EVE General Discussion

sarum prime was a low sec system and m0o camped it so good it got its sec shanged

mallers fitted with stamped heat sinks (before mod stacking was nerfed) were the most bad ass ship you could fly

My ships looked like they were made of solid gold

I'm not that old, but I do remember the learning skills, and getting reimbursed with spendable skill points when they were removed.

You could also train skills while unsubbed.

Not quite "vet" (ca. 3.5 years total, no breaks, though!), but here's mine:

Cyno/Capital jump-in/out was beyond epic, although could be horrifically laggy.

The BLOPs covert portal was this...ragged-edged, rotating hole...ripped out of the sky made of utter blackness, not the "evil wormhole" effect it is now (not that I dislike that one, just sayin').

Gate-jumps sounded cooler.

Aura talked throughout the tutorials, which helped my initial immersion (read: addiction) greatly.

The Scorpion/Widow looked...very different, though still kinda cool in a way.

The Phobos was pink/red...I'll leave the rest of that up to your imagination.

AoE Titan Doomsday--push ::BUTAN(TM)::, everybody on-grid dies. Not at all imbalanced But then, everybody and their dog didn't have Titans, either.

Being able to comfortably solo most/all level 4 missions actually meant something, they were hard, once. (IE, full-pocket aggro on warp-in, you were webbed and pointed by at least 1-2 frigs from each mob, in every mission, and if you popped a spawn/aggro-trigger too soon, then it guaranteed you'd be looking at your wreck from your pod 30s later going "WTF?")

Fried Interface Circuits went for ISK 500k, not ISK 12k, Alloyed Trit. Bars for ISK 1.2mn, not ISK 200k, so belt-ratting and salvaging in Minmatar 0.5/0.6 plus anomalies made a newb decent money, along with level 2 and 3 missions and looting/salvaging same.

Rigs were one size, and very, very expensive. No-one but the very rich used them. Even though newb-ships had 3 rig slots, then, too.

Probing was much different, and much, much harder.

Stealth bombers couldn't warp cloaked, but could snipe cruise missiles from like 200km.

Engine-trails: And they looked just fine, I don't see what the issue was for so long.

A mid-range computer could run high-ish settings with 128MBytes of video-memory (just no HDR, and Shadows to "Medium") without said GPU going "urp!" and doing the death-melt at 3 FPS.

Goonswarm was actually an entity worthy of genuine respect instead of weary contempt.

Flying Caldari would get you laughed right off comms for most nullsec fleet-ops. Or "Fail-dari," as it was called then.

You couldn't spam scams in trade-hub locals, because the ISK sellers were using chat-bots to flood local.

Biggest ones:

The community as a whole was much more intelligent, orders of magnitude more mature, more aware, and much less tolerant of crybears--they pretty much ensured that crybears got nothing but a hard way to go, with lots of "I can haz ur stuffs?" following them out the ******* door where they belonged.

Whinging and trolling didn't get you your way, and nerfs, when they happened, usually happened because they were needed, not because some over-entitled child-bads made a whinge-Jihad against things they didn't like.

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I want my Vagabond's "Dragon-Frill" back, dammit!

Curse, Stain, and Xetic Alliances when Alliances were tags in your bio instead of a game mechanic.

Old ECM that wasn't chance based, cycle jamming.

Dual MWD Ravens were pretty sweet too.

Ahhhahaha. I remember "Stuck Crisis!". A common occurance. CCP LEARNT TO USE CRITICAL SECTIONS EVENTUALLY!

Asteroids and stations were "sticky".

I remember when the forum was a good place to have conversations about the game without getting swarmed by trolls.

Ingame, Band of Brothers. Despite the hatred they inflicted in many players the game needs something like that. Well.. we have goons but it's not the same.

I looked even sexyer

I started just over 3 years ago and the whining has gotten worse since Incarna. I came into the game after having read the forums and other sites for 2 years roughly and knew just what to expect, It was the fact that it wasn't tolerant of whiners that drew me in here in the first place. Now I feel like I should just open a cheese shop.