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Princess Kuki Minmatar	Posted - 2006.10.23 12:01:00 - [1] Was wondering what it was like in the first few weeks eve went live, and i dont mean stuff like... "no HACs or battlecruisers back in the day you know" Was there a better sense of community and more people helping each other out back then? Was there much pvp in the beginning? Were there instantly loads of corps created just after eve went on sale or were there just a few corps that most people were in? Or was every1 still in noobiecorps? Was also wondering what 0.0 station was the first ever to be taken :) if any1 knows?
Epsilon 1	Posted - 2006.10.23 12:06:00 - [2] Community was much much better. (2004) Devs actually cared about the changes, TomB used his nerfbat with style at least, making 1 race the alpha class, the other 3 - balanced. PVP was lot more fun, nothing like a geddon with 2x sensor booster, 1 disr and +6 heat sinks and just warped around killing before getting killed and getting the hell out of there. But that's 2004 to early 2005 - IMO, best times. Originally by: Tuxford Ah yes the Amarrians. Now bear with me apparantly I don't play Amarr or have ever heard of them, I read it on the forums. NGE act 2.
jimmy jack	Posted - 2006.10.23 12:10:00 - [3] well everyone was in frigs and cruisers. modulated heavy beams and extruded heatsinks was the weapon of choice. cu vapor streams was the mining laser of choice fitted on a maller or throrax. and harvester drones dropped from convoys. there was no pos or conquerable stations back then, and 0.0 was pretty much free to anyone who wanted it . only 3000 players on during weekends made it tough to hold any kind of space. Mo0 corp ran rampent in fd-mlj and made many sdtrikes in high sec space wich led to the power that concord weilds today. the overview was confusing and alat harder to use. the kestral was really fast with 3 lif feuled booster rockets. biggest rat you could kill was a 55k cruisers. best rat to kill was juggernaugts.
Seleene Body Count Inc. Mercenary Coalition	Posted - 2006.10.23 12:16:00 - [4] I remember not having an autopilot. - Movie: 9UY - Got Fighters?
LaCoHa Caldari Deep Space Navy Caldari Deep Space Industral	Posted - 2006.10.23 12:19:00 - [5] Originally by: Seleene I remember not having an autopilot. That would suck.. but then again, suicide ganks, and .4 camps have basically made that the case again - if you want your crap to survive that is. "I just slaughtered 28 people in that game of Battlefield 2 and never died. Man my e-p33n feels huge."
Deamos Quintessential Xelas Alliance	Posted - 2006.10.23 12:23:00 - [6] In the beginning, A thorax gate camping with all his drones out was a feared thing. 90% of the pilots were in frigates. PVP was....intresting to say the least. I remember engaging a hostile in .5 space and surviving against Concord in my Merlin while fragging their small frig sized ships who were trying to warp scram me. A cruiser spawn in 0.0 was rare and a lucritive thing. Many people would roll out to 0.0 trying to ninja mine the Bistot roids in their Ibis's. Mo0 corp was the most feared pirates all across Eve. Lord Zap had the highest bounty of them all. -
Extreme Eye of God Axiom Empire	Posted - 2006.10.23 13:34:00 - [7] Edited by: Extreme on 23/10/2006 13:45:10 1) Kestrels with Cruise missile launchers on them and 3 weeks skilled characters were able to gank haulers from deepspace. 2)Having the first insta jumps in game back in december 2003. I was able to break MoO's gate camps in the south of Eve's deepspace. I believe it was aroud the A2 system. A few weeks later MoO finally figured out a solution against insta jumps and so they started to jump with me and finally were able to take down my bestower. 3) Having the first insta routes in game was cool too. I raced against the fastest ship setups in a POD to prove insta's were kicking ass in game. As you had no insta jumps back then the POD was the slowest 'vessel' to fly the 15KM to the gate, while the fastest ships were using microwarp drives. I won the 8 jumps races with 3 jumps distance with my POD using insta's Edit: I had to copy each bookmark one-by-one for my corpmembers, again and again with each new route i had created. 4) 1 single type of MWD. My tempest behaved like an interceptor using a MWD and we had "insta break". "Insta break" was that while you MWD'd towards someone you turned around the view while in MWD and double clicked the opposit direction. If you practised this alot you were able to be in optimal range real fast. 5) Back then CCP released rare items through loot. Some of these are still in game like Local Hull Expanded Cargo and Harvester Mining Drones. 6) The first implants in game handed out by agents. We made a 'fortune' obtaining these from agents. When you got offered another one after at least 30 missions you made 8 (!) million isk. 8 million isk back then can be compared with 500M isk now. 7) Anchoring giant secure cans in deepspace as a 'base' for your corp. There were no stations/outposts/POS's, nothing. You stacked ores in them during corpmining and it costed you a week to haul all the bistot/crokite/arkonor to empire in order to refine it. Imagine a bestower filled with bistot (210 units max.) and have to make 36 jumps back to empire in order to refine it Edit: 8 ) Stackable damage modules without penalties (yup penalties did not exist back then). It's what made moO to be feared for as they were the few that really knew about this at start. . .
Einheriar Ulrich Minmatar Black Reign Lotka Volterra	Posted - 2006.10.23 13:45:00 - [8] Originally by: Seleene I remember not having an autopilot. Yes, and every system had an jumpin point Not to say, you could litterarely fly for days without anyone in local besides yourself.....Players peeked in the weekends, by around 3000 or so

Redundancy	Posted - 2006.10.23 13:55:00 - [9] Edited by: Redundancy on 23/10/2006 13:55:40 I remember it as a time when people weren't so horrible to us on the forums at every opertunity. NB: Even if I can fully understand the current frustration with the servers etc.

Calsak Black Thorne Corporation	Posted - 2006.10.23 13:56:00 - [10] Edited by: Calsak on 23/10/2006 14:00:46 I remember mining in 0.3 in a Rookie ship without a care in the world...ahhh the days (or was that beta? Damn my memory!) Oh and someone with a Thorax was a god and in my first corp was all mined to get the corps first Battleship (a Raven). Seeing a Battleship was like seeing a Titan, rocking horse doo-doo!

Extreme Eye of God Axiom Empire	Posted - 2006.10.23 14:06:00 - [11] Originally by: Redundancy Edited by: Redundancy on 23/10/2006 13:55:40 I remember it as a time when people weren't so horrible to us on the forums at every opertunity. NB: Even if I can fully understand the current frustration with the servers etc. I remember DEV's were playing Jove in Stain space. . .
DazWozUK Caldari Syntax Error	Posted - 2006.10.23 14:07:00 - [12] They where happy days, I remember buying a kestrel as my first friggate and me and the whole corp couldnt understand why I couldnt fit any mining lasres. Also my jaw dropping experience of seeing a itereon MK1, in the old days for months on end we would mine in friggates and haul using friggates. Empire got a bit bad after a few months though as piracy became a common career and at the time there was no sentries on the gates.
Gothikia Reikoku Band of Brothers	Posted - 2006.10.23 14:09:00 - [13] Edited by: Gothikia on 23/10/2006 14:11:41 Originally by: Redundancy Edited by: Redundancy on 23/10/2006 13:55:40 I remember it as a time when people weren't so horrible to us on the forums at every opertunity. NB: Even if I can fully understand the current frustration with the servers etc. Well then I just want you to know that I love you... ♥ Edit: In the beggining it was brilliant, and it still is, but cos of certain types of people who have come into EVE, the feel has changed somewhat. But I think only those who were around at the start can truly appreciate EVE and how special it really is. cry I dunno bout anyone else, but EVE will always be nice and warm and fuzzy to me and will always be very very special. <3
Trooper B99 Caldari Body Count Inc. Mercenary Coalition	Posted - 2006.10.23 14:15:00 - [14] Blockade running by turning your MWD on in warp and blasting out towards the gate. Or chainspawning cruisers till you couldn't move for can lag. Or finding all the POI (remember eve-explorer?) spawns (spawn containers were the only way to get meta BS loot weren't they in those days?). Lots of changes, its weird looking at screenies of the UI from back then. Wish I'd bought the game at release rather than a couple months after. Wirykomi Team Racer - COLOSSUS Championships Year 106
Chode Rizoum Minmatar Finite Horizon	Posted - 2006.10.23 14:24:00 - [15] i miss my scorp setup 2 x 1400 I 4 x heavy missile lunchers with torps 1 x xl booster 1 x amp 2 x EM 2 x thermal 2 x Kin 4 x cap relay think it was that cant remember fully
Grimpak Gallente Celestial Horizon Corp. Ascendant Frontier	Posted - 2006.10.23 14:32:00 - [16] Originally by: Einheriar Ulrich Yes, and every system had an jumpin point can you imagine if we were still using JIP's instead spawning at gate, ant then can you imagine using an interdictor there? oh the slaughter ------- Originally by: Abdalion Originally by: Jebidus Skari What, in EVE, is a Tyrant? Me. Especially when it comes to troll threads.
Old Geeza The Retirement Home	Posted - 2006.10.23 14:37:00 - [17] Originally by: Redundancy Edited by: Redundancy on 23/10/2006 13:55:40 I remember it as a time when people weren't so horrible to us on the forums at every opertunity. NB: Even if I can fully understand the current frustration with the servers etc. Unfortunately, this comes with every MMORPG the more successful it gets. _______________________________________ Sign the petition against jump queues!
Pablos Ine Insurgency	Posted - 2006.10.23 14:52:00 - [18] i remember it being much more community orientated.. but maybe thats because it was a smaller community. and simple mathematics apply here. if 1% of the population is an a$$hole, then out of 4000 people, the chances of meeting one is limited.. but now, everyone you meet seems to be one. Maybe im a grumpy old f@rt though now. when getting into my 1st thorax was a big deal.. when the whole corp worked to get each other in a megathron, and they were 55 mill each . And 55 mill was a lot. Then when I lost that mega to huff while on my way picking up "LARGE CRYSTALS" .. yes i know, large crystals.. from eggelhende for the guns id fitted to it and how upset i was about losing it. We thought we were Uber hitting .4 & .5 belts in our ninja thoraxs to mine some sweet omber.. . Luckily mining is a distant memory now. ------------------------------------------- "Only the dead have seen the end of war." Plato "I drank what !!! ?" Socrates
MrRookie Caldari Dark and Light inc. D-L	Posted - 2006.10.23 15:17:00 - [19] This was in 2004 somewhere. My whole corp worked together to get eachother in BSs and I was the first one to get one. I got this feeling I think Darth Vader got when he finished the Death Star. I had to breath through a paper bag. guy being attacked by a pirat in a complex Originally by:* Noluck Ned Notify Concord is on their way to help you, just hang in there, they are waiting for the gatekeeper to respawn
Aidelon Caldari Research Associates	Posted - 2006.10.23 15:26:00 - [20] I beta'd durring the last week. The biggest issue I had was the auto-pilot, or lack thereof. Getting a currior mission for 30 jumps almost every mission u were offered, and not having the auto-pilot, was definatly no fun. Lots of frigates back then. I remember being a total noob and running around in my ibis picking up some minerals and running back and forth to the station for very minimal profit. The game itself plays the same now as it did then. Just more content and more people, and of course like any MMO, players learn the system and learn how to increase thier resources quickly and in the most efficient manner.

Sabahl Minmatar Shinra Lotka Volterra	Posted - 2006.10.23 15:32:00 - [21] I remember logging in on day 1 of server up and immediately mining like crazy to get enough cash together to buy a probe. It took hours as there were none but NPC seeded frigates on the market as nobody could afford a BPO, let alone build them. Then I mined some more to afford to buy equipment for the damn thing. Flew out to a belt in a 0.6 system (suicide for pretty much everyone on the server at that time) and announced to the Pator Tech corp channel I was going to kill some Angels. The channel melted down with people wishing me luck. Killed that first angel friggie in a very close fight and checked the can. And that is very possibly how the first Partial Hull Cargo Expander came into the game. After that it was time to hit the trade routes. Within three weeks all the major trade routes had been seriously depleted but in those first few days you could make some good ISK from running almost anything and everything as long as the jumps were minimal. Remember, no autopilot and no instas made life miserable for traders. But within a few days I had made my first million ISK and met up with a few like minded peope along the way. After that it was all about saving up for a Stabber BPO (the rarest ship in the game at the time), then waiting for battleship BPOs to be released, then running the plutonium route from Venal to Curse and finally buying the first Tempest BPO of the game. Ahhh fun days. MEGALOTTERY Now Open! Win a TITAN BPO!!! Poor bard, I must give you a cookie!- Tirg
Valan	Posted - 2006.10.23 15:36:00 - [22] Originally by: Redundancy Edited by: Redundancy on 23/10/2006 13:55:40 I remember it as a time when people weren't so horrible to us on the forums at every opertunity. NB: Even if I can fully understand the current frustration with the servers etc. We don't mean to be but when I nearly lose a ship to the same bug that was there three years ago it gets a bit frustrating but to be honest its not the performance that bothers me. Its the way CCP has blatantly flown in the face of its principles when it was it was so proud of them in the past. We used to get posts all the time gobbing off about fair play and rewarding hard work. Now you have the BBC putting you in the same bracket as Second Life because the outside world thinks a parallel RL trade is what EVE is about. Obviously people see this and the situation gets worse. Now its out of control you may as well go for a station exchange type mechanism and make the dollars. I love old characters that post 'I've beeen playing the game three years' when I know their account has been sold on.

Redundancy	Posted - 2006.10.23 15:38:00 - [23] Originally by: Old Geeza Unfortunately, this comes with every MMORPG the more successful it gets. Sounds like a corrolary to "Redundancy's First Law of Game Features" Although I have to wonder if it's a good idea to link back to a blog with me explaining the Sovereignty system 11 months ago.

Chronus26 Gallente Dark Blood Contracts	Posted - 2006.10.23 15:39:00 - [24] Originally by: Redundancy Edited by: Redundancy on 23/10/2006 13:55:40 I remember it as a time when people weren't so horrible to us on the forums at every opertunity. NB: Even if I can fully understand the current frustration with the servers etc. Don't worry Redundancy, Ol' Chron still loves ya. well, if thats any colsolation anyway... ----- Move along, nothing to see here...
Baun 4S Corporation Morsus Mihi	Posted - 2006.10.23 15:45:00 - [25] Originally by: Grimpak Originally by: Einheriar Ulrich Yes, and every system had an jumpin point can you imagine if we were still using JIP's instead spawning at gate, ant then can you imagine using an interdictor there? oh the slaughter People would still jump log ;p. The game has really come a long way, its so different now. The Enemy's Gate is Down

Redundancy	Posted - 2006.10.23 15:46:00 - [26] Originally by: Winterblink Hey now. Some of us have shown you guys nothing but love. That's the kind of love I could do without seeing.

Winterblink Body Count Inc. Mercenary Coalition	Posted - 2006.10.23 15:46:00 - [27] Originally by: Redundancy I remember it as a time when people weren't so horrible to us on the forums at every opertunity. Hey now. Some of us have shown you guys nothing but love. Warp Drive Active \| EVE: Nature Vraie
Garramon Gallente Sturmgrenadier Inc R i s e	Posted - 2006.10.23 15:50:00 - [28] On day 6, my first day in the game, I solo mined for an Imicus. Then three of my friends got in game and I hauled for them IN MY IMICUS while they mined for their ships :D I have so many stories about "the beginning." The game was soooo much bigger then, or so it seemed . For some reason the fact that ~50% of the people replying to the thread fail to read and understand the point of the OP is hilarious.
Masu'di Es and Whizz	Posted - 2006.10.23 15:58:00 - [29] it was not really that different in many ways than people imagine, just a smaller scale. i did like the chat channel type command for turning on the autopilot :)
Lt Hole Caldari Tyrell Corp Veritas Immortalis	Posted - 2006.10.23 16:24:00 - [30] Eve was huge, underpopulated, and a big mystery were anything seemed possible. If you're nervous, smacktalk in local.



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