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The Enslaver
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:01:00 -
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May 6th, 2003. "Server starting (600 seconds)"
Three years ago today, the tranquility cluster started up for the first time. Since that point, the game has changed almost beyond recognition. Alliances have risen, fallen... Alliances have risen in their place, and again fallen... Or in some places - they have even survived. EVE provides the ultimate platform for both group and solo PVP, this is one aspect that CCP has truly mastered.
I started playing EVE about a month before it was launched, in the late stages of beta. I was very lost at first due to the lack of a decent tutorial - but within a week or so, I was hooked. I can't remember everything that happened but I do recall things such as killing other newbs randomly outside a station in 1.0 space when there wasn't any concord response and sentry guns were broken (ahem), and joining my first corp, which I knew from Earth and Beyond - the British Space Corporation. I mined arkonor with them in a 0.1 system called Arakor, and after the game was launched, I admittedly also spent the first week or so mining arkonor in the same system... But I don't want to talk about that!
Since that point, I've explored almost every aspect the game has to offer - I've been a miner, a mission runner - and mostly, a PVPer. I've headed up the construction of outposts, I've been part of alliances as they have both risen and fallen, but the strange thing is, after three years of playing for multiple hours a day, I still feel as if I have barely scratched the surface.
EVE is a truely incredible game - a true PVP game, both with its dynamic markets and its PVP - and most of all the player created entities that have been forming, evolving and now are starting to become true rival's to the games NPC factions. Thank you, CCP, for this - you have created a true masterpiece.
I'd like to add a final note that I think is important. Everyone in this game - all the 90% of the population that lives in empire, should try 0.0 life for a month. After that, trust me when I say - EVE begins in 0.0.
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Atlas Oracle
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:04:00 -
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you deserve a cookie
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Dark Shikari
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:09:00 -
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Edited by: Dark Shikari on 06/05/2006 00:12:06
 Originally by: The Enslaver
Since that point, I've explored almost every aspect the game has to offer - I've been a miner, a mission runner - and mostly, a PVPer. I've headed up the construction of outposts, I've been part of alliances as they have both risen and fallen, but the strange thing is, after three years of playing for multiple hours a day, I still feel as if I have barely scratched the surface.
EVE is a truely incredible game - a true PVP game, both with its dynamic markets and its PVP - and most of all the player created entities that have been forming, evolving and now are starting to become true rival's to the games NPC factions. Thank you, CCP, for this - you have created a true masterpiece.
This is one of the best summaries I have ever seen of the EVE experience.
Happy Birthday, EVE... and many more!
P.S. Good job getting the post in one minute after the turn of the clock 
[23] Member: Official Forum Warrior
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Aeaus
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:11:00 -
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Originally by: Dark Shikari
Edited by: Dark Shikari on 06/05/2006 00:09:37
Originally by: The Enslaver
Since that point, I've explored almost every aspect the game has to offer - I've been a miner, a mission runner - and mostly, a PVPer. I've headed up the construction of outposts, I've been part of alliances as they have both risen and fallen, but the strange thing is, after three years of playing for multiple hours a day, I still feel as if I have barely scratched the surface.
EVE is a truely incredible game - a true PVP game, both with its dynamic markets and its PVP - and most of all the player created entities that have been forming, evolving and now are starting to become true rival's to the games NPC factions. Thank you, CCP, for this - you have created a true masterpiece.
This is one of the best summaries I have ever seen of the EVE experience.
Happy Birthday, EVE... and many more!
Seconded *mad stamping spree*
*gets emotional*
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Rutoo
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:12:00 -
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yea it's been great
Post had to be ruined by a guy that had no clue also :(
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Mned Graydroggen
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:13:00 -
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Thnx for a great ride Dev's, Been a great three years, hope there will be many more
Mned
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Dark Shikari
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:24:00 -
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And as a little "anniversery gift" to the EVE community, here's the original EVE theme music. It was still in the STUFF files last I checked (8 months or more ago), but most players probably don't know its there.
I like it.
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Dimitri Chandler
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:27:00 -
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Originally by: The Enslaver
Posted - 2006.05.06 00:01:00
Nice
And congrats to the dev team and all the veteran players for sticking eve out so long and making it the great game it is today.
Nothing on the planet even comes remotely close.
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kieron
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:39:00 -
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On behalf of the Dev, GM and volunteer teams, I would like to express our deepest and most sincere thanks to each and every member of the EVE community. Here we are, the game that the 'industry experts' said wouldn't last 6 months, celebrating our third anniversary and we owe this to the community that has stuck with us through it all.
Thank you for supporting EVE and CCP. Thank you for 3 wonderful years and here's looking forward to another 10+.
kieron
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Dark Shikari
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:40:00 -
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Originally by: kieron
On behalf of the Dev, GM and volunteer teams, I would like to express our deepest and most sincere thanks to each and every member of the EVE community. Here we are, the game that the 'industry experts' said wouldn't last 6 months, celebrating our third anniversary and we owe this to the community that has stuck with us through it all.
Thank you for supporting EVE and CCP. Thank you for 3 wonderful years and here's looking forward to another 10+.
IAK! (In After Kieron!)
I am honored to be part of the community that you are thanking. To another 3 years! *toast*
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Beringe
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:41:00 -
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Well done CCP, and...til hamingju.
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Sakura Nihil
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:43:00 -
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Congrutalations on the great work guys, I couldn't have been happier to have found this game a year ago.
May our collective future be bright together  .
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Barthez Thed
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:43:00 -
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And just to think that lately the numbers have risen to bursting point (literally) so in 3 years time are we going to see 50k concurrent users online? will we have the hardware to support such a feat? I hope so.
Happy birthday eve
"It's hard to be religeous when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning" -Me
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Valar
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:45:00 -
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I too played in beta and joined EVE again shortly after release. I was unable to join the first few days because I was moving. Then I was just a regular player... hooked on EVE and driving my gf mad with the "Can you wait just 10 more minutes, I have to finish this mission" or "I can't leave the computer now, I'm in dangerous terratory".
I was so overwhelmed with the quality of the game that I wanted to be involved.
The first step in that direction was joining the ISD bughunting team in January 2004.
The bughunting really cut into my EVE playing time, however, being involved in making the game I love better more then made up for that.
8 months later, after spending most of my free time bughunting, Hellmar invited me to CCP for a job interview. One week later I was working for CCP, in the QA department.
Ca.
3 months ago I moved on from the QA department to the operations team and became a DBA and now I am the guy that makes the server say "Server starting (600 seconds)".
Its amazing how EVE has changed the life of so many people... mine being one.
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Danton Marcellus
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:50:00 -
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Edited by: Danton Marcellus on 06/05/2006 00:50:22
It's my duty to be on this thread.
Oh and worst summary ever! 
EVE taught me to pilot spacecrafts when Elite failed.
Congratulations guys.
Remind me about The Maze.
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Lonagan
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:51:00 -
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Nice post Enslaver
And happy birthday EVE
Hmmm wheres the cake?
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Cetshwayo
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:52:00 -
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Edited by: Cetshwayo on 06/05/2006 00:52:40
Originally by: Dark Shikari
And as a little "anniversery gift" to the EVE community, here's the original EVE theme music. It was still in the STUFF files last I checked (8 months or more ago), but most players probably don't know its there.
I like it.
Ah memories...
Do you by chance have the Castor music that plays just as you load the client but not connect yet? I really liked that one as well for some reason.
Also...happy B-Day EVE!!
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Kasibee'an
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:52:00 -
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You've had me hooked since day one. Thank you for the gaming experience of my life.
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Hermia
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:55:00 -
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i think i joined about a month after release (not with this char, with my other account "Jayad"), been following eve ever since.
I think its the community really, it certainly has its moments, very entertaining.
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Benglada
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Posted - 2006.05.06 01:02:00 -
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Im in tears  To many more years...
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Unfrtinately you dnot get to vote.. 
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Nyphur
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Posted - 2006.05.06 01:18:00 -
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The fact that eve rose from practically nothing, from just a bunch of guys deciding to make a game, inspires me. Ideally, I would like to get a placement year at CCP next year to get some internal experience but they haven't gotten back to me about it so I assume they don't want me. Some day, I want to be in Oveur's position, not in eve but in my own creation. Maybe not any time soon but some day I will have made a game, successful or not, that's based around my own personal vision and not around making a profit, keeping players happy or getting a lot of subscribers. It'll be my own little world.
I could start now but I don't have the time with University and everything and any time I do have is spent playing eve. And then every time I actually start working on it, I eventually get disheartened by the responses my friends give me when I talk about it. Other people can be pretty demotivational sometimes and it doesn't take much to make me get depressed and give up.
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Karunel
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Posted - 2006.05.06 01:24:00 -
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Such a long way from these pre-release days when almost all testers were screaming "Don't release yet", and a not-so-optimistic view of the future shortly after release...
Well, I guess the quality in EVE's design managed to keep it alive while it was still a bit green and now the vast improvements it has gone through have shaped EVE to be what's in my opinion the best game ever. Such freedom, possibilities, the "feeling" of being part of something alive, even the background, most of the time a bit too scarce for those of us with a liking for a good story; all of it have sumed up to make up the whole of EVE. A game in which you can't pretend you know everything even after playing for 3 years, always changing, always evolving to a better thing (even if sometimes you can't but miss the good old days TM).
Thank you CCP for such an awesome game, and may we have the opportunity to celebrate many more EVEbirthdays.
GO EVE! 
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Darken Two
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Posted - 2006.05.06 01:27:00 -
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OMG Happy Birthday Eve. Three years and I still love it. If only I could keep a girlfriend this long.....
Originally by: Blind Fear
Generally, when trying to be a puppetmaster, it is considered good form not to wrap the strings around your neck and choke yourself.
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Erik Pathfinder
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Posted - 2006.05.06 01:56:00 -
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Happy Anniversary, EVE-Online!
Good job keeping the game running for 3 years, CCP.
May it keep running for years still.
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Edison Frisk
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Posted - 2006.05.06 01:58:00 -
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Originally by: Danton Marcellus
Edited by: Danton Marcellus on 06/05/2006 00:50:22
EVE taught me to pilot spacecrafts when Elite failed.
I dont believe that until the devs introduce a tricky elite-esque docking manouver without autodock where you have to line up your ship with the rectangle slot - aaah those were the days!
Congrats CCP and happy birthday Eve, can't imagine what else I would spend so much of my time on, I am awating reconnection at my house after a move and have to resort to watching TV at home, god help me if the wife gets frisky 
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Kaemonn
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Posted - 2006.05.06 02:36:00 -
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Happy Birthday Eve! Heres to another awesome year *drinks mug of beer*
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Xorus
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Posted - 2006.05.06 03:28:00 -
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Congratulations to all those that have helped to make and shape EVE in to what it has now become, i didn't take part in the BETA nor did i get it atrelease, i have only been a member of this community for about 2 years but already i have seen it blossom and grow in to what we now call home.
There have been many changes to the game over the time i've been playing and i have enjoyed every second of the time i have spent playing EVE and now as an ISD member i'm finally able to help give something back to the community that i have loved so much.
CCP i salute you and i thank you for creating something this enjoyable for both me and everyone i have grown to know over the years, here's hoping that things carry on for years to come
*Raises Glass*
Happy Birthday EVE-Online
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Becq Starforged
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Posted - 2006.05.06 03:46:00 -
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Happy Birthday, EVE! (I was threatened with being podded if I didn't say this, even though I'm currently in the middle of a fight in a mission.)
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Leandra Anor
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Posted - 2006.05.06 03:48:00 -
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I have been playing Eve for 6 months now and wish I had known about it long ago! Kudos on the anniversary and thanks for an awesome game!!
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Bbllaarrgg
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Posted - 2006.05.06 04:12:00 -
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Originally by: The Enslaver
I'd like to add a final note that I think is important. Everyone in this game - all the 90% of the population that lives in empire, should try 0.0 life for a month. After that, trust me when I say - EVE begins in 0.0.
Have to agree with that, whilst i may live in mission *****ing land atm, hes 123% right.
Anyway, this was the game i always wanted and diddn't even know it till i started playing. I wish i'd payed more attention to my buddy who started a good 6 months before i did.
Thank you for making it ccp, may your women be free and plentiful, and your beer mugs never run out.
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Silver Night
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Posted - 2006.05.06 04:44:00 -
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Congrats on 3 great years. I was a late beta joiner too, phase 6? after bailing from the cartoony, friendly horror of E&B. And I've been hooked ever since. Thanks to the Devs and the community for making this the greatest online game ever concieved by man.
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Caldari Patriot.
Murderer of (his own) Frigates.
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Idara
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Posted - 2006.05.06 04:50:00 -
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Originally by: Cetshwayo
Edited by: Cetshwayo on 06/05/2006 00:52:40
Ah memories...
Do you by chance have the Castor music that plays just as you load the client but not connect yet? I really liked that one as well for some reason.
Also...happy B-Day EVE!!
Is this the one?
Also, Happy Frackin' Birthday EVE!
Longest I've ever played an MMO straight was 5 months with Earth and Beyond, then 6 month break and then back for Sunset...EVE's had me subbed for over 2 years.
<3 CCP!
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Bohoba
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Posted - 2006.05.06 05:01:00 -
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Happy Birthday EVE
I to came to EVE after EnB been 2 1/2 years for me and still love the game.
Let's rock n roll forever :)
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Tachy
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Posted - 2006.05.06 05:07:00 -
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Happy birthday EVE!
Thank you for the great ride!
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Megadon
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F'nog
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Posted - 2006.05.06 05:39:00 -
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Happy Birthday.
So, who killed the Emperor?
Originally by: Bl4zer
But, cmon, this is the Eve forums, we don't let facts get in the way of pointless speculation.
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Mr Popov
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Posted - 2006.05.06 05:48:00 -
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Congrats CCP. I remember the days of the "old" website. Anyone have any pics of that? Man that would bring back some memories.
3 more days till my 3rd birthday. 
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Drahcir Nasom
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Posted - 2006.05.06 06:04:00 -
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Congratulations CCP
I was given a copy of Eve for my 35th birthday on May 4th 2003. I didn't start playing on day 1, but at 17:51 on Sunday this character will be 3 years old. Eve was and still is the only MMORPG I've ever played, but for the last 3 years it has pretty much been the only game I've played. It would have to be a pretty spectacular MMORPG to drag me away from this game which I love.
Here's to many more anniversaries.
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Arcticblue2
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Posted - 2006.05.06 06:32:00 -
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happy birthday EVE-Online... have had me hooked for over 2 years now
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Jarnis McPieksu
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Posted - 2006.05.06 06:39:00 -
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Originally by: kieron
On behalf of the Dev, GM and volunteer teams, I would like to express our deepest and most sincere thanks to each and every member of the EVE community. Here we are, the game that the 'industry experts' said wouldn't last 6 months, celebrating our third anniversary and we owe this to the community that has stuck with us through it all.
Well, the bit where somewhere, along the way, the devs actually made that buggy and unfun pile of unfinished code (EVE at launch) into the premier PvP MMO that it's today sure didn't hurt...
Now, quick, go make it better an shinyer :)
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oizo
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Posted - 2006.05.06 06:40:00 -
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happy birthday eve-online  2 months and its 3 years for me too.
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FFGR
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Posted - 2006.05.06 06:57:00 -
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Happy 3rd birthday EvE.
I hope it will be on for much more time, as it is one of the 3 games that I have played for more than 3 months continued and the only game that I play almost every day for over a year (2 years+ atm for me).
Congratulations to all ISD and Devs for making one of the best and most successful games on the market.
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mazzilliu
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Posted - 2006.05.06 07:21:00 -
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Originally by: kieron
---Here we are, the game that the 'industry experts' said wouldn't last 6 months, celebrating our third anniversary and we owe this to the community that has stuck with us through it all.---
Originally by: Nyphur
---And then every time I actually start working on it, I eventually get disheartened by the responses my friends give me when I talk about it. Other people can be pretty demotivational sometimes and it doesn't take much to make me get depressed and give up.---
noone said doing something like this would be easy! or that anyone would agree with you. you oughtn't listen to them, i think.
on topic:
i havent played eve for long, but i love the game. i really really wish i had joined eve earlier and did not waste my time with other games and their sucky support and releases :(
three cheers for CCP
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Sig removed BEFORE the mods got to it bahaha -mazzilliu
But we can play with it after. ~kieron
that should be considered an exploit >[ -mazzilliu
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Posted - 2006.05.06 07:33:00 -
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Well, what can I say? Here go's,
Augest 2nd 2003 (Or 1 month after game release): "Nelix Trist" Created
Augest 2nd 2003 (Or 1 month after game release): I thought, "OMGWTFOWNAGE!!!!!!!!111111oneoneoneeleven"
Pressent date: I still think "OMGWTFOWNAGE!!!!!!!!111111oneoneoneeleven"
Grats CCP and Happy Birthday.
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Erik Pathfinder
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Posted - 2006.05.06 07:38:00 -
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Originally by: Idara
Originally by: Cetshwayo
Edited by: Cetshwayo on 06/05/2006 00:52:40
Ah memories...
Do you by chance have the Castor music that plays just as you load the client but not connect yet? I really liked that one as well for some reason.
Also...happy B-Day EVE!!
Is this the one?
Also, Happy Frackin' Birthday EVE!
Longest I've ever played an MMO straight was 5 months with Earth and Beyond, then 6 month break and then back for Sunset...EVE's had me subbed for over 2 years.
<3 CCP!
I joined the game when this was the main-screen music. Brings back memories of the first time I played eve. The awe of discovering new things every day, which I still do. Thank you for posting that.
*goes and cries halfway through the music
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Lardarz B'stard
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Posted - 2006.05.06 07:53:00 -
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Happy Birthday Eve.
10x better now than it was at release, and it was the best thing ever then.
All the devs and all the community should take the credit for lasting as long and sticking with it. Fantastic achievement.
By the way - I made the (perhaps rather stupid) move of posting on the 'pub' board at MMORPG.com to wish Eve Happy Birthday there too. God only knows what kind of WoW-crazed flaming thats gonna get :)
MMORPG Thread
I notice Eve is back up to the top there as well, having knocked GW Factions off the top slot.
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Klurig
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Posted - 2006.05.06 07:54:00 -
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Aye, birth day! And a happy day it is!
Here's hoping for another 3!
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QwaarJet
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Posted - 2006.05.06 07:57:00 -
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Happy birthday! Here's to many more.
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Omber Zombie
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Posted - 2006.05.06 07:58:00 -
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Happy Birthday guys, you deserve all the praise you get.
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Karl Shade
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Posted - 2006.05.06 08:10:00 -
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Thanks CCP and happy birthday Eve.
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LoxyRider
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Posted - 2006.05.06 08:50:00 -
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Im 3 years old! Yay!
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Posted - 2006.05.06 08:50:00 -
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Xrak
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Posted - 2006.05.06 09:28:00 -
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Happy Birthday Eve!
(Any chance you can get some of those Arc's finished now? how about doing something with those Complexe Fulleren Shards and jove body parts?)
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rig0r
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Posted - 2006.05.06 09:59:00 -
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Congratulations CCP and EVE players on an excellent achievement
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Dak Hakin
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Posted - 2006.05.06 10:05:00 -
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Wow, happy birthday Eve.
I have not been playing a year yet, possibly 8 months? Anyway, I was looking to get into mmorpgs, and went to mmorpg.com to find one. Found a free demo for Eve there, and well, here I am still. 2 accounts, and I dont regret a minute of it. There is so much depth, and more important to me, open-endedness to the game that I dont think I will ever get bored.
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Grimpak
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Posted - 2006.05.06 10:10:00 -
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3 years eh?
played a bit in beta. I remember those days lol. Specially before AP was introduced.
...and before warps were made at 3AU/sec...
...and seeing a tristan was something that you would go "OOOOOH" and "AAAAAAAH"
omg teh days.
...then it went retail, and I had to stop playing.
returned in december of the same month and I haven't stop ever since.
Things changed allot that's for sure.
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Shoot him ingame if you don't like this person. If you do like him, go mine veldspar with him.
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Nyphur
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Posted - 2006.05.06 10:13:00 -
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Originally by: mazzilliu
noone said doing something like this would be easy! or that anyone would agree with you. you oughtn't listen to them, i think.
I know you're right but I can be very hard to motivate at times. I guess that's why most people get a team together for a project like this instead of working on it by themselves - it gives them a more immediate deadline.
Happy birthday eve. I never thought I would get this deep into a game. I really didn't. Eve is so much more than just a game, it's a community and a way of life and I'm pround to be part of it.
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Jinx Barker
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Posted - 2006.05.06 10:41:00 -
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Indeed, Happy Birthday EVE. As a small trivia.. did you know that Sigmund Freud is 150 Years Old Today? Yeop, EVE was borne on the same day as Freud.
Amyway, 3 years is a big deal, more to come!
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Hakera
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Posted - 2006.05.06 10:48:00 -
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Woot - well done CCP & Eveians.
still waiting for the year 106-107 review as well lol.
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Nyphur
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Posted - 2006.05.06 10:54:00 -
[59]
Originally by: Jinx Barker
did you know that Sigmund Freud is 150 Years Old Today?
Well he's not really, he's dead :p.
Eve-Tanking.com - For the ultimate tanking spreadsheet and resources. |
Suvereign
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Posted - 2006.05.06 11:11:00 -
[60]
Happy birthday EVE !
Thanks CCP
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Lori Carlyle
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Posted - 2006.05.06 11:16:00 -
[61]
You mean the games outta beta... damn never would have guessed 
Congrats on the 3 years.
PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK ERISGREEN
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MysticNZ
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Posted - 2006.05.06 11:17:00 -
[62]
EVE will out live the computer :P
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Helison
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Posted - 2006.05.06 11:19:00 -
[63]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Gratulations CCP for this wonderful game!
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Hehulk
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Posted - 2006.05.06 11:25:00 -
[64]
3 Years?
Blimy, and I just passed 1 year in-game. Happy birthday eve, Nice one CCP with pussing it to the highs it's reached, and please, don't stop pushing. We're just getting to the fun stuff
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Avon
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Posted - 2006.05.06 11:26:00 -
[65]
I've been paying for this account for three whole years?
I gotta get out more.
Anyway, happy birthday to the Eve community - well done to all of you!
Oh, I guess we should congratulate CCP too.
Looking forward to another year of + = +
The Battleships is not and should not be a solo pwnmobile - Oveur |
Karona
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Posted - 2006.05.06 11:28:00 -
[66]
Happy 3rd birthday EVE
Congratulations CCP, keep up the great work
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KaraThrace
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Posted - 2006.05.06 11:34:00 -
[67]
HAPPY B'DAY EVE!
gogogo BSC!
IskLess |
Soulis
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Posted - 2006.05.06 11:46:00 -
[68]
i will remember this game for the rest of my life.
simply amazing.
happy birthday eve!
Shinra - The Good Guys
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Max Flame
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Posted - 2006.05.06 11:46:00 -
[69]
Happy bday to eve, SHE deserves all our anniversary wishes tbh ^^. And thankyou ccp for such a great game
I like to kill people
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Dawson
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Posted - 2006.05.06 11:47:00 -
[70]
Guess that would also make it British Space corp's 3 year birthday also.
Really amazing this game, no other has kept me hooked for so long, been playing since beta phase 2 and still going. think that was in 2002 4 years, thats a long time
Ambassador/Admiral
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Iron Wraith
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Posted - 2006.05.06 11:50:00 -
[71]
wahoo! 3 years 
anyone from beta remember syndicate? it had no names on the jump gates and no autopilot . navigating syndicate was sooo much fun!
now open the smegging servers up! fluster full[0] is a real mean trick to play on us (tho god speed on fixing something if ure having problem, pc's are NOT logical no matter that they say!)
great game, has had me hooked for ages. even found RL love in scolluzer! now that was something i didnt expact from staying locked up in my room bashing rats all night
Because sometimes you just have to go back to your roots:
[2005.02.20 01:08:03] (combat) Your Civilian Light Electron Blaster perfectly strikes Serpentis Smuggler, wrecking for 20.3 damage. |
VeNT
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Posted - 2006.05.06 11:56:00 -
[72]
after playing beta for about a year (pre gold) I just remeber thinking on that last day, with the battleships, the full skills, the madness "I've godda have this!!", but I couldn't afford it (no CC) and had to wait till may 17th to get it as a birthday prezzie.
those days, between the 6th and the 17th were the longest days of my life.
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DEATH OR GLORY!
Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Tennyson 4tw! ~kieron |
Maggot
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Posted - 2006.05.06 11:59:00 -
[73]
Congratulations to all!
Anyone remember the eve meet in London during Beta. 35 people in a pub in Hammersmith - we have come a long way! What a game. Thank you CCP.
Maggot
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Fantome
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Posted - 2006.05.06 12:07:00 -
[74]
gratz to all players and CCP !
I've started Eve during beta 4 and never leaved it since that time....
Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum. |
Sucram
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Posted - 2006.05.06 12:13:00 -
[75]
Edited by: Sucram on 06/05/2006 12:14:53
Happy birthday EVE!!!
I¦ve been playing since 2003-10-31 and I have¦nt been able to quit.
It¦s wierd how a game can keep you "hooked" for over 2,5 year.
Well here¦s to the year that have gone and the years to come.
Congrats again and a big "Thank you", to the people behind the Jove faces...
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SirDeadalot
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Posted - 2006.05.06 12:20:00 -
[76]
Edited by: SirDeadalot on 06/05/2006 12:21:44
As a relative noob (only 18 months old), my first experience of Eve was when everyone starting leaving BSC in Earth & Beyond to go to this new fangled game with a girl's name
I still liked EnB and stuck it out to the bitter end - I have fond memories of me and Enslaver camping out newbie systems in EnB handing out free weapons to new players to their consternation.
In the end, EnB died and I always knew where I'd end up! I joined the game and with a bit of time and help from BSC old-timers (including Ens) I managed to learn the game. I think I'd been playing months though before I really understood what an insta was and how to make one.
Anyway, Eve is the first game where I like it more now than when I started, and it works for hardcore players with time on their hands as well as for part-timers like me who have a busy RL and a wife that would happily come to CCP's offices and throttle the devs for creating the game that takes so much of her husband's time!
Happy Birthday Eve, and long may it continue.
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Hasan Rachid
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Posted - 2006.05.06 12:43:00 -
[77]
Been here 15 months and loved every minute of it! I'm just gutted that my instinct 3 years ago to try Eve wasn't acted on 
Here's to another 3 years!
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Reiisha
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Posted - 2006.05.06 12:49:00 -
[78]
November 2002 saw my first beta invite....
May 14th 2003 saw the birth of this character.
Seeing as i'm still here, words of praise are uneccesary :)
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50freefly
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Posted - 2006.05.06 13:01:00 -
[79]
Edited by: 50freefly on 06/05/2006 13:03:56
Happy Birthday EVE!!!
I came to EVE about 3 months ago (the end of January), as I was getting bored with the MMORPG I was currently playing. I decided, just for kicks, to go to mmorpg.com. I looked at the top 5 list of games and noticed that EVE was number one, so I checked out the review. It was EVERYTHING I ever wanted in a game and more. A game that didn't require you to click and click and click to get you to the top, a game where having accounts shared by many won't help you, a game where everything goes, and you can do anything you please.
So, I tried it out. I got a trial account and started the tutorial (which I had read was boring). I stuck with it, and the next day joined Purify, where the great group of pilots there helped get me started in EVE (I'm still with Purify to this very day). Ever since EVE has been where I go when I haven't got homework or studying to do.
The awesome graphics and overall coolness of the idea was what lured me, but it was the community that hooked me. I may only be 14 years old, but I still value maturity greatly. EVE is a game that requires intelligence, rather than massive amounts of free time or strong finger joints, to enjoy and operate within, and I believe that that has greatly improved the community within the game.
I am greatly disappointed that 2 years ago, when I could have joined EVE, I happened upon a different game instead.
Congratulations, CCP, and thank you, for all the hard work you did to get to this point, and may you prosper for many more years.
"I can do all things through Him who strengthens me" (Philippians 4:13) |
Roshan longshot
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Posted - 2006.05.06 13:10:00 -
[80]
Happy birthday Eve,
You did good CCP good game.
well almost...
CAKE?
Free-form Professions, ensure no limetations on professions. Be a trader, fighter, industialist, researcher, hunter pirate or mixture of them all.
[i]As read from the original box.
We are not ebil forum police, for one thing I don't have a hat :( - Cortes |
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Viscount Hood
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Posted - 2006.05.06 13:17:00 -
[81]
Happy Birthday.
I'm almost 3
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Greavus
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Posted - 2006.05.06 13:22:00 -
[82]
Definatly the best and most addictive games i know i will ever play
CCP you have created a stunning game that i never seem to get bored off.
Many thanks, bring on the next 3
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Verone
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Posted - 2006.05.06 13:26:00 -
[83]
\o/
Congratulations to CCP, and everyone else...
If eve has 10 years left in it, which I think it has... i'll still be here
VETO MEMBER MOVIES
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Steiner
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Posted - 2006.05.06 14:27:00 -
[84]
Happy Birthday Eve!
May there be many more years for us to play!
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Alex Bester
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Posted - 2006.05.06 14:34:00 -
[85]
Happy Birthday EVE!
Right now the future looks so bright, I got to wear shades! |
Cabadrin
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Posted - 2006.05.06 14:43:00 -
[86]
Happy birthday, EVE!
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Matthew
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Posted - 2006.05.06 14:53:00 -
[87]
I discovered Eve at 3am one night after having got bored of every other game I had. I'd heard about these MMO things, and was curious. I had a choice of E&B or Eve that night. I found the client download link for Eve first. By 9am, having abandoned thought of any lectures for that day, I didn't even remember that I was going to give E&B a go as well. Since then I have fought rats in Aunenen in a Bantam (and died), mined up my first battleship in an Osprey (before that ship had it's mining bonus), lived in Solitude for a while fighting DNA (and again dying), stip-mined systems and produced all manner of goods (it was around this time that I opened a second account), went player-pirate hunting for a while (and lived for a change!), then back to production, mineral trading and missioning.
By my second Eve birthday (which was 18 Jan this year), I had been logged into TQ for an average of 4 hours a day. My pruchasing of other games fell from one every other month, to one every 6 months. My only regret with Eve is that I did not find it sooner.
Eve has changed so much even since I started playing, that comparing then and now, you would think you were looking at a full sequel, rather than just a patched-up version of the same game. It is a testament to the commitment and drive of everyone involved that Eve has always pushed forward, constantly adapting and improving. I look forward to discovering where Eve will go in the next 3 years.
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Kylania
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Posted - 2006.05.06 15:20:00 -
[88]
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday to you!
Thanks for EVE and to you CCP, for all you do!
Happy birthday to you!
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Lowa
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Posted - 2006.05.06 15:35:00 -
[89]
EVE vs Everything
100 - 0
'nuff said!
Sincerely,
LOWA - lets get drunk for another 3 years ok!
NSN - Forcing EVE reviewers to mine since 2003! |
Diana Merris
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Posted - 2006.05.06 15:49:00 -
[90]
Happy Birthday EVE !
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Sakira LeCastantas
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Posted - 2006.05.06 16:09:00 -
[91]
Originally by: Dark Shikari
And as a little "anniversery gift" to the EVE community, here's the original EVE theme music. It was still in the STUFF files last I checked (8 months or more ago), but most players probably don't know its there.
I like it.
It's so... Cheerfull 
I like it too hehe
My sig in Turbo-Mode
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Gothikia
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Posted - 2006.05.06 16:12:00 -
[92]
*cries like a big girl*
Happy Birthday EVE! Booze up tonight then :D
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linux4ever
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Posted - 2006.05.06 16:14:00 -
[93]
omg its The Enslaver
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Charlie Crocodile
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Posted - 2006.05.06 16:29:00 -
[94]
Happy Birthday EVE, thank you so much for alomost destroying my relationship with Mrs. Crocodile.
No game has ever kept me so addicted.
Here's to many more years ahead!
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Sgt Blade
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Posted - 2006.05.06 16:38:00 -
[95]
well done ccp, chears to hopefully another 3 great years of eve
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Fi T'Zeh
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Posted - 2006.05.06 16:48:00 -
[96]
I was here from the start, and i'll be here at the end. Happy birthday eve.
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Real men use blasters |
Kyoko Sakoda
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Posted - 2006.05.06 17:08:00 -
[97]
I was a beta tester... then I left like the ass I am
I'll never leave you again EVE I promise!!
Learn what it means to be Caldari - www.omertasyndicate.com |
Jongo Fett
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Posted - 2006.05.06 17:14:00 -
[98]
Well Done To CCP, I Swore to myself that ide never pay to play any games online.
But this game took my Breath away the first time i played, and still does.
Its plain and simple Eve gives people more Freedom than any other MMORPG out there, and people like thier freedom. So Well Done CCP cos u guys Rock
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Redmond Fiur
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Posted - 2006.05.06 17:21:00 -
[99]
Eh, craziness...
I haven't been long playing eve but it has been quite enjoyable.
Happy Birthday EVE!
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ParMizaN
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Posted - 2006.05.06 17:29:00 -
[100]
Happy birthday eve, may there be many many more to come
Phenomena of ironies, cast the litany aside
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Giovanni Azure
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Posted - 2006.05.06 17:39:00 -
[101]
I've been with this game since August 2003 and I haven't had the will to leave.
I keep thinking I'm going to miss out on something even cooler than I've already
seen. I love/hate this game but think it truly is one of the most dynamic games
out there. Developed for gamers by gamers. If what is on the drawing board becomes
reality.. I either will be divorced or working for CCP. (future may not be so bright huh?)
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CT BadIronTree
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Posted - 2006.05.06 18:20:00 -
[102]
Edited by: CT BadIronTree on 06/05/2006 18:24:56
AAAaaaaaaa the years pass so fast!!!1
I still remember my first time i log in in beta 5
2 BSs or titans were killing each other, out from the noob station...
one lost, and I run and took some smartbombs and cargo expanders from the cargo loot
then i docked and the guy that lost, bought it from me 100k per item :P
then i bought my first frigate :)
my first mission was to move some whine two jump away i think...
first time in 0.0 i was mining in my imicus bistot so i could get a better ship (there were no NPC pirates back then) unknow people were gang together and mine in 0.0 and split the ore...
before the player wipe in beta 6, i think , it was an event that in a system, a new station was build and the devs wanted us to strip mine all the belts for tritanium
the reward was to unlock the first cruiser ship in game (beta 6) the tier 1 gallence cruiser lol
i was one of the first to get it....
.... then tech 2 lottery came and manny many corps bankrobed..... i had to whine a little :)
Happy 3rd birthday EVE!!!!!!
From the first and oldest corp in eve :)
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Colossus Technologies
The first and oldest corp in eve!
BadIronTree Head of Production
CSM Chat Log September 25, 2003:
Fuhry> Some things we simply cannot test, and therefore we just put it on Tranq. cross our fingers and then get into panic mode.
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Rod Blaine
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Posted - 2006.05.06 18:49:00 -
[103]
Edited by: Rod Blaine on 06/05/2006 18:50:48
Sincerest congratulations to CCP and all it's employees and volunteers that make Eve run like it does.
From fledgling 'doomed' enterprise to one of the genre's gems and leading productions, you've reached heights noone could have asked for and aren't even halfway to where you are ready to take us all.
Also the sincerest congratulations to the people in the community that give more then they take and thereby are responsible for most of the content all us other players enjoy so immensely. You're the glue that makes us all stick.
I've been around since June 2003, taken a few breaks here and there but can truly say that nothing in the MMO genre has ever been able to capture my imagination as much as Eve did and continues to do.
And even when I've got my gripes with some things, I fully trust CCP to take us where no MMO has gone before for many more years to come.
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Jowen Datloran
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Posted - 2006.05.06 20:29:00 -
[104]
So the real game starts in 0.0 you say? I wonder what I've been doing for 3 years then...
I started my EVE days in the open beta and subscribed to the games some days after release. I remember training up Caldari Frigate to level 2 and getting a Bantam on my first day. And then logging in next day and see my character and work were gone. I then discovered there had been a roll back and that I could get some sort of isk compensation for the day lost. I rejected the offer as I've always been a firm believer that things shouldn't come easy.
So even though I've never been pod killed (true) this is not the original Jowen. He was lost 3 years ago in the depths of the database.
No matter now, happy birthday EVE, still ruling supreme among the MMORPGs
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Xailia
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Posted - 2006.05.06 20:35:00 -
[105]
I got into beta... must have been around February 2003, after I had been playing EnB for awhile (I have fond memories of shouting silly things at the BSC in every sector, and helping them pass out free stuff from time to time). A few days after I got into the beta I was a recruit into Unsteady Corporation. After the beta ended I was determined to drop EnB (I recall the storyline had hit a brick wall for awhile) and join EVE, and promoting it as much as I could to all the EnB people.
Throughout beta and the first year I was playing EVE, I ravaged the New Player Q&A forum and almost became a mod (some may remember me from there). I enjoyed my silly exchanges with Wrangler.
Xailia's 3rd birthday is tomorrow, as I didn't pick up my copy of EVE until the day after the servers started up; sadly I missed the last day of beta extravaganza, I would have liked to be there.
Now, 3 years later, I am the CEO of Unsteady Corporation and have yet start rebuilding it into something more than it ever was. All the original members have moved on or are more or less inactive (though there were only around 10-20 at its peak). I hope to bring it up into a superpower in the next 3 years!
Happy B-Day EVE! CCP, you are my favorite developer, Valve being second. Keep up the good work, and I look forward to seeing what the next 3 years will bring to EVE!
Cheers!
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Duke Diabolo
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Posted - 2006.05.06 20:37:00 -
[106]
Edited by: Duke Diabolo on 06/05/2006 20:39:06
Edited by: Duke Diabolo on 06/05/2006 20:37:59
Yeah,
Happy Birthday...sure. One hundred bucks gone forever and absolutly nothing to show for it. Man I need a doctor, (or a life) which ever comes first.
Later
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Uther Doull
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Posted - 2006.05.06 20:42:00 -
[107]
Edited by: Uther Doull on 06/05/2006 20:43:13
i've only been here for 2 out of 3 years but eve is just.... wow.
that's it, can't expres it any different
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Inturist
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Posted - 2006.05.06 20:45:00 -
[108]
w00t!!!! Happy B'DAY EvE !!!!!!!!! 
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Gotchy
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Posted - 2006.05.06 22:52:00 -
[109]
Wow, 3 years already passed. For me it all began in the last BETA and the lovely error's . I really had my doubts if EvE would survive in the MMO jungle. Now i know i was wrong.
August 2003 this char got created. Immediatly got pwned by the station guns as i shot the first player i saw, as soon as i undocked. It took me a while to figure out how to play EvE as its so different to other MMO¦s. But gladly a Manfred Doomhammer, a real life buddy, already played EVE since a few weeks. So i joined his corporations. Funny drunken mining session followed as more of our friends joined in.
A lot happened from this point and i wont write it down as it would be too much for me.
Now im here, a director within RONA corporation. Enjoying every single bit of EvE. CCP, this game you created is truly a masterpiece. Not a single MMO had me for that long.
Always in my memories will be the 1st Fan Fest. I brought a baseball bat with me and let some other players sign on it (Leitari, RinnyWee, thrak ... to name a few). The plan was to just hand it TomB and vanish. I were so wrong.... I had to talk a bit about the Nerfbat and its history. After that was done i should hand it to TomB. All of a sudden i feel a hand in my back pushing me towards the stage to TomB, cant remember who exactly it was, either Oveur or kieron. Well, i got a nice manly hug (all is fine) and a kiss ().
Good Times. Good Times. Thank you CCP for this game and all your work you put into it. I hope many more years will come.
Happy Birthday EVE!
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Jin Entres
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Posted - 2006.05.07 00:08:00 -
[110]
EVE ftw \o/
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gizli
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Posted - 2006.05.07 00:24:00 -
[111]
Yay! Happy birthday eve!
Sig removed, please keep it under 24000 byte, email mods@ccpgames if you have any questions - Xorus |
Svenholio
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Posted - 2006.05.07 00:51:00 -
[112]
Edited by: Svenholio on 07/05/2006 00:52:04
Edited by: Svenholio on 07/05/2006 00:51:33
I was in beta, and foolishly didnt get it at release, I think i was lured away by another space flight game :(
What a mistake, all I can say is bugger, I have been back for just over 3 months and im loving it
Congrats CCP on making an awesome game, which is showing amazing longevity :D
Heres hoping for three more years!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111
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Taketa De
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Posted - 2006.05.07 01:26:00 -
[113]
Gratz and a happy B-day! May you have many more!
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Christian Ruyt
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Posted - 2006.05.07 04:13:00 -
[114]
It's really great to read peoples' experiences with the game, as my character is only about two months old, I can only imagine what you would be able to accomplish after having been playing for years!
Happy birthday from me as well!
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Sevarus James
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Posted - 2006.05.07 04:31:00 -
[115]
Edited by: Sevarus James on 07/05/2006 04:31:23
June 2003. May 2006. 2 accounts, the first one retired due to real life (read: work and injury). For someone who swore after Allegiance that he would NEVER pay to play again...
Congratulations on surviving, thriving and giving me an alternate universe so deep and involving that even when real life forces breaks, it never truly leaves the back of the mind.
Never having played elite, I think I understand why you created EVE.
Even more, thanks to all of the players who inhabit this place who breathe life into an amazing universe.
What a great wild wacky ride its been...is...continues to be.
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Shiner BockBeer
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Posted - 2006.05.07 04:36:00 -
[116]
Amen, kudos and happy anniverary.
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Tripoli
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Posted - 2006.05.07 06:06:00 -
[117]
I heard about EVE just a couple weeks after release from a friend who let me make a character on his account. Shortly thereafter on May 30th, Tripoli was born.
Just over a month from now, XenTech will also celebrate its third anniversary. I am proud to be part of this loyal group who have shown me that EVE is far more than just a game. Ever since I joined as a newbie who'd barely left Cistuvaert, the people of EVE and XenTech have proven time and again that nothing compares to the experiences that lie "out there" in the massive EVE universe. You guys are the best!
Just as those "experienced" newbies guided me three years ago, I have taken it upon myself to pay back the favor. It has been my privilege to help serve the EVE community even though I am just an ordinary player (as ordinary as one can be when they're from Texas ). As many of you know, I've written a few guides about EVE's skill system. What you may not know is that I actually wrote a good portion of the descriptions you see when you show info on a skill. (Many of the old descriptions were either inaccurate, or unclear.) I hope everything I've done has been helpful and informative, and I will continue to offer my services as long as EVE endures.
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Cesar Sunn
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Posted - 2006.05.07 08:19:00 -
[118]
I'm hardly a veteran Eve gamer and even when i'm active i don't play that much but Eve's still changed how i look at games. There's just so much scope! I am a carebear gamer, i like building things and working together with friends to acheive monetary goals without annoying other players through pvp or underhand tactics but i don't mind existing in a game world which encourages pvp also. I was podded for the first time yesterday when i wandered into a mass gate camp by S******dly and another pirate corp but put it down to experience and bad luck, they make their money one way and i make mine another. We're all playing the same game.
Kudos to Eve for making it possible and for constantly seeking improvement, it may not be perfect all the time but it's damn good fun and that's all that counts.
Happy Birthday.
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SpaceDrake Storyteller
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Posted - 2006.05.07 08:38:00 -
[119]
"Three years."
Lordy. It's already been that long. I remember when I was starting my second year of college, EVE was just exiting its beta stages... I still had my old P3 Compaq with a GeForce 3 then.
But you see, my experience with EVE goes back further. Really, for me this is both a one-year and four-and-a-half year aniversary.
I first discovered EVE Online through and older game called Jumpgate. After Jumpgate had serious problems at launch, I began looking at this "awesome game in development" I kept hearing about. Back in 2001, the screenshots they were showing... frankly, they looked nearly impossible. We all figured the game would require at least a GeForce 3 or 4 to run properly. And 5000 star systems? Lunacy! How could the game support that much?
But more information kept coming out, and the background that we had at that time seemed so compelling... And then I landed a spot in the closed out-of-Iceland Alpha test with 100 other lucky EVE fans.
My. The game then was very little like it is today. The circular Neocom, the station trash bin (I found a Megathron in there once!), only Caldari and Minmatar playable... no CONCORD, pretty much frigs only (Destroyers, Battlecruisers, Mining Barges and playable capital vessels hadn't been implemented yet!), CONCORD vessels, Angel Cartel vessels, Jovian vessels and test ships like the Enigma viewable on the market... an option labeled "Paint Shop" on the ship setup screen... Istvaan "HellGremlin" Shogaatsu sneaking into the beta and getting banned...
And yet. It was still the core game that we play today. Ships shot at each other, ships mined, ships got built, ISKies were earned. There was the framework for an awesome game here - but it still looked very unfinished. No agents, no 5000 star systems yet...
Alpha became Beta. And unfortunately, the game suffered. The test servers were almost intolerably laggy. Server code was rewritted a ton. The interface started to morph into what we know today (the vertical NeoCom, the triple-ring ship fitter, etc.) The Gallente and Amarr were released as playable races (and a lot of folks were confused as to why bloodlines like the oft-mentioned Vherokior and Khanid weren't playable, and some bloodlines like the Ni-Kunni were in, since they had never been talked about before... ) The lag, however, kept getting worse and worse as more people tried the game. Yours truly kept submitting bug reports, but eventually even I got frustrated... and quit around Beta 4 or so. I was in my freshman year of college at the time...
And so, I left EVE behind consigning it to the "could have been" pile. For a while, I played Jumpgate again, then Planetside for a long while (a game which remains on my hard-drive to this day - the only game SOE ever made which I consider worth a damn, and the only SOE game I'd ever consider throwing money at again), and WoW for some time. WOW I consider my low point. WoW's grindy nature hurt me academically. I fell into the grind trap. I thought I was having fun, but really, it was a lie. I just wanted to be better... and I wasted hours, days, weeks pointlessly grinding away.
I had, occasionally, on a lark, checked back at the EVE website. I saw that it changed to the current look (around the time Exodus went live I think), but I mostly just laughed in ignorance. This time, though, I poked around on the forums a bit after seeing them say that they had broken 10,000 concurrent users. That seemed insane - were people really still playing that buggy trash I had played some years back? I remembered vaguely that a lot of the old E&B crowd went to EVE, but I had doubted they'd stick with it...
Then, while browsing the Library forum, I came upon a thread. A little thread really. But it was the name that caught my eye.
Istvaan? Istvaan Shogaatsu? HellGremlin?...
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Edited by: SpaceDrake Storyteller on 07/05/2006 09:46:53
HellGremlin? Writer of Heaven? One of the oldies who had also been super disappointed with the way the Beta went? He was still playing and producing fiction like that?
My interest was piqued. I saw that there was a free trial offer for EVE now, and I figured, what the hey, I've got nothing to lose.
I logged into EVE. I barely even recognized the game I was looking at.
The ships looked the same, the stations looked the same. But the chatboxes... worked. The interface and everything... responded. And the high, mid and lowslot activation bars were now layed out logically, and not displayed one bar at a time! There was an overview! Drones were easier to control! It was like someone had taken the game I knew, and pulled all of the suck out of it.
What I am describing took place right around the time a certain Virge Salvador Sarpati stole a Titan from the Gallente Navy... which was, of course, a masked celebration in and of itself.
The rest is, as they say, history. I bounced around characters, I bounced around corps, but I rarely ever lost my fascination with EVE. Even when I gravitated back toward WoW for a bit, I kept thinking "You know, this no longer really stacks up to EVE all that much." Eventually, CCP agreed that a certain fiction piece which had been bouncing around in my head in some form or another since those early pre-alpha days was worthy of publication on the website. I've now been published elsewhere, as well - a fact that I don't doubt was assisted by involvement in the first issue of E-ON (a piece which sadly never saw publication.) The fact that I can advance my character while not playing has assisted greatly in my holding jobs and grades. In short, EVE, the game I thought would become a footnote in the history of massively multiplayer online gaming, has in fact become one of the finest online forms of entertainment I've ever enjoyed.
And everyone else is taking notice, too. In 2002 and 2003, EVE Online entered the Electronics Entertainment Expo as a near-leper, a game begging for a publisher and then a game which was struggling to put together something which could be released. Now, in two days EVE will stride into the West Hall like a titan, arguably the most succesful independently-run MMOG in history - and certainly a game fast becoming a space sciene fiction phenomenon the likes of which have not been seen since the days of Wing Commander. It fills me with pride to have watched this game turn from a few screenshots and a dream to the exemplar of gaming and business that it is today.
Kjartan, Hilmar, Reynir, Tom of the Bombadils, LeMonde, Nathan, Charles, everyone at CCP... thank you for constructing the finest game experience I've ever had. It's been a wonderful year and a fairly rocky four-and-a-half... but I have no doubt that it'll keep going for another decade.
At least.
As a final note. You may recall how I found a Battleship in the trash, back in Alpha? It was a Megathron, but I couldn't fly it. I was giddy at even having a Mega to look at though, since the Gallente had always been my favorite race and ships.
After four and a half years of looking at screenshots and models, after jumping from character to character and corp to corp for a year...
I finally got my Battleship back.
It isn't a Mega, but I think I like it better.
Thank you for everything, CCP.
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Posted - 2006.05.07 11:02:00 -
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CCP owes me three years of my life, the aforementioned life was left unguarded for 2 bloody minutes whilst I started up some new game called EvE up and I haven't seen it since.
My fiance now calls it @*$@&^% Spaceships and tends to get all upset when i say i'll come to bed in ten minutes and turn up about 2 hours later because "insert the most appropriate" (the mission took longer/I did another mission/I got chatting on ventrillo/I found someone to shoot/I got chatting in corp/ I desperately needed to go out and buy some module ready for the next evening/ I had to wait for a skill to train/ I had to wait so I could clone jump/ I promised I would help someone do something that was supposed to last 30 seconds but no surprise it didn't).
3 years on and I am still finding it fun.
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Posted - 2006.05.07 12:45:00 -
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Happy Birthday EVE, and many congrats to CCP for a fantastic 3 year ride Looking forward to the next 3, and beyond...
Been loitering around here since Noveber 2002 during the latter part of beta, and enjoyed every minute ive been aloud to flee RL and slip on my second skin and join my buddies, corp and alliance friends and set off into the big black.
Keep up the astounding work CCP to bring us the greatest MMO ever created.
Mol
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D'onryu Shoqui
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Posted - 2006.05.07 14:05:00 -
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is there going to be another blog with first 10 corps created and still alive list ?
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Blacklight
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Posted - 2006.05.07 14:35:00 -
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Well that went by quickly
I hated Eve during beta, can't believe I'm still here now
Here's to another 3 years!
Eve Blacklight Style
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Dragon Ramirez
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Posted - 2006.05.07 16:13:00 -
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Congrats to CCP and everyone behind eve!
I can't believe i've been here for 3 years...
Beta was a strange time, no real idea what i was doing, trying to convo the NPC's after they killed my first rifter and missing the last night of Beta when everyone got to kill each other in BS's, then not getting my copy of the game until a week later and thinking everyone would be in cruisers and i'd be stuck in my little Reaper.
But the game has come on so much, almost totally changed, for the better of course...
Well here to many more successfully years!
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Henry Fredyericus
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Posted - 2006.05.07 16:16:00 -
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huh...Happy birthday EVE
Thank you CCP for showing the new heights and quality for the whole MMOG genre.
My year in EVE haven't become full yet. Before EVE, beeing 7 years with UO, I'm amazed by the depth of EVE, about the community around it and most of all...about the devs who love their work.
I think there's quite an interesting times ahead to be seen.
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Kim Chee
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Posted - 2006.05.07 17:35:00 -
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Happy Birthday EVE!
I was fortunate enough to first see EVE back in late Beta (build 921 -- I still have the CD I burned it to). Unfortunately, a few friends of mine managed to distract me and pull me into a couple of other games for the next two years. I rediscovered EVE about 6 months ago, and am happy to report that I've had some success in returning the favour by luring them back here. :)
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Kerr Avon: It is your assumption that we are entitled to it as well that is irritating.
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Posted - 2006.05.07 21:25:00 -
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Late gratulation, but a gratulation nevertheless.
[sing]
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday dear eve,
Happy birthday to you.
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I think I've written down my short evemoiars somewhere on this board and another already, so no need to write them again.
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Posted - 2006.05.07 22:42:00 -
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I joined eve probably 6 months after its initial retail release, I still remember launching the client, logging in and finding myself sat in a noob ship in the middle of space trying to figure out what the hell to do(it took me 2 hours to figure out how to use stargates).
Two and a half years later and I'm still hooked, though I no longer have trouble with the gates. I have to admit this is the most amazing and intricate game I have ever played.
Happy Birthday EvE, heres to many more happy years of ground breaking, record smashing, gaming heaven
Cantari
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Posted - 2006.05.07 22:48:00 -
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Originally by: Dragon Ramirez
Congrats to CCP and everyone behind eve!
I can't believe i've been here for 3 years...
Beta was a strange time, no real idea what i was doing, trying to convo the NPC's after they killed my first rifter *snip*
ahaahahahah
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Dumus
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Posted - 2006.05.07 22:54:00 -
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/me Tips his hat
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Soren
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Posted - 2006.05.08 00:06:00 -
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Three years eh?
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Juniper
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Posted - 2006.05.08 05:55:00 -
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Well done CCP.
Well done us.
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djNME
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Posted - 2006.05.08 06:44:00 -
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CONGRATZ.
Thanks to all my bro's/broette's that make this game what it is to me.
djNME
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Rodj Blake
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Posted - 2006.05.08 08:56:00 -
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Happy Birthday Eve, and congratulations to all of the devs, GMs and mods for making the game run smoothly.
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Posted - 2006.05.08 11:02:00 -
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May 23rd, 2000. At work, checking out the news, spotted some interesting screenshots posted on GA-Source for a game called EVE. Very nice. An ambitious game from a plucky no-name developer - one to keep an eye on, perhaps.
September 2nd, 2001. I'm attending ECTS, trying to find my colleagues after a meeting with some developer about a game I can't remember. I start looking around the press/bar enclosure and a tall blonde guy approaches me and invites me to see his game - called EVE. "I can't right now, I looking for someone", I say. "It won't take long" he says, "Would you like a beer?."
I'm shown a space game on a laptop. I can barely see the screen and can't understand much of what's being said. I nod a lot, finish my beer, take my press disk and leave.
December 2002. Tall guy from CCP is in town with a laptop. Invites me to see his game again - this time with promise of much beer. There's no net connection, we must endure through countless crashes, but many pints later I see the light. Or rather, every feature I question him about is in the game - or very soon(tm) will be, apparently - even a wireframe 3D deathmatch/combat simulator.
May 8th, 2006. Still waiting for that wireframe 3D deathmatch/combat simulator, but generally pleased with EVE.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY EVE & THANK YOU CCP
- Z
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Posted - 2006.05.08 12:34:00 -
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During the summer of 2002 I first heard of EVE. After seeing the screenshots and reading the chronicles on the site I really wanted to join in, but with my crappy dial-up connection at that time I kinda had to decide against it. In November that year I got the crappy dial-up replaced by a (A)DSL-connection and really, within 2 weeks after that I read that they we're opening beta 7 . Needless to say I signed up immediatly and never left again. I only had a forced leave when EVE went retail. I had to order it in the UK because I coudn't find a reseller in The Netherlands. Those we're two very boring weeks...
Anyway, what was the command again? "/cmd autopilot on" in chat to enable the autopilot?
Happy birthday and that there may be many many more good years ahead of us
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Posted - 2006.05.08 16:01:00 -
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Even through the bad times... and even though I miss the little 3D radar from Castor... I still <3 EVE and I <3 CCP... and just to let everyone know... I'm planning on moving to Iceland and working for CCP!!!!!
You just wait!
-Nate
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Slaaght Bana
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Posted - 2006.05.08 16:36:00 -
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Edited by: Slaaght Bana on 08/05/2006 16:37:36
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Jita. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Teonusude gate.
I'm a mere 15 month old nublet and my Eve playing goes in cycles. I seem to be at a peak at the moment where every game playing moment is in Eve. I've got an X-Box 360 that's been totally untouched for about 3 weeks!
Came here from Dark Age of Camelot because my guild pretty much called it a day, and some of them came here so I thought WTF ... give it a go!
To think I nearly gave it up at the start because it was too darn complicated. I'm actually about 2 months down on training as I didn't log back in to change any skills. Doh .. could be Minmatar BS 5 with the missing time!
Now I realise how great the game is, and most things are second nature. Cheers CCP, and here's to another 3 years at least <fx: *****s glass>
(oh yeah, apologies to Blade Runner for massacring the quote!)
Edit: "c-h-i-n-k-s" glass! That's one thing I could use, a less robust profanity filter on these forums!
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Posted - 2006.05.08 16:50:00 -
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Originally by: The Enslaver
I mined arkonor with them in a 0.1 system called Arakor, and after the game was launched, I admittedly also spent the first week or so mining arkonor in the same system... But I don't want to talk about that!
I don't think there is one person our age that doesn't have mining skills, even at low levels, or who didn't mine arkanor when it was available in those systems.:) I was one of the few who started with Astrogeology from chargen.
Happy Birthday Eve!
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Posted - 2006.05.08 22:22:00 -
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very very nice post, sir OP
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