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Deamos Atlas Transgalactic	Posted - 2010.07.01 12:43:00 - [91] No Battleships No Destroyers No Capitals No BCs No Shuttles: To transport ships you could eject while docking No T2 A Thorax with drones was about an instant win button ECM was based on overcoming a ship's Sensor strength - IE: a BB with 35 points of Gravimetric would permajam a BS with 35 points of Gravimetric sensor Strength Mo0 was to be feared. No POSs You got tons of junk when completing a mission: Like 35 Shuttles for 1 mission Multiple ABs and MWDs per Ship allowed Only 1 type of AB or MWD: No 1MN, 10MN, or 100MN Trit was priced usually around 1 ISK per Mineral Prices were relatively stable Transversial Velocity did not matter nearly as much Torp wielding Kestrals No Ice Mining No Gas Mining No Sov Game was MUCH more buggy than it is now -
Othran SPORADIC MOVEMENT Cult of War	Posted - 2010.07.01 12:54:00 - [92] Someone mentioned cruise kessies - I nearly got a ban for that. I'd gone AFG for ages and came back - logged into a cruise kessie and went blowing up some ex-EAB corp as they happened to be around the area. They petitioned and I got a load of nonsense from a GM about how I was "exploiting". What was REALLY annoying was when I discovered how much I could have sold that cruise-fitted kessie for
von Clickenhof	Posted - 2010.07.01 13:36:00 - [93] When I joined EVE it was great. Only 16K on a sunday and when someone in local said " Anyone want this salvage or Can someone help me with this mission?? " THAT is what it would mean. Now the game is full of ex WOW players who just hang out in Jita. Bring back the Happy days, ban ex WOW players.
Yarpen Tsunami Cartel Chain of Chaos	Posted - 2010.07.01 14:34:00 - [94] Oh where do I start? There were so many exciting things about early day of eve: - getting a first Thorax (which could use 10 drones at the time) after 3 weeks of mining in a frig hehe. - fighting Lord Zap of M0o and his beam laser domi ;-) - killing people in my nano Domi fitted with medium autocannons and speeding 5km/sec ;-) - sitting by the gates and enjoying the view of noobs finding out the meaning of "missile splash damage" in the vicinity of Concord - listening to "rumors" that CCP plans to add battleship sized rats, and maybe even Tech 2 modules LOL - JOVE EVENTS, damn still can't belive they didn't at least add them in some limited way ;-( ...ehhhh, I could go on ;-)
Gimmy Rotten	Posted - 2010.07.01 14:50:00 - [95] where there was 2500 peoples online on my TZ (fr), and 500 pilots in GW to defend BIG station. First Blob ! Stations camps last for weeks. no BS tier3, no BC, no Caps Empire was really the empire, cos there were no stupids gate gankers. Warp to 15km all the time. Bookmarks rules ! and plenty much more good and bad stuffs. BUT, EVE is still a great game ! even if the gaming mechanics change often. Make it cheaper tho, you'll get more customers.
Ay'a	Posted - 2010.07.01 14:55:00 - [96] I miss my old dual MWD vigil, zoooooooooom!
Ioci Gallente Morrigna Order	Posted - 2010.07.01 15:09:00 - [97] My first month in EvE, like most I had a nooblet ship of some sort and was off in a belt looking for something to mine. Most of the stuff was gone from the local 1.0 and .9 systems so I was in an .8 killing Veldspar when along came a Shadow Serpentis with a 70K bounty! I ran like a girl. I cant kill that!. Sat in the station for a second and pondered my situation. hmph. Back out with my weapons ready. I headed back for the belt and he was still there. So I locked him and got to optimal. To my great amazement I killed him with half armor to spare. There was no salvage at this stage of EvE. So I fly to it, scoop the loot and boogy for base. Daredevil Blueprint. Hmm, what is this? Oh a ship! I need Minmatar frigate too though. Thats no trouble. So I make my daredevil. They werent quite the l33t ship they are now but were still a speedy little devil. After a few trips in to low sec I was soon deep in .1 sec solitude region with my daredevil and zooming about all over the place. It was the first ship I took to 0.0 sec and we went everywhere! Oh sheet! That guy is locking me! Vroom, vroom, to planet 1. crap, he found me. Vroom, vroom to another gate, get away! get away!! He is there and he has friends! Gone again. There is a station, so I get docked. He's still out there though. I dont like this place anymore. I need to get out of here. Back to my temporary home in .1 sec with the Materials Aquisition station. They gets some hits in again and I got to 25% armor but gone again. Soon I am back in my home station. I still have that Daredevil 6 years later. I stayed in Solitude for a long time. Never saw another cool loot like my Daredevil again. Got a few shadow armor mods but mostly ammo and tags. Because back in those days it was mandatory that you get your Navigations skills up to make the 15km gate runs, add the buffs to the speedy little daredevil, the chances I will ever lose that Daredevil are all but 0. Add to that its in R3 station in Providence and I cant dock there at the moment. The good ole days? That will be the day I can get my Daredevil back. And spend hrs in R3 tickling the current Sov holders with my speedy little daredevil. The one they will never catch!! Because in 6 years? It aint been done!! Cuz unlike the Alliance, I dont talk it, I do it! I is Flying Dangerous! Te-hee-hee!! Welcome to EvE Noob. Get busy living or get busy dying!
Mr SmartGuy	Posted - 2010.07.01 15:43:00 - [98] - CONCORD existed, but there were guys who actually tanked CONCORD... although it was considered an exploit. - Capital ships could be built in high security systems. - I remember reading the news about the first Titan ever being built in the game. - I remember reading the news about the first Titan ever being destroyed in the game. - I remember System Scanning Array POS modules being introduced in the game. - I remember System Scanning Array POS modules being removed from the game. - You could get a t2 BPO from an R&D agent. - There were no Loyalty point stores. You only had some kind of loyalty points with the agent you were working for. I didn't want to cash in the LPs since back then I thought that it was a bad thing to just throw away the loyalty that I was building with an agent. - Lowsec was much more dangerous for a new player that didn't have the "warp to 0" bookmarks. - There were no rigs. When you destroyed a rat a can could appear. If the rat didn't drop anything there was no can. Then rigs and salvage were introduced. The first iteration of the wrecks system was terrible. You had to remove the loot from the wreck if you wanted to salvage it. But that didn't last long. - EVE was much smaller then. More than a few new regions were added in the game. - Bombs didn't exist.
Mr Sp00ner	Posted - 2010.07.01 16:34:00 - [99] Define veteran.
Garramon Gallente First CityWide Change Bank	Posted - 2010.07.01 16:40:00 - [100] Some of my fondest memories are from the first month of the game starting. Here's one: We had a corp of 4-6 people, mostly college friends. We had played some in beta, and had learned mostly about mining and a little about combat. Upon start of the game, we moved to Azer area, which at the time was ~0.3 system and we would hunt NPC convoys in our frigates (incursus, tristan). Cruisers were a pipe dream. Not because they were expensive, but because people weren't producing them yet and buying from an NPC was the only way to get them, and the WAS expensive. NPC Convoy hunting was a blast. We would wait until the targets were out of range of gate guns, and then swarm around attacking. The convoys did good damage, and the primary would have to warp out within a few seconds. Eventually, they would warp off or we would blow them up, leaving a ton of loot. Sometimes it would be NPC goods like miniature electronics. Other times, it would be blueprints or minerals. The real winner though, was mining drones. We figured out which NPC corp would drop them and targeted their haulers. We had to train for industrials ourselves just to haul out the loot, as it would be 10k+ m3. We were really looking for Elite mining drones, they were the Meta 4 drones and the best working drones at the time. These eventually paid for our first cruisers. We really had no idea just how good it was though. Some times, we would get truckloads of harvester mining drones and haul them in, but they didn't work. We hoped one day CCP would make them functional, but we blew up tens of thousands of them, they took up a ton of space. It was good times, and financed our thoraxes for moving into 0.0 space. Years later, I found a stash of our harvesters and sold them for billions of isk. CCP investigated my sales :D

Chronos Chi Redcoats	Posted - 2010.07.01 18:53:00 - [101] Edited by: Chronos Chi on 01/07/2010 18:54:57 missiles did splash damage forgot to mention about minelaying stargates for lolz and killz
Zions Child Caldari Carthage Industries	Posted - 2010.07.01 19:05:00 - [102] Heh, I remember when prices for T2 items actually meant something. No rigs, the first Titan was still under production by ASCN... Drones would attack gang mates! Damn you Blane! Level 4 Mission runners were not particularly common... I was with the IAC while they were still in FAT, I remember getting caught on a gate in a fleet battle and managing to get my ship out in 10% structure. (We did win that battle IIRC)... No wormholes, macros still mined in Apocs, no T3 Battleships or T2 Battlecruisers (tier), Active tanking was the way to go, HACs were amazing, NOS actually had a purpose, hi-sec griefer corporations were not nearly as common as they are today... No T3, Jita had only begun to become scam/lag/sociopath central. Suicide ganking was pretty rare... Ahhh... the older days of EVE. Originally by: CCP Shadow snip Castration successful. Shadow.
Intoagun Deshana Minmatar Sentinel Eradicators of Doom	Posted - 2010.07.01 20:11:00 - [103] The one thing I miss was being able to plant mines in the fields and going offline and coming back later to find people had warped right on top of them and gotten blown ups. Other stuff is already listed above that I miss. I would love CCP to bring back mines but to be able to set them up to avoid blowing up friendlies.
Pytria Le'Danness	Posted - 2010.07.01 20:41:00 - [104] Funniest moment: The Small Tractor Beam BPO debacle. The BPO was available for 80k or so as it is now. Building one cost 1M in resources though, and at one point CCP announced that the BPO price was too low by mistake and they'd increase it to like several million. "Buy tractor beam BPOs" was whispered as THE hot insider tip and of course everyone and his brother bought the BPO - that was when the tractor beam required Science-V and was about the only item that skill level was useful for. Of course CCP noticed millions of Small Tractor Beam BPOs being sold and canceled that part of the patch about five minutes before the servers went down. Sweet tears...
Natassia Krasnoo Caldari	Posted - 2010.07.01 20:52:00 - [105] I started EVE in '03. It was such a pain in the arse to play with no documentation on what to do, how to do it, and the UI was incredibly craptastic to the point of driving me away from the game for nearly 3 1/2 years within the first hour of trying to play it. I restarted during the middle of Revelations II, and haven't looked back. In that short time until now so much has happened. But the biggest highlights for me in no particular order were my first death in low-sec as I was autopiloting back to high sec after losing my ship to NPC pirates miserably in a L3 mission, moving out to 0.0 for the first time with a good corp to back me up, participating in large scale warfare as a BOB pet(read "Meat Shield") in AXE alliance, my first cyno op where I was the cyno pilot/sacrificial lamb, my first cap ship...even if it was a rorq, learning that webbing a frieghter makes it insta warp, my experience with my first brand new HAC a drag bubble and an un-updated clone, Feeling the wrath of the steamrolling/blobtastic NC when they so graciously removed us from our space and sent us packing for NPC space only to fail and scatter to the winds, so many memories...some good...some not so good. But EVE is unlike anything out there. It's unique and there's so much to do and see it'll keep you coming back for more every time.


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