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Ehker Gerete
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Posted - 2006.05.29 07:56:00 -
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Edited by: Ehker Gerete on 29/05/2006 07:59:44 Edited by: Ehker Gerete on 29/05/2006 07:59:27 To anyone whos past this, I'm talking about that stage when you just start eve, where everything astonishes you, and just watching the distorted image of nebulae and the sun through your warp tunnel is amazing by itself, the feeling when you do your first PvP battle, when you first go into 0.0, when you first enter a cruiser after a frigate and it seems like everything you learned about fighting has to be re-learned, when you think 2 million isk is an amazing amount to have, when you watch empire wars take place in jita in your first week of playing, amazed at all the graphics of equipemtn you dont know, stunned when you see a battleship explode in a display of brillian fireworks, when, you're still new and every aspect of the game creates a hug sense of immersion, the graphics, the complexity, the amount of equipment you can put on the ships, the amount of roles to play in combat, and when you first expirence, fully, the amount of depth that eve really has.
who still remembers that feeling? sometimes I wish I could forget everything I knew about eve just to expirence that again. -------------- blah blahblah blah blah blow up stuff blah blahblahblah kill blah blahblahblah destroy |
Isova
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Posted - 2006.05.29 07:57:00 -
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I never had that kind of feeling.
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Mazer Kt'luthid
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Posted - 2006.05.29 08:46:00 -
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Not a day goes by that I don't wish the same thing upon logging in. So far, it's been nearly 2 years of wishing, and it hasn't returned. Indeed it is the most interesting feeling, perhaps the only time you can actually feel "inside" the world, is when you're a newbie to the game, experiencing everything for the first time.
The thing that drew me into this game the most was the music, and reading the news about hearing how Mordu's Legion had amassed a fleet to attack Serpentis space and asking what ORE would do during the chaos out in Outer Ring and Fountain. Tbh, I thought the factions like that were run by players and that it took days to build and move a fleet of that size to a destination several regions away. A shame to realize how wrong I was about that though...
Things are always better as a newbie imo, being clueless and full of questions is 3/4's the fun. Then again i'm the severely nostalgic type.
Castor Pride! __________ Member of The Raven Warriors Stain- Alliance Fighter Spreading the word of Enlightenment with the grace of God and Empire. Lieutenant for the Imperial Navy. |
Jin Jemai
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Posted - 2006.05.29 10:44:00 -
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My first month can be pretty much summed up by 3 words.
Too much info.
My brain is still hurting :) ----- Lighten up a little bit. It's only the end of the world. |
Andrue
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Posted - 2006.05.29 10:48:00 -
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I remember that feeling well. The feeling of wonder, experimenting for new setups and discovering something new.
It's just the result of a lack of knowledge and experience. Probably just some evolutionary reward to encourage us to explore our environment. It had pretty much warn off for me by the six month mark and it's not likely to return.
It is usually followed by bordeom and a desire for change. This would be the evolutionary flip side - punishment to encourage us to explore.
Luckily Eve is complex enough to ward that feeling off most of the time. I'm now at 25 years and although I sometimes take a week off Eve I'm still playing it. -- (Battle hardened miner)
[Brackley, UK]
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Jenny Spitfire
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Posted - 2006.05.29 12:14:00 -
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Edited by: Jenny Spitfire on 29/05/2006 12:16:36
My only first month in EvE was total bitterness. Got tricked into losing a hard earned Moa to "friend" by Concord. Gate ganked by sniping prats and lost cargo and partial hull conversions. Lost three and didnt realise how expensive they were. Lost 2 hours of mining kernite because I was hostile and somebody swapped my can and popped my minerals. All those bitterness made me what I am.
Three months later, Shiva patch. Lost 2 months worth of loot hauling because of contraband. Didnt know had 1 contraband in cargo. Got looted by allies and didnt return anything back. Only bad experience in EvE, TBH. ---------------- RecruitMe@NOINT!
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dec0
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Posted - 2006.05.29 12:17:00 -
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I remember that feeling...wow it was amazing. Just warping and seeing the bubble...but the further i got...the more boring it gets. The ships get slower, and the fights get boring. But im sure it will get better when i have a decent amount of skills and isk, and go to pvp
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Jack Amarr
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Posted - 2006.05.29 13:06:00 -
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the reason that people loose this honeymoon period is because they take it all too seriously, or not seriously enough. when you first started you didn't really know what was good or bad, and you just set about doing your own thing. but then as you became more experianced, you wanted more money and were constatly wishing you had more, ebcause other people did. just try and have fun and you'll get the feeling backa agin. meet up with some friends and have a frigate tournament, or go to a cosmos. do stuff for fun again, not just for isk :) -------------------------------------------------- [INSIN]erate you foes
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Kerry Rose
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Posted - 2006.05.29 14:04:00 -
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Originally by: Jack Amarr the reason that people loose this honeymoon period is because they take it all too seriously, or not seriously enough. when you first started you didn't really know what was good or bad, and you just set about doing your own thing. but then as you became more experianced, you wanted more money and were constatly wishing you had more, ebcause other people did. just try and have fun and you'll get the feeling backa agin. meet up with some friends and have a frigate tournament, or go to a cosmos. do stuff for fun again, not just for isk :)
QFT!!!
Originally by: Wrangler
If you use caps in the topic again I'll steal your shift and capslock keys.
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Cmdr Sy
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Posted - 2006.05.29 14:17:00 -
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Originally by: Ehker Gerete who still remembers that feeling? sometimes I wish I could forget everything I knew about eve just to expirence that again.
I remember my first ever corp mining op, on my first or second day in EVE, in a Miner II fitted Velator. Such great team spirit we had, cool conversation, players just 2-4 weeks older possessing apparently great authority. I also remember dogfighting 0.6 sec rats in an Atron and a Punisher, and swapping tips on 0.4 - 0.2 sec NPCing in a cruiser after two months in game. And I remember how impressed I was by the roar of my first cruiser's engines (it was an Arbitrator).
EVE was big, back then. The little cluster of solar systems in which my friends and I resided and carebeared away, seemed like a tiny yet comforting.
Now EVE is small. I have been everywhere. I wish I remembered those days better.
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Tehyarec
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Posted - 2006.05.29 16:37:00 -
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I can't believe it's only a bit over two months that I've played now. Sometimes I get a bit of a "flashback" to my first days when doing something. It all seemed to jump forward sooo fast. The first 10 days when I was in my first player corp seemed to last a month compared to the times after that. But almost all the "newness" is now gone, even though there's obviously a lot I haven't experienced. The game mechanics are familiar now, and all that.
I remember the first time I saw my first corp's CEO in a Megathron fighting some BC rats, man I thought it was cool, all the big explosions from the missiles and stuff. Now being in a battleship myself against such easy enemies is a big yawn basically Oh well, at least I found some of the fun in PVE again by flying mostly a Rifter instead of a battleship. Hopefully Ishkur and Enyo will be fun too, with them I also intend to start exploring low-sec again (I spent my first 10 days mostly in low-sec, haven't been back much since), maybe even 0.0 soon. Hopefully it'll bring a new sense of thrill to things
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Ehker Gerete
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Posted - 2006.05.29 20:36:00 -
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Originally by: Jack Amarr the reason that people loose this honeymoon period is because they take it all too seriously, or not seriously enough. when you first started you didn't really know what was good or bad, and you just set about doing your own thing. but then as you became more experianced, you wanted more money and were constatly wishing you had more, ebcause other people did. just try and have fun and you'll get the feeling backa agin. meet up with some friends and have a frigate tournament, or go to a cosmos. do stuff for fun again, not just for isk :)
most of what i do is for fun, its just that a few things i get used to
1. the graphics are no longer making my jaw drop -first time warpign to sun: ........holy ****... -warping to sun now: open the darn scanner to find him! (noob comments about the sun) yeah yaeh been there done thet
2. sun... yeah its the sun in the warp tunnel.. great... HOSTILE ALERT!!!!
3. start: space looks amazing.. its all like.. nebula... now: wow space.. wheres the guy to kill?
its just that theres nothing new anymore, everything already been done.
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Kindakrof
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Posted - 2006.05.29 22:42:00 -
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Oh yes i remember my first days of EVE. I was hanging around in an Ibis for a week. Just mining and killing those 2.5 k rats in space. And at that time there were probably like 6 k players max on tranquility. I saw another pilot in space whose name sounded icelandic, i was 14, she was 21 and we started talking. And we became friends, sort of. Then we decided to go mining togheter and when i saw her ship. Imicus, compared to my ibis. It looked just black & Huge. And that was so awesome. That's when i started looking at new ships. I checked out the market and saw the description of the Merlin "best all-out combat frigate" By that time i had around 100k isk. My friend in the imicus gave me 200 k and that was so awesome getting a new ship! And that was so much money back then. I had to travel 13 jumps and trough unsecure space. I used to hang around Kisogo and sobaseki. all of those systems looked blue or brown/red or something. My first unsecure system was all black. And that was the scariest thing. My heart pounded when i came out of the jump. But no harm, i got lucky. After a week in play and by the time i got my new and AWESOME LOOKING merlin i was so exited to get into it and fly it. That's when i found out about skills in EVE. Hehe sort of disappointing. But it was late evening. Caldari frigate lvl 3 took only 7 hours and it would be done when i wake up. Then i had fun untill the trial ended. THat feeling when i saw the 'Black & Huge' imicus is by far the best "AAAAAAAAAWESOME DUUUDE" feeling i've ever had
And now i'm just a lowly merc/part time pirate
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Breki
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Posted - 2006.05.29 23:18:00 -
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I still remember when i first got a new ship besides my velator. I was so proud when i mined my ass off making a couple of millions and feeling like i was winning the world...... I remember when i was hunting in 0.5 with 2 of my friends, one in a vexor, other in imicus and me in imicius too.... When the rats started shooting missiles at me i just watched in amazement as they exploded on my hull not noticing that i was dying.
I also thought that destroyers were the most powerful ships because of the cool name. So i never bothered checking until many months ingame When i entered deadspace missions i would just take a good time to look around and watch the surroundings.....
i would give up everything to get that feeling again...
Originally by: Avon Iceland, where even their singers are in to PvP.
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The Enslaver
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Posted - 2006.05.29 23:19:00 -
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Yep, I definately had that feeling when I first started playing... I remember it well. --------
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Sakura Nihil
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Posted - 2006.05.29 23:20:00 -
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*nods*
good times, good times
1st Lieutenant Sakura Nihil CEO, Tharsis Security
Tharsis is now recruiting PvPers/Pirates |
Michiyo Daishi
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Posted - 2006.05.29 23:25:00 -
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ahh yess, the newbie euphoria. Like they say about tasting chocolate for the first time: "Its addictive, so dont eat too much or you'll regret it" XD
which I did btw, mostly from a too-early introduction into 0.0 in my thread :P
Enjoy your game, and make friends :D friends are more powerful than T2 guns and ships at times :) -
*posts posted are not official statements of EVEnews.com, and are the poster's own* |
inSpirAcy
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Posted - 2006.05.29 23:29:00 -
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When I'm feeling a bit old school, I grab an Osprey, whack some miners on and head to the belts.
Switch the EVE music back on, and it all comes back.
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Amarria Lightwielder
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Posted - 2006.05.29 23:42:00 -
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Yea I still remember my first days :) The game just felt so huge, and the universe so big. I was like "how am I ever gonna get a grasp on this game" :)
NAGA ShopÖ
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Cmdr Sy
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Posted - 2006.05.29 23:47:00 -
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Originally by: inSpirAcy When I'm feeling a bit old school, I grab an Osprey, whack some miners on and head to the belts.
Switch the EVE music back on, and it all comes back.
I did something like that last night and today, seeing as it was my birthday IRL and the alliance war wasn't up to much. Grabbed an alt in a T1 frig with T1 fittings, a friend with the same, and hit some 0.4 belts to own some NPCs and noobs. A couple of faction spawns, a corpse and 35 mil later, we realised just how much fun can be had when you trade skillpoints for piloting skill and laughs.
I plan to do it more often. Unleash the carebear inside.
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Bexxly
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Posted - 2006.05.29 23:58:00 -
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I try to forget it, 2003 was a long time ago
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Lorette
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Posted - 2006.05.30 00:43:00 -
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The more i play the more i enjoy it actually, sure the first week or so it was all nice and new but that soon fades and your left with the realisation that you have 2 months of training and running lv1/2 missions or mining before the real fun starts.
I 'really' started enjoying EVE when i got past about 3mill skill points, my learning was complete and i was free to train whatever i needed at the time, and at the same time had a ship good enough for what i needed to have fun.
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Roupeh Natanoj
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Posted - 2006.05.30 03:55:00 -
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Ahh..that was an awesome time. I tend to take the long learning curve in games like this for precisely that reason.
<><><> I need to make a new thingie for here. |
Death Bliss
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Posted - 2006.05.30 03:58:00 -
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I remember my 1st time going into 0.0 in catch. I was so excited, my heart was racing and i was like havin a heart atack almost ;p. It was so fun. I went crazy when i saw a 50 man fleet and got blown up by it :)
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Discodude
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Posted - 2006.05.30 03:59:00 -
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oh man my first days in eve were the best I ever had in a game singleplayer or multiplayer.
I remember thinking that 20 just was a massive distance to travel....It felt like the universe in the game was soo [i]BIG that I literally though at first that I would never beable to travel across empire space.
I remember when I was convoed on my 3ed day and asked if i wanted to join a player corp....and I felt so honored that a player corp wanted me to join them...me a 3 day old total noob...he didn't have to ask me twice....and TBH it was probably 1 of the best decisions I've ever made with regards to corps i've joined. I made friends in that corp that I'm still in constant contact with every day.
and yes I definitely remember when 2 million isk was alot of money to me. I remember when I asked my CEO for 2 mill isk to insure my Caracal and when he gave it to me I felt like I must have bankrupted him...then I found out he had soemthing like 50 mill isk and I thought he was a Eve Super hero lol.
Man that was back in the days when heavy launchers would beable to fit and fire cruise and torpedo missles...I lost that caracal (my first pvp loss) to Tank CEO
lastly I remember when I first went out to 0.0 and saw 500k isk bs rats and thought I was gonna be filty rich off of killing those and man were they ever scary. -----------------------------------------------
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Hunters Presence
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Posted - 2006.05.30 07:37:00 -
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Edited by: Hunters Presence on 30/05/2006 07:43:26
Originally by: Jenny Spitfire Edited by: Jenny Spitfire on 29/05/2006 12:16:36
My only first month in EvE was total bitterness. Got tricked into losing a hard earned Moa to "friend" by Concord. Gate ganked by sniping prats and lost cargo and partial hull conversions. Lost three and didnt realise how expensive they were. Lost 2 hours of mining kernite because I was hostile and somebody swapped my can and popped my minerals. All those bitterness made me what I am.
Three months later, Shiva patch. Lost 2 months worth of loot hauling because of contraband. Didnt know had 1 contraband in cargo. Got looted by allies and didnt return anything back. Only bad experience in EvE, TBH.
Hmm, my first month, I joined a corporation called Northern Intelligence (who put those bold tags there?)... flew with them for a while... got made primary in four out of six fleet engagements... expected to cover all the costs myself. Got trapped inside a station and had to sit there for six hours as an 'assault force' rallied. Bearing in mind there was only two cruisers in the whole system and it only took them 30 minutes to rally a battleship group on three other occasions I still don't believe that to this day.
Left the game... came back, tried to hitch a lift on someone's plan to take over a system, watched it fall through. Joined my corp up with an alliance, hoping to take a share of the power, they backstabbed me and left me half a billion out of pocket. But I've perservered and now I'm building my own private POS on the test server for when I set it up later in the week and claim soverignity over my own system
*and breathe* -----
Lead Games Programmer @ Quasit-Rushyo Games | Me! |
Sakira LeCastantas
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Posted - 2006.05.30 07:53:00 -
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Heh, I will never forget the moment i first signed in, Character creation, and then... BLAM youre in space
they changed it to station now though for newbies hehe
My sig in Turbo-Mode
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Arthur McFredric
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Posted - 2006.05.30 08:29:00 -
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Originally by: Lorette The more i play the more i enjoy it actually, sure the first week or so it was all nice and new but that soon fades and your left with the realisation that you have 2 months of training and running lv1/2 missions or mining before the real fun starts.
I 'really' started enjoying EVE when i got past about 3mill skill points, my learning was complete and i was free to train whatever i needed at the time, and at the same time had a ship good enough for what i needed to have fun.
I`m right there, right now I`ve just passed 3 mil sp, 1.8 of them in learning!
So now it`s long range targeting ftw!
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Phelan Lore
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Posted - 2006.05.30 08:55:00 -
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I remember being incredibly confused when I first started. I ended up rerolling after about 3 weeks do to crappy attributes.
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Linell
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Posted - 2006.05.30 09:09:00 -
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My first month in Eve has just passed and the strongest recollection I have about it is - learning skills, learning skills and some more learning skills. |
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