| Pages: 1 [2] 3 4 :: one page |
|
|
| Author |
Thread Statistics | Show CCP posts - 2 post(s) |
Reiisha
   |
Posted - 2006.03.29 06:41:00 -
[31]
Autopilot *was* both in beta and in retail, but not as a button. It was a chat function, something like /autop or soemthing....
But, for the rest, a shameless plug. Yes, it is relevant :)
|
F'nog
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 06:46:00 -
[32]
My time in Beta was short. It was a very different world back then. There was almost nothing out there when I joined in Beta 5. I had some fun experiementing with things, especially with gaining SPs from doing things like firing guns to up turret skills. But the world was pretty empty.
There wasn't much of a map, so you couldn't find anyone. There were only Angels that I knew about. You warped in at 60 km. There was no AP. There was the fun "Threat" window that opened up when someone targeted you. Belts were changing shape from patch to patch. Titans were just around the corner...
I didn't see much of the devs, but they were there, on the boards, although they didn't stand out like they do now with their gold bars and black backgrounds. So it was harder to tell who was who. But there was Pann, the Kieron of the day.
S&S sucked. The best way to illustrate this is the Beta 6 message: "Welcome to Eve. Everything is in the game and ready for launch!" Or something to that extent. At this point I don't think there were any Cruisers. There definitely weren't any BSes. There may have been some Indies. There were about 10 guns in total. Maybe 40 skills. Everyone who was in Beta 5 or before had a hearty chuckle at that, a chuckle that was tinged with fear at what CCP would release as a "finished" product, since only about 20% of the advertised content was available. By today's content standards there was about 5% of the game present.
I guess it's no surprise that I didn't join Eve until about 8 months later after Castor launched and there were actually things to do.
 Originally by: Bl4zer
But, cmon, this is the Eve forums, we don't let facts get in the way of pointless speculation.
|
Arwen Atreides
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 08:16:00 -
[33]
I remember there was a hotkey combo that allowed you to dock instantly. It was something like shift + C or something. Anyone remember?
Oh yeah, and I remember being chased by hundreds of concord cops in Yulai on the last day of beta after going on suicide rampage in a Mega. At that time concord didn't have the teeth they have now. You could actually run from them, and if you ran long enough they would give up their chase, even if you kept shooting people. That was fun.
- |
Garia666
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 08:25:00 -
[34]
When i joined there where only a 104 skilz
If your honorable brother tells you to cut your leg, you cut your leg. |
Sirilonwe
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 08:49:00 -
[35]
Originally by: Cabadrin
We didn't have a community manager [...]
Wrong, I for one remember Pann (which activated my beta account, because of a stupid mail problem. Direct from the beta IRC chan. Yup, thoses were the days).
____________________________________
Free ISP users, read this if you have connections problems
[b]I'm on Eris side! |
Steven Dynahir
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 09:22:00 -
[36]
Quote:
Wrong, I for one remember Pann (which activated my beta account, because of a stupid mail problem. Direct from the beta IRC chan. Yup, thoses were the days).
Confirm that, activated my Beta account too when I won the Name the Fedo contest. Unfortunately the game was in such shape at that time, that with all my efforts I couldn't run it at all.
Figured it would take some time to work, came back on the day that the game could be purchased online. (And it worked)
---
Sell orders
|
Karunel
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 09:45:00 -
[37]
What I remember most about late alpha / early beta, don't remember which, is having to manually move into a "circle oflights" to dock. God it was awful. 
Also, the "News" section which basically was some kind of in-game boards without control, and the paintshop. 
|
Maggot
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 09:53:00 -
[38]
It was damn hard work to make money (for me anyway). I used to make a few ISK selling skill packs in Assah.
I have stayed in Eve because of the roleplay wars with teh ebil slavers.
|
Pharuan
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 14:29:00 -
[39]
Whenever I created my beta characters I put on santa hats. It was a holiday special.
|
Logi3
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 14:42:00 -
[40]
Stackable mods!!
Armageddon x8 250 Protos + Full dmg mods down low. ROF of something like 2 secs and doing super damage. People think battles are too short now? :)
Major camp spot for pirates was Pasari.. Pashari? Cant remember the spelling
Comming out of warp and firing up MWD to keep max speed out of warps, never stood a chance of getting webbed/scrambled
Flying a scorp with all the mids having MWD and doing something like 90k m/s :D
|
|
|
Jowen Datloran
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 15:02:00 -
[41]
I remember being in my first Ibis and going through the pilot "tutorial" if that's not too much to call it.
I remember the Veldspar asteroid, "Target like this, mine like that."
I remember the tutorial drone, "Target like this, shoot like that." Then you scooped up the drone you just had been combatting... I miss that drone now.
After completing the few tutorial missions, which btw. even back then already included the purchase of a civ. shield booster, I remember my agent referring me to another more than 40 jumps away.
I also remember the rush after downtime to get minerals sold to the NPC as orders were reseeded.
And losing one of the few ships in my career (a Probe) to The Reverend flying a Stabber in 0.4 system in the days before sentry guns of course.
----------------
Main as main can be.
Freelance producer of:
Spike M hybrid ammo (1k/unit)
Damnation command cruiser (200m/unit) Now with BYOM deal, see bio for details. |
Bubbaloo
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 15:03:00 -
[42]
when you could fit multiple MWD, those were the days.
Also before they gave out class sized ab and mwd, just was one ab and one mwd.
Remember when I got my thorax, damn it looked so cool, and i could take on everything and everyone, my old corps HQ was like 10jumps from m0o HQ, and our 0.0 spot took us through that space, still feel the adrenaline pumping going through that space on a Badger with instas and constantly watching the map to see if there was a gatecamp up.
Bubbaloo - Raptus Regaliter |
Harisdrop
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 15:28:00 -
[43]
Its best to forget those times. EVE and CCP and customers have grown soo much the only thing that came out of that time was that its history. Live for today its much better.
--------------------------
I have big balls of Plasma coming out of my guns.
Come chat eveteamspeak.com
RSS |
Squall Derringer
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 15:35:00 -
[44]
I got Eve because of a pic of the thorax i saw on some site. It and the Deimos is still my favorite ship.
I joined a little bit before Caster. Back then, the Thorax had a huge drone bay (2000 i think, back when a heave drone was 250). I bough my first cruiser after about 3 weeks of mining in a frig and almost lost it to Skillz a few min after i bought it.
I miss when you could put as many MWD on a ship as you could fit. I'd have races with my buddys.
|
Kular
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 16:05:00 -
[45]
I miss Pann sometimes, espcially DJ Doby's song about her
Alot has already been mentioned, some of my old favorites was how "explorer" was actually a career back then, because no-one knew where anything was. before complexes and lvl 4 missions, spawn points use to be the best hunting grounds, and they we're hard as hell to find.
Imagine no Overview, no scan probes, and the system scanner taking between 15-30min to finnish depending on how many objects we're being scanned... yeah exploring was fun
Nija mining bist in 0.0, that was the best form of mining, even when npc's spawned you could just warp between roids, mine a bit then keep warping away from the bastards!
I miss alot of the "bugs" or way things we're pre-Castor period, but Eve is much better now, and its sooo much more complex with stuff to do!
www.AegisMilitia.com
For God, Empire, and Sarum! |
Viktor Fyretracker
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 16:56:00 -
[46]
fitting any missle in any launcher oh would i love to see the damage a 6x Assault Caracal could do with Torpedos as the ammo back then. sounds like it was an awsome period, kestrels packing cruise missles.
|
|
Redundancy
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 16:58:00 -
[47]
Originally by: Reiisha
Autopilot *was* both in beta and in retail, but not as a button. It was a chat function, something like /autop or soemthing....
But, for the rest, a shameless plug. Yes, it is relevant :)
It turned up in the late beta phases, initially as "/cmd autopilot on" iirc. It didn't exist in earlier betas, nor was there the ability to set a destination and have it find the shortest route for you. People wrote their own to get around the problem, which eventually convinced CCP to do it.
I have enduring memories of incredibly long comprehensive threads about UI bugs and issues on the beta forums, as well as fairly bulky game design discussions (including the jump in point stuff).
Incredible lag when people attacked Kwai and we got 80(?) or so people in a single area...
Being able to sell to NPCs remotely, so you never needed to move trade goods...
Docking by flying though the ring of lights at the correct speed...
When the Eve map wasn't bigger than a few systems, and when it grew to around the size of a region...
Long time ago now, tis all getting a bit hazy.
|
|
Deros
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 17:16:00 -
[48]
Redundancy speaketh the truth, i think on my other PC (no access to it for another 4wks) that i have an old player made map and some other screenshots.
i remember in the beta being sent player created maps and data in order to navigate to systems with this that or the other in.
a big memory is beta 4 where i flew with the x-traders, in a large scale battle using cruisers to see what happened. that is what got me hooked on the game.
well that and i liked my cruise missile spamming, paradise v.... thorax, ah well, cant have it all i guess
8)
Deros
|
qrac
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 17:37:00 -
[49]
using stuff like afterburners and expanders gave u skillpoints. there was also a skill-training exploit. i remember submitting a bug report about duping too when my merlin's hold was overfilled with antimatter ammo. the bottom right radar broke the targetting reticles on my graphics card.
-------------------------------------------
Boycott Starforce! |
Rutoo
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 18:16:00 -
[50]
forgot about the insanely hard Gate rats in almost every system.
you would warp to gate, see 4-5 NPC rats and get popped, Made it hard to get outta a dead end system :)
________________________________
Club Seals Not Sandwichs |
|
|
Druid R
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 18:35:00 -
[51]
no cloaking when u landed in gate drop off point, remember sum pirates killing me, i was in my pod and scrambled b4 my screen had even loaded, they tried to ransom me but i smacked :( and they uttered the line 'say hello to your clone for me', wish i remembered who they were so could go kill em. I remember when destroyers came out (much later on) and everybody rushing to buy/uild em only to find out they were rubbish
Dru.
Welcome to the hijacked sig club. YARRR!!!11!one -Kaemonn
I wanters, aren't getters. ohh. Oops. -Capsicum |
VonKaplanek III
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 18:42:00 -
[52]
-Megacyte was going for 14k/each
-insta appear on the other side of gates, if your computer sucked you wer dead before you even loaded the other side.
-Aurohunen/Passari were BAD bAD bAD....ViceRoy gave me my first podding
-Crilere stuff when cloaks came out and the empire BS spawns that we used to fight over in Miroitem, 6 x 250k Scorp BS was HUGE at the time!! If you managed to get a XL-C5 or an arbalest seige you were rich!!
-The other chick voice we used to have
-going to 0.0 with 2 mining ships and 10 haulers and coming back full and we were RICH!!!
|
Aldor
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 18:44:00 -
[53]
Well I joined the day it released to the US.
Like has been said the frigate was the best ship, the ONLY ship. PKing was the order of the day and mostly in syndicate. I remember when I got my first cruiser (Celestis). And chaining (yes you could do that then) Drug Barons was the best NPC hunting you could do (keep in mind the Drug Barons were what 60k? bounty). If you flew a Thorax you were pimp. Seeing a BS out in space was like seeing a Dread or capital ship now. People would come from nearby systems to see the BS.
When you wanted to go from one station to another to pickup a ship you had to buy a cheap ship (atron) and fly there and resell the ship you used to fly there with.
Item boosts were stackable with no penalty.
You could spend days in 0.0 and not see another person.
The most missed thing about old days was rat chaining. You could get a good chain going to where you never stopped killing rats. I remember I had a chain of 3 Barons and 4 frigates. I used a snipe setup and there would be a line of cargo cans from the spawn point to where I sat. The most cans I had at one time was 150 in a belt.
Then again like someone else said that was when there were less than 8k people on during peak times.
Good times, noodle salad.
|
Saturn
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 19:01:00 -
[54]
Its good to read about these things. Here are a few more from Early Eve (not in cronological order  ).
1. ALL blueprints early on were originals and unlimited. You could copy the copy if you liked. I still have many but somewhere along the way they became "max run" BPC's.
2. Spodumain was an excellent ore and many miners made their money on Omber in a 1.0.
3. "Stamped Heat Sinks" stacked wonderfully with the "Surgical Strike" skill and knowing that was a HUGE advantage early on.
4. The release if Industrials was like releasing a fleet of limosene's to the beta community. If you had one you were the king in chat.
5. One of the big arguments then was "To train all my "Learning skills to lvl V or not" threads.
6. The Amarr "Champion" vote and resulting team frigate fights was a excellent early RP event that gave a few players a chance to make their mark in our Universe.
I have a few screen's that I might post if I can dig them up. Yesterday I looked through my characters likes and dislikes and there were still names from the beginning. Anyone remember "j0rt", "The Reverand", "Stavros" and their many m0o brothers.
Also does anyone remember what the Eve Client was called before it went gold hmmmm? 
_________
"Our inmates are dedicated to producing the best license plates for your ships."
-Saturn, Warden and CEO of Prison Corp |
Kurren
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 19:03:00 -
[55]
Edited by: Kurren on 29/03/2006 19:04:54
Originally by: Corbin Devereux
I remember when the thorax was implemented. I thought it was so uber lol. My ceo had one and i looked on from my lowly omen in envy. On related note i remember how my whole corp freaked out when he zoomed by our mining op in it with a MWD. None of us knew what a microwarp was at the time. We were all like "WTF how did he do that?! ".
HAHA, yeah, that Thorax... I thought it was uber... I've personally lost about 15 of them (give or take), but when I got my first one!! I almost crapped myself! I could literally spend hours just hoverng around it with the camera.
Originally by: Beringe
Originally by: Xelios
A certain corp called m0o frequently terrorized the n00b systems and were actually attacked by GM's in CONCORD ships. The GM's were slaughtered and ended up moving all the m0o members to random systems throughout EVE. A lot of exploit yelling was caused when m0o found some named gyrostabilizers that added 40% damage and ROF, fully stackable without penalty. Instapwn was the order of the day and many a noob cried exploit until the gyros were nerfed.
Actually, the whole 'GMs in CONCORD ships' resulted in the m0o blockade being scattered and a few (at least one) m0o pilot being podded...they actually didn't stand any kind of chance against the nber ships of the devs.
But then, they were back the day after that. And soon after, their entire camp was teleported to some other system, which got a lot of criticism at the time.
As for the 40% damage mod, it wasn't quite like that. It was just that a certain heat sink had a bugged reaction with the surgical strike skill, resulting in a ridiculous damage modifier. It was fixed, but it didn't stop the slaughter in Mara/Passari.
They did kill a Dev which prompted the UBERDEV Squad to roll in... if memory serves me correctly. The blockade was one of the most amazing things I'd ever seen... from a very far distance!!
Originally by: Bubbaloo
when you could fit multiple MWD, those were the days.
OH MAN!! Being able to do 1500... 2000... in a Thorax... if only for a split second... it was so AWESOME!! Yeah, those were the days.
--- --- --- ---
SobaKai.com
|
dazedandconfused
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 19:56:00 -
[56]
I played right when the game came out and then quit for a year or two and then came back, and what I remember is....
I remember attacking people and then docking right after.
I remember Lord Zapp killing me over and over with his Domi (the first bs I ever saw).
The map and trade system was very different from what I remember. I remember working my butt off just to buy a moa, and then getting it blown up, and then repeating etc etc.
I don't remember tracking at all, and I remember fitting lasers on my Moa.
I remember not having advanced learning skills or implants, and thus eagerly waiting for lvl 4 skills to finish as if they were level 5 skills.
I hauled robotics a lot and belt ratted.
|
Calvert
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 19:58:00 -
[57]
If I remember his name correctly then Scrappy Jack pwnd the forums. Was funny as hell. This thread sure brings some good and bad memories. |
Zaxx
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 20:20:00 -
[58]
Originally by: Calvert
If I remember his name correctly then Scrappy Jack pwnd the forums. Was funny as hell. This thread sure brings some good and bad memories.
Ahh Scrapyard Jack, the source of many coffee + keyboard disasters 
Originally by: Redundancy
...when people attacked Kwai...
A name that still causes terror to this day 
I still miss my MWD bestower. Oh, and the threat window (BleeeeeeeeeEEEP!). The one thing I really miss is when everything felt so big and empty, it was rare to get over 2000 online and I could often go for days without seeing anybody.
/me gets all nostalgic |
Native
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 20:31:00 -
[59]
Originally by: Saturn
Also does anyone remember what the Eve Client was called before it went gold hmmmm?
Medusa
|
Krait
|
Posted - 2006.03.29 20:38:00 -
[60]
Played since beta. Took a long break after the first major patch that changed the security rankings of the map that totalled our corps business model.
The absolute worst thing that was NOT in, was divisional folders for the corp hangar. This lead to massive corp thefts as there was no way to secure anything. The game was definately not ready for release, but that was because SSI and CCP were about to go bankrupt. SSI (U.S. distributor for EVE) did, CCP got the distribution rights back and managed to hang on. The game was so Alpha at release....if the game could have been released as promoted by marketing, it would make the current game truly suck.
Probably the one thing that was done wrong that has had the longest effect was the ablity to make unlimited numbers of copies of the bpo's. Originally, the bp's were to be limited to three archival copies. This totally wrecked the economic model that everyone was expecting.
I loved when the X-70MU system in Pure Blind was .9 with stations in the middle of 0.0.
Anyway...looks like Kali is another step towards the original vision.
_______________________________________________
...been there, done that |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
| Pages: 1 [2] 3 4 :: one page |
| First page | Previous page | Next page | Last page |