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Galk Gallente Autumn Tactics	Posted - 2006.10.09 17:49:00 - [31] Edited by: Galk on 09/10/2006 17:51:17 Yeah i was going to say chaining also.. fast fingers back then and lots of time Some fond memories for 03 for sure, near 80 jump mining hauls we had going on, empty 0.0 space making the game feel vast.. the spawning locations are also a big miss... naga ect.. I also remember finding location items need roid belts that don't seem to be around anymore... i don't know if anybody remembers those.. some were quite artistic and quite detailed, i seem to remember things like old weather veins ect? ______
Core Bash REQUIEM INC. Black Reign Syndicate	Posted - 2006.10.09 18:14:00 - [32] TankCEO terrorizing high security Luminaire. My hauler sh*t an Atron on the spot. _
Peter Stuyvesant Amarr	Posted - 2006.10.09 18:24:00 - [33] - Uber shield tank scorp with cap relays (pre-shieldboost amount nerf) - Shield tank apoc - Jump-in point BBQ with no time to even load the system - Really fast NPC chaining (used to see blobs in 0.0 with ridiculous amounts of NPCs killed in the last 24 hours) - My rail-maller - Frigates were just about useless - No stacking penalty - All NPC cruisers scrambled you - 'Exploring' was a profession for a while with people trying to find the points-of-interest full of juicy NPCs (what was the site? explore-eve.com or something?) - Getting your first interceptor just after they'd been introduced. You were simply King of the Known Universe. - When BS rats were introduced and they were pretty hardcore. I dont think I've ever seen the whole map glow with so many lost ships - Hiding behind roids so the missiles hit them while you shoot your guns through the roid
BIRDofPREY Minmatar KDM Corp Firmus Ixion	Posted - 2006.10.09 18:57:00 - [34] Flying across EVE from one end to the next and not seeing a soul. You had a real sense of exploration then. Dodging the RUS and watching Everlasting Vendetta eat every 'roid with in 5 jumps of their home system. Battleship mining to support their war with the RUS. m0o for the win. Frustration, agravation and anger is just EVE's way of saying you are playing the game to the fullist
Avon Caldari Black Nova Corp Band of Brothers	Posted - 2006.10.09 19:27:00 - [35] The Threat Warning Box, and the sounds that went with it. Bring it back, make it optional, but bring it back. The Battleships is not and should not be a solo pwnmobile - Oveur
Tripp Orsam Dragonstar	Posted - 2006.10.09 20:11:00 - [36] old login screen used to look like this and the next screen looked like this. Bring back any memories? ----------------------------- EVE Online perfectly strikes all your free time wrecking your 1994 marriage.
Complacency's Bane Caldari	Posted - 2006.10.09 20:14:00 - [37] Edited by: Complacency''s Bane on 09/10/2006 20:17:24 MORBOR! ZOMBIE YULAI ASSAULT!
BIRDofPREY Minmatar KDM Corp Firmus Ixion	Posted - 2006.10.09 21:40:00 - [38] 'Roids! Lots of 'roids of all types and flavors. And not a Covetor in site!! Frustration, agravation and anger is just EVE's way of saying you are playing the game to the fullist
Bosie	Posted - 2006.10.09 22:22:00 - [39] Originally by: Avon The Threat Warning Box, and the sounds that went with it. Bring it back, make it optional, but bring it back. Please! Bosie. "There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is ENGLAND." ...Winston
Kosa Mosapiel	Posted - 2006.10.10 02:50:00 - [40] I laughed when ccp put the stop sign on the old gui. Kinda miss it tho... Warping away from the station and having the station attached to your ship. Insta-bounce Grid bug ninja mining with rats 20k away and blind to you. My old duramaller Mining and ratting for 5 months to get an apoc. Mining in an apoc and making 'millions' an hour m0o, Rus, CA, and Xetic
DarkAngel Gallente	Posted - 2006.10.10 03:17:00 - [41] -Mining Ark and Bistot in a .5 system in empire. -Shooting cruise missile from a kestrel -Shield tanking with a domi -m0o in pf -pirating with a 5.0 security status and ppl getting ****ed off cuz they couldn't put a bounty on us hahahaha oh and since we're talking about the old days... anyone remember back in beta when there was no autopilot, and you had to physically look at the map and write down the systems in order on where you wanted to go. Those were the days, lol DA
Xavier Cardde DarkStar 1 Ascendant Frontier	Posted - 2006.10.10 12:21:00 - [42] I remember casks and rarer cans dropped nice loots.
Stratharn	Posted - 2006.10.11 01:35:00 - [43] No deadspace missions, and REALLY very boring repetitive encounters. I was so glad to come back 6 months later and discover Deadspace. Twin MWDs on a thorax. Apoc as the ultimate mining boat. Ravens with 6 Torp launchers basically being EasyMode for Caldari pilots. :) Rats around gates in 0.8 and below (one shot each. Free few thousand isk on the way through) Kestrel cruise launchers Launchers that could fire any size missile up to the size they were designed to fire. (eg: Heavies could also fire rockets and lights.) No named items can be sold on the market! Rob http://www.chainblade.com/
Idara Caldari Cutting Edge Incorporated RAZOR Alliance	Posted - 2006.10.11 02:05:00 - [44] Cruisekessies. Torpacals. Mining in my Thorax for an Armageddon. Which I mined in for an Apoc. Which I then mined for the basic mins for a Scorp, Mega and Raven with. God I did way too much mining.
Trahern Twrgadarn	Posted - 2006.10.11 02:14:00 - [45] Originally by: Tripp Orsam old login screen used to look like this and the next screen looked like this. Bring back any memories? I would love to have the old login screen and music back, to me, that was part of the eve experience. Yup, it may sound silly but I have so many fond memories....well I would have if my memory worked Aye, the good ol' days were fun. Eve were a big place with kernite, omber, plag, scord and veld in every high sec system. Giant secure cans were actually useful then as we had no 'special' ships like the kids have today. All we had were frigs, cruisers, battleships and indy's, none of this rubbish tech 2 stuff The old system before the cloaking after you jumped really **ed me off and stopped me from doing missions for over a years after someone popped me when I had to do a crap delivery job. I think there were a shed load more pirates about then too, you would rarely go through a system without someone trying to get a shot at you. Exploration was a load of fun. It used to be nice going into any system and finding junk with your scanner. Unfortunately very little was of use, maybe you'd find an old station or something, most you'd have is a few frig rats. Some things use to look pretty cool though. I can remember seeing my first bs and nearly crapping myself, the sound of the lasers compared to my crappy frig potato guns sounded awesome. The forums were a shed load more mature back then, people would have their dissagreements but you didn't have the retarded, no-brainer replies you get these days. Maybe it's justa a sign of the times though, anyone can afford a PC these days and getting on the internet is no problem. So much has changed, it's just the little things for me which make me feel as though it's not the game it used to be. Maybe I have been playing for too long (nearly 4 years) and am getting too cynical and protective. /me still wants option of having original login screen and music. Quote:** Creana > u`r momma is so fat , that BOB mistaken her for a region and claimed her
MrPops Caldari Foundation R0ADKILL	Posted - 2006.10.11 03:07:00 - [46] I remember hunting M0o with my old corp Final Horizon, in Heimatar, when most people flew frigates. We had just built the first Stabbers. Also, we had the very first Hoarders in the market. BTW, Final Horizon was the result of a breakup in Colossus Technologies during beta.
Feta Solamnia	Posted - 2006.10.11 03:10:00 - [47] Edited by: Feta Solamnia on 11/10/2006 03:10:48 Kessies spitting 3x cruise missiles. If you think empire suicide ganking is bad today, you should've seen how it was back then. And there were no t2 indies to save you from the suicide squad... 1400mm howies absolutely smacking frigates/ceptors in close orbit. mission agent-only drops of t2 construction components Originally by: Oveur I have access to all market data. Believe me, we have not reached anything close to deflation yet.
Aldee Federated Holdings	Posted - 2006.10.11 03:14:00 - [48] Minimal lag and nodes that worked..... ah yes it was a simplier time back then.
Fantus Caldari Pitch Black Incorporated	Posted - 2006.10.11 03:23:00 - [49] I started right before Beta was ending. I played I think about 5 or 6 days of beta, when Armageddon Day came. They gave everyone maxed out skills, and a good chunk of ISK. Too bad I had no idea what I was doing, cause I was being killed everywhere. Then the wait. It was a few weeks before Beta ended that the Game went live. I was like a little kid waiting for christmas. In my short time in Beta, I got addicted to the game. So much so, that I played Homeworld and Terminus just for some kind of space game fix. Then when the game went live, I had Credit Card problems. I still have the original CD I bought, with the manual and key. It took another week or so to get my CC problem resolved. The game was different. Way different. I remember agents really sucked. They would send me on courier missions 30 jumps away. I had a condor as my first ship after the Ibis. I got the condor to be fast enough to out run the Guristas Plunderers at the gates throwing missiles at me. I had no idea about mining really, althouh high end ores were available in empire for a short time. I lived up in Torrinos early on. I remember m0o used to camp in Mara, and I gathered a bunch of new pilots around Kisogo to take them on in ibis's. There were about 20 or more of us flying at m0o in the starter ship. About 3 minutes later, there were 20 or more cargo containers floating around, which they used to keep around for the lag factor. I also remember how horrible the connectivity was back then. People complain now, but I remember the roll-back. That was the worse. EVE has improved by leaps and bounds from those first few months. But, I do miss the exploration early on. Everything was new. Nothing was given to you. Mining was done in bantams and merlins for security. At least for us Caldaris. That first cruiser was a pain to get. 14mil for a Moa, and we had to shudder go to Daras to pick it up from Cornexant Corp. We always thought Jove was gonna open up in a matter of weeks. We plotted an planned how we were gonna get there, and what we would do when there. Like I said, things were so much more secretive. The devs were still more at work just making it work than actually adding new features and planning new regions. Over 3 1/2 years of EVE now. I take long breaks now, but I'm still an addict.
w0rmy Intensive CareBearz	Posted - 2006.10.11 03:34:00 - [50] The server would go more than 23 hours without being rebooted... 100 v 100 fleet battles were possible... Originally by: Avon Originally by: Dark Shikari What single item is larger than a jetcan? My ego?
Mjolnir Gallente Asgard Industries	Posted - 2006.10.11 03:42:00 - [51] After beta I remeber starting the game on the first day of launch and there were skill training problems. Ninja mining ark in empire space, and power gaming the first 3 months of the game. Obtaining blueprints like crazy, 2 days after launch to get a iteron mk2 print, 6days after to get a vexor, 13 days after for a thorax, 3 weeks to get a dominix BPO. Profits were amazing and there were only a few sellers. Traveling all over eve without autopilot in beta, then traveling all over eve with autopilot, but highway system. Then the highway system, then no highway system again. Remebering TTi being the biggest corp in eve, everyone hating ragnar. The rise and fall of all the early alliances, M0o's antics throughout eve. Techell corp cornering the miner 2 market, then becoming the most powerful manufacturer in eve, then came NAGA. Lots of crazy bugs agent missions giving insane standings, standings being so easy to change. Asteroids not regenerating for a long time after launch, the devs going on vacation after launch so nothing got fixed. The jove events that happened. Which PA character are you?
Siege Minmatar Siegecraft Bounty Hunting	Posted - 2006.10.11 03:45:00 - [52] No shuttles yet, that was fun having ships spread all over the freakin galaxy. I still remember the original forum where they were talking about scheduled bus service (Interbus!). Then there were the little donut status indicators on your targets, those were fun. As was the mini-radar on the bottom corner. Then there was the old market map that highlighted the highest and lowest prices on a starmap. Bright green = good, bright red = bad. I liked that one too, definitely miss it. The mad rush for construction space when they had the 1isk rentals that didn't time out. The server was live for 5 freakin hours and I had to go 9 jumps to get one! Oh, and the server was live for 5 freakin hours and somebody ALREADY had my first choice of character name! That was BS of the first degree! And speaking about rollbacks, what about when the first increased the rat difficulty, and put rats on most of the jumpgates in .6 and lower? Everybody in lower sec got trapped, and almost all of them got podded in like 2 hours. Whoops. Then there was the rush after downtime finished to sell your minerals before the NPC buy orders got filled and prices tanked. What really stunk though was getting chosen for the first batch of pre-alpha testers, I was so freakin happy about that. Then it was really depressing finding out the server was live for 3 hours a day. And those 3 hours were in the middle of my work schedule. It was pretty funny though when they had a sound error one day during alpha and every sound was replaced by a 'Mooooooo'. And 15 minutes later, it was really annoying, I still wonder if that is where the m0o name came from.
Flowen	Posted - 2006.10.11 03:56:00 - [53] I remember when fireing off a torp and blowing up 3 frigs, their pods, and the stargate.
Lisentia	Posted - 2006.10.11 04:42:00 - [54] Mining in an imicus and calculating the profit and units/hour for various asteroid types at school.
Raivotar Body Count Inc. Mercenary Coalition	Posted - 2006.10.11 04:46:00 - [55] - npc spawns that could actually kill you and same ones allways scrambled with every ship. - npc spawn that spawned on top of you whe you were guarding mining op. (could be just my good looks) - Missions that were really really boring , had huge amounts of jumps and had allmost zero reward. - one size fit all MWD. - Area effect torpedos. - Missile spammage that allways killed pod. - Shield tank on every ship. (including mega,apoc,thorax...) :) .... ------------------------------------------------ I'm scissors. Nerf rocks. Paper is fine.
errinung triton Amarr Perpetua Umbra Brotherhood Of Steel	Posted - 2006.10.11 05:36:00 - [56] No Autopilot Custom Signatures for 15 million Isk, EVE mail please.
Kay Han Caldari Stardust Heavy Industries	Posted - 2006.10.11 05:59:00 - [57] Edited by: Kay Han on 11/10/2006 06:00:31 i started march 2004 with eve. What i remember the most is: -Mining low mines in a MOA for my first BS. -Flying mostly afk from empire to delve, to start mining high mines for my first BS. -Losing my Moa, when warping to a belt to check out the shiny new 0.0 ore. -cap recharger II¦s only costs 5 mill. Damn.. eve was fine at this time. only 11k peeps at peak times. No Blobing all over the place. ___________________________________________ A wise man said once: 'Violence is the escape of the mentaly poor guys.'
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Mr M	Posted - 2006.10.11 18:13:00 - [59] Irritating but I actually liked it when missiles could hit other things than it's target. I used to hide from rats behind asteoroid. Oooh... and the asteoroids that keeped on growing when no one mined them. You could find valdspar the size of small planet in way off systems. And of course /autopilot, the command that changed everything :-) EVEgeek \| EVE Tribune
SadisticSavior Caldari Edenists	Posted - 2006.10.11 18:38:00 - [60] Quote: Irritating but I actually liked it when missiles could hit other things than it's target. I used to hide from rats behind asteoroid. Oooh... and the asteoroids that keeped on growing when no one mined them. You could find valdspar the size of small planet in way off systems. Really? I dont remember that. That would be so cool! They should bring it back. Ditto with the missile thing.

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