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Valan
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Posted - 2006.08.25 16:09:00 -
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Edited by: Valan on 25/08/2006 16:11:05
Apparently the new guys think the vets do not understand how difficult this game is. This is a list of the nightmares the older players have faced. See if you can relate it to your current experience kinda explains why some of the whines get a bad response. This will hopefully be a bit of nostalgia trip for the older generation.
MONEY MAKING.
1. No Escrow.
2. No range of roids, non of this Condensed Veldspar rubbish.
3. No mining barges and fancy mining gear, just a cruiser and some CU Vapours.
4. Low ore prices non of this selling isogen for 125.
5. No roids, roids had to be manually spawned, Placid had nothing but pebbles for months. WeÆre talking entire regions with next to no minerals.
6. No missions at all to make money.
7. No BS rats to earn ISK.
8. No officer spawns and fancy loot.
9. No complexes or Cosmos systems.
10. No GTCÆs to buy your way into the game.
PVP
1. No tracking to worry about, if the guy had a bigger ship you were toast regardless of how fast you were going.
2. Dodgy grids, you could be shot by someone you couldnÆt see. Fleets could hide 2m the other side of a grid line.
3. Lag with 10 ships jumping into a battle.
4. Kestrels with cruise missiles in empire with no transports and a crap Concord.
5. 'Jump in points' your ship doesn't appear next to a gate cloaked. It appears at a random planet. Your ship appears long before you see it and youÆre usually in your pod by then.
6. Empire gates camped because Concord could be killed along with the sentries and not dying wasnÆt an exploit.
7. Less entries into 0.0.
8. Pirates used to buy there sec status back so you had no idea who was a pirate.
SKILLS & TOYS
1. No destroyer or BC class, you go from cruiser to BS. Huge gap in funds.
2. No implants.
3. No advanced skills.
4. No nice new bloodlines with flashy attributes.
5. No tech 2 gear.
6. No character sales.
ASSISTANCE
1. No tutorials at all.
2. No guides on the website.
Anyone got anything else to contribute to the noob nightmare EVE used to be?
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Valan
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Posted - 2006.08.25 16:15:00 -
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 Originally by: Jacques Archambault
You forgot:
- No Autopilot 
lol I remember I had an autopilot with a fondness for PF-346. HAL reincarnated.
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Valan
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Posted - 2006.08.25 16:41:00 -
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Originally by: Tyranical Teabagger
um. what's a smuggler gate?
The backdoors between 0.0 regions. You used to have to always enter through the empire choke points during an alliance war.
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Valan
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Posted - 2006.08.25 17:09:00 -
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Originally by: Agnar Griffen
Originally by: Tyranical Teabagger
are they listed gates in the overview or one of those things you have to use scam probes to find?
WTB a scam probe.
lol bet one or two EIB customers wish they had one of those.
To be honest not seen one for a while, not in that area of space. As far as I remember I warped to them. But one of the alliance minions will probably put me right.
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Valan
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Posted - 2006.08.26 00:45:00 -
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Originally by: Lisbo
Edited by: Lisbo on 25/08/2006 19:03:55
sry to burst your bubble of "good old days"...i was there back in beta...and didnt subscribe afterwards because of this UNFINISHED PRODUCT you are describing.
i dont talk about T2 or other fancy stuff...but even the basics were not implemented.
that are not "good old days"...
right before exodus was the gamestate it should have been after release. the BETA ended back then ;)
Hear that whoosh sound it was the point flying 15ft above your ahead.
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