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Jowen Datloran
Caldari Science and Trade Institute
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Posted - 2008.05.12 12:26:00 -
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My character with most skill points is still in rookie corp. I played by far the most of my time 4+ years with one account but have used all 3 character slots on it. I have trained the basic and advanced learning skills 3 times on the same account. I have played EVE for years and have achieved everything through personal effort alone. ---------------- Mr. Science & Trade Institute |
J'Mkarr Soban
Amarr Proxenetae Invicti
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Posted - 2008.05.12 12:27:00 -
[92]
I'm the oldest character on the server. I love how unique that makes me
-- These are my personal views and in no way represent the views of Proxenetae Invicti, which maintains a neutral stance stemming from the strong ethics demanded of its work. |
Istvaan Shogaatsu
Caldari Guiding Hand Social Club
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Posted - 2008.05.12 14:00:00 -
[93]
I have never mined, except during the tutorial.
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P'uck
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Posted - 2008.05.12 14:18:00 -
[94]
Originally by: Ioci I had my account hijacked and the thieves couldn't find anything worth stealing/Ouch.
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Arthalion Thoidon
Caldari Splint Eye Probabilities Inc. Dawn of Transcendence
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Posted - 2008.05.12 14:44:00 -
[95]
Originally by: Arwen Ariniel Edited by: Arwen Ariniel on 12/05/2008 12:05:11 It took me nearly three years to finish training Caldari Frigate lvl 1. Started training it in april 2005, finished it november 2007
Are you serious, sounds almost to weird to be true. Although, truth be told, I've been training Acceleration Control IV since last summer.
My own claim to fame is probably the fact i can fly every single ship out there(proof]). Those 4 titan skillbooks still hurt my wallet. Only been playing since september 2004, so not a real oldtimer.
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Fastercart
Gallente Ihatalo Heavy Industries
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Posted - 2008.05.12 15:42:00 -
[96]
Edited by: Fastercart on 12/05/2008 15:43:01 I'm one of the most honest (I'm not egotistical enough to claim to be "the most" [besides Chribba has that honor]) persons in Eve. Sometimes too honest for a harsh game such as Eve.
Edit: Added sometimes. __ Rorqual AKA Mega Maid
Oh, my God. It's Mega Maid. She's gone from suck to blow. |
Green Halo
Vigilante inc.
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Posted - 2008.05.12 17:35:00 -
[97]
I'm Green.
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Shar'Tuk TheHated
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Posted - 2008.05.12 17:50:00 -
[98]
I wear a Helmet, my Mom tells me that makes me special.
DRINK RUM It fights scurvy & boosts morale!
THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES! |
Atnal
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Posted - 2008.05.12 19:11:00 -
[99]
Just because you're special/unique doesn't mean you're useful. ;)
j/k :P
I'm special because I'm a Caldari soldier that can T2 ice mine with t2 upgrades! \o/
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Havok Dryke
Golden Gavel Enterprises The Cooperative
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Posted - 2008.05.12 20:19:00 -
[100]
My avatar's hair is what makes me unique.
I once impaled a man by charging at him. ------------------------------
EVE is a cold, harsh world, filled with people that would kill you without a second thought. The forums are even worse.
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Nyphur
Pillowsoft
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Posted - 2008.05.12 23:02:00 -
[101]
I was considering replying with a blank post to make a dramatic statement implying that everyone should know what makes me unique, but I realised how terribly arrogant that was ^^;. A lot of people on the forums today actually don't know me, I've been a little quiet in recent years. I'll give a rough breakdown of what I believe makes me unique in EVE after over four years of playtime. To start with, my personal achievements:
- I made a killing trading real-estate back in 2005. When everyone was low on lab-space, there were no POS or research queues and slots could be rented for a fee, I went around snapping up slots as they became availible and reselling them for profit. Most people were content with mining and ratting for isk but those few of us that got in on the real estate market made a killing.
- I learned to track down ships at safespots before probes were introduced, using nothing but warp, the scanner and bookmarks to get within range to start mwding toward the spot. A lot of people did this and it was very profitable as people used to leave battleships at safespots.
- Before probes were upgraded to the no-skill one-press rubbish we have now, I developed a very interesting tool that would take in the x-y-z co-ordinates of three players and the distance of their target on the scanner and would tri-laterate the target's x and y co-ordinates. It then displayed their location on a 2D map of the solar system you're in to allow the player to choose optimum locations for probes that could find him. Overall scan time took 5 minutes for an experienced team and the entire program used only data that could be manually obtained and copied from the game itself, no monkey business with logserver or anything.
I never released the tool because I was working on a 3D version. You can see from this screnshot that I had upgraded it to work with 4 scanner posts to quadlaterate the x, y AND Z component of the target's location. Unfortunately, probes were upgraded before I released the tool and it became obsolete. It CAN still be used to find objects that are not able to be found with probes, if that's useful to anyone.
- I believe I was the first person to discover Taisu Magdesh's hidden static outpost complex in Thelan. I was living in Thelan at the time and no more than a week after probes were introduced, I scanned it out. I was doing my usual directional scanning to see what's out there and saw the contents of the complex on scanner when it had not been there previously. At the time, Taisu Magdesh's Insignia was sold for over 200m isk a pop, was required to get a navy raven and was only found at the end of this complex. I farmed that complex for a long time before prices started to crash. Nowadays, the complex is still there but Taisu shows up in some level 4 mission and his tag isn't really required to get a navy raven.
- I used to trade in rare items a hell of a lot. I'm not talking about domination warp disruptors or officer modules, I mean real rare oddities. Harvester Mining Drones, parts of Misu Baniya, complex fullerene shards, T2 modules that weren't in-game yet which had been procured from event loot, cosmos items that were very rare at the time etc. At one point, I had three bugged remote hull repairers before remote hull reps were released and sold them off as collector's items. I think CCP released real remote hull reps based on the apparant demand. I used to own a Guardian Vexor but traded it for two T2 bpos. The ship itself is terrible but as a collectable it's highly sought-after. I would gladly make the trade in reverse now.
- Ran two successful IPOs (PIF and PSRS) for the better part of a year, totalling 60 billion isk invested. They closed down a while ago and the isk was paid back to investors but it was great to do it and earn teh trust of the community
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Element 22
Gallente
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Posted - 2008.05.12 23:02:00 -
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oh oh, I have one! I'm a young player who hasn't earned their dues and has an overinflated sense of self worth and importance! Top that! |
Xen Gin
Universal Mining Inc Forged Dominion
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Posted - 2008.05.12 23:15:00 -
[103]
I'd say what my uniqueness is, but It would give people an idea that might take it away.
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Nyphur
Pillowsoft
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Posted - 2008.05.12 23:23:00 -
[104]
I ran out of space in my last post, let me just start by including some links about my IPOs: PIF bond thread PSRS share thread Shutdown announcement Post-liquidation report
I think that's enough about my personal achievements. Of particular consideration would be my roles in eve historical events:
- I was around when ISS started as one man (Count TaSessine) wanting to start a co-operative moon-mining network with 0.0 alliances to exploit untapped resources. Everyone thought he was trying to steal people's 25m join fees but I went with it anyway and established my first 0.0 POS in querious making crystalline carbonide.
- I was on the ISS core management team as the face of 0.0 PvP slowly shifted from defence to offence. I was there when deathstars stopped frightening dreadnought pilots, the political defences stopped working and the only way for ISS to survive was to harden up and start playing the PvP game. And to his credit, Count TaSessine saw that change and remoulded the alliance to suit the changing game circumstances. I was on the core ISS management team through some of their best times, joined in with some massive and awesome fleet battles and watched as the alliance leveraged 250b of public isk to make profit.
- I ran Providence region for ISS and a corpmate Naliana and I ran the two outposts there ISS Consido and ISS Fabrica. Whoever the new owners are at the moment, they can never erase that name from my memory. They'll always be ISS Consido in IS-R7P and ISS Fabrica in QR-K85. In my opinion, out of respect for ISS's initial vision for 0.0, the current owners should restore the names Consido and Fabrica.
- I was there when ISS was defeated, gangbanged on all sides by a massive coalition of alliances. It wasn't long after that massive power-blocks started officially forming for mutual benefit and the ISS-IAC war may have been the catalyst for that shift in political styles.
- I worked with Mercenary Coalition as part of ISS and they were spectacular. I have some conspiracy theories about their actions during the ISS-IAC war but it wouldn't be respectful to mention them in light of their recent dismantlement. Instead, let me just say that they were real professionals and did a good job.
- I helped build some outposts, I guess. The people living in them now aren't the original owners, most of them don't even know why they were built where they were and what effort and thought went into their construction and that's a little sad. But I'll never forget building them.
- I took part in and led gangs that got several capital ship kills on the infamous Ginger Magician. Although he is infamous for being a prat and nobody has come close to his record for capital ship losses, I believe our kills on him were special in that he was permabanned shortly after on an unrelated matter and nobody will get the chance to kill him again. That makes our kills one for the history books :).
There's probably more but that's all that comes to mind. I did start my own alliance but we didn't do much and disbanded later without incident.
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Tzar'rim
Universal Securities
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Posted - 2008.05.12 23:30:00 -
[105]
I wish there were more of me :(
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Canine Fiend
Minmatar Viper Squad Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2008.05.12 23:32:00 -
[106]
Aside from being one of a couple people to be the first to see the very first titan in EVE and all the other crap that went along with being high up in ASCN I've got this one that I hold near and dear and get made fun of for on a daily basis.
I have 3 accounts, 3 carriers and 2 dreads, and 0 Cyno alts on any of the accounts. That's right... and to this day all of my friends ***** and complain, but they all still make me cynos whenever I ask :)
Oh also, I can fly EVERY Matari and non-racial ship in the game on this character (Ie. I can fly rorquals and mining barges as well, they're non racial)
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Nyphur
Pillowsoft
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Posted - 2008.05.12 23:51:00 -
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Edited by: Nyphur on 12/05/2008 23:53:20 Finally (because I know you're getting sick of me talking about myself), I think a big part of what makes me unique in EVE is my contributions to the game over the years:
- In a time when other players would laugh at you for calculating resistances with a calculator instead of just fitting the module and seeing what happened, I decided to go at eve with a calculator and a notepad. I eventually wrote a spreadsheet to automate resistance and repairer calculations, which evolved into a full-blown tanking calculator where players could test their tank theoretically against any mix of NPCs in the game. I strongly believe that my spreadsheet and others like it inspired the next generation of EVE tools like Eve Fitting Tool by showing that everything is calculable.
- I wrote the definitive guide on tanking for EON Magazine issue 2 and launched eve-tanking.com to store additional notes that wouldn't fit in the guide. For years after (and to this very day) and often referred to as "The tanking guy". Concepts that I came up with and wrote about on the website like spider tanking proved to be very effective in-game and are still used and referred to.
- Although my spreadsheet is no longer valid and eve-tanking.com has been converted into what is essentially a blog, I still get a few visitors. The number of visitors and the amount of cash made from the game time code affiliate link were good at one time but have now dropped to practically nothing. However, I am attempting to give more back to the eve community with my irregularly-scheduled exhaustive guides to PvP titled "The Anatomy of PvP".
- I invented exploration. No, really.
- I'm convinced that someone at CCP takes ideas and solutions to problems from posts and articles I write seriously as many things I've suggested on my website have been implemented around six months later.
- Mining overhaul (not sure if this went anywhere).
- For a long time, I wrote guides for EON and acted as editor for the Insider's Guide section. I wrote the aforementioned article on tanking, one on moon mining and two on rigs (usage and construction) and acted as editor on something like 7 or 8 articles. I loved each and every article but as time went on, it began to feel more like work and wasn't as new and interesting as it had been to begin with. Additionally, although they swear the rate of pay never changed, I'm sure the amount of isk I was paid per page was reduced with each issue. I'm also fairly confident that I was not paid for the last article I edited for them and possibly not for the second-last one.
Another guide-writer I worked with on my last editorial said he was eventually paid, although he was paid a lower rate than expected. After all those problems and not offering me cash for my work despite suggestions that they might start doing so soon(tm), I decided to stop working with EON and devote more time to my own EVE blog. My main reason was that the advertisement revenue from my own blog could be used to pay rent but isk couldn't.
- Recently, I was picked up by Massively.com as a regular EVE Online columnist (EVE Evolved) :). I get to write about anything I want related to EVE in roughly 1000-1500 word slots once a week for a not-so-terrible $50 per article. Now I'm getting paid to write about what I love and having my writing displayed on massively.com lets me reach a much wider audience than my own blog. It's quite fun :)
And that's that. If nothing else, at least I can look back at my time spent in eve and think "I had fun. And I didn't just play the game, I ******* played the game.". <3 EVE.
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Skogen Gump
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Posted - 2008.05.12 23:59:00 -
[108]
Edited by: Skogen Gump on 13/05/2008 00:01:12
Originally by: Nyphur *snip*
And unlike most posters here; you're *not* full of yourself!
Well done and congratulations on your achievements; Perhaps there might be a job in Iceland for you ?
I'd like to add (to keep on-topic) that my unique achievement is having the Shiniest forehead in the cluster (or at least heimatar) although my former colleague Atandros, might disagree :)
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Nyphur
Pillowsoft
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Posted - 2008.05.13 00:06:00 -
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Originally by: Skogen Gump And unlike most posters here; you're *not* full of yourself!
Well done and congratulations on your achievements; Perhaps there might be a job in Iceland for you ?
I try not to get a big head on myself but sometimes a bit of an ego boost is nice ^^;. Maybe I could get a job at CCP down the line. Right now, I'm not going anywhere until I finish my computer science degree roughly this time next year. Which reminds me, I should be revising :p.
BTW, I love your forest gump sig, it's one of those absurd sigs that can throw me into a giggling fit :p
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Skogen Gump
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Posted - 2008.05.13 00:17:00 -
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Originally by: Nyphur
I try not to get a big head on myself but sometimes a bit of an ego boost is nice ^^;. Maybe I could get a job at CCP down the line. Right now, I'm not going anywhere until I finish my computer science degree roughly this time next year. Which reminds me, I should be revising :p.
BTW, I love your forest gump sig, it's one of those absurd sigs that can throw me into a giggling fit :p
Thank you, It seemed to be the most appropriate choice at the time ! It was actually the first one I made, the wrongness of it, made it so right - Although by I, I mean my paternal gggggggggg-great grandfather, who didn't know how to use photoshop, but could run, apparently. Good luck on your revising! Perhaps you might get a shared study time between your location and iceland; or some kind of thing?
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RedClaws
Amarr Dragon's Rage Intrepid Crossing
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Posted - 2008.05.13 12:48:00 -
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I'm special because I haven't achieved anything of significance in 4.5 years. I'm not rich, not an attention *****, I keep my posts sane and my loyalty to my one and only corp high.
Or maybe that does make me special in eve...
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Misanth
The Graduates Brutally Clever Empire
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Posted - 2008.05.13 12:56:00 -
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Edited by: Misanth on 13/05/2008 12:58:01 I speak my mind while still beying loyal to my corp/alliance. Been called a spy and ****ed people off a few times but I never backstabbed anyone (apart from my first month in EVE where I stole ore and did bookmark scams, but that character is long since gone and dead ..mostly thanks to some 200 angry russians camping me into a station).
Either way, I think it's pretty unique. Most people either speak their mind and are selfish, or they are loyal and don't oppose their representatives and leaders. I don't back off from saying what I think, but I still back them (ze reps) up. I tend to think that that's the proper way of winning respect in double ways. Respect their strengths and their work effort, respect their weaknesses, respect your corp/alliance.
Also, I believe my name is unique.
Edit; Oh and I never ever mined. Never. Several accounts, played for 2.5year+, and no.. not even in the tutorial. Not once.
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Kano Sekor
Amarr modro CORPVS DELICTI
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Posted - 2008.05.13 14:12:00 -
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Edited by: Kano Sekor on 13/05/2008 14:13:05
Originally by: Dirk Magnum Around 20% of the time I've been in Eve I've had no skills training. That's why I'm two years old but only have 21 million SPs.
Ive been in eve for over 2 years (yaars) and have only 15 mill sp so get back in the queue stop feeling unique
Oh btw what makes me unique is my lvl 2 in Black Market Trading a skill that never made it in game.
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Garreck
Amarr Border Defense Consortium Curatores Veritatis Alliance
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Posted - 2008.05.13 14:24:00 -
[114]
I was the first non-Amarrian character admitted into the CVA.
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Saladin
Minmatar Eternity INC.
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Posted - 2008.05.13 14:41:00 -
[115]
Been at it for 5 years, 2 days.
Don't know about being unique, but here are some things that could be considered rare
1. I've never betrayed anyone 2. Never been scammed 3. Got a warning from Kieron after War dec'ing ISD so they would un-ban a corp mate. 4. Lost two interceptors to a battle-badger 5. Had a few comments I made published in EON 6. Represented my corporation with honor and distinction.
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Princess Kyky
Caldari Perkone
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Posted - 2008.05.13 14:58:00 -
[116]
Edited by: Princess Kyky on 13/05/2008 14:59:23 my birthday is the same day as eve's ------
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Iriana McNuke
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Posted - 2008.05.13 14:59:00 -
[117]
my API
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Ambani
Gallente Infinitus Morti R0ADKILL
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Posted - 2008.05.13 15:17:00 -
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Edited by: Ambani on 13/05/2008 15:17:53 I have friends who i can trust with my life - friends who trust me:) People who have given me billions worth of goods just after 2 days into the corp - and people to whom I have given back tons of isk with no real questions. Lub yall fellas!
Somehow running away never occured to us.
If you think about it - Its pretty rare, if not unique.
Meet Eve's most paranoid carebear - Ambani! |
3phX
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Posted - 2008.05.13 15:36:00 -
[119]
i think being a sexy ***** makes me special :D, + the fact i can get an iteron V to haul 51k of stuff ;p + actually make a raven work in pvp without being crap :D
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Rodj Blake
Amarr PIE Inc. Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
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Posted - 2008.05.13 15:41:00 -
[120]
Everyone in Eve is unique.
Except me.
Dulce et decorum est pro imperium mori.
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