EVE General Discussion

People used to rat in belts
Pirates used to actually ransom, isk was better than a kill you had no proof of.

spending a month training training skills and changing skills before bed to put that long one on so a skill wouldnt complete while you were asleep

ohh and probing was an art and living in 0.0 meant you had to go out probing things to do and a station was a rare thing you lived in poses in fear of corp thieves

training overloading took ages and like hell you'd know when a module was ending cycle

pirate faction ships sucked and falcons could jam at 100 and then cloak

those were the days

1) Ships were balanced Single player action ruled.
2) Goons were a green splat on the sidewalk that BOB had run over with a Milk truck. then backed up and spun out. AGAIN AGAIN and AGAIN.
3) Players were Cool not total asswipes.
4) the Domi could Launch 10 heavy drones
5) 5,000 players on the weekend was a record.
6) High sec Ganks were far and few between. Most of the action happened in low sec or Null.

The Jedi are not hiding they are the ones crying for change. If anything this game was ruled by Sith proud and strong with no fear of the unknown, willing to take risks and just generally more fun.

Back in my day:
- A whine thread on the forums got you a text lashing you would not soon forget, and then hunted in game.
- BoB was a common subject of whispers and fear, and Goons were terribad players that were laughed about with fleets of frigates (I guess that hasn't really changed that much).
- Noobs started with a decent amount of SP and some useful skills.
- You either learned the game and got hooked or you tried it and quit while wondering WTF just happened.
- More than 20,000 players online was HUGE!!
- CCP had the second or third largest supercomputer in the world running their game iirc.
- Gate camps were fun and interesting and you typically picked up a few recruits from those you killed instead of hate mails and whine threats.
- Carriers were godlike mythical creatures. Titans were unholy demon spawn that were so rare no one believed they really existed.
- Losing a ship actually made you cringe for the loss.
- Sov warfare was interesting, but a mind numbing grind shooting POS after POS until your eyes bled.
- People used to help one another in local.
- 40 people in a gang was a big deal.
- New Eden was F***ING HUGE...then WTZ came along.
- Missiles were awesome.
- Gallente ships had face melting power and were to be feared if they got within range.
- Scanning with probes actually took real skill and there were many tutorials about it on youtube...probably still some out there.
- T2 was a milestone worthy of your efforts.

There's a lot more but I'm done for now.

Yes they were. I still have a BC with large rigs in it.

He left for bit, came back, still FC's and does his thing.

Caldari owned all FW Space... (I'm a young bitter vet )

EVE Online videos were made with in-game footage instead of some out-of-game enhanced graphics... and stated as such at the beginning of those early videos.

I never saw one for Inferno, But Incarna's was done by Loxyrider on SISI with regular players, in game.

Incarna had a trailer?