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Halet Cu
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Posted - 2006.09.08 15:25:00 -
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Anyone who has played EVE since its inception in 2003 have witnessed numerous changes to the game in the form of minor updates and major patches. Given that these updates have changed the character of the game I thought it might be entertaining for newer players to read about how things used to be in the "old days". So, all you guys and gals who have been around since 2003, feel free to post your memories/experiences of the EVE of old. Here are a few quickies to get the ball rolling.
Battle ships used to be the largest ships in the game and cost around 240,000,000 isk to purchase
Omber roids used to be found in 1.0 space and .9 space (at least thats my recollection)
3000 peeps online at one time was the norm
ships emerging from a jump gate weren't cloaked
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Tachy
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Posted - 2006.09.08 15:36:00 -
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No Concord
No sentry guns
Mines
Arkonor, Bistot, Crockite, ... in .6
Static spawns that are announced in NPC logs
Missiles with collision detection (launch, ram, wake up in clonevat)
Missiles (especially torps) with blast radius
No missions
No loot
Ridiculously low NPC bounties but fantastic spawn timer
0.0 with no npc
Sneaking into Jove space
Promises of storyline arcs
Working radar in the lower right hand side of the client instead of the Overview
Ships not powering down when you eject
No stacking penalties
m0o
Chasing Tank CEO around - and being chased
Seeing j0rt run when someone didn't cover in fear
No mwd
Pirates asking for ransoms
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Rodj Blake
Amarr
PIE Inc.
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Posted - 2006.09.08 15:38:00 -
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I know that it seems shocking now, but when Eve was released, the Amarr Empire actually had an Emperor!
Dulce et decorum est, pro imperator mori |
Fr3nzi
Caldari
hirr
Morsus Mihi
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Posted - 2006.09.08 15:39:00 -
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No queues on gates 
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Falconetta
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Posted - 2006.09.08 15:51:00 -
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Remember when this topic was brought up the first time? 
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Locke DieDrake
Port Royal Independent Kontractors
Imperial Republic Of the North
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Posted - 2006.09.08 15:57:00 -
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I remember when :
There was no autopilot.
CCP would adjust prices on inflated NPC buy sell orders by hand.
you could stack MWD/AB
Domi's had 10+ drones out at a time
POS's didn't exist.
Mining in high sec was the ONLY way to make any money.
insta's were called longwalkers. And you knew the guy who first thought of it.
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The deeper you stick it in your vein, the deeper the thoughts there's no more pain.
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K Shara
Caldari
Contraband Inc.
Mercenary Coalition
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Posted - 2006.09.08 15:58:00 -
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fleets of ceptors fleeing from a single torp raven
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Drasked
Total Failure
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Posted - 2006.09.08 16:03:00 -
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Edited by: Drasked on 08/09/2006 16:05:34
dual mwd and oversized AB's where probably the most memorable, together with cruise missiles on frigates.. dont wanna forget that one.
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When there was no gang warp to bookmarks, the wonders of fleet movement :)
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Altan Demart
Minmatar
Black Silver
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Posted - 2006.09.08 16:04:00 -
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When you have been proud to own a Scythe Cruiser ( bought for more than 10.000.000 isk ), and most the peeps were flying frigs. When you could find almost everywhere free Researchlabs. When there were not many Playercorps around, and you had no probs to find a station where you could rent a hangar.
Altan
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0gier
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Posted - 2006.09.08 16:31:00 -
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When Hannerhead drones , never existed
Junping into system never happened.
and 6&G 0O were distiguishable. ( sorry cant spell)
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Galk
Gallente
Autumn Tactics
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Posted - 2006.09.08 16:45:00 -
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Double spawns.....
That and chaining.... like hammering npc's spawning solid for 10-15hrs at a time.
So many times i cleared the top amount of npc's killed in the last 24hrs in the system i did this in.
Double spawns were kinda strange, i remember losing my rax down in period basis to one.
I was trailing a spawn like you did back then.. hammering away with the 250's... i realy wasn't watching the front view... dam 50k and his friends spawned in front of me
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Long ago one gorgeous night, we let the stars grow free.
We let Zhuge do that once, he came back carrying a traffic cone, a forsale sign and three empty bottles of dutch lager. He also lost his Zimmer Frame... - Imaran
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Larz63
Caldari
Penumbra Squadron
Center for Disease Creation
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Posted - 2006.09.08 18:03:00 -
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I remember when Jita didn't lag......
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Scoundrelus
The Black Fleet
Pirate Coalition
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Posted - 2006.09.08 18:39:00 -
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I remember when I used to mine...
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TigCobra
Battlestars
Imperium Alliance
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Posted - 2006.09.08 19:55:00 -
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when you could scoop pods
when you could double microwarpdrive ravens
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Siege
Minmatar
Siegecraft Bounty Hunting
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Posted - 2006.09.08 20:15:00 -
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The circular donut status indicator on targets.
No guns at gates, but rats instead in low-sec.
Market Map, with the high and low prices highlighted.
Selling omber for 5isk, and being happy that I got THAT much.
Killing the NPC convoys outside stations.
NO SHUTTLES!!!!
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Toadboy
Gallente
The Shadow Order
The Shadow Ascension
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Posted - 2006.09.08 20:18:00 -
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Edited by: Toadboy on 08/09/2006 20:22:33
Losing my Frigate when I was fighting a NPC pirate and a corpmate (who was in a Kestral at the time) wanted to help me out and fired Torps at him; The blast from the Torps explosion blew my ship apart.....
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ArcticShadow
Gallente
Rome
SMASH Alliance
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Posted - 2006.09.08 20:30:00 -
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I remember hundreds of things, but the most memorable was looting 1,000 harvestor drones, when just getting done talking about how I wish they were in the game so I could have some. :)
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ArcticWolf, member of Eve since February, 2003.
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R3aliti
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Posted - 2006.09.08 20:33:00 -
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No such thing as Implants - or advanced learning skills
BPCs were infinate run
CU Vapors were the King of Mining Lasers
Gal Indy V was the largest transport
Photonic CPU II was 28.4%
Getting Local Hull Expanders from .5 Rats
Mining Drone V gave you no more than Mining Drone I
Harvester Mining Drones were 35K each on the trade Channel
The Devs Called out "THE THREE" and beat Mo0 back to their home system.
Just a few off the top,
R3
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Ben Hump
Minmatar
The Kru
Coalition of Carebear Killers
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Posted - 2006.09.08 21:12:00 -
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Edited by: Ben Hump on 08/09/2006 21:13:39
one word "yulai"
and ofc when missiles were the element that most mattered. ships without missiles weren't combat ships they were miners ahnd u maxed out ur launcher slots before thinking about fitting some turrets
May contain traces of irony
"Yes Mister Tristan"
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var'ulfur
Caldari
blackwater
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Posted - 2006.09.08 21:44:00 -
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ahh the good old days when you dream of owning a moa for it was all i could pay for.
no insurance.
the server staying up for 40min/but it took 20 min to get online:)
when you see 6,000 online and say omfg
and most of all you knew about all the people that played by thier r/l names
talk is cheap the cost of action is enormus
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Death Kill
Caldari
direkte
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Posted - 2006.09.08 22:29:00 -
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1000 frigate march
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Nybbas
A Place for Valen
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Posted - 2006.09.08 22:31:00 -
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I remember when the forums were ruled by mods who had the best interests of the players in mind.
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Beovvulf
Revelations Inc.
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Posted - 2006.09.08 22:34:00 -
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Kestrel's with cruise missles
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Grez
Minmatar
The Raven Warriors
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Posted - 2006.09.08 23:03:00 -
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Dual MWD Rifter...
That thing could move...
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Corp: www.ravenwarriors.com
Cache Clearer |
Galk
Gallente
Autumn Tactics
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Posted - 2006.09.08 23:21:00 -
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Edited by: Galk on 08/09/2006 23:21:56
The Amarr shuttle flew backwards
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Long ago one gorgeous night, we let the stars grow free.
We let Zhuge do that once, he came back carrying a traffic cone, a forsale sign and three empty bottles of dutch lager. He also lost his Zimmer Frame... - Imaran
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