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Things from the past
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Kult Altol
The Safe Space
#41 - 2013-05-08 20:08:56 UTC
Lasers sucked, oh wait they still do.

[u]Can't wait untill when Eve online is Freemium.[/u] WiS only 10$, SP booster for one month 15$, DPS Boost 2$, EHP Boost 2$ Real money trading hub! Cosmeitic ship skins 15$ --> If you don't [u]pay **[/u]for a product, you ARE the [u]**product[/u].

Gary Goat
XDC-UK
#42 - 2013-05-08 20:22:20 UTC
Private Pineapple wrote:
Gary Goat wrote:
So much was different when I started playing that its hard to list it all but here goes.

No Battlecruisers
No Destroyers
No Capital Ships
No POS
No Cloaking
No Probing
No ORE Ships
No Level 4 Missions
No Tier 3 Battleships
No Stacking Penalties
No Bubbles
No Wrecks or salvaging
No Rigs
You could fit multiple mwds on ships for insane speed
Mining Laser II was the only tech 2 item in game
The closest you could warp to anything was 15km unless you had a bookmark
Thorax could field 8 heavy drones
Torps went off like smartbombs when they hit, causing splash damage
Isk was worth something, my thorax was an expensive ship to fly at 7m isk.

Am I bitter? Extremely


Gary Goat wrote:

No Tier 3 Battleships


Gary Goat wrote:

Tier 3 Battleships


Hmm...


Not really sure what you're getting at here. The hyperion, maelstrom, rohk and abaddon were added much later.
KuroVolt
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#43 - 2013-05-08 20:24:53 UTC
BoB isnt around anymore for one...[Raiden. doesnt really count, sorry]

BoBwins Law: As a discussion/war between two large nullsec entities grows longer, the probability of one comparing the other to BoB aproaches near certainty.
Marlona Sky
State War Academy
Caldari State
#44 - 2013-05-08 20:31:44 UTC
Solo PvP was alive and healthy.

Alliances did not reply on the 'coalition crutch'.
Mr M
Sebiestor Tribe
#45 - 2013-05-08 20:39:18 UTC
Implying Implications wrote:
What was the market like right at the beginning? Did people have to mine minerals in noob ships and do missions to get isk to buy blueprints?


Kind of empty. Buying cruisers blueprints were quite an investment and only a small minority could afford battleship blueprints.

You could bounce off of things. Stations, gates, ships. For a few days there was even a bug that made you super bounce hundred kilometers away even with the smallest nudge. Corp mate of mine ended up a couple of millions of AU away from everything.

Asteroids grew in size for every day they wasn't mined so in some distant systems you could find enormous sized rocks clipping both each other and warp in points.

Errormessagevaganza. 30-100 modal error messages on your screen and you had to click each and everyone before you could access the UI again.

Warping to a gate you didn't always land in a straight line to the gate. And with three micro warp drives on your ship it took quite some time to turn towards it.

Missiles hitting things on their way to the target. It was nice when you could hide from rats behind a large asteroid. It wasn't as much fun when you accidentally hit friends, cans, gates and stations. Sometimes even yourself since missiles fired forward, and with three micro warp drives on your ship it was faster than the missiles.

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Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#46 - 2013-05-08 20:46:01 UTC
8km/s Flying beehive Dominix.

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Chiore
Kumonosu
#47 - 2013-05-08 20:58:57 UTC
Although it was kind of recently it disappeared, I'm missing the in game jukebox boooo

There was only one size of rig for all ship sizes, those were the days lol

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain。
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#48 - 2013-05-08 22:15:50 UTC
Cavalry raven.
Kha'Vorn
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#49 - 2013-05-09 15:10:34 UTC
Multiple MWD's on ships, Torpedoe launching Kestral......

I could go on and on.
PerrinAybarra
DEROB
#50 - 2013-05-09 15:57:14 UTC
there was 0.0 pockets in empire space
Theron Gyrow
Icecream Audit Office
#51 - 2013-05-10 11:20:28 UTC

  • Thorax with 2000 m3 dronebay.
  • Missiles significantly slower than frigates with MWD, but always doing their list damage to any target.
  • Highways in space - IIRC it was two jumps from Pator to Yulai and then five more jumps to Amarr / Jita / Luminaire.

Maximus Aerelius
PROPHET OF ENIGMA
#52 - 2013-05-10 11:46:19 UTC  |  Edited by: Maximus Aerelius
Theron Gyrow wrote:
Highways in space - IIRC it was two jumps from Pator to Yulai and then five more jumps to Amarr / Jita / Luminaire.


Ah the days of the Super Highway...

Learning to make 0km Bookmarks
Forming "Mining Op" fleets in local with other strangers and just hanging out.
AB, MWD with Overdrives all running at once for WTFSpeedWeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Thorax T2 Miner > BEAST! lol
Flotsam and Cansam cans in plexes like Bosboger
The vastness of space...
Old school scanning methods handed down from old players from Alpha and Beta to Castor Noobs

Such good times in the beginning...I still have the EVE Online CD, Case and Manual (LOL a manual!) I installed from. Purchased at GAME in England in 2003 :)

[b]Fast Character Switching "XP Stylee" Undocking - More Routes Out of Station[/b] Here's my tear jar > |_| < Fill 'er up!
Susiqueta Muir
NEXUS Holdings Inc.
#53 - 2013-05-10 14:06:49 UTC
Flying from Amarr to Deklien took a big fleet of us 50 or so jumps up through backwater 0.0 systems (nickamed "the Back Passage") and it took a day to do, what with no jump Bridges and no Warp to Zero. It really felt like you were out in the wildlands as you did it, not 20 minutes from Highsec 1.0 as it is now.

Getting that adrenal buzz as you saw the system status read 0.0 for the first time. Everywhere felt new and unexplored...

Making my first 1Misk (NPC goods trading) with a Hoarder, mining in a frigate and stopping to look when an Apocalypse dropped into the belt right on top of me...

Heading out to 0.5 space and staring down the open maw of a Typhoon as it tried to both shoot and seemingly eat me at the same time...
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