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Xavier Cardde
DarkStar 1
Ascendant Frontier
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Posted - 2006.10.09 12:20:00 -
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Edited by: Xavier Cardde on 09/10/2006 12:22:42
I remember back in 2001 being interested in EVE... I figured I would be a simple pilot flying cruisers and trying to keep the law off my back. I suppose my early vision was nothing like the actual thing.
Then in 2003 I bought EVE Online in May from the shelves and fired it up. I was amazed by the depth of the game even then. The culture and future outlook were awesome.
Early EVE was a whole different game. I played for three days before seeing my first Cruiser... an Osprey... And I was amazed by the power of the mighty Osprey and shuddered in fear from it.
Money making was really really really hard, Id say that a million ISK was worth what 40 or even 60 million is worth today. I made alot of my money selling the location of Kernite in empire for 200K and thinking that was real money. (oh how i regret not hunting for harvester drones now)
Eventually I worked up 7 million ISK... a fortune to me. I made it mostly re-selling 150mm and 250mm Gauss Rails and CU Vapor Bores. Good money I figured.
I got my first Moa and thought of it as a mighty ship of the line. Tier 3 was the best in firepower money could buy back then and even the best pirates used them. At the time Teir 3 cruisers were hotsellers and the trade channels are alive with selling and buying.
I scored my first kill after being ripped off for a factory slot. I was able to kill and pod the Merlin pilot right outside of the station before the guns killed me. No CONCORD and I was able to instantly redock. I sold the corpse for a mil to the other guys who were ripped off.
I lost that same Moa in .6 security to a gang of early pirates... I was ****ed for weeks.
Other than that I remember seeing j0rt's dominix and remember my balls suck up into my stomach... The Dominix was an early warhorse and used almost exclusivly medium weapons and cruisers were the typical prey in the m0o camps of Mara and Passari. Not too long after the DEVs broke up their camps by sending in CONCORD special forces. Not long after that Russian pilot discovered the Armageddon and saw that heatsinks stacked without penalty ending the reign of the Dominix.
All in all EVE was different and stranger... a world where BS NPCs didnt exist and the early corporations started banding together into alliances not yet supported by CCP. 0.0 was wild and empty with little besides shiny rocks.
We have come along way and I pity those who werent there to see it develop.
(lets not forget about the FANTA commercials and the 100 mil piece of tritanium either)
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Plasmatique
Caldari
Black Lance
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Posted - 2006.10.09 12:35:00 -
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ninja mining arkonor with a probe in an empty pure blind
4x 650 prototype artillerys on your moa was a good setup
damage mods stacked, invulnerability shield hardners stacked
Range penalty on ammo didn't work; full range from antimatter, emp and multispec
kestrels shooting cruise missiles (and crows for that matter), blackbirds and caracals shooting torpedos
tankceo and molly camping yulai
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Proud owner of a nerfed sig :( |
Rina Shanu
Phoenix Knights
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Posted - 2006.10.09 12:38:00 -
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Wish I was there 
Image removed, not appropriate for this site. -Suvetar
took you some time...
what has 4 legs and 1 arm? a happy pitbull |
FireFoxx80
Caldari
E X O D U S
Imperial Republic Of the North
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Posted - 2006.10.09 12:41:00 -
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Mining the minerals for my first Raven (not that long ago!), buying a BPC, and being upset when I lost it in combat.
Loading cruise missiles into a kessie, then wtfpwning NPCs.
Dual MWD ships.
MWDing in missions!
What I do the rest of the time - Vote for a Jita bypass! |
jamesw
Omniscient Order
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Posted - 2006.10.09 12:41:00 -
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Cycle jamming
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NEW Vid: Domi For the Win! |
Jim McGregor
Caldari
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Posted - 2006.10.09 12:49:00 -
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I played Eve in 2003 as well... and then empire was truly dangerous. I remember you used to get attacked at jumpin in some systems (because the location was not near the sentry guns or the gate like it is now). Sometimes you got killed before everything even loaded in your client. Fun times... not. 
Also m0o used to tank and jam sentries and stuff. Alot of the current mechanisms in Eve today came from the need to protect people from whatever m0o figured out. Definently had respect for that corp. And yeah, fun times when the devs chased them out from Mara... 
I guess Eve is better today, but its not as dangerous.
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Eve Wiki | Eve Tribune | Eve Pirate |
Erotic Irony
Sturm und Drang
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Posted - 2006.10.09 12:52:00 -
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No market access in space.
Absurdly small text in agent mission briefs--it looked an a string of paper abstracts at first glance.
Scorpion torp piracy.
Fewer map filters, gotta love the old show pilots in space.
Avon: For the love of all the is holy, do as the man says CCP. |
Wild Rho
Amarr
PIE Inc.
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Posted - 2006.10.09 12:53:00 -
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Eve was alot different back in the early days, if people think 0.0 is the Wild west of Eve it was nothing compared to Empire space back then.
My favourite memories were...
Getting my first cruiser (a maller) and thinking I was the dogs balls. 
Seeing a battleship in action for the first time (it was a geddon) while hitting some npc station at a moon. 
Seeing a raven afterburning past my punisher for the first time while approaching a gate 
I'd say Eve has definetly improved overall since then but there was somthing about the first few months that makes me all nostalgic now.
I have the body of a supermodel. I just can't remember where I left it.
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TuRtLe HeAd
The Bratwurst Burglars
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Posted - 2006.10.09 12:57:00 -
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Filing My First ever petition.
I think it was entitled Laser Exploit, I couldn't understand how a Stabber could hit me for like 200 damage From 100k away.
I Petitioned against this evil man called, HAMMERHEAD, to get a response that this was perfectly possible. And To Later Find out that he became a GM.
HammerHead It took me Weeks to get that Griffin. I'll get you ! I had it that ship for about 10 mins before you blew me out of the sky.
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Lygos
ISS Navy Task Force
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Posted - 2006.10.09 12:57:00 -
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NPCs didn't shoot back or give much of anything and were just part of the scenery.
Actually, all I really remember was seeing the login screen every 15minutes.
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Private Investment should preceed Public Investment |
Kyoko Sakoda
Caldari
The Black Rabbits
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Posted - 2006.10.09 13:14:00 -
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Getting chased by Yuki Li's torpedos in my Kestrel. What a meanie. 
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Scan 7
Detroit School of Engineering
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Posted - 2006.10.09 13:20:00 -
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A better game where you couldnt just find the ebst ship setups on the forum, you had to work that out for yourself
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Scan 7
Detroit School of Engineering
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Posted - 2006.10.09 13:22:00 -
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O and concord agents that helped get your sec back when you were naughty
Ninja mining 0.0 in a probe by making warpings 30+km from the npc spawns so they wouldnt attack you
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Cabadrin
Caldari
Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams
Mercenary Coalition
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Posted - 2006.10.09 13:29:00 -
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Spamming cruise missiles on kestrels was fun, also hitting unprotected NPC convoys that would drop 2000 mining drones, zyd or mega, BPOS, skill books, even ships! It was pretty nuts.
Finding the NPC spawn at Planet XI in EC-P8R and thinking it was the craziest thing ever.
Mining bistot in Lonetrek and thinking it was amazing.
Fitting 6 MWD to my scorpion and flying 3 million m/s through a star.
Getting my first cruiser (Thorax <3) and thinking it was the hottest ship ever.
Getting ganked at the Aunenen jump-in point before getting a chance to warp off, since when you jumped you didn't cloak afterwards.
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Ebedar
Gallente
Primary Intelligence
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Posted - 2006.10.09 13:47:00 -
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Making my first million trading antibiotics
Running missions for CONCORD and later bribing my level 3 CONCORD agent until I had +6 sec status.
Seeing a cruiser NPC for the first time in 0.0 (6-CZ) and thinking: "Wow!" (No cruiser NPCs in low sec in those days and no BS NPCs at all.)
The fuss people made when Zor accidentally ended up in a lvl 3 mission, before lvl 4 missions were available.
Hearing people say they would never fit anything other than 1400mm howitzers to their BS, even though they didn't fly Minmatar.
Mining Jaspet in Crielere when it became high sec for a little while, but the roid content wasn't changed.
Turning down the opportunity to buy multiple Harvester drones at 30k/unit as I figured I'd get them cheaper later 
Having 3 'slots' for your war decs and no war fee.
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Balls > WCS |
Ampoliros
Phantom Knights
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Posted - 2006.10.09 14:11:00 -
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I remember starting back in beta, and finding myself utterly unable to complete the tutorial due to lag (was unable to lock on to the roids); finally managed to jump out of system and spent hours doing homework and zapping plagioclase roids in my uber noobship...and almost losing my noobship due to angry NPCs.
I have to say, though, ignorance was bliss; I had no idea what sec rating was and I just flew willy-nilly about the universe without a care in the world...
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Tech2 Superweapon ftw:
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Ralkuth
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Posted - 2006.10.09 14:25:00 -
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Wow, that was a while ago.
When they first introduced shuttles, there was
a bug with the Amarr version and it flew backwards!
I flew 36 jumps to pick up my new Probe (before
the current superhighway system).
The Tempest with large artillery was THE ship to have
until all of the whining got it nerfed into uselessness.
That's true of just about every battleship in the game
at some point.
Used to be able to pop 3 npc frigates with one torpedo :-).
I really miss the days when the game was one big mystery
and we were all just trying to figure it out.
Later,
Ralkuth
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Indra Sebuchiore
Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2006.10.09 14:51:00 -
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Fitting 2 MWDs and an AB to my Stiletto to get it up to 138km/s, or using oversized AB's on a Claw to avoid the signature radius penalty
Before that even, seeing my first cruiser in space and being overawed, and then the same when seeing someone's battleship in game too.
Fitting lasers to my Rifter - what was I thinking?!
Only basic ores, none of this Fiery stuff or Condensed stuff...
... so much has changed...
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"In girum imus nocte, et consumimur igni."
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Rorix Whitecloud
Caldari
Eve Defence Force
Ascendant Frontier
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Posted - 2006.10.09 15:16:00 -
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I dont know if this is still in, but NPCs that hax... >_> NPC Caracals' heavy missiles hit me in 5 seconds flat while mine takes something like 10 or 20 seconds to hit them... and for less damage.
Cruise missiles on the Cara. Pwnage.
Cruise missile (singular) on the Kestrel. Hilarity.
Guns? what are guns? :P
Conquor-able Stations.
Ok... so my char at the time wasnt that old... but it was still nice :)
~I don't remember. That's the second thing they teach you. |
Benco97
Gallente
Fedo Appreciation Group
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Posted - 2006.10.09 15:18:00 -
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They were happy and sad days back in the beginning, things were tough but you felt good about it. Now things are easy but you don't feel so good..
oh well
Head of the Fedo Appreciation Group (FAG) and Registered Fedo breeder (Sig kindly supplied by Zurtur) |
Phoenix Lord
The Arrow Project
The ARR0W Project
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Posted - 2006.10.09 15:25:00 -
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Summer of 2004, started my trial as a caldari pilot. I just flew back and forth from the station and belt trying to make some money. Back then i only made about 1m and never got to the cruisers. I still enjoyed it alot though, i dont know why but the mining really appealed to me back then (funny because now i have 80k sp total for mining and 4m in guns).
Also, back then i felt as if EVE had more atmosphere... Probably because back then the ships did turn into a wreck THEN blew up, there were more warp sounds (i think), and there was less lag. I also miss that little half circle on the lower right corner of your screen that showed the system, that thing was awesome even if it didnt do much.
Oh yea, back then battleships were still semi-rare, a few of my friend's freinds warped in with their megathron and apoc, it all looked so amazing to me.
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Orri Sarikusa
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Posted - 2006.10.09 15:28:00 -
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My first fleet operation with what I reckon was one of the first alliances. The SPC. I lost my Moa to belt rats looking for m0o.
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How to avoid a ban.
The Manuel approach - 'I know nothing I'm from Barcelona' |
Scragg
Caldari
Tyrell Corp
Veritas Immortalis
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Posted - 2006.10.09 15:29:00 -
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In no particular orderą..
My first corp CEO misspelling the corp name.... the same guy later falling asleep while mining in an indy and getting blow up by rats.
M00..... 20 ships, 50 drones, 200 cargo cans at a gate camp... The same guys later being airlifted deep into 0.0 by concord.
The first fleet op I ever participated iną. hunting down Lord Zapp in his new Dommyą. I donĘt think we got him.. but it was fun.
Red Alliance pilots dupping cargo ships full of Mega and selling the isk on ebay.... the same guys later being banned.
Curse Alliance of Pirates. Proof if you repeat something often enough everyone eventually believes it.
During the beta.... roll backs... noooooooo!
OMG.... battleship belt rats!
Corp wide mining operation to afford your first battleship.
Buying my first combat ship... fear my Condor! Later upgrading to a Merlin! feel the power!
Hunting Red Alliance haulers deep in Curse.... they just kept comming and comming. Oh... and they used to logout when going though gates back then too. Some tactics just seem to never get old.
Back when cruisers could fire torps and cruise missiles watching some guy blow himself up when he launched torps, microwarped to his target, his target stripped his shield before he got there and the his own splash damage blowing him up.
Wondering what would happen if you put Bad Mojo and Gypsy Djinn in a small room and gave them both baseball bats. You wonĘt get this one unless you have spent any time on team speak with themą.. if you have you probably just fell out of your chair.
Stacking microwarp drives..... Woosh!
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Zoltaris
COLSUP
Tau Ceti Federation
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Posted - 2006.10.09 15:45:00 -
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I remember mining Arkonor in dead end empire space, before it was moved to 0.0
On my 1st day (may 8, 2003), i remember getting my isk by mining omber in a 1.0 system until i could upgrade my ship
No BS for months ingame, Cruisers were kings in that time and the 1st player to get a BS was Lord Zap, he then used it to camp entry point in empire space and nobody dared to fight against him 
No autopilot, no highway
NPC pirates at gates up to 0.8 system
1m isk was worth over $20 on ebay in the 1st month 
Unlimited BPC that were worth 1/3 of the BPO
A Tech 5 mining laser given to a player by mistake (well, i think it droped from a GM in a jove ship)
Techell making a fortune by having a monopole on Miner II and selling them at 5m each (which was a hell of a lot of isks back then)
Ah, so many memories 
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Ghoest
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Posted - 2006.10.09 15:49:00 -
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Flying with Mercenary Frigates using a Kestrel with 4 cruise misssiles.
Wherever you went - here you are.
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Rick Dentill
Lynx Frontier Inc.
Ascendant Frontier
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Posted - 2006.10.09 15:54:00 -
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My early memories of EVE were picking up the box every time I went into a computer game store and wishing I was better with money so that I could afford a net connection so I could play it.
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Zoltaris
COLSUP
Tau Ceti Federation
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Posted - 2006.10.09 15:58:00 -
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 Originally by: Scragg
During the beta.... roll backs... noooooooo!
Actually, this was after release, the Devs had to rollback the game once because of an exploit that was used by many players and gave them billions of isks back when 1m isk was a real fortune
The devs got overwhelmed by that exploit to a point that they had to close the server for a while and rollback it to almost a day before that, so that everything was back as it was before the exploit started being used, they then gave 100k isk to all players as a compensation for lost assets and isk 
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Jurushy
SteelVipers
YouWhat
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Posted - 2006.10.09 16:19:00 -
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bigest rats has 52,5k bounty
respawnrate of the npc¦s was really fast (5 secs or so)
tachyon beams rock
everyone use schildtank becouse armordamage also do strukturdamage
pawn a frig whit large guns was possible
no conqueribal stations poses or outposts
named items were really expensive
no t2 items/ships (only miner t2)
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Red Ochre
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Posted - 2006.10.09 16:55:00 -
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missiles, ahhh, splash damage (kill your friends), they would run into other things, one could only hope the rest of the weapon physics would be made to follow this, but alas, seems it was too much trouble with concorde, and a lot of whining. then i got deployed......... |
Maud Dib
Caldari
Jericho Fraction
The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2006.10.09 17:06:00 -
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Back in the day you could web and scramble in empire without Concord get upset. So you just grabbed a Badger2 web and scrambled people until they paid a ransom to be released.
Oh and Mara/Passari was a death trap.
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