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[For the Vets] Back in my Day.........
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Alpheias
Tactical Farmers.
Pandemic Horde
#141 - 2012-07-10 19:19:30 UTC
When you went into warp, it was like listening to rocket boosters firing. AND IT WAS LOUD.

Agent of Chaos, Sower of Discord.

Don't talk to me unless you are IQ verified and certified with three references from non-family members. Please have your certificate of authenticity on hand.
Pink Marshmellow
Caucasian Culture Club
#142 - 2012-07-10 19:46:30 UTC
Concord was tankable and destructable.


Concord agents made it easier to raise back sec status.


You could fire doomsdays through a cyno.
Guttripper
State War Academy
Caldari State
#143 - 2012-07-10 20:00:07 UTC
A few more brain cells fired together...

Early Caldari description had them described as "good bounty hunters".

CCP added a background description to each player based upon how their original and unchangable attributes were set-up.

Players were able to have up to two "words" for a name, unlike today's option of having a ~middle~ name.

Star gates were all one size no matter if they jumped from system to system within a constellation or off to another region. So everyone clustered a small distance from them upon landing and making gate camps more vicious.
Lareon Denery
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#144 - 2012-07-10 21:41:21 UTC
Nullsec battle were fought mainly with battleships, while capitals were used scarcely and with cognition. Supercaps and titans were unheard of, and were a fearsome sight in grid (old Doomsday Device :p )
Something Random
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#145 - 2012-07-10 22:39:58 UTC
Anyone remember the server farts ? server burps ? (should it get asterixied)

Randomly you'd hear a loud bang and your screen would shake. You then knew you had about 5 minutes or maybe a bit less to get out of harms way as it was going down.

Likewise, sometimes when you jumped a gate you'd land on the other side to the exact effect of being slammed with cruises would give you - thus making for many near heart attacks.

Ummmmm.

Nope, thats the cool memorable stuff thats not been mentioned. Odd most of the memories are coming from game broken/braking stuff.

Oh yeh, i lost the image but i once flew through an asteroid belt FULL of missiles in my first interceptor - probably one of the most epic screenshots ever. Literally couldnt see the roids for the missiles.

"caught on fire a little bit, just a little."

"Delinquents, check, weirdos, check, hippies, check, pillheads, check, freaks, check, potheads, check .....gangs all here!"

I love Science, it gives me a Hadron.
Anya Ohaya
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#146 - 2012-07-10 22:45:29 UTC
True Sight wrote:
ISK didn't have the decimal place, so Tritanium could only be brought/sold for 1,2,3 ISK per unit.


Back in my day we didn't have no fancy Arabic numerals. We carved our numbers in marble using I V X and M like the gods intended. And we didn't have no sinful concept of zero either.
Soundwave Plays Diablo
Doomheim
#147 - 2012-07-11 02:52:00 UTC
Anya Ohaya wrote:
True Sight wrote:
ISK didn't have the decimal place, so Tritanium could only be brought/sold for 1,2,3 ISK per unit.


Back in my day we didn't have no fancy Arabic numerals. We carved our numbers in marble using I V X and M like the gods intended. And we didn't have no sinful concept of zero either.


The concept of zero is without doubt the downfall of mankind.
Gronn
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#148 - 2012-07-11 03:08:55 UTC
True Sight wrote:
Mr Epeen wrote:
First page of the forum full of whine threads why having a skill queue would kill EVE.

Mr Epeen Cool


dude... how did no one (including me) not mention:


  • Setting an alarm clock to wake you up in the middle of the night to change skills
  • Changing what skills you were training daily (setting a long skill on every night you went to sleep, setting <10h skills to train whilst you were playing


OMG, I forgot about the alarm clocks...
MagicAcid
Nullbear Tear Extractors
Hostile Intervention
#149 - 2012-07-11 04:13:54 UTC
True Sight wrote:
SenshiMaru wrote:
Remember seeing gate camps on scan and logging off/in 3 times to land at a safespot and avoiding the gate camp? :shakesfist:


Win memory. I'd totally forgotten about that.

I remember doing this in freighters :)
Servjen
Giant Industrials
Center for Digital Chemistry
#150 - 2012-07-11 08:50:43 UTC
I remember one day my alliance was defeaded by our enemy and beeing stuck at a station that was suddenly theirs.
It was 23 jumps to high sec where we where regrouping and when i tried to get a gang together to scout my freighter back with a few billions worth of stuf in its cargo, everything i owned back then, I got stunned because everybody had already fled and i was left behind.
can you see the picture of a scared pilot making 23 jumps alone trough nul without scouts and enemys possably around every corner? it was one of the most fun and exciting things a ever had done.Cool

This is where I put my signature, right?
True Sight
Deep Freeze Industries
#151 - 2012-07-13 15:04:22 UTC
Back in my day, the drone-lands were actually cut off from the rest of eve and was unaccessable, saved for future use once eve's population was large enough.
Rellik B00n
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#152 - 2012-07-13 15:06:38 UTC
people still mined in low sec
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Michael the Outlaw
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#153 - 2012-07-13 15:35:21 UTC
30k+ m/s Vagabond.
Naomi Reiku
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#154 - 2012-07-13 15:39:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Naomi Reiku
- 250mm Prototypes sold for 40 million each.

- M00 was the most well known pirate group in the game. Pirates could tank sentries and concord in Empire.

- Jita had a neighbourhood 0.4 system named Aurohunen which challenged 0.0 in the "ship losts" category.

Game is better now.
Bruce Kemp
Best Kept Dunked
#155 - 2012-07-13 15:40:06 UTC
rofflesausage wrote:
Multiple MWDs on a ship....


i used to fly,

Caracal 2x10mn mwd's, great Big smile
Bruce Kemp
Best Kept Dunked
#156 - 2012-07-13 15:41:07 UTC
Rellik B00n wrote:
people still mined in low sec


They still do, i recentlt killed a hulk in a 0.4 belt. Twisted
Gronn
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#157 - 2012-07-21 02:25:59 UTC
Does anyone remember a time when there were no shuttles in the game?
Tallianna Avenkarde
Pyre of Gods
#158 - 2012-07-21 02:53:49 UTC
Gronn wrote:
Does anyone remember a time when there were no shuttles in the game?


No but i remember when there were no shuttle BPO's and shuttles kept the trit price down.

And a sudden plunge in the sullen swell. Ten fathoms deep on the road to hell.
nat longshot
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#159 - 2012-07-21 14:03:40 UTC
We had working snowball launchers!!!

 [13:12:18] CCP Punkturis nat longshot you're a cutie.. OH YAH I WIN!!
True Sight
Deep Freeze Industries
#160 - 2012-07-21 14:14:04 UTC
You could field 10-15 drones on normal ships :)