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Thomus
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Posted - 2005.10.31 15:22:00 -
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Who was first online? after a few days, how many of you were there?
Who died first?
Who got the first BS?
Who made the first EVE related joke? (If you remember it, please post it on my comedy thread.... LOL)
Please tell!
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Khaldorn Murino
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Posted - 2005.10.31 15:25:00 -
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Oh god, dont get the old timers out! We'll here stories of how it was better in the old days and even in beta, when everything was fought out on the forums.
And then they'll all get in their wheelchairs, have a race down the corridor and retire for tea and cakes.
Damn old-timers!
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Just a simple warrior.
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Omber Zombie
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Posted - 2005.10.31 15:27:00 -
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Space seemed a lot more friendly, unless of course you ran into certain evil people...
No idea on who died first, but first person online was mentioned a while back in a dev blog. I think RUS had 1 or 2 of the first bships, may have been someone else tho.
First eve related joke I have no idea about, but it would have been made in alpha or early beta not in release.
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Raem Civrie
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Posted - 2005.10.31 15:32:00 -
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m0o owned everything going even close to maara/passari
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Rodj Blake
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Posted - 2005.10.31 15:32:00 -
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When I were a lad, you could go from Amarr to Pator in two jumps and buy a hundred slaves, a fish supper and a pint of Quafe and still have change from 10 ISK.
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Oosel
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Posted - 2005.10.31 15:33:00 -
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dare i say m0o were the real scary people causing insane damage with mallers and heavy mod beam lasers stacked with stamped heat sinks.
it was a lot more friendly then though as there was a lot more people intent on building stuff rather than just hell bent on blowing everything up.
ark and bist in empire to those were good old days but npc rats then were uber as well....there was a lot of trouble actually getting in on day one so for the first few days due to a certain games compny not delivering the game when they promised it was an empty place
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Chode Rizoum
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Posted - 2005.10.31 16:08:00 -
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it was magical.. back in the days.. 
can any say scorp with 4 x heavy lunchers 2 x 1400mm 
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The Colonel
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Posted - 2005.10.31 16:10:00 -
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I was remembering life before the autopilot only the other day whilst doing a long boring journey. Eve seemed massive then, utterly daunting.
Was a very different atmosphere early pre-release, a lot friendlier and pirates were those with genuine imagination and skill.
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Nepereta
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Posted - 2005.10.31 16:17:00 -
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It wasn't easy to play, Its a lot better now. I loved it them I love it even more now.
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Rod Blaine
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Posted - 2005.10.31 16:25:00 -
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Back then noone had anything.
Everyone, literally, was working away at getting their hands on the tech1 bpo's. Making that isk was waaaaay harder then now, with the maximum npc bounty being 50K and there being NO missions to earn isk on, people mined or pirated mostly.
Nowadays, tech1 is throwaway stuff, you buy a cruiser bpo from leftover cash from your weekly shopping spree. In june 2003, that cruiser bpo represented a month of 20 people working hard !.
The biggest change for me is the atmosphere. It was easy to be overwhelmed back then by the sheer size and emptyness of space. By the enormous potential for hostility out there. And by the way in which every step ahead by someone in space was its own small revolution that caused uproar in the community.
The first cruisers, the first BS, the first wars and alliances...
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Temerlyn
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Posted - 2005.10.31 16:26:00 -
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we had no stations in 0.0, ark/bist was in empire space. Ark/bist was even in pirate space like curse. Saving up 70 mil to buy your first Cruiser BPo was a monumental task.
BPO copies had unlimited runs and some corps had the fun of being able to sell those Battleship copies for well over 200mil a pop.
we had to eat rocks for dinner and travel through 11 miles of snow with no shoes to get to market.
There was no stacking nerfs so the best ships became those who had the most low slots so they could stack 8 damage mods. This also applied to everything so dampening modules used to dampen targeting ranges to a few 100 meters.
Biggest NPC's were cruisers, there was only one named gun mopdule for each size and the scout 650 art for cruisers sold for millions (before anyone had BS's)
hmm, i could go on realy.
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St Dragon
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Posted - 2005.10.31 16:32:00 -
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I remember the frigates with torp launchers 
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Masu'di
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Posted - 2005.10.31 16:41:00 -
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autopilot was a command you had to type in a chat window, and before the highways were introduced travelling took bloody ages...
0.0 used to be more friendly :/
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Severe McCald
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Posted - 2005.10.31 16:44:00 -
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Every time you went into space, you could be attacked. Concord was slow and weak. It made every move an adrenaline rush.
Not like 0.0 now, because there weren't organised groups looking for you, it was just the possibility of random attack by any other player.
I preferred it then, but because of player organisation CCP cannot return us to those days merely by reducing Concord to what it was. There would be a blood bath.
Sev
We are what we repeatedly do - Aristotle.
That has got to be a worry.
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Astarte Nosferatu
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Posted - 2005.10.31 17:29:00 -
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 Originally by: Chode Rizoum
can any say scorp with 4 x heavy lunchers 2 x 1400mm
And later on pulses instead of 1400 
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Follower of the Blood Revolution.
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Ja'kar
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Posted - 2005.10.31 17:33:00 -
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dunno never undocked- heard u could be shot out there
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Nemesis I
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Posted - 2005.10.31 17:33:00 -
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Money was hard to come by, and pilots in Cruisers owned!
Oh and you could recycle cans with stuff in them - (not that I go on about that still) doh!
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Skeeve
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Posted - 2005.10.31 17:56:00 -
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back in the day whey a Scorp was a freak of nature.. able to out tank anything and take out anything. when the skill tree had far fewer branches.. and mining ment throwing on a spacesuit and gnawing on rocks like a beaver.
and MoO was gahyer than a pack of monkeys on nitrous oxide
"SHOW US YOUR HOOTERS!" - traditional greeting at the Annual Owl Fanciers Convention
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Eris Discordia
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Posted - 2005.10.31 18:02:00 -
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'Griefing' in merlins, the good old times 
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Nafri
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Posted - 2005.10.31 18:07:00 -
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Originally by: Astarte Nosferatu
Originally by: Chode Rizoum
can any say scorp with 4 x heavy lunchers 2 x 1400mm
And later on pulses instead of 1400
Bah, tachs + heavy launchers 4tw!
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ffffpanzer
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Posted - 2005.10.31 18:12:00 -
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lol,jakar
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ffffpanzer
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Posted - 2005.10.31 18:14:00 -
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mmm.dont get it,still no picture image..been a wk.
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Windle Poons
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Posted - 2005.10.31 18:18:00 -
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Jumping in on top of the stations :)
There or at another point in the system.
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Moridan
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Posted - 2005.10.31 19:02:00 -
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Edited by: Moridan on 31/10/2005 19:02:43
It wasn't near as much fun. I got so bloody tired of kernite mining lol. I hunted in .3s with my merlin all day
edit: oh oh, and logging on after DT to sell minerals to NPCs before the market tanked for the day. :)
"Speak quietly and carry a big torpedo."
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Kurren
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Posted - 2005.10.31 19:03:00 -
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It was much less crowded...
m0o pwned CONCORD and a few GMs when they took over a 1.0 system and killed everything in it... or tried to...
People posted constructive criticisms instead of nooby-complaints...
The fleet battles were amazing! They were why I joined the original Fountain Alliance... course, they were a bunch of *****s that never got any, so I quit Eve for a while.. but enough on that...
And if I remember correctly, if you beta tested and managed to earn a million ISK, or something, before platinum release you got to keep your account...
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KIAPieman
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Posted - 2005.10.31 19:15:00 -
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Edited by: KIAPieman on 31/10/2005 19:16:40
Edited by: KIAPieman on 31/10/2005 19:15:49
Edited by: KIAPieman on 31/10/2005 19:15:28
jump in points in system rather than jumping to the opposite gate.
random warpins on locations so some gates were natural instas
blackbirds that could spin on a sixpence
those were the days
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Sc0rpion
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Posted - 2005.10.31 20:52:00 -
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I remember jump-in points that were nowhere near the stargates.
I remember people doing cool things like launching 349872438967092845769284756 cans at those points and lagging thier victims out.
I remember certain so-and-sos launching thousands of mines at a stargate in Yulai.
I remember people stacking 8x unnerfed heatsinks on thier geddeons and SHREDDING everything.
I remember people launching clouds of drones in order to lag out thier opponents, because that's all they were good for.
I remember people tanking CONCORD and spending all day ganking newbs at thier spawn point in space.
I don't miss the "old days" at all.
"The true secret to enjoying life is to live it dangerously."
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Skyy
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Posted - 2005.10.31 21:30:00 -
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It was a time when ships were a big sign of your wealth. That is long gone.
A battleship meant you were superior... and corps worked together for one goal... getting another member into a battleship.
Yes, there were pirates, but ganking and griefing was very rare.
There was actually trust among players.
Scam and expolits were minimal at best.
Named mining lasers were gems.
Minerals were standard 1,2,4,16, etc... in price.
Gaining assests was far more difficult.
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Sarkos
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Posted - 2005.10.31 21:36:00 -
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Originally by: Khaldorn Murino
Oh god, dont get the old timers out! We'll here stories of how it was better in the old days and even in beta, when everything was fought out on the forums.
And then they'll all get in their wheelchairs, have a race down the corridor and retire for tea and cakes.
Damn old-timers!
Sarkos rocks in his rocking chair and point to Khaldorn. Now see here youngster, respect yer elders and be quiet!
The old days were not better, but way different. The scale and scope of the EVE universe felt much larger and awe inspiring. Any round trip under 30 jumps was considered a walk in the park, and done on a normal basis. Before Auto-Pilot, you would set a course and your destination jump gate was outlined in yellow, to make it easier to see. You had to manually warp and jump though.
ISK was tough to come by. No real agents to generate cash and only Miner I's to mine with. The Dual Diode mining laser revolutionized mining. Hehe. The two uber weapons of the day were the H50 Heavy missle launcher, which could fire anything from a rocket to a torp, and the 650 Scout artillery, a cruiser weapon.
I remember seeing my first PC owned cruiser, Lord Zap in a Blackbird. Man, that was scary. However, Mo0 had a polocy at the time not to prey upon system neighbors, and we both shared the Gelfiven system at the time.I remember my entire 26 man corp going 144 round trip jumps to mine Bistot in a Fountain hidden belt. We spent all day mining and got about 30 million ISK worth of Mega and Zyd. It was an awesome amount at the time.
I remember having to fly deep into the Bleak Lands for one of the first Stabber BPO's, because according to the dev's the Stabber was originally an Amarr design stolen by the Minmatar and modified.
I remember the days before weapon auto reload, where you had to have your cargo bay open to drag and drop ammo onto the weapon to reload it. I remember when jumgates had a small issue. Sometimes you would jump and emmerge as a pod. No damage, it would just eat your ship. Then there was the infamous BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH! You would jump, but never reappear. Sometimes you were stuck for many hours like this, until a GM moved you.
I remember skills that were never implemented, like Mneumonics. A skill that was supposed to allow you to make copies of skill packs. I remember when people said battleships would ruin the game, and seeing one was awe inspiring and rare. I remember the absolute joy of getting my first BS, and the shear horror of losing it days later because I lacked the skills to fully utilize it, a mistake made often today by many people.
I've been here since Beta 4 and can say the old days were not better, only very different. Back then money was scarse but the player community seemed much friendlier and respectfull.
Sarkos
Either free the slaves or we will come and get them.
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Torze
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Posted - 2005.10.31 21:45:00 -
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I still remember the first time I was podded  Was like 2 weeks into the game and the now infamous MOO corp took over Nonni....I was so excited to have finally gotten a Merlin and then it gets lit up my Lord Zap!...he got me like 10 more times that first summer too lol
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