Signal11th
Versatech Co.
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Posted - 2011.05.06 14:18:00 -
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Originally by: CCP Guard Eight years already? They say time flies when you're having fun...not to mention when it's flying a spaceship!
I remember when EVE launched eight years ago, right after "Armageddon day", the last day of the beta when skills, ships and modules were made abundant and everything went nuts for a while (lag aficionados would have loved it).
Seeing EVE go live and players trickling in was thrilling but I can't say I truly anticipated all that was to come in the following years. Back then I was a wet-behind-the-ears GM, fresh off the streets of Reykjavfk, and looking back I had limited grasp of all the potential we had just unleashed. But I soon learned, oh how we all learned.
I remember being in the office when M0o discovered this little trick called "gate camping" and the complaints started rolling in by the hundreds. "What? They can't just close down a popular and convenient route like that!", we thought, still thinking that EVE was something we could manually control. I was part of the Concord battleship gang thrown together to chase them from the gate in role play fashion. Given our PVP experience back then, it's probably a good thing M0o decided to run from the fearsome looking Concord Black ops vessels instead of turning to fight. They would have gotten some interesting loot out of that engagement I'm sure :)
We discovered a few things that day (apart from the fact that superior firepower means nothing if you suck at PVP and cant catch anything). The most important lesson being that you guys didn't really appreciate us stomping around in your sandbox. So we learned and adjusted as we've done so frequently since.
I remember getting in my first battleship on my player account. How awesomely powerful it felt, and how devastated and weak I felt when I lost it to a pirate in a belt playing possum. I learned from that too, although it hasn't stopped me from losing many battleships since. The first time I solo killed another battleship at a gate was equally exhilarating. So much in fact, that I thought my pounding heart would break a few ribs before that tank would break. No game has ever come close to making me feel anything like that.
I remember the first Fanfest well. How great and strange it was to meet all those players face to face. I remember what an eye opener it was to hear them talk about EVE and to see the passion with which they told their stories. That Fanfest changed my perception of the EVE community for life. It made all of this more "real" somehow and made me want to be the strongest little cog I could be in the CCP machine.
I remember being in the office and getting word that the first titan was going down. The stakes changed that day. In contrast, I also remember getting word of the first rookie ship swarm eating up battleships and cruisers. That highlighted how in EVE, even the newest and the weakest can hit hard if they play it smart and work together.
Happy birthday and THANK YOU for everything.
First thing happy Birthday! Great little story!
Unfortunately your story has shown me how that sense of discovery and "wow" has disappeared from EVE. It's a shame that there's none of that "cool I've just got a battleship" it reminds me of when I first got into a T3 I flew it lost it a week later and then just went out and brought another one. Even when a titan goes down nobody really cares anymore it's a bi-weekly event. I would love some new stuff that nobody can conquer and when you finally manage it you have a sense of "wow". I dearly love the game and I spend (according to the wife) way to much time on it but there is no mystery or truly game altering events anymore. Even when IT failcaded most people were like "so what?" When T3's can be replaced 5 mins after loosing them (by an average player e.g myself) you know there is way too much money/availability in the game.
Sorry for being a miserable coont and hijacking your thread!
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