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Elliot Reid
Digital Fury Corporation
Digital Renegades
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Posted - 2008.03.27 15:43:00 -
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Lo there
Was just wondering when the public beta program was running? I played EVE during this period and am trying to remember when it was as I am doing a blog (when in |Rome and all that) and want my rough dates correct.
cheers
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Silver Night
Naqam
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Posted - 2008.03.27 15:45:00 -
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Well, game went live may 6th 2003 iirc, think it was in public beta for a good while before then. My own beta experience was early 2003 mostly, though that was already late beta.
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Caldari Patriot.
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Attrezzo Pox
Corp 1 Allstars
Insurgency
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Posted - 2008.03.27 15:48:00 -
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on a related note. The real elliot reid... aka sarah chalke is hot as hell.
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Garia666
T.H.U.G L.I.F.E
White Core
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Posted - 2008.03.27 15:50:00 -
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Edited by: Garia666 on 27/03/2008 15:50:30
well im from okt 2003.. and wasnt playing eve in beta
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Gentle Bra
State War Academy
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Posted - 2008.03.27 15:51:00 -
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Eve has left beta?
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Ethen Bejorn
Pestilent Industries Amalgamated
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Posted - 2008.03.27 15:53:00 -
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We are still in beta.
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Silver Night
Naqam
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Posted - 2008.03.27 15:58:00 -
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Originally by: Ethen Bejorn
We are still in beta.
TBH, Eve today is a bug free cruise compared to Beta. Players today think they have it rough...
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Caldari Patriot.
Sansha's Nation Supporter
Murderer of (his own) Frigates.
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Attrezzo Pox
Corp 1 Allstars
Insurgency
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Posted - 2008.03.27 16:07:00 -
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I personally think beta was more fun when all the roids were in big squares. And then that time they tried rat formations. Rats went from easy street to uber pwnage in a patch. And I really mean uber pwnage. That was cool.
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Karash Amerius
Evolution
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2008.03.27 16:21:00 -
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Edited by: Karash Amerius on 27/03/2008 16:21:57
Beta was early 2003, but really didnt last that long by today's standards. SSI really was pushing CCP to release, and release they did. Eve didnt really get 'out of beta' till Exodus. The game is one million times better than it was in beta, no matter what the former glory fanbois will tell you.
Although I do wish TomB would come back...would reduce a lot of the carebear-ish balancing going on these days.
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J'Mkarr Soban
Proxenetae Invicti
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Posted - 2008.03.27 16:23:00 -
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Originally by: Karash Amerius
Edited by: Karash Amerius on 27/03/2008 16:21:57
Beta was early 2003, but really didnt last that long by today's standards. SSI really was pushing CCP to release, and release they did. Eve didnt really get 'out of beta' till Exodus. The game is one million times better than it was in beta, no matter what the former glory fanbois will tell you.
Although I do wish TomB would come back...would reduce a lot of the carebear-ish balancing going on these days.
Open beta started in early 2003. Closed beta was a good 6 months to a year before that.
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Julia Newmatar
Perkone
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Posted - 2008.03.27 16:25:00 -
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The last/latest Beta was released 12 March 2008
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Elliot Reid
Digital Fury Corporation
Digital Renegades
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Posted - 2008.03.27 16:26:00 -
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Originally by: Julia Newmatar
The last/latest Beta was released 12 March 2008
The "joke" was done a few posts ago.
Welcome to the present.
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Elliot Reid
Digital Fury Corporation
Digital Renegades
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Posted - 2008.03.27 16:28:00 -
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I'm not sure when I was in beta then. I'm sure it was in the latter half of 2002 but cannot be 100% sure.
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Karash Amerius
Evolution
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2008.03.27 16:30:00 -
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Edited by: Karash Amerius on 27/03/2008 16:30:14
Originally by: J'Mkarr Soban
Edited by: Karash Amerius on 27/03/2008 16:21:57
Open beta started in early 2003. Closed beta was a good 6 months to a year before that.
You are of course right, but the OP was asking about a public beta so I did not think to mention all of that...but you did, for some odd reason. Eve had external testers for about the last year (march 2002 I think?)...but it was very limited with 20 people sitting in a single sector with one station.
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Sal Alo
Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2008.03.27 18:59:00 -
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All MMORPGs will be always in beta.
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RedClaws
Dragon's Rage
Intrepid Crossing
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Posted - 2008.03.27 21:46:00 -
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Well I still got my chatlogs from beta and the first log is 20th September 2002. Right next to my earthandbeyond.log file
For some reason everybody seemed to like me a lot more back then. Seems I was some kind of semi-e-celeb. Even got invited to polaris.
Heh sucks I wasn't old enough to realize that I could have gone all the way with CCP back then. All the important guys are in there james_, kwai, molle, t20, ...
Seems I even tried to recruit t20 lol
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F'nog
Celestial Horizon Corp.
Valainaloce
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Posted - 2008.03.27 22:49:00 -
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I got my Beta 4 or 5 invitation in March 2003. There was at least a month before it went open to all.
I'll never forget the message that popped up for Beta 6, I think it was. "Everything is in the game, and we're ready to go." Or something like that. Half the ships, guns, and mods hadn't even been released, yet they said that. I won't even get into the other mechanics that weren't implemented by then.
Originally by: Kazuma Saruwatari
F'nog for Amarr Emperor. Nuff said
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OwlManAtt
Abyssus Incendia
THORN Alliance
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Posted - 2008.03.27 22:54:00 -
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Originally by: F'nog
I got my Beta 4 or 5 invitation in March 2003. There was at least a month before it went open to all.
I'll never forget the message that popped up for Beta 6, I think it was. "Everything is in the game, and we're ready to go." Or something like that. Half the ships, guns, and mods hadn't even been released, yet they said that. I won't even get into the other mechanics that weren't implemented by then.
It wasn't a game mechanics check at that point, it was a stress-test. IIRC, there were battleships and large guns and a number of other things available during the alpha.
Oh, yes, there was a closed alpha, too. I wasn't in it personally, but Rougie told me a bit about it. I'm an end-of-the beta feller myself. I miss #[email protected] the devchats...and Evegate/GNN/EVE-I...
Oh, the good old days...
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Slade Trillgon
Siorai Iontach
Brotherhood of the Spider
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Posted - 2008.03.27 23:05:00 -
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This thread makes me cry tears of blood 
I so wish I had found EVE back then. I guess South Florida got the best of me for a few years.
0_\ to the Skill Point Gods
I want to hear some numbers, don't expect them, probably make me green with envy, want them non-the-less.
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Tzar'rim
Reckless Corsairs
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Posted - 2008.03.27 23:14:00 -
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cascading error messages galore, that's what I remember the most hehe.
I'm looking for a home
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OwlManAtt
Abyssus Incendia
THORN Alliance
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Posted - 2008.03.27 23:20:00 -
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Originally by: Slade Trillgon
0_\ to the Skill Point Gods
I want to hear some numbers, don't expect them, probably make me green with envy, want them non-the-less.
I'll just whip out my massive 4m SP and let you gaze in awe. Or not. :-(
I switched to Linux cold-turkey in September 2003 or so. We didn't have a Linux or Mac client for EVE back in those days.
I guess I make that old noob Crovan look pretty good...
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Daelorn
Dark Cartel
Synchr0nicity
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Posted - 2008.03.27 23:40:00 -
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Originally by: Karash Amerius
Although I do wish TomB would come back...would reduce a lot of the carebear-ish balancing going on these days.
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John CEO
Biosphere
BLACKHAWK FEDERATION
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Posted - 2008.03.28 00:12:00 -
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Edited by: John CEO on 28/03/2008 00:15:39
just for historic info, went and looked at some old mails...from a mail sent 12.02.2003
Dear x
EVE:The Second Genesis
Beta 6 Phase
Become an EVE Beta tester!
You are among the chosen few to participate in the current phase of testing for a new and exciting massively multiplayer game.
In this phase, we are focusing on:
+ Load and stress testing
+ Improving gameplay features and functionality
+ Performance optimizations
etc...and then...
Dear x
Welcome to the crowd of EVE¦s beta testers!
Your login credentials are as follow:
Username: x
Password: x
Beta testing of EVE started on Saturday the 31st of August. We are
currently in testing in phase 6. During this phase we will continue our
stress and load testing, and gradually increase the number of
participants. We will carry on with optimization procedures in order to
improve the performance of the game and to balance gameplay features. This
phase will have an increased emphasis on gameplay tuning and we welcome
all suggestions from the testing community.
When activated you will be able to access the Gemini Website and when we
are in an active beta phase you can start playing right away. If the beta
is not running or the servers are not open, you will have to wait to
access the game.
During this phase you will experience various additions and improvements
to EVE. As of phase 5, players will be required to upgrade to DirectX9.0
to run EVE.
etc...
P.s
have you tried the ccp website?, they might have some better info there.
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Nereus
ColdFusion Cowboys
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Posted - 2008.03.28 01:01:00 -
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My beta for eve started november of 2002 ,i still have this email from CCP :)
EVE:The Second Genesis
Beta 5 Phase
To EVE¦s Beta Testers
Happy new year to you all. We are on the Testing Track again!
Beta testing of EVE started on Saturday the 31st of August. This 5th beta phase started the 17th of January, 2003. This phase will be on until the 1st week in February û final day to be announced later. During this phase we will continue our stress and load testing, and gradually increase the number of participants to 20.000. We will carry on with optimization procedures in order to improve the performance of the game and to balance gameplay features. This phase will have an increased emphasis on gameplay tuning and we welcome all suggestions from you, our beta testers.
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Rawr Cristina
Naqam
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Posted - 2008.03.28 01:27:00 -
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I was too young to get in the beta at the time oh... 5 years ago now? 
I got the game on release though. Lots of people talked about beta, apparently an asteroid belt resembled a loaf of bread...
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Escobar Noreaga
F.R.E.E. Explorer
Atrum Tempestas Foedus
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Posted - 2008.03.28 01:30:00 -
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Originally by: F'nog
I got my Beta 4 or 5 invitation in March 2003. There was at least a month before it went open to all.
I'll never forget the message that popped up for Beta 6, I think it was. "Everything is in the game, and we're ready to go." Or something like that. Half the ships, guns, and mods hadn't even been released, yet they said that. I won't even get into the other mechanics that weren't implemented by then.
yeah, and if you guys that were in beta remember, the beta forums were quite colorful as i recall when they announced that eve was going gold. 
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annoing
MisFunk Inc.
Daisho Syndicate
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Posted - 2008.03.28 01:44:00 -
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I started in late 2002 I think. I think I missed the first 3 closed beta patches but I was there before open beta. Actually, I loved beta. When it was cr@p and the devs were so obviously wrong they at least listened to your bug reports and acted on them. They dont listen at all these days and they are, generally, really p1ss poor at their jobs. Regardless of the other posts here today, my general impression is that beta was better cos they listened and acted upon bugs you found. I'm so disillusioned now I dont even bother to fill them in as you just know they dont care. You would have updates daily at times. True, alot of days you didnt get to play at all, servers would suddenly stop etc, but at least it was because you knew they were trying to fix stuff. The devs are no longer pro-active, they are just re-active. I love the game, I just wish we had better devs who actually cared about the game, now its just a wage and a job.
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F'nog
Celestial Horizon Corp.
Valainaloce
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Posted - 2008.03.28 06:09:00 -
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Originally by: Escobar Noreaga
Originally by: F'nog
I got my Beta 4 or 5 invitation in March 2003. There was at least a month before it went open to all.
I'll never forget the message that popped up for Beta 6, I think it was. "Everything is in the game, and we're ready to go." Or something like that. Half the ships, guns, and mods hadn't even been released, yet they said that. I won't even get into the other mechanics that weren't implemented by then.
yeah, and if you guys that were in beta remember, the beta forums were quite colorful as i recall when they announced that eve was going gold.
Oh, I definitely remember that. Humorous times. It's one of the reasons I didn't subscribe until 2004.
Originally by: Kazuma Saruwatari
F'nog for Amarr Emperor. Nuff said
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Kuolematon
Space Perverts and Forum Warriors United
Reavers.
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Posted - 2008.03.28 06:23:00 -
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Well, I got to EVE beta in beta2 phase and at the same time much better game accepted me - Neocron. Well, EVE beta2 was P.I.T.A! I wasn't able to log in because login screen rotating EVE logo ate all the juice I had due a bug in nVidia drivers back then. Then when I got to play after FEW patches, it was horrible game with error windows. All I did was go to lowsec and mine bistot there with frigate and basic mining lasers. Yay.
Luckily, Neocron was much better .. but from those 2 games only one is now a big name.
"The Amarr are the tanking and ganking floating rods of goldcrap"
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Cipher7
Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2008.03.28 06:32:00 -
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Eve is still in beta.
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