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Cyprus Black Golden Shellbacks Surely You're Joking 176	Posted - 2012.04.06 00:00:00 - [1] - Quote In your gaming life, what led you to find and play EVE Online? Was it a friend? An advertisement? Mentioned by a stranger? What was it? How did you get here? Me personally, I got sick of WoW after their first expansion, Burning Crusade, and was shopping around for a better MMO. I saw a bunch of people on the WoW forums crapping on other MMOs, most especially EVE. I tried the trial and thought it was terrible, then left. A few months later I gave it another try and I stayed for about two months. I was wisked away into a 0.0 alliance of which I was totally not ready for. Left EVE again. Finally came back a third time and it stuck. Now I have two active accounts and will most likely stay until the EVE servers shut down for good. You wouldn't complain about needles when you get a tattoo. So why would you complain about PvP when you play EVE?
Kacer Xenro Team Pizza Viro Mors Non Est 0	Posted - 2012.04.06 00:04:00 - [2] - Quote stumbled on the site through some mmo finder in 2003 or something, then saw i had to pay for it. In 2006 i saw a friend play it and thought it was pretty cool. in 2009 i found out WOW sucked balls and started my subscription. my only regret? that i didnt start playing in 2003, all that wasted SP
Gogela Freeport Exploration Loosely Affiliated Pirates Alliance 526	Posted - 2012.04.06 00:07:00 - [3] - Quote Was playing Freelancer mods and a guy who played on my server disappeared. Saw him a few months later and asked him where he'd been and he said "Google EvE Online." I did. Never looked back. Gê¦Gê¦-áEvery Ship in GëíGêçGëí-áGê¦Gê¦ GëíGêçGëí-+ odd items
D3F4ULT 17	Posted - 2012.04.06 00:09:00 - [4] - Quote Was looking for back in 2006ish for a brand new MMO that I could play on my poor little internet connection (Couldn't play anything that requried low latency) Found EVE by googling through MMO advertising sites. Signed up like 5 times with trial accounts failing miserably at playing the game. Then one year I really bit the bullet and subscribed and really tried and here I am today. 2008 character and still don't know as much as I should, but I love that fact =D Creator of CCP ZULU - Incarna : Pants Online ( http://youtu.be/AObrlCf3Dcs )
Petrus Blackshell Rifterlings 732	Posted - 2012.04.06 00:10:00 - [5] - Quote My boss always kept this weird looking game with shiny spaceships running in the background at work. After some time, I finally asked what it was, and he told me all about how Eve is this super awesome spaceship sandbox MMO, and about all the crazy things that happen all the time here. After considering it for a few weeks, I started a trial, and subbed fully after maybe 3-4 days. After a couple of weeks I was derping around 0.0 in my Rifter, learning to PvP. Turns out my boss wasn't actually into the PvP aspect at all (more of an industrialist), so we really never had much in common, but, hey. ~~Spreadsheets!~~ Spaceships! Rifterlings - Small gang lowsec combat corp specializing in frigates and cruisers (all races, not just Rifters!). US Timezone veterans and newbies alike are welcome to join. Come chat in the "we fly rifters" in-game channel. Free fitted frigates for members!
Nimbus Cloud Liebrum Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation 6	Posted - 2012.04.06 00:10:00 - [6] - Quote im a big fan of space and saw an ad on a space website and it looked interesting. thats pretty much it. i play eve to explore and enjoy the scenery myself. Peaceful Explorer
Neros Kosk Golden Shellbacks Surely You're Joking 0	Posted - 2012.04.06 00:11:00 - [7] - Quote Back in 2008 I had a job working for my cousin at the mall. I met this guy there from Maryland working at the salad place I would always go to for lunch and after becomming friends and spokin a few he told me about EVE. Watching EVE Online while high on a laptop did not impress me what so ever, but I gave it a try anyway and abosulutely love it. I quit WoW and started EVE but soon found out it sucked terribly to play this game alone so I had to quit. Couple years later I decided to give it a try again and actually met some decent people on here and never looked back. I have noticed how incredibly hard it is to lure my WoW and TOR friends to play this game though. The videos don't do it much justice and when they see me ship spinning in WH space they question my stories of PVP and adrenaline rushes. It seems there never at my house when crazy **** goes down haha.
Roll Sizzle Beef Space Mutiny 179	Posted - 2012.04.06 00:12:00 - [8] - Quote super cheep on steam about 2 years ago
Mentorm Republic University Minmatar Republic 17	Posted - 2012.04.06 00:16:00 - [9] - Quote 2004 My flat mate across the hall at Uni, about a week after I first had access to the internet! Never looked back...
ShadowFire15 BOAE INC GIANTSBANE. 68	Posted - 2012.04.06 00:18:00 - [10] - Quote i think i saw an ad for it on some site. saw it was about space and spaceships so decided to give it a try. a few trial accounts and later a job to pay for an account and here I am now. I miss the feeling of when I just started out murdering those ultra noob pirates in my ibis. :D Stan Smith had a snow storm over weekend guy was shoveling snow outside, so i shot him and mined the snow myself. concord never showed up. on an unrelated note, i have a court date next tuesday
Andy Landen The Illuminatii Mildly Intoxicated 19	Posted - 2012.04.06 00:20:00 - [11] - Quote I did a google search for spaceship game. Started Gallente but didn't understand tanking at all, or warping out without your T1 drones. Somewhere in the tutorials, they should say that civilian stuff is junk. They should also say that there is no save button. Totally dropped my jaw to learn that the first time. Since I hated gallente, I almost left the game for good until I found the help channel and a very helpful player who encouraged me to start over right with their friend invite for a much longer trial. Never did see them after that though. But it was the market and wormholes that hooked me. So CCP, improve those. Buy orders on the margin which fail certainly undermine the market to a large degree because you can't count on the buy orders being legitimate/good. But I digress a little.
Ocih Space Mermaids Somethin Awfull Forums 131	Posted - 2012.04.06 00:21:00 - [12] - Quote While in a Vietnamese prison.
Burseg Sardaukar Sardaukar Merc Guild General Tso's Alliance 111	Posted - 2012.04.06 00:22:00 - [13] - Quote I used to be an FPS/RTS only kind of guy. Never liked the idea of paying more than once for a game. Planetside changed that, as it was an MMO-FPS. That game died from lack of updates, and got real stagnant. My roommate and another couple guys in my unit were talking about EvE and it sounded pretty badass. This was 2006. I got started, learned to play mostly through my own mistakes and my roomate's instruction (although he was a huge noob, too, looking back on it.) And here I am 6 years later. My roommate ragequit after the first war where our corp seriously got our asses handed to us, I took up the CEO role and we still suck. Except at suicide-ganking stuff. We can at least do that. We have a blog, it is terrible. How to fix Bounty Hunting
Muad 'dib The Imperial Fedaykin 241	Posted - 2012.04.06 00:28:00 - [14] - Quote it found me in 2003. Just a box on a shelf in PC world, with space stuff on the back that looked cool. I didnt even know it was online, good job i had a good connection like 4 months before. http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/4375/mynewsig2.jpg
Mara Rinn Cosmic Industrial Complex Cosmic Consortium 1193	Posted - 2012.04.06 00:29:00 - [15] - Quote One day I saw an announcement on the Apple site about this spaceship MMO that had been ported to Mac. It's really as simple as that: quit WoW, played EVE instead.
Ghoest 320	Posted - 2012.04.06 00:31:00 - [16] - Quote Back during beta evereyone was like - "oooh EVEs ciming it will be THE game". And I was like "Hmmm Ill wait a bit and see." Then Mo0 happened. Then CCP destroyed Mo0) and everyone rejoiced. So 6 months in I was like "Ok time to try it." Then I was like 'hey wtf theres no one around to fight" But I staid because "Nouvelle Rouvenor Hero" is freaken awesome. Wherever You Went - Here You Are
Ursula Thrace 1	Posted - 2012.04.06 00:37:00 - [17] - Quote I found EVE via Google in 2007, but didn't start a trial account for another year or so. I was so lost, I just gave up after the trial ended. In 2009, I started another trial account and when that ended, I began subscribing. After having tried many MMOs over the years, I still tell friends that EVE is simply the best. I plan to be here for the long haul.
Christopher AET Segmentum Solar Intrepid Crossing 64	Posted - 2012.04.06 00:38:00 - [18] - Quote 2008 I saw an article in a magazine. April 2009 I was back for 3 weeks leave in the middle of a 6 month deployment in the middle east. downloaded it on leave. Managed to keep playing on the second half of my deployment despite crappy net, never looked back.
Richard Aiel Caldari Provisions Caldari State 131	Posted - 2012.04.06 00:44:00 - [19] - Quote stumbled across the Guiding Hand Social Club news article Ravan Hekki: "Well done CCP. Banned tears the best sort of tears." especially Goon tears
Cyran Thiatist Sharp Research 0	Posted - 2012.04.06 00:44:00 - [20] - Quote I had just gotten an alienware a year ago and was looking for a good mmo to play. I tried easily 10 mmos before I stumbled upon this one in some article for best mmos. The screen shots, tales of espionage and 1000man fleet battles got me hooked. I almost quit after day 1 because I didn't know how to move my ship right away. I tried again the next day and got hooked from that moment on.
Richard Aiel Caldari Provisions Caldari State 131	Posted - 2012.04.06 00:45:00 - [21] - Quote Petrus Blackshell wrote: My boss always kept this weird looking game with shiny spaceships running in the background at work. After some time, I finally asked what it was, and he told me all about how Eve is this super awesome spaceship sandbox MMO, and about all the crazy things that happen all the time here. After considering it for a few weeks, I started a trial, and subbed fully after maybe 3-4 days. After a couple of weeks I was derping around 0.0 in my Rifter, learning to PvP. Turns out my boss wasn't actually into the PvP aspect at all (more of an industrialist), so we really never had much in common, but, hey. ~~Spreadsheets!~~ Spaceships! ooooh tell me you ganked him lol Ravan Hekki: "Well done CCP. Banned tears the best sort of tears." especially Goon tears
Vertisce Soritenshi Varion Galactic Tragedy. 1471	Posted - 2012.04.06 00:47:00 - [22] - Quote Beta. Long time ago in a city far far away... EvE is not about PvP.-á EvE is about the SANDBOX! - CCP!-á Open the door!!!
Mohr Cowbell Dreddit Test Alliance Please Ignore 290	Posted - 2012.04.06 00:56:00 - [23] - Quote I think I discovered Eve after playing Anarchy Online and/or SWG for a short while. Before long, I was wondering why the hell I rarely saw anyone else online in AO. This was probably around 2003 or so. I remember getting a beta invite for Eve, but, I don't think that I really tried it out until a couple of years after that. When I did, I didn't know WTF was going on, and didn't stay very long. (I also had a lot going on IRL so I didn't have the patience to really learn it.) I tried Eve again a couple of times, until 2009 or so, until I finally tried it again. And I think I became a regular in 2010 after seeing some threads about in "various places".
Dagwood Steele Kings 0f XXX 3	Posted - 2012.04.06 00:57:00 - [24] - Quote Stopped by CCPs booth (well, table) at E3 '03. Had a little convo with (maybe TomB) someone and was like "you implemented this in python???!!one". Bought the box the day it came out but only installed it about two months later due to work. Been paid up ever since (this is not my main).
Serene Repose Perkone Caldari State 540	Posted - 2012.04.06 00:57:00 - [25] - Quote I was studying serial killers and pathological liars and found a link amid this copious material I was wading through. Smokestack lightnin' shinin' just like gold
Petrus Blackshell Rifterlings 734	Posted - 2012.04.06 01:07:00 - [26] - Quote Richard Aiel wrote: Petrus Blackshell wrote: My boss always kept this weird looking game with shiny spaceships running in the background at work. After some time, I finally asked what it was, and he told me all about how Eve is this super awesome spaceship sandbox MMO, and about all the crazy things that happen all the time here. After considering it for a few weeks, I started a trial, and subbed fully after maybe 3-4 days. After a couple of weeks I was derping around 0.0 in my Rifter, learning to PvP. Turns out my boss wasn't actually into the PvP aspect at all (more of an industrialist), so we really never had much in common, but, hey. ~~Spreadsheets!~~ Spaceships! ooooh tell me you ganked him lol AWOXing is generally looked down upon. Besides, I had plenty of CVA to kill (I was part of Ushra'Khan). Rifterlings - Small gang lowsec combat corp specializing in frigates and cruisers (all races, not just Rifters!). US Timezone veterans and newbies alike are welcome to join. Come chat in the "we fly rifters" in-game channel. Free fitted frigates for members!
Richard Aiel Caldari Provisions Caldari State 131	Posted - 2012.04.06 01:08:00 - [27] - Quote Serene Repose wrote: I was studying serial killers and pathological liars and found a link amid this copious material I was wading through. Dont you mean sociopaths and cyberbullies rofl Ravan Hekki: "Well done CCP. Banned tears the best sort of tears." especially Goon tears
Hroya 26	Posted - 2012.04.06 01:18:00 - [28] - Quote After EA's canning of E&B i wanted spaceships again. Saw eve, dont remember where, back in early 04 and signed up. Clueless and impressed and i never got any less clueless or less impressed since. Went to the first fanfest and have good memories of that one. -i was there- Along the way took a few hiata now and then but eve never lets go but along the way it made me understand that no matter how smart, dumb, evil, rightious, slacking, inspiring, active or casuall you are, in Eve there is allways room for you. Eve just caters all. And that is why it is the best damn mmo out there. You decide everything, you risk everything. You go your corridor but.
Killer Gandry V I R I I Ineluctable. 237	Posted - 2012.04.06 01:24:00 - [29] - Quote Also a former Earth&Beyind player. When EA started raping the game I downloaded EVE after it getting reckomended by someone else I flew with in E&B. I take my breaks in between but keep returning.
Meryl SinGarda Belligerent Underpayed Tactical Team 419	Posted - 2012.04.06 01:25:00 - [30] - Quote I originally found EVE back in 2003/2004 when I first started playing the MMO, Anarchy Online. I was hanging out with members of a player oganisation I had joined and one of them was talking about this guy, (not exact quote) "yeah, it sounds way better than AO. I hear he's lvl 400." and the other friend asked something along the lines of, "what's the cap?!" Which was followed by, "there is no cap." That right there sparked my interest. But the image that was embedded in my mind at that moment was something like two-dimensional spaceships flying against a black background with strange faces, lots of money and a never-ending level grind. Around 2005/2006 some bad things happened in a player organisation a friend and I had been running, so I tried out EVE. Confused the bejeebers out of me and dropped it immediately. 3 to 4 years later, after constantly being in and out of WoW, due to its horrible community and unsatisfying gameplay, I came back. CEO of B.U.T.T. -á(recruitment is open) Twitter: @MerylSinGarda http://EVEportraits.com
Zircon Dasher 130	Posted - 2012.04.06 01:49:00 - [31] - Quote A guy I worked with in ought-five told me about it. EVE is the first and only MMO I have ever played.
Chokichi Ozuwara Royal One Piece Corporation Deadly Unknown 83	Posted - 2012.04.06 02:07:00 - [32] - Quote A friend was trialing. I had seen ads for it years ago, and while I love spaceship Scifi, I didn't get what Eve was about (crappy ads, too abstract). I tried it, and I was hooked, although the onramp experience for new users is crap, and it is a surprise that CCP is able to grow their market share at all given the way things are structured. Today about 6 months later, I have 3 accounts, I do a little pew pew now with RvB, I do market trading (almost have every market skill lvl 5'd) and I am planning to spend time in wormholes with some in game Dutch friends I made. Eve is a great game, but it's going to need a very active and diligent developer to keep it interesting (and worthwhile) for me over time. Tears will be shed and pants will need to be changed all round.
Kessiaan Greater Order Of Destruction Happy Endings 152	Posted - 2012.04.06 02:10:00 - [33] - Quote It was 2007, and I was looking for a game that wasn't trying to clone WoW. The endless parade of WoW clones continues, and I'm still here. My killboard - http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=player&name=Kessiaan
Dessau 38	Posted - 2012.04.06 02:24:00 - [34] - Quote Back in 2008 my brother was a junior at university, I was working for a large JP gaming company. At that point I played action ORPGs for the most part: Phantasy Star Online, Monster Hunter... I had MMO experience with UO but that was about it. Anyway, my brother is goes home on a break and, knowing I'm heavy about sci-fi, sends me a message from across the country, "Have you tried EVE Online? It's got all kinds of crazy math, a player-run economy, I think you'd like it." He was right and here we are, still playing. CCP. Non-Russians deserve red jackets. As an alternative, I would also accept some form of USA-only content.
Ender Black Lone Star Exploration Lone Star Partners 109	Posted - 2012.04.06 02:34:00 - [35] - Quote I found EVE at my local EB Games in 2004 in the box. I was intrigued by the idea of a space MMO and was enjoying the RvR combat of DAoC at the time and thought, "what the hell....might as well try it." Couldn't for the life of me figure out the game and never subbed. Tried it again in 2006 after some scandal reported in the gaming news and have stuck with it since. The Pod Goo Podcast http://www.podgoo.com Pod Goo also publishes editorials, guest blogs, and guides for free. -áJust email [email protected] your material.
Ai Shun 604	Posted - 2012.04.06 02:45:00 - [36] - Quote Cyprus Black wrote: In your gaming life, what led you to find and play EVE Online? Was it a friend? An advertisement? Mentioned by a stranger? What was it? How did you get here? The Guiding Hand Social Club and this pure EVE goodness was what interested me first. Never played it until a friend on my site mentioned he was playing; so I decided to give it a go from there.
Darronis Olachenko 15	Posted - 2012.04.06 04:27:00 - [37] - Quote Back in late 2010 a friend and I were bored and glancing around the games section at some store. I recall making some remark like "Man, I wish there was like, a space combat mmo. Nothing but ships, flying and fighting, fleet battles, piracy, that kind of thing." He responded by telling me such a game existed called Eve Online, and that one of his buddies back in the army played it. Came home and looked it up on youtube. Started up a trial, go hooked, and never looked back.
ACE McFACE Acetech Systems 607	Posted - 2012.04.06 04:46:00 - [38] - Quote My friend kept saying how great EVE was and how its all about the pew. Now before then I had never really played and MMO and I was a bit 'eh' on the idea. One day however I was sick and had nothing better to do so I decided to download the client and play the trial. Needless to say it was a good choice and it has ruined any other MMO I may have considered playing Real men wear goggles and a Navy shirt!
Herzog Wolfhammer Sigma Special Tactics Group 1391	Posted - 2012.04.06 04:48:00 - [39] - Quote I found EvE by one of those banner ads you see everywhere. Funny thing is I thought those ads would stop coming yet still they come. Makes me suspicious.
Parthonax 15	Posted - 2012.04.06 04:49:00 - [40] - Quote found it in 2007 while surfing the internet but i didn't had a pc then that could run the thing so i started my first sibscription in early2009 I always loved Sci Fi and i really loved this game and i still think the whole concept of eve is brilliant but i am done with it i am sick and tired of CCPs blatant favouritism toward nullsec and griefers i am sick and tired being forced into pvp EACH time i log in( i do like pvp , just not each time i log in ) , i am sick and tired the way industry and small medium corporations are being treated by CCP , being treated almost like it is a nuiscance and a embarrasment to them Also sick and tired of that white trash bunnch of idiots in a certain nullsec alliance sick and tired of CCP lies and hypocricy i do not think this game will last for another 2 years , not with the current rate subscribers are leaving you can dress up a death body with all sort of fancy clothes it still is a death body so this is permanence
Mr M Agony Unleashed 176	Posted - 2012.04.06 05:05:00 - [41] - Quote Saw it on some site that listed games in development in 2002/2003 and applied for beta testing. Share your experience Write for the EVE Tribune www.eve-tribune.com
Tiberius Amzadee The Omega Sovereign Flux Initiative 11	Posted - 2012.04.06 05:08:00 - [42] - Quote I remember it like it was yesterday,June of 2003,sitting in the game department shelf at a Walmart just outside of Norfolk,VA. I got fed up with and trashed Star Trek:Bridge Commander that kept crashing my back then top of the line dell laptop. In search for something different then Star Trek and Star Wars I found EVE,loaded it up,it ran more smoothly then any game I ever played on PC's,still does and found no equal ever since.
Darth Gustav Sons Of 0din Fatal Ascension 232	Posted - 2012.04.06 05:10:00 - [43] - Quote A friend I hadn't talked to in a few days called me up and sounded like he had gotten himself a new crack addiction. After a few minutes I realized he was talking about Internet Spaceships and signed up for the trial. Which I then couldn't access. Due to trial account throttlihg. Due to "macrominers" as they were then called. My perception of CCP started on a very, very good note. Let me tell you. He who trolls trolls best when he who is trolled trolls the troller. -Darth Gustav's Axiom
Adunh Slavy Ammatar Trade Syndicate 528	Posted - 2012.04.06 05:12:00 - [44] - Quote Was looking for freelancer mods and came across the ad.
Skorpynekomimi Omega Vector 165	Posted - 2012.04.06 05:25:00 - [45] - Quote A couple of friends were in the beta. It looked good. Then they were established, and I wanted in. When more friends picked it up. Finally, I had a job, and time to play it, and spare income. I picked up the trial, just to see if I could get on with it. Then I ragequit; the tutorial gave me a ship I needed, but couldn't fly unless I paid up. Half an hour later, I was subscribed and playing again. Haven't looked back since.
Fearless M0F0 Incursion PWNAGE Asc 16	Posted - 2012.04.06 05:34:00 - [46] - Quote I first read about eve from a Slashdot article about some big scam sometime in 2007, I checked it out, no linux client, meh (my home is Microsoft free since 2003, ironic since i'm a c# developer) A few months later I read on Slashdot CCP released a linux client, I read the comments about being just the windows client wrapped in cedega. I though I had to pay for Cedega to play so I passed. Then, by the end of the year, another Slashdot article about yet another scam and reading through the comments I came across a great story from some Goon dude in the early days of the game. He described his adventures flying many jumps through nullsec to buy his first cruiser and things like that. The universe he described got me very interested. I lurked through the forums. I also learned I didn't have to pay for Cedega to try the game. I downloaded and installed the "linux client" on January 1st, 2008. I took me just a couple days to decide the game was worth $15/month so I paid the subscription. After a week I was ordering a better video card and by the end of the month I was playing the premium client through Wine ...
killorbekilled TBE Dare Bears 37	Posted - 2012.04.06 05:45:00 - [47] - Quote used to play freelancer, eve seemed like the next logical choice i guess one day ill be posting in another thread saying ' yeah i used to play eve and it led me here' lols huh?
leviticus ander CATO.nss 142	Posted - 2012.04.06 05:48:00 - [48] - Quote Harden the F*** Up I was linked that while I was playing WoW. looked at it, took a look at the other video they had up and almost immediately started a trial. got in contact with the person who linked it to me and found that they play too, but very infrequently. ended up finding a corp made of members from another unrelated forum I had been on for quite some time, joined them, got yelled at about terrible fits and skills for about a year until I started picking it all up. been around since because of the song linked above.
Pak Narhoo Knights of Kador Aegis Militia 431	Posted - 2012.04.06 06:29:00 - [49] - Quote Saw an ad on a PC gaming site with a horizontal flying Myrmidon and was like, ohh wouldn't that be something if it came to the Mac. Went to this "EVE" site and started downloading backgrounds and kewl music, then moved on. Unpossible something cool like that would come to my platform. Then in 2007 it actually did and I jumped right in. Went from trial to full on my third day, had a second account in my second week. When it comes to MMO's, EVE is my first, my last, my everything. Who needs television when you have EVE? EVE drama, best drama.
Tobiaz Spacerats 144	Posted - 2012.04.06 08:11:00 - [50] - Quote I saw screenshots from 2002 early beta on the IGN website. It looked cool, so I signed up for the open beta and got to 'test' it for about a month. Pre-ordered the box, which came more then 3 weeks after The Second Genesis came out My first char was a total carebear, spending months chained to a station in algogille selling battleships for Techell http://go-dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/Tobiaz/sig_complaints.gif How about fixing image-linking on the forums, CCP? I want to see signatures!
XIRUSPHERE In Bacon We Trust 207	Posted - 2012.04.06 08:55:00 - [51] - Quote Heard about EVE while it was closed beta when I played Earth and Beyond many moons ago and signed up for it. Ended up getting into closed beta for a few months and had quite a bit of fun and broke a few things that are still broken to this day. Took a 3 year break shortly after launch for various reasons and have been back since 07. The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times. One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
Rico Minali Sons Of 0din Fatal Ascension 527	Posted - 2012.04.06 08:56:00 - [52] - Quote My brother and I were looking for a sci fi mmo back in early 07, looked around alot saw many that 'might' be good enough then we saw the Eve Never Fades video and subscribed pretty much there and then. My brother quit about a year ago but Im still here. Trust me, I almost know what I'm doing.
Ottersmacker Genos Occidere HYDRA RELOADED 131	Posted - 2012.04.06 08:58:00 - [53] - Quote I read Nightfreeze's scam story and watched AT2 recordings, that was enough to get me to try. The Order of the Falcon or Hin +¡slenska f+ílkaor+¦a is a national Order of Iceland
baltec1 1038	Posted - 2012.04.06 09:05:00 - [54] - Quote SWG was murdered by SOE and EVE was the only other MMO offering a real market and risk.
Meryl SinGarda Belligerent Underpayed Tactical Team 419	Posted - 2012.04.06 09:07:00 - [55] - Quote baltec1 wrote: SWG was murdered by SOE and EVE was the only other MMO offering a real market and risk. I wish I could have been around for SWG when it wasn't crap. I heard about it way too late. Also, can't stand SWTOR. But I'll stop. I have no reason to derail/troll this thread. ;D CEO of B.U.T.T. -á(recruitment is open) Twitter: @MerylSinGarda http://EVEportraits.com
Elsebeth Rhiannon Gradient Electus Matari 227	Posted - 2012.04.06 09:12:00 - [56] - Quote I used to play Anarchy Online, which had a lovely shades-of-grey scifi setting, which was totally ruined by wanting to make it a WoW and adding an idiotic background story about ebil superbeing controlling one side and oh gods don't make me think about it, it was too traumatic. The final straw was when in a dev chat the main storydev outright told astonished players that he thinks only stories with clearly defined good and evil are good stories. When the Shadowlands expansion did not really add anything fun to the gameplay either, I started to look for another scifi mmog and found EVE, which was then just out of beta and getting rave reviews comparing it to a "multiplayer Elite".
Meryl SinGarda Belligerent Underpayed Tactical Team 419	Posted - 2012.04.06 09:23:00 - [57] - Quote Elsebeth Rhiannon wrote: I used to play Anarchy Online, which had a lovely shades-of-grey scifi setting, which was totally ruined by wanting to make it into a better-selling fantasy game and adding an idiotic background story about ebil superbeings controlling one side and goodiegood superbeing controlling the other and oh gods don't make me think about it, it was too traumatic. The final straw was when in a dev chat the main storydev outright told astonished players that he thinks only stories with clearly defined good and evil are good stories. When the Shadowlands expansion did not really add anything fun to the gameplay either, I started to look for another scifi mmog and found EVE, which was then just out of beta and getting rave reviews comparing it to a "multiplayer Elite". I think I read about it first from some game site that listed MMOGs, but I cannot recall what the site was called. My RL friends who used to play AO soon followed me too. Initially, I got most hooked by the fact that there was no real limits to who can play with whom. Friends could join months or years after me, and we could still meaningfully help each other on operations etc. No need to all have chars that we keep close to the same levels etc. It's a wonder that MMOGs in general have not moved away from that by now, tbh. EDITed to add: hi to all ex-AOers. :) Seems a bunch of us made the switch in 2003/2004. I'm interested as to which realm you were playing on. I probably wouldn't remember names, but I was on rk2 around that time and playing with an organisation called "Dark Templars of the Phoenix" CEO of B.U.T.T. -á(recruitment is open) Twitter: @MerylSinGarda http://EVEportraits.com
Elsebeth Rhiannon Gradient Electus Matari 228	Posted - 2012.04.06 09:34:00 - [58] - Quote Meryl SinGarda wrote: I'm interested as to which realm you were playing on. I probably wouldn't remember names, but I was on rk2 around that time and playing with an organisation called "Dark Templars of the Phoenix" I played for Shattered Dreams (neutral RP org) for a long time. I forget the server realm, tbh. I was trying to setup my own omnitek RP org around the time I quit.
ctx2007 Wychwood and Wells 14	Posted - 2012.04.06 09:36:00 - [59] - Quote Like many i was a Freelancer player but it lacked updates, so found EVE in 2004 and did the trail but had a time comsuming job and could not afford the subscription so quit. Rejoined in 2007 and not looked back since and that S*****y job has gone too
Meryl SinGarda Belligerent Underpayed Tactical Team 419	Posted - 2012.04.06 09:38:00 - [60] - Quote Elsebeth Rhiannon wrote: Meryl SinGarda wrote: I'm interested as to which realm you were playing on. I probably wouldn't remember names, but I was on rk2 around that time and playing with an organisation called "Dark Templars of the Phoenix" I played for Shattered Dreams (neutral RP org) for a long time. I forget the server realm, tbh. I was trying to setup my own omnitek RP org around the time I quit. Then you were on RK2. I recently took a look around Rubika and both Shattered Dreams and its leader is still around. Also, my character was Nuhmudiira. CEO of B.U.T.T. -á(recruitment is open) Twitter: @MerylSinGarda http://EVEportraits.com
Darek Castigatus Immortalis Inc. Shadow Cartel 59	Posted - 2012.04.06 10:09:00 - [61] - Quote played a bit of AO in 2006 or so and then a friend who owns the local internet cafe mentioned they had an eve corp and would i like to try it, read an article and thought why the hell not. Im now the longest serving active member of our corp
ElQuirko Blue Republic RvB - BLUE Republic 505	Posted - 2012.04.06 10:16:00 - [62] - Quote I couldn't really find an MMO that I wanted to stick to, because everyone was better than me and hours of grinding sounded like a bad idea. Saw this on an MMO finder. Ignored it due to pay-to-play. Then, a few months later, I saw that the trial was on Steam. I was like, "why not?" so I joined. Made my character look as stupid as possible, 'cause I thought that I'd only be playing for two weeks. Ragequit on day one because the game was too damn confusing. Came back on day 2 and have played ever since. My first killmail was also my first ingame friend! If we distribute pictures of people, does that mean God can file copyright claims under SOPA?
Neddy Fox FireStar Inc Curatores Veritatis Alliance 10	Posted - 2012.04.06 10:25:00 - [63] - Quote Hmm, no former Face of Mankind players? When I played FOM, a lot of the FDC guys told me about EVE, but I CBA to install it. Then FOM died a terribad death due to bad management and the inability of the DEVs to cope with the numerous hackers / cheaters. Gave EVE a go, never looked back , even when FOM seems to be revived..
DeMichael Crimson Republic University Minmatar Republic 1425	Posted - 2012.04.06 10:28:00 - [64] - Quote I first heard about Eve Online late 2007 while I was playing an MMO called Dark Space. There was a couple of players in chat who were bad mouthing Eve Online and due to their bad description of the game, I never thought about Eve Online again. Then in mid 2008 while watching Battlestar Galactica on the SyFy channel, I saw this ad about Eve. I recognized the name and remembered those guys in Dark Space talking about the game. Basically it peeked my curiosity and I decided to check it out. After spending a couple of weeks searching the internet for Eve related info, videos and pictures, I created an account and have been here ever since.
Caldarius Seeker Science and Trade Institute Caldari State 1	Posted - 2012.04.06 10:32:00 - [65] - Quote Hard to miss since there is no place in entire internet without eve advertisment :P Also I always ask for deep and complex MMO and they always point me here :)
McVain089 TAL SHIAR SEALS Sternenflotten-Kommando 1	Posted - 2012.04.06 10:38:00 - [66] - Quote I was sick for a very long time and I was searching for a mmo that wasn't the same as the rest. So there ya go... Been here ever since :)
Hairtrigger Privateers Privateer Alliance 6	Posted - 2012.04.06 10:44:00 - [67] - Quote was nothin but a console gamer, then a friend got into eve, told me about it and a mth later i went and bought a alienware laptop just to play it on. didnt have a clue how to use the laptop or any pc stuff, but as long as i could get into eve i didnt care not played another game or turned on the console since
quickshot89 No trouble in the midst STR8NGE BREW 11	Posted - 2012.04.06 11:24:00 - [68] - Quote Well 6 years ago while on a 6th form trip i took ill and landed up in hospital, the only mag i had was a PC Gamer that had featured eve that month (this was pre-trinity days) so after reading that article solid for a week as soon as i got home i signed up for the trial, never looked back.
Chopper Rollins Republic Military School Minmatar Republic 109	Posted - 2012.04.06 11:34:00 - [69] - Quote 03 start using the internet regularly at the age of 33 04 searching for info on .gif files, found link to 4chan on a long list of things at the Church of the SubGenius 05 saw documentary on 2nd Life early 09 tried 2nd Life and got rid of it after 4 days amused by terrible graphics and arid environment soon after, saw a thread in 4chan about Eve, fella posted a pic of an Incursus and described himself as an anti-pirate 09 trial Eve, amazed at it's beauty and lightness on bandwidth. Horrified by the freedom and trackless environment. Played nearly everyday since. Goggles. Making me look good. Making you look good.
Aghira Systech Astromantics Shipyard Inc. Smacked Alliance 10	Posted - 2012.04.06 11:43:00 - [70] - Quote I saw an advert on a WoW site, watched the trinity trailer and instantly quittet WoW! That trailer really hooked me.
Bucky O'Hair Minmatar Ship Construction Services Ushra'Khan 46	Posted - 2012.04.06 11:58:00 - [71] - Quote Jeopardy We Are Ushra'Khan! We are coming for our people.
Josef Djugashvilis The Scope Gallente Federation 74	Posted - 2012.04.06 12:02:00 - [72] - Quote Read about Eve before it started. Played Eve for a week or so in the very early days. Stopped for work, family committments etc. If I could remember my character name or the email address I had at that time, I would resub him. Came back in '07 You want fries with that?
Sanya Intaki Security and Intelligence Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive 9	Posted - 2012.04.06 12:43:00 - [73] - Quote They were announcing their release, I think on mmorpg.com, and as I had only played Dark Age of Camelot and other fantasy games, I thought trying a sci fi spaceship game could be interesting. And here I am today. Director-General of Security Intaki Security and Intelligence www.kisec.net
2D34DLY4U Pator Tech School Minmatar Republic 2	Posted - 2012.04.06 12:51:00 - [74] - Quote Got invited to the Pirates of the Burning Sea beta, people called it "EVE lite" so I came to check the real thing... Ended up not spending a dime on PotBS, subbing to EVE since then and often on more than one account
Eternus8lux8lucis Whack-A-Mole 83	Posted - 2012.04.06 13:36:00 - [75] - Quote Used to hang out out at Frugalsworld before it shut down and Mark, the guy that ran the site, put in a call for people to join his corp in the forums. Was a bunch of us forum addicts at first. Still remember the nerve wracking trip from Ryddinjorn up to Ylandoki thinking every jump I was going to get killed mercilessly as I had just subbed and it was my first day. That was mid 03 and Ive basically been in Eve since. Took a bit of a break for a while but now Im almost constantly logged in with one account or another. First MMO, tried two other FTP types that just bored me to tears during the "Eve breaks" you need from time to time but nothings ever compared. Strength isnt measured in numbers but in force of will. For if one motived willful individual stands many will fall around him that are weak. http://tinyurl.com/YarrFace
Roime Shiva Furnace 423	Posted - 2012.04.06 13:43:00 - [76] - Quote I briefly considered posting this on an alt, but wth- I found EVE via Apple's website. Was browsing the games available for Mac, and EVE looked p boss. I don't have a gaming life, never really played computer games after Space Quests, Star Controls, Dooms and Wolfensteins way back then. Also not even considering any other games, EVE is amazing. (EDIT: I played EVE for a year on my fantastic MacBook Pro, but now I have succumbed and got a dedicated, huge ugly box with a terrible, ****** OS just to run EVE)
Sgt AngelWisper Mortis Shadow Angels Of Requiem 7	Posted - 2012.04.06 13:47:00 - [77] - Quote Cyprus Black wrote: In your gaming life, what led you to find and play EVE Online? Was it a friend? An advertisement? Mentioned by a stranger? What was it? How did you get here? Ive been a gamer for some time now, but it wasn't until i stumbled upon a review in a PC magazine that i took interest in EvE online. watched a few video clips visited the website and so on.. Figured ill give it a go and.....you guessed it, im hooked....its true it s a way of life Once you have grown to a new level (so to speak) there's always something new to aim for.
Iosue 0verload. IMPERIAL LEGI0N 86	Posted - 2012.04.06 13:51:00 - [78] - Quote was reading this article in the New York Times and was amazed there was a sci-fi game with so much to offer. checked it out that evening and have been playing ever since. four accounts and four year later, i'm still here.
Skarsnik DarkArch Corp 2	Posted - 2012.04.06 15:10:00 - [79] - Quote I found EvE through a friend playing the beta, I never managed to get an invite so joined on release. Been here since and wont leaveuntil they switch servers off
SnoopyStardust The Nizari Finis Terrae 0	Posted - 2012.04.06 15:35:00 - [80] - Quote Found Eve in 2007, while looking for the Frontier:Elite 2 for Amiga. Never heard about Eve before that.
Cipher Jones The Thomas Edwards Taco Tuesday All Stars 448	Posted - 2012.04.06 15:40:00 - [81] - Quote Cyprus Black wrote: In your gaming life, what led you to find and play EVE Online? Was it a friend? An advertisement? Mentioned by a stranger? What was it? How did you get here? Me personally, I got sick of WoW after their first expansion, Burning Crusade, and was shopping around for a better MMO. I saw a bunch of people on the WoW forums crapping on other MMOs, most especially EVE. I tried the trial and thought it was terrible, then left. A few months later I gave it another try and I stayed for about two months. I was wisked away into a 0.0 alliance of which I was totally not ready for. Left EVE again. Finally came back a third time and it stuck. Now I have two active accounts and will most likely stay until the EVE servers shut down for good. Saw many many advertisements for it when I played Freelancer. "we don't own this station, but we have an arrangement with those who do" I AM ***** PISSED OFF THAT EVE WILL NOT RUN ON MY COMMODORE 64. THAT ** I QUIT. take all my isk for 1 trit.
Natassia Krasnoo R3D SHIFT 0	Posted - 2012.04.06 16:54:00 - [82] - Quote Mid to late 90's- played a lot of the wing commander series on a freinds computer. Late 90's to early 2000's I played a lot of X-Wing and Tie Fighter with a good measure of the Decent/Freespace series thrown in there. 2003-I got into the FPS scene with UT 2003, SW:Jedi Outcast, and picked up what would be the almost last decent space combat game for some time.....Freelancer. Did the EVE trial at the suggestion of a friend, and only played it for a few hours before quitting and uninstalling it, as I was looking for something along the lines of traditional cockpit style space combat. Bought Planetside on a whim and didn't play much else for a few years other than a couple months of SW:Galaxies. 2004-Picked up X3: Reunion and loved the depth and sandboxy feel. People kept comparing it to EVE but like a single player version. 2006-Tried out EVE again for a few days this time.....quit in frustration as I had no direction or clue what I was doing. 2007-The lack of decent space based games drove me back to EVE....this time I researched more about how to play. Rolled a trial account and started paying when it ended. Some guy from the NPC corp invited me to a private chat channel with about 15 other people ( I think it was called ANDARS PUB been a long time though). Some of us started missioning and exploring together. Our ship fits were something from an FC's worst noob nightmare but we learned fast. My main EVE buddy got recruited to a 0.0 corp and I found a highsec corp just starting. A few months later. after my first wardec and susequently my first PVP experience, my buddy gets me into the 0.0 corp. I was hooked. I now have 6 accounts. Only one is active for now until the monetary and time situation improves. But I'm here until the servers shut down or CCP really screws up.
Lorichai The Night Wardens Viro Mors Non Est 0	Posted - 2012.04.06 16:55:00 - [83] - Quote I've played dozens and dozens of games in the last dozen years. Mostly beta/alpha, only one has ever lasted more than six months and that was DDO . After about four years, i needed a break. Having a second game to play, i figured, would break up the boring spells. I tried all the usual rpg suspects and none of them came close to ddo, which is what i enjoyed, not even close enough...so i figured i'd try something that was completely opposite of ddo. I'd seen a veritable tonnage of ads, everywhere, for this game so i fired up the you tube vids and spent a day on the forums. I almost didn't try it, due to the forums, i'm just that way, but the videos are what got me to try it. Crisp, clean, sandbox. Naturally i mined for my trial period and left after a week, bored as hell...a few months later i came back and tried again, without the mining and stayed. The skills are just as addictive as the gameplay, and even though i absolutely despise ship pvp, there's enough other stuff i can do, that makes up for it. So yeah, that's my story. R
Lyron-Baktos Selective Pressure Rote Kapelle 79	Posted - 2012.04.06 17:20:00 - [84] - Quote First time trying the game was years ago, I got a free offer with my new video card. Tried it out and quit during the middle of the tutorial as it looked and played like ****. Then a few months ago, someone started a thread about Eve on my MMA message board I visited and someone else linked the story about the Guiding Hand Social Club heist. I came back to try it again and found Eve to be a much better game http://www.mmocrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/eveheist3.jpg On holiday. -áIn some other world. Where the music of the radio was a labyrinth of sonorous colours. To a bright centre of absolute convicton. -áWhere the dripping patchouli was more than scent. -á It was a sun
Galadriel Vasquez Corp 54 Curatores Veritatis Alliance 31	Posted - 2012.04.06 17:29:00 - [85] - Quote Was playing X3 and then saw EVE advertised - got trial and subbed after 2 hours I have tin foil hat trained to 5.
Istvaan Shogaatsu Guiding Hand Social Club 236	Posted - 2012.04.06 17:38:00 - [86] - Quote Back in 2002 (oh god it's been a decade) I was playing around in the beta of Darkspace. My clan, [el33t], was talking about a new spaceship game with 3! not just 2 dimensions going into alpha - this turned out to be Eve. Been here ever since, on and off (mostly on.) I snuck into Eve's alpha 6 stage on a buddy's account, and got banned until beta 4. I believe I'm one of the only non-dev players to fly an Eidolon.
Maxpie Metaphysical Utopian Society Explorations 61	Posted - 2012.04.06 17:48:00 - [87] - Quote Came across the awesomely well-written story about a major scam. I think the guys's name was Nightfreeze or something like that. After reading it, i just had to try a game where that can happen. Have been playing ever since. If you have some time, it's a great read. It's also an interesting glimpse of Eve as it was in those days. The Great Scam
Testerxnot Sheepherder DeadHeads - Question Authority Crew 42	Posted - 2012.04.06 17:50:00 - [88] - Quote I followed the river of tears.
Radelix Cisko The Adjustment Team 61	Posted - 2012.04.06 18:03:00 - [89] - Quote I was derping at work reading cracked.com and read this article. Read the wikipedia entry later that day and started a trial that night. And here I am.
Cearain Imperial Outlaws 317	Posted - 2012.04.06 18:05:00 - [90] - Quote Heres my story bro: Growing up it was the introduction of the atari that blew me away. I would have been about 9 or 10. I mean the very notion that I could change what appeared on the television belw me away. (back then there were only a few major networks so being "on tv" was huge it had a certain mystique) After talking with my 2 year older, and much wiser, brother I was advised that someday they will not only have graphics of photographic quality but that the world we enteracted with wouldn't be governed by computer scripts but by other actual people making decisions in that world. I was skeptical it sounded amazing but my 9 year old brain thought surely that would be too techinologically difficult. I mean we could barely play in group mode with space invaders but having hundreds or thousands playing together - I didn't really believe it then. But that didn't stop us from designing our own game so that when the technology caught up we would already have the game ready! We wrote several scripts based on decisions players would make (for the time before it was truly player driven) - like the atari game with the dragons. We also drew up a huge map of the world it would take place on. Several pieces of graphics paper taped together (of course on graphics paper because that is how all computer games are designed) with our drawings of forests and hills etc. (it wasn't a space game) It was called "z world." We would say it with a french accent. Over the years I would only intermittantly game though. But then when it seemed clear that some mmos were actually accomplishing our childhood dream I checked them out including eve. I installed it at my brothers house looked at the races and determined that with my first child on the way and a wife in a pregnancy that wasn't particularly smooth I may want to hold off. So I did hold off for about 4 or five years. Then my wife took a weekend trip so I figured I would download some mmos and check them out. EVE was the only one that properly downloaded and installed without a hicupp. So it was the only one I played. It was basically everything I had dreamed of as a 9 year old and more. That whole idea that you are interacting in an unscripted world, with real people making decisions, with consequences was the real crux of it. I still think its awesome for a game to have that. Make faction war occupancy pvp instead of pve https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=53815&#post53815
Telegram Sam The Drones Club 253	Posted - 2012.04.06 18:23:00 - [91] - Quote In 2008, was looking for an MMO that had group vs. group warfare, with real consequences. Not some kind of faction vs. faction or "PVP zone" arena think, but wide-open warfare with real territorial conquest. EvE was the only thing around like that. Think it still is.
Montevius Williams Eclipse Industrial Inc Order of the Void 252	Posted - 2012.04.06 18:44:00 - [92] - Quote I had bought a telescope about 2.5 years ago. Was doing a lot of research on outer space. I went back to the website that I got the telescope from a few days later and thanks to Googles targeted marketing I saw an advertisement for EVE. Been playing ever since.
RogueMind Deep Core Mining Inc. Caldari State 22	Posted - 2012.04.06 18:47:00 - [93] - Quote Ayka Quinn and Akay Quinn We were friends in 2007 Ayka and I got suspended from work for a week. Ayka was already playing, I got bored and started a trial, been into it ever since. Blame them.
Ashley SchmidtVonGoldberg 1-800-FUBAR 137	Posted - 2012.04.06 18:51:00 - [94] - Quote I realised that i was a complete failure in life and had no impact on anything. People dismissed me and girls ignored me. I found this game and realised that i was finally home with my own kind Standing in for Karn Dulake who was banned for saying bad words
DaOpa Static Corp 2	Posted - 2012.04.06 19:17:00 - [95] - Quote Found out about EVE from a beta watch site, signed up to beta and been playing since. I still have the original Retail BOX and CD! Closing in on 9 years! DaOpa's EVE Fansite \|\|Wormhole Database / Wormhole Systems Lookup Tool \|\|Live Streamer at twitch.tv/daopa
Meryl SinGarda Belligerent Underpayed Tactical Team 422	Posted - 2012.04.06 19:48:00 - [96] - Quote Ashley SchmidtVonGoldberg wrote: I realised that i was a complete failure in life and had no impact on anything. People dismissed me and girls ignored me. I found this game and realised that i was finally home with my own kind I like when you post, it's hilarious. Especially that one time a new player was introducing himself on the forums. Have a like. CEO of B.U.T.T. -á(recruitment is open) Twitter: @MerylSinGarda http://EVEportraits.com
J3ssica Alba Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation 299	Posted - 2012.04.06 19:51:00 - [97] - Quote A friend in another MMO back in 2005 told me about Eve and me, like a total dumbass, didn't bother to check it out. Years later other friends started playing Eve and sent me a buddy invite thing. That was 2 years ago. If i had listened to my friend in 2005 I'd be a bitter vet by now To the whiners :-áCCP Soundwave "Incursions are not a big issue in terms of isk globally" CCP Recurve "However, Incursions are not the biggest ISK faucet, bounties are"
Kratisto Amok. Goonswarm Federation 15	Posted - 2012.04.06 20:34:00 - [98] - Quote I played WoW for 4 years. After the Ulduar expansion the game started to suck and get boring for me so I quit. During this time I had an RL friend playing Eve; I do not like trying new things but I was hella bored. I started a trial along with a couple more RL friends. During the first month I nearly gave up because I had no idea what to do, but eventually things got themselves sorted :) I quickly figured out the most important part of the game was finding a player corp with decent people in it; id say that was the most important step.
Snowflake Tem The Order of Symbolic Measures 64	Posted - 2012.04.06 20:50:00 - [99] - Quote I signed up to beta exited at the prospect of playing ELITE with a bunch of real people to shoot at. I could not justify the subscription at launch. I came back a couple of years later when the game acquired a tad more polish and resolved to play low key and on my own terms. I love the politics, the intrigue and the real intellectual minds that make the EVE political landscape what it is. DUNE eat your heart out. Don't let the new wave of gamers tell you this game is anything but brilliant. It is as deep and twisty as you want it to be, and if you are half as twisty as I am, that is very very dark indeed.
Snowflake Tem The Order of Symbolic Measures 64	Posted - 2012.04.06 21:00:00 - [100] - Quote double post. but since I'm here - do what you can to promote EVE positively. It may be evolving away from the RPG I fell for - but it is still great in so many ways.
Marduk Nibiru Risk Breakers C0NVICTED 164	Posted - 2012.04.06 21:01:00 - [101] - Quote In my case I was playing some other game, perusing the forums there, and ran into someone talking crap about EvE. I looked into it, saw that it looked like it might be my kind of game (spaceships, yay!) and gave it a shot. I have to admit, it is a really, really boring game. It's got me sucked in though for some reason. I keep trying other games but they're all exactly the same crap over and over again (and not even that different from each other). They're all the boorish parts of EvE without any of the great stuff. So, as long as CCP doesn't sacrifice spaceships for Incarna/monocles again, and I don't die 5 times in a row because of stupid overview glitches that should have been fixed years ago but instead they built useless CQ crap....I probably won't rage quit again and I'll be here until the big crunch or the stars burn themselves out.
Solhild Republic Military School Minmatar Republic 655	Posted - 2012.04.06 21:07:00 - [102] - Quote Was drawn to it for a long while - adverts/gaming press, but avoided it because of the overwhelming commitment I thought it needed. I signed up in 2008 when I decided I liked the subscription & lack of micro-transaction model, it seemed like a mature option without the teenage nonsense that some other games/mmo's seem to crave. I accept that EVE needs to change and I'll probably leave if game content costs cash rather than isk, even if it's only vanity - frankly vanity is game content! Fortunately the PLEX/microplex for account services and in-game generated isk route seems sensible and perfectly acceptable. I could happily spend triple the subscription cost every month on extra content if I thought I was adding to the sandbox! I've tried most of what I think EVE has to offer and I know I've barely scratched the surface. The best part is that it's continually growing and developing so the potential is immense. Fantastic game
Solhild Republic Military School Minmatar Republic 655	Posted - 2012.04.06 21:17:00 - [103] - Quote Ashley SchmidtVonGoldberg wrote: I realised that i was a complete failure in life and had no impact on anything. People dismissed me and girls ignored me. I found this game and realised that i was finally home with my own kind This is an outstanding post - Laughing still
Istvaan Shogaatsu Guiding Hand Social Club 237	Posted - 2012.04.06 21:24:00 - [104] - Quote Ashley SchmidtVonGoldberg wrote: I realised that i was a complete failure in life and had no impact on anything. People dismissed me and girls ignored me. I found this game and realised that i was finally home with my own kind Changing my answer to this.
Ris Dnalor Black Rebel Rifter Club 277	Posted - 2012.04.07 00:51:00 - [105] - Quote was playing Jumpgate (jossh.com) at the time, and folks were all abuzz about the eve beta. Sometime late 2002 I joined the beta, and haven't looked back since. ...
Sasha Azala Blood and Decay 197	Posted - 2012.04.07 02:37:00 - [106] - Quote Met someone in Saga of Ryzom, who was taking a break from EVE (Amarrian pilot) at the beginning of 2005. I was still enjoying the Saga of Ryzom at the time so did not try EVE until about Sept 2005.
Internet Knight The Kobayashi Maru 11	Posted - 2012.04.07 05:15:00 - [107] - Quote Cyprus Black wrote: In your gaming life, what led you to find and play EVE Online? Escape Velocity Nova had recently been released. I was an avid fan of the series. Unfortunately it's only a single player game. I commented to a good friend that I wish there was a multiplayer Escape Velocity. He mentioned I should check out EVE Online. That was in first half of 2006 as I recall.
Lapine Davion Outer Ring Applied Logistics 161	Posted - 2012.04.07 05:19:00 - [108] - Quote Friends talking about the sudden takedown on BoB from Delve. I started playing then. A week later I was tooling around the PR- hellcamp in my terribly fit Vexor.
Vangelios Hedion University Amarr Empire 20	Posted - 2012.04.07 18:49:00 - [109] - Quote For me it's about SF thing. While I play many other games, SF and space games have special place in my heart. I've played Elite on 8bit computers, then Frontier on 16bit computers (Amiga), then many other space games in my long gaming history. I've heard about EVE when it was released, but for many years... clicking in space instead of flying ships... watching excel tables instead of having visual indicators (visual scanner, visual overview and so on) kept me from installing and trying it. Then in 2009. I've decided to give it a go, mainly to expand my knowledge of game industry / development. Oh, how I fell in love with EVE complexity... and I'm still here. And you know what, I still hate it for excel like overview - directional scanner, clicking in space to fly ships and local as intel tool. But you know what, there is constant evolution in gaming industry. Someday perhaps. ...-áEach small candle Lights a corner of the dark...
Andrea Roche State War Academy Caldari State 67	Posted - 2012.04.07 19:29:00 - [110] - Quote me and a few flat mates of the same course decided when we were in university to play together an MMO. So in summer we began seaching for an MMO from site that advertise MMOs with description and what attracted us initialy was the graphics. We did not knew much what were doing back then. I was fiting caldari ships wih armor reppers XD. We were doing too much mininig and misioning at the start. We could hear "stories" of capitals but never saw much. We didnt even see a carrier back then. We had zero knowledge of mechanics and we didnt join any corporations. One thing i felt was like there was not enough information back then about the game. There was very little videos of eve even in youtube back then. This was in 2004 or early 2005(i think). After three months we gave up. A year after i decided to give it a try and here I am still. This time when i came back to the game i joined a corp and things changed completelly and i was hooked with the adventure and friends i made. That was many years ago . Long live EVE
Tarn Kugisa Space Mongolian Pinked 55	Posted - 2012.04.07 19:58:00 - [111] - Quote A good friend started me with a buddy invite and a Drake Real Caldari Hull Tank (And Win doing so) Support the EVE Version of Source Recoder!
Large Collidable Object morons. 1242	Posted - 2012.04.07 21:06:00 - [112] - Quote I had casually played UO and was looking for another MMO, so I looked around and found a post on some forum made by some ex UO player who said how great Eve was. Gave it a try (early 2004 I think) and quit during the trial - however it left a lasting impressions and so I came back a couple of months later and stuck around since then. There simply never was an alternative - games like WoW never caught my interest and I never bothered enough with them to even ever install a Trial. You know... morons.
Kestrix UV Heavy Industries 7	Posted - 2012.04.07 21:09:00 - [113] - Quote On the shelf of a shop.
Kisumii Bio-Tech Research Luna Sanguinem 11	Posted - 2012.04.07 21:14:00 - [114] - Quote Installed beta. Hated it. Then did some proper research into it and loved it since.
AureoBroker Natural Inventions Solyaris Chtonium 27	Posted - 2012.04.07 21:50:00 - [115] - Quote On a search for an MMO which didn't require fightning.

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