 Originally by: fairimear when the jove came to DSS. Hehe that was a while ago, Duel MWD ravens, splash damage, tachs on everything /o\ oh and mining in highsec with my bantam no nice agents and rat sback then to get u a bs in a week! BRING BACK CRUISE MISSILE KESSYS Aug 03 here Please re-size your signature to the maximum allowed of 400 x 120 pixels with a maximum file size of 24000 bytes. Zymurgist
Slash Harnet Minmatar Inner Shadow	Posted - 2009.12.31 17:15:00 - [38] December '05. Back when warp to zero was just a dream and insta's ruled the world.
StarRanger Gallente Phoenix.Rising. Confederation of Independent Corporations	Posted - 2009.12.31 17:23:00 - [39] Still here, playing from Beta 6, i just love it Best memory would have been the planet size rocks in the belts, were i was trapped because my ship was bouncing between the rocks forever. Also one of my favorite was when i first met my CEO (Paul Lebaue of Freelancing Corp), as i was mining and he bumped his ship onto a can of mine and got bumped away for billions of AU's, lol. A GM had to put him into the gamegrid again else he would have been warping back to this day :) What i miss is the snow-launcher. It was the best gift and had tons of fun with it :) -
white kight Galaxy Punks Aeternus.	Posted - 2009.12.31 17:31:00 - [40] Originally by: GM Horse Dual MWD Ravens. Cruise missile kestrels Originally by: CCP Greyscale :facepalm:

Mr Epeen	Posted - 2009.12.31 18:04:00 - [41] I remember when the first page of GD had more than seven threads on it Mr Epeen
Thenoran Caldari Pelican.	Posted - 2009.12.31 18:10:00 - [42] Originally by: Thuranni 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. What I meant was that if you wanted to build a Battleship AT a POS in High-sec (for the 25% duration bonus) you couldn't, because the Large Assembly Array was only allowed in 0.4 and below. Ofcourse you could still build them at a station
J'Mkarr Soban Amarr Proxenetae Invicti The Golden Rule Alliance	Posted - 2009.12.31 18:58:00 - [43] As far as I know, I'm the oldest character still around on Eve: Date Of Birth: 2003.05.06 10:38:00 8 minutes after the servers went up. I was in beta. Oh, the things I've seen. My personal favourite was Raven as king of PvP before the missile nerf. Oh how fun that was. -- These are my personal views and in no way represent the views of Proxenetae Invicti, which maintains a neutral stance stemming from the strong ethics demanded of its work.
Levi	Posted - 2009.12.31 19:06:00 - [44] sniff old times my 1st days. ninja mining in a velator, living in fear of the dreaded rats in tristans, and then i saw a cruiser. omg run run run looking over your shoulder every time you undocked, yeah, those were the good old days. i think i'm gonna cry
Avernus Gallente Imperium Technologies	Posted - 2009.12.31 19:32:00 - [45] Originally by: GM Horse Dual MWD Ravens. Admit it, you were in CA.
Harris	Posted - 2009.12.31 20:29:00 - [46] Originally by: Demangel 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.............!? My main started in Jan '04, I'm a product of the first 'Power of 2' baby boom. . I remember SR, an old corpmate, regularly spamming 200 or so mines on the approach to gates before WTZ and using an alt to sit back and watching the fun.... brilliant I still have 2 'asp' mines in one of my hangars somewhere, waiting for the day they decide they're safe to use again. Can't bring myself to refine or trash them.
Demangel Gallente	Posted - 2010.01.01 05:56:00 - [47] Wanna hear something sick? looks on his bookshelf I still have my original box from USA release. I think it still even has the CD in it... Wow... I wonder if it's worth anything. LOL Signature needs to be more EVE related. Zymurgist
cyclobs	Posted - 2010.01.01 11:34:00 - [48] been subscribed for a year today :D
Ankh Minmatar Angel Constellation	Posted - 2010.01.01 11:40:00 - [49] Have paid my dues every month since May 2003. I fondly remember... When the best mining ship was a Probe, then the Thorax became the uber miner, before Apoc mining took over. Jita was nowhere - Yulai was the trade hub. (aka Yu-lag) Techell, the one-stop bs shop. PvP in 1.0 systems without wardec. Rat spawns at jumpgates in lowsec. Flying at over 20km/sec with stacked mwd's. Elation at surviving a Concord gank solo. When rats used to respawn incessantly - you could sit at a belt all day in 0.0 and farm them. Superhighways FTW - bring them back pls! Praying that your ship would jump through the gate before a hostile showed up. Yes the game is more balanced now, but somehow its lost the magic of discovering something bizarre that tipped the game in your favour. Think it had more character then.
Veliria	Posted - 2010.01.01 12:46:00 - [50] Originally by: Ankh Rat spawns at jumpgates in lowsec. Pretty sure that's still here.

000Hunter000 Gallente Missiles 'R' Us	Posted - 2010.01.01 13:36:00 - [51] I remember beeing able to destroy inties in my raven... 5.5 years of EVE-Online under the belt... and wondering where it will end... ________________________________________________
Frogzuk Gallente Missions Mining and Mayhem Chain of Chaos	Posted - 2010.01.01 14:03:00 - [52] when space was indeed space .... the lack of players meant that when one travelled it would be hours possibly days before one saw another pilot in local ...
Discrodia Gallente Experimental Horizons Devotion Alliance	Posted - 2010.01.01 14:19:00 - [53] I've played EVE since febuary 2008. Not long, I admit, and I've done so on 3 different characters, but I remember some funny stuff. -Tranquility Graphics -My first ever cruiser, a thorax fitted with small rails, civilian mods and hobgoblin I's. -Seeing a myrmidon outside station is all it's glory and having a new ambition. -Faction warfare. -Annoying same-same nano PvP -Quantum Rise -Me and my buddy becoming '1337 PvPers' by putting scrams on our mission ships (only to be owned by an arbiter) -Learning exploration in the crappy days. -Being overjoyed at the new exploration after Apocrytha. -Dust 514 announcement -Dominion It's been a wild 20 months Originally by: CCP Zymurgist Locked, thread is filled with trolling.
Bonny Lee Caldari The Guardian Agency Systematic-Chaos	Posted - 2010.01.01 14:33:00 - [54] - no jf - no wtz etc. Playing for 4 years. Still loving it.
Encad Briht Sebiestor tribe	Posted - 2010.01.01 14:42:00 - [55] Started in late 2004, still in Castor, was a blast from playing X-Tension before and got me hooked immediatly. Saw mining "old school" with plenty of Cruisers and BS, those giant Industrials, me in a frig zipping around in that op and getting my first mil faster then i could look (wish there where still some, was a magnificent view) Losing my first ship to an NPC, later to Corpmates. Good old times. -------------------------------------------- MacBook Pro 2.2 GhZ 2Gbyte RAM nVidia 8600M GT Mac OS X 10.4.11 -------------------------------------------
Mitawyn Caldari Deep Core Mining Inc.	Posted - 2010.01.01 14:44:00 - [56] I have been around since shortly after beta, pretty much non stop. Just about 6 and a half years now. I made this character with really bad attributes before I knew what they were all about and was so deep into it by the time I did know, I didn't reroll. Oh well. Lots of ups and downs along the way for sure.
Velcro fly DEATHFUNK Atlas Alliance	Posted - 2010.01.01 14:49:00 - [57] I remember getting aggro and concorded from torp splash damage the week after splash damage was removed. and guess what "the logs showed nothing" and back then losing a mega (fitted with torps and tachyons ) was a big loss.
Tkala True Soldier Of Liberty	Posted - 2010.01.01 15:08:00 - [58] Started in beta but Date Of Birth: 2003.06.14 (in the Netherlands the game wasnt for sale for a while due to distribution f*ups) Originally by:** dtyk Missiles acting as both warp disruptors and smartbombs. this and being blown up by the Jokers in Deklein Good old days, now hoping to get more time in rl so i can get back into the game other then the trading and manufacturing i do atm
Wheya Amarr Bruderschaft des Wahrhaftigen	Posted - 2010.01.01 15:49:00 - [59] From beta I remember flying without autopilot and without map. You could get lost. Some people started a profession as map makers. Then came the ingame map and a short while later autopilot. You had to type something like /autopilot: on Many modules such as armor repairers, afterburner or mwd were only available in one size. As far as I remember the Punisher was the only frigate being able to fit a mwd (without being able to fit weapons). My first time after eve went gold I spend in my beloved Bestower doing some mineral trade. Four stacked quad lif afterburner in this beast. A really fast ship. Of course there was no warp to zero but when you came out of warp and you had the right timing to hit approach gate you reached the gate within a second. With bad timing you could miss the gate by some hundred thousend kilometers, though. Gate to gate jumping was introduced later. In the beginning the gate was only used for depature but not for arrival. When you jumped into another system you dropped at a 'random' place which unfortunately very often was just somewhere on top of a station where you got stuck. Docking and redocking at stations where your ship got stuck was a part of travelling. Armor tanking was not an alternative option for tanking. There were no active armor hardeners. Active shield hardeners had a resistance of 70% as far as I remember, without stacking penalty. The Scorpion became invulnerable. Medium sized shield hardeners were the best things available. And so I was ratting Sansha spawns (the really big ones had a rat with 50k bounty) in Jk-Fix (Querious) with my Armegeddon fitted with a medium sized CL5 shield booster. Chain killing made you incredible rich. One full weekend and you could earn like 30m. This was an incredible large amount of isk which the vast majority could not earn in a full month. Later CCP introduced medium and large armor repairers but also large and XL shield boosters. The Apocalypse became the best shield tanker because of 7 stacked capacitor power relays without shield boost penalty. In beta you had a visional warning for individual incoming missiles. You could target and destroy those missiles. Later a smartbomb was a viable option to reduce missile damage if you had the right timing. Using several smartbombs made you invulnerable against missile attacks. Missile impacts were shaking your ship. Raven pilots didn't need a warpscrambler because their missiles often prevented the hostile ship to align for warp. After the Raven killed your ship your pod often died due to the missiles explosion radius a second later. There was no such thing as signature radius. Battleship guns hit frigates with full damage. Targetting was really fast. First the sig radius was introcued to give smaller ships some time to escape. Targetting a smaller ship needed more time. Later the sig radius was also used for the tracking formula so large guns had more problems to hit smaller ships.
Thuul'Khalat Gallente Veto Corp	Posted - 2010.01.01 16:39:00 - [60] I first came across EVE in 04, but at that time decided "meeeh..." Then again in January 2006, when I actually undocked from Cistuavert for the very first time, so pretty much exactly 4 years ago now. And I regret not starting in 04 --- Podlogs: Life in Veto

Leviathan9 Gallente Astrophysical Engineering War and Pestilence	Posted - 2010.01.01 16:48:00 - [61] Originally by: Tarantoga I remember when an Apoc with 8 Mining Lasers was the most profitable way of earning money. Qft. I remember the Rax's with 250m3 drone bay, and the vexor with its +1 drone per level bonus. ---------------------------
Luiki	Posted - 2010.01.01 16:52:00 - [62] the serpentie guy is the oldest
Trader20	Posted - 2010.01.01 17:00:00 - [63] Edited by: Trader20 on 01/01/2010 17:01:33 I remember when I bunch of vets thought they were cool so they made a thread about how long they've been playing. TLDR; Noone cares
Hardiel Da'le'mei	Posted - 2010.01.01 17:04:00 - [64] Originally by: Trader20 Edited by: Trader20 on 01/01/2010 17:01:33 I remember when I bunch of vets thought they were cool so they made a thread about how long they've been playing. TLDR; Noone cares Bless....in 5 years time you'll be reminising too.
retlaw	Posted - 2010.01.01 17:11:00 - [65] I am a beta Player who remembers the night of 500million isk in everyone's account and everybody running around with bs shooting each other up. Also remember when there was arc and bis in 0.6 systems. Character birth date is may 5th,2003
Sojuro Ryosaki Gallente Aliastra	Posted - 2010.01.01 17:27:00 - [66] I remember: Hunting npc convoys and getting mods and weaps not just market goods. Mines, wish they would bring these back. I had 100s a yr after they took them out including the BPs When shuttles came out taking a trip in null space and spending the day out there and seeing no one
John Bishop Caldari The Knights Templar R.A.G.E	Posted - 2010.01.01 18:57:00 - [67] been here 99% of the last 6 years lol _______________________________________________ Originally by: Rodj Blake Large Beam Spec 5 is a really good skill to have, because it almost puts you on a par with people using T1 projectiles. [:lol:
Casey CIA An Eye For An Eye AN EYE F0R AN EYE	Posted - 2010.01.01 19:07:00 - [68] I remember when shields were blue dots, and armor was orange....
NereSky Gallente Aliastra	Posted - 2010.01.01 19:18:00 - [69] Fav memories for me are 1) Mines, God i loved them (still got some Anaconda's somewhere) 2) Evolution flying with the Northern coalition (before BoB) 3) The 'Great War' and as far as im concerned there is only one of them involving well almost everyone :) 4) The Disbanding of 'G' alliance and well the falling of the old North 5) getting scammed for the first time by a bookmark seller grrrrr 6) Can Art was always fun to see and OFC special mention to the Space Invaders in Tribute, Zombies of Yulai and to the old GM's that flew in Eve and well cared about the game
Kateryne Minmatar Nisaba Syndicate New Eden Retail Federation	Posted - 2010.01.01 19:37:00 - [70] Not been playing quite as long as some of the previous posters, but 2004.07.12 19:06 is when i joined I think it's more about what you've done in your time than how long you've been playing though.


Chribba Otherworld Enterprises Otherworld Empire	Posted - 2010.01.01 19:45:00 - [71] Well, I do think we can be pretty certain of this one at least Secure 3rd party service

Karma Vortex Incorporated	Posted - 2010.01.01 19:50:00 - [72] I'm so old that the game doesn't even remember which NPC Corp I started in. have been inactive for a total of two years though, so I'm still pretty low, in terms of SP.
Fitzter Real Nice And Laidback Corporation Black Core Alliance	Posted - 2010.01.01 20:36:00 - [73] I remember No warp to zero so 20 jumps was an insanely long trip and having to have bm the station even when mining belts in empire..When you joined a 0.0 alliance you had to get the 300 bm to get there safe. http://www.rnal.net/images//fitzteriss2.jpg
Tagami Wasp Caldari Sarz'na Khumatari Ushra'Khan	Posted - 2010.01.01 21:36:00 - [74] Originally by: Tbear I cried when CCP flushed all the toons at the end of the final beta Same here (well, didn't cry but close enough). I couldn't afford to pay both subscription and dial-up then. Stayed away till I had time/ money/ fast line and been enjoying it since. ----------------------------------------------- This is a line of text without any meaning. -----------------------------------------------
Kwade Kunum	Posted - 2010.01.01 22:44:00 - [75] I remember sitting AFK in Jita, in a badger mining Massive Scordite for hours on end, when 90 people in system was a lot. First time I saw a -10 in highsec, flying a badger of all things. Locked him and activated my mining lasers. Which were fitted to my Cormorant. When interceptors flew faster than light missiles. Fitting 2 pulse lasers, 3 artillery cannon, and 2 blasters on my destroyer, then offlining the artillery because there wasn't enough grid. And somehow successfully completing Worlds Collide. Wondering why I ran out of cap so fast, while only firing my guns
Xtreem Gallente Knockaround Guys Inc.	Posted - 2010.01.01 23:06:00 - [76] 03 crew signing in! Xtreem is my second char, and he has served me well! (and yes original owner)
Drahcir Nasom Independent Manufacturers	Posted - 2010.01.01 23:18:00 - [77] Edited by: Drahcir Nasom on 01/01/2010 23:18:15 May 7 2003 here, no breaks. - Corp stripping the belts in Usi to make Vexors (and later Domis) for corp members from our first corp ship BPOs - I have a screenie from September 2003 of me being very brave and flying my domi with 15K of megacyte in the hold, that represented a large amount of our corp assets at the time. - Flying my Rifter 50+ jumps from Lonetrek to Aridia to see if there were any unusual items on the markets there I could buy and bring back to sell for a huge profit, only to find it was only the same stuff as Lonetrek just a lot less of it as there were no players selling down there in those days. I lost my rifter to a gate rat on the way back and did about 30j in a pod. - Spending whole days killing rats and emptying the cache containers at The Myridion Strip in Ezzara in my Tristan. - Chaining spawns in WY-9LL until all you could see was hundreds of cans. - Falling asleep in a Vigil and waking up in a pod thanks to the 500 isk rats at Sivala X
Zeek Muaka Caldari Antares Shipyards Circle-Of-Two	Posted - 2010.01.02 01:03:00 - [78] Though I had been interested in EVE since 2003, lack of cash and a decent computer prevented me from playing. I remember an article in PC Gamer about a corporate spy who became the 2nd in command of a large corp/alliance, then ambushed the CEO and blew up her Apocalypse Navy/Imperial issue. He wasn't banned, no huge nerf, all considered within game mechanics. THAT is an MMO, screw that kiddie fun land that is World of Warcraft. I am now an 08er, not as early as I'd like but meh. ---------------------------------- Originally by: Private Bank wth is tranquility ? that sick place where you lose ships and pay like 30mill for a bc? lol no i play on sisi!
DaOpa Amarr Static Corp	Posted - 2010.01.02 03:44:00 - [79] Been playing EVE since beta! ---------- LP Store Database \| T3 Ship DB
Usagi Tsukino Miyazaki Zaibatsu APEX Conglomerate	Posted - 2010.01.02 07:41:00 - [80] Wow... Fortunately for you veterans the summer expansion, EVE: Matlock, is just for you, including sov upgrades that give you lawns; so you can yell at us younger players to get off of them. (I didn't read the whole thread, so I hope no one else already made that joke.) With all the beta players, I'm not even going to attempt to impress anyone with my March '04 D/O/B. ---

Raynaar Amarr Intergalactic Mining And Trade Corp.	Posted - 2010.01.02 11:21:00 - [81] Originally by: Usagi Tsukino Wow... Fortunately for you veterans the summer expansion, EVE: Matlock, is just for you, including sov upgrades that give you lawns; so you can yell at us younger players to get off of them. (I didn't read the whole thread, so I hope no one else already made that joke.) With all the beta players, I'm not even going to attempt to impress anyone with my March '04 D/O/B. I'm not ashamed of my DOB. Most ppl either quit and/or xfer their toons after that amount of time. Proud original owner of 4 accts here. And veteran of the CFS war against FA. Do I qualify? :) -Ray "Put the pick in there, Pete, and turn it 'round, real neat..."
McFly C0LDFIRE	Posted - 2010.01.04 11:44:00 - [82] its not a social club it's a reminiscent thread of things past in the 6.5 ish years of eve. Just sit back and think about your first days in eve. Like the first time you saw a battleship or Hulk, or realized what a warp scram was doing to you.
PerrinAybarra The Meat Grinder Dead Terrorists	Posted - 2010.01.04 11:52:00 - [83] let's see no auopilot, no clone above basic, not all warp to 15 woked right station in niyabann was still 60 off from warp in point, and sentry guns podded you.
Deadly Morph	Posted - 2010.01.04 12:14:00 - [84] lol 3 years on and off with 1 account and many many trial accounts i cant believe cruiser misiles on frigs! and 8 drones for domnix wow! lol
Eternal Hatred Amarr Pantsu Garu Limited Technologies	Posted - 2010.01.04 12:16:00 - [85] Ah, sweet closed beta phase 2 when even login screen made your nVidia Riva128 or was it RivaTNT card crawl. _________________ It's great being an Amarr, isn't it??? :(
Tharrn Amarr Epitoth Guard Curatores Veritatis Alliance	Posted - 2010.01.04 12:19:00 - [86] Arkonor in 0.4 - those were the days. -----
WCPistolPete Gallente MacroIntel	Posted - 2010.01.04 16:53:00 - [87] Originally by: Grimpak 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.' The original quote from Blade Runner would have been better IMO. Still it works even if nerfed to fit the RPG. this. oh 1000x this. {WC}PistolPete "...going to take a lot of fireworks to clean this place up..." Homer Simpson
Peter Wheatstraw Gallente Garoun Investment Bank	Posted - 2010.01.04 17:21:00 - [88] Originally by: Chribba Well, I do think we can be pretty certain of this one at least "This thread is older than 90 days and has been locked due to inactivity." Quick! Someone find the key!
Bicx	Posted - 2010.01.04 17:22:00 - [89] Edited by: Bicx on 04/01/2010 17:22:15 Been playing since 2005, but the biggest thing I miss is having 5 heavy drones on a Myrmidon... and being able to fly them all at once!
Suboran Gallente Di-Tron Heavy Industries Atlas Alliance	Posted - 2010.01.04 17:44:00 - [90] Originally by: Bicx The biggest thing I miss is having 5 heavy drones on a Myrmidon... and being able to fly them all at once! QFT, I long for the day the myrmidon is appealing to fly again

PhalHell Minmatar Blue Republic	Posted - 2010.01.04 17:45:00 - [91] Edited by: PhalHell on 04/01/2010 17:45:31 I was born in March 2004 and I'm still playing the game. Allthough not so much or regular any more. What really changed over the years is the tone of the postings on this forum. It went from discovering the formula's behind the attributes and sharing these and helping others by explaining towards at least a few stupid remarks per thread from older players on newbie questions.
Mal Lokrano Gallente Delve Inc.	Posted - 2010.01.04 18:22:00 - [92] I have played since Trinity, and I have yet to stop subscribing on my main. This is the only MMO that has managed to keep me interested. ____________________________________________ When going to a party with wine, women, and song. Always ascertain the vintage of the first two.
Scooter King E.Y	Posted - 2010.01.04 19:08:00 - [93] 06 player... I remember: The gyt who got me into EVE His epic fail at describing production His epic fail about fitting mining ships The 10Mill he gave me when I started The 10Mill I still owe him :) My first purchased ship (Bantam - I still have it) Mining in high sec overnight in a Badger II for Veld Having my can flipped for the first time The "gyt" - who was in a Tristan and tried to pop the Badger II that did it (in high sec) he nearly got him though :) Mining out my first belt (I still have the last piece of Pyroxeres) My first ship loss - a cormorant to a mission - boy was I angry - furious in fact My first BP purchase - the Kestrel 0.0 bookmarks - pre warp to zero My first carrier engagment - 6y in stain The drake - with 8 launchers nom nom nom The complete lack of documentation - oh wait.... and just fun :) Scoot
Scout Ops	Posted - 2010.01.04 19:14:00 - [94] Edited by: Scout Ops on 04/01/2010 19:16:39 If you want to find older players, just open People & Places and search for lolnames in example: - lmao - hehe - osprey and of course Chribba, this is maybe the character that has been the most time in a same player corporation (not NPC) as you see, better names were taken in the beggining. I ask CCP to erase all inactive characters that are older than 1 year, specially those with 0.0 standings and under 1million SP and 5,000isk


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