EVE General Discussion

I do. I was playing Earth and Beyond. E&B was OK at first but it was getting pretty bad. I read in chat from a guy quitting E&B about this new game called Eve and it was going to be great. Whatever.
So I checked it out, applied for the beta, and have been playing (on and off) ever since.

I read about it in Edge magazine, must have been around 2005.

I just knew I wanted a sci-fi MMO. So that's what I googled for.

That was 4 years ago.

A friend linked me to the EVE website back in 2000 cause they knew I liked space stuff and I thought "gee dats pretty cool soundin' game there."

Yeah I got sent that link in 1999.

Can't even remember how I got linked to EVE Beta but I DO remember it being so crap I burned the game from my mind till 2004.

Saw the retail box back in 2003 in one of the stores over here (media markt),

You needed a CC for paying the subscription back then, so i didn't buy the box because i didn't have one and it's still not
used often in germany.

Kinda like me, the eve beta was so broken when it was over I thought the game was going to fail and ended up playing Planetside instead, and didn't end up getting into eve again until 2004. Whoops xD

Not sure I remember how I got into Eve but it was just before the open beta. Think I had been intending to play Earth and Beyond but came across Eve instead.

Even thought they didn't have access to the game yet I remember players forming themselves into Corps.

I remember Endless Corporation where all the members had cool looking forum signatures and had already divided up the job roles without really knowing how it'd fit into the game, there was Finance Managers and HR Managers. If I remember rightly they disbanded from internal fighting before the game was even released.

I remember looking at the concept art for the Executioner and deciding that once I got into the game I'd be a bounty hunter (as did most people) and that was the ship I was going to fly to hunt down pirates.

I remember mining for the first time with a single civilian mining laser during beta and thinking the game was too boring to succeed.

I remember coming across the concept of skill training (there was no skill queue in those days) and thought the game design was crazy to think people would pay a subscription that involves just waiting until their character can do something.

I remember warping for the first time and being shocked at the idea someone thought sitting waiting for the best part of a minute while the ship travelled was good game play.

I remember manually travelling from Chaven to Amarr for the first time (took me a few days to realize there was an autopilot ) and it felt like I'd wandered far from home and I was afraid I wouldn't be able to get back to Chaven.

I remember looking at the galactic map for the first time and thinking that I should give up trying to get back to Chaven.

I remember some senior management guy at CCP, possibly Hilmar? claim in an interview that because of the unique way that Eve was programmed the game was immune to lag.

I remember seeing the great golden hull of an Apocalypse docking at a station for the first time.

Then I remember finding the cargo container of some other noob who gotten blown up and I looted his civilian mining laser. And then I thought....."could I....replace..... my Civilian Gatling laser with this other mining laser....and....mine....twice as much...?"

I remember trying mining again with my dual mining lasers, shooting back and forth between the belt and station with a full cargo, feeling like I'd come across some great discovery. Suddenly I began to realize some of the potential and freedom of the game.

Finally I remember coming across another noob that was mining and ejecting the ore into a can. I remember the adrenaline rush as I began I steal the ore, rushing back to the station giggling like a madman.

In 2005 I stopped playing X2 while X3 was still a few month away from release. My old Freelancer clan had already crumbled with most of the players going to WoW which did not appeal to me.

Stumbled on the website, read the story and articles, saw the screenshots and created an account but still had no clue of what I had gotten myself into.