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motomysz
Stardust Manufacturing
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Posted - 2008.12.24 06:45:00 -
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Edited by: motomysz on 24/12/2008 06:45:19 This is an absolutely ridiculous story about a guy's experience with Eve written in 2003. Classic.
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motomysz
Stardust Manufacturing
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Posted - 2008.12.24 07:01:00 -
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Allow me to quote some of the wonderful prose which lies within:
"The entire concept of mining in Eve consists of pressing Ctrl + F, finding an asteroid, then auto piloting your ship over to it and watching little pebbles of rock float into your ship from the asteroid; you would then wait 5-10 minutes for the asteroid to dissolve, and do the same thing, over and over, for hours on end, until your ship was full of space pebbles." -- "I felt my heart with my left hand; it was still pulsing rapidly, and the realization that I netted 600,000 credits in 25 minutes, along with a healthy dose of action, sent it shooting up even further. I did several more trade routes that morning, and by 9 AM, my credit count read "5,780,000 credits"." -- "I did my research, and decided that the best ship for combat would be the Caldari Moa; it was fast, deadly, and had an armament approximately equal to the United StatesÆ missile arsenal during the Cold War. Nuclear winter, here I come. I was going to pick it up from a guy named ôOneEye Willieö, a hard boiled manufacturing magnate I met one day in IRC. Willie sold the ship equivalent of an Alienware computer; terribly overpriced, but outfitted with all the best decals, all the best hardware, and most importantly, the best weaponry that money could buy. When you bought from Willie, you werenÆt just buying a combat ship; you were buying death incarnate, a million credits at a time. After an intense bout of haggling, some shouting on my part, and some screaming back on his, I worked him down to 35 million credits." -- "He placed the Moa in a trading window, and it was just as beautiful as I envisioned it. It had 3 long-distance laser racks, 2 high density missile bays, and an ECM ray to drain enemies of their shipsÆ energy." -- "I logged onto the Eve forums, and learned that pirates and player killers, who comprise a substantial portion of Eve's population, had been *****ing to the game developers that MWDs allowed industrial ships to get away too easily, and that they should be nerfed so the pirates could gank an honest trader trying to make a profit. In response, the genius developers of Eve put insane energy requirements on MWDs; in order to use them, you would need to be running a barebones gimp ship, which meant that if you were flying an industrial ship, you couldn't have any cargo expanders."
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Dirk Magnum
Royal Hiigaran Navy
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Posted - 2008.12.24 07:03:00 -
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lol wtb fast, deadly Moa tbh
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Avan Sercedos
Shockworks
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Posted - 2008.12.24 07:04:00 -
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Edited by: Avan Sercedos on 24/12/2008 07:03:49
Originally by: Dirk Magnum lol wtb fast, deadly Moa tbh
wtb lazor ecm moa _________________________
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Raul Watanabe
Gallente NQX Innovations
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Posted - 2008.12.24 07:27:00 -
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'we need to rid the game of these kinds of scum'
And yes they certainly have
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Jint Hikaru
Hadean Drive Yards
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Posted - 2008.12.24 09:39:00 -
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"Space pebbles"
HAHA! ------------------------ Jint Hikaru - Miner / Salvager "I've got a couple of Strippers on my ship... and they just love to dance!" ------------------------ |
Tzar'rim
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Posted - 2008.12.24 10:47:00 -
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Laugh all you want, back in the day a Moa was a decent ship. Don't use current day bonuses and turret/game mechanics on yesterday's tactics.
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Pax Scindus
Gallente Caldari Deep Space Ventures Arcane Alliance
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Posted - 2008.12.24 12:21:00 -
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That was... awful. Good god- That was like reading headlines from 1930... "BANK LOSES THOUSANDS IN STOCK DROP" Sigh... SO glad we live in the age of billions. Heres to making 800mil in a day. Cheers! -Pax ----------------------------------------- Vis Pacem Para Bellum If you want peace, prepare for war.
www.romulusforums.com
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Neyro7830
Gallente Stormfront A.W. Stormfront J.U.N.T.A.
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Posted - 2008.12.24 13:33:00 -
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Originally by: Pax Scindus That was... awful. Good god- That was like reading headlines from 1930... "BANK LOSES THOUSANDS IN STOCK DROP" Sigh... SO glad we live in the age of billions. Heres to making 800mil in a day. Cheers! -Pax
Can you loan me like... 200m? :3 ___ I cannot be held responsible for the above post, because apparently,my cat has learned to type. :3 |
Vharl Ochre
Caldari Interstellar Brotherhood of Gravediggers Privateer Alliance
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Posted - 2008.12.24 13:57:00 -
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I thought that was a good piece of writing, though I had to laugh about how much he gushed over a Moa. Can't imagine paying 35mil for one today
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Chomin H'ak
Integrated Takeovers
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Posted - 2008.12.24 15:04:00 -
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Quote: Payback wasn't mine yet, though. I fired my ECM ray on his pod, draining it of all its energy and effectively keeping him from engaging his hyperdrive.
wtb 2 things here:
1. This ECM mod (whatever the hell it's called)
2. Whatever the **** this guy's smoking.
Originally by: Frenden Dax My heart hopes that people aren't that stupid, but my experiences thus far suggest otherwise.
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siccari aleph
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Posted - 2008.12.24 16:59:00 -
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awesome read
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Xephys
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Posted - 2008.12.24 17:35:00 -
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This really is old and it's the story that made me want to play Eve. Pretty sure it's not a true story though, some Goon from SA made up at least most of it, to lure others into playing Eve.
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Skira Ranos
Blood Money Inc.
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Posted - 2008.12.24 20:36:00 -
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Originally by: Xephys This really is old and it's the story that made me want to play Eve. Pretty sure it's not a true story though, some Goon from SA made up at least most of it, to lure others into playing Eve.
Its true, its been floating around since 03. It actually got mentioned on a fair number of gaming sites, as evidence for how brutal eve is. __
Recruiting
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Soporo
Caldari The Graduates Morsus Mihi
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Posted - 2008.12.24 23:46:00 -
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Quote: I come. I was going to pick it up from a guy named ôOneEye Willieö, a hard boiled manufacturing magnate I met one day in IRC.
Never trust a guy named One-Eye Willie. Particularly if, upon meeting him, you see two eyes in his head.
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Padan Fain
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Posted - 2008.12.25 00:29:00 -
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Bah, you kids today! No respect! You all take battle ships for granted. Back when I was a young noob, you never saw a battle ship, you just heard rumors about them.
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Tai Paktu
Beyond Divinity Inc
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Posted - 2008.12.25 00:43:00 -
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I still wish I'd been around for those days of EvE. Also, fail on the part of the original OP, quitting EvE because he scammed someone and then recycled his char. For shame.
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Lanissum
The Bastards
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Posted - 2008.12.25 01:14:00 -
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You know, whats up with the cruisers costing 30m or 40m + Has isk deflated that much?
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Schalac
Caldari Apocalypse Reign
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Posted - 2008.12.25 02:45:00 -
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My mining osprey was pimp when I started and it payed for 6 BCs and a BS. My then CEO went with another from our glorious 7 man corp of friends into low sec to "PWN" people and in 30 seconds lost about a months time frame of work for us in one fell swoop. EvE was so much better then.
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Robert0288
Caldari g guild Imperial Republic Of the North
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Posted - 2008.12.25 05:21:00 -
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Originally by: Lanissum You know, whats up with the cruisers costing 30m or 40m + Has isk deflated that much?
nope, supply/demand and no one had the SP to even THINK of flying a BS. There where no BS rats, as they would **** entire fleets. Also with almost 0 demand in mega and zyd (b/c of no BSs) they weren't worth as much, and where much harder to collect with your miner 1 and Bantam frig.
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Jezala
Repo Industries R.E.P.O.
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Posted - 2008.12.25 05:47:00 -
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This was the story that first drew my attention to Eve. Still a great read to this day.
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techzer0
IDLE GUNS IDLE EMPIRE
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Posted - 2008.12.25 07:57:00 -
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The 0.0 Experiment
Yes, INNOMINATE NIGHTMARE was completely win... too bad they nerfed his noobishness in Trinity or w/e patch it was that starting SP increased. ------------
Originally by: Nexus Kinnon I could outgay you even without my pink tutu. >.>
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Raul Watanabe
Gallente NQX Innovations
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Posted - 2008.12.25 11:50:00 -
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It would have been fun to have been around at the start of EVE, only reason i missed out was because id never heard of the game until i stumbled across the EVE never fades vid last year. I realised somebody had made the game id always wanted to play since i had Frontier Elite 2 on the Amiga 500 (epic game, epic bugs, epic lag, still loved it).
No 20 man blobs with 5 falcons in tow, no 15 man remote repping apocalypse flying gate camping pirate crews, and no alliances with rock solid strangle holds over large parts of null sec. It would have been quite different and very fun i think.
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Sacul
Wreckless Abandon G00DFELLAS
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Posted - 2008.12.25 13:36:00 -
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ECM Rays!!!!
Damn old story. The GHCS heist actually got me interested in EvE and this linked story i read when i was a nubbin in january 2005.
ECM Rays roflmao.....brilliant.
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Joyce Odinsfeld
Minmatar Stormriders
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Posted - 2008.12.25 13:45:00 -
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I remember making a living out in deep 0.0 space just to get the 30-50k spawns and yeah....they were the top notch spawns Think it took me about 2 weeks to get my rupture who hardly could take these monsterspawns
WE TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN! |
King Rothgar
Death of Virtue
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Posted - 2008.12.26 08:41:00 -
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I do wonder sometimes if the developers should just click "reset" on the eve servers once a year or so. Skill training times would need to be massively boosted (or outright done away with) but it would be more interesting I think.
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Mass Attack
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Posted - 2008.12.26 09:27:00 -
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Originally by: King Rothgar I do wonder sometimes if the developers should just click "reset" on the eve servers once a year or so. Skill training times would need to be massively boosted (or outright done away with) but it would be more interesting I think.
I'd like a new shard, to set everyone back at zero and on this new shard I have dreamed up CCP employees are not allowed to play. It'd be interesting to see an Eve universe void of favoritism and exploitation.
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Constance Harme
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Posted - 2008.12.26 11:39:00 -
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Originally by: motomysz
"2 high density missile bays"
I want some of these "high density missile bays" he speaks of, they sound powerfull.. oh and a laser Moa.
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