EVE General Discussion

and look at what killed the first Titan: http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=1222634

If you use a single carrier in low-sec these days you would be LUCKY not to have twice that dropped onto you.

Return Nosferatu's to what they used to be. I'll play forever!

Nos' were so so awesome when they didnt actually require ur opponent to have any cap, to drain and replenish ur own ^^.

I started playing in '05. Played for a bit and got confused with tutorial, (I was 13 or so). Tried again in '06, liked it, got hooked with a corp called "Blood Inquisition" and was hooked on piracy, have been ever since, although I have to admit, warp to 15 was AWESOME for piratey gatecamps :D. Also: Every web was a 90% web :)

killmails sued to be sent as eve-mails so old stuff doesn't show up properly on killboards. Damage amounts and fittings and values are all wrong. The value was circa 65bil though.

i miss that domi... i was uber pissed when they made all gal ships teal...

I started right before the expansion that added carriers and all the other capital ships.

The days when "Boost Amarr" was the battle cry on the forums. Don't miss the old warp to 15 at each gate and coping all those damn bookmarks.

WArp to zero would never happen, because that was done as much for CCP as us, since anyone who bothered to play would have a 0km bookmark set up to get to the gates.

Killing cyno's though i would enjoy, whole reason i closed my lowsec pvp corp and moved into a wormhole alliance was because it eventually turned into me having to call friends from nullsec alliances to cyno in capitals to help defend a POS being camped by other 0.0 players, simply because they had a fleet op nearby adn thought "lol lets trash their tower", since they could just cyno in everything to reinforce it in a amtter of an hour, it wasnt even attemptable to defend.

I believe a few areas like Ammatar and Khanid were added a few years later.

A lot more brutally modded.

I got temp bans twice IIRC for stuff that people would consider perfectly OK these days.

From the 0.0 perspective...

In the beginning there were no conquerable stations in 0.0. Then after 3-4 months they were seeded and quickly claimed by a vast number of different organisations.

Back then there were no POS, you shot a station long enough and it switched ownership. Big groups dominated the political landscape just like today, and the concept of pet alliances or buffer zones existed as well.

Since a couple of smaller groups changing sides could tip the direction of a war there was alot of 0.0 drama going on, which I personally miss.

Alot of players complained about the ping-pong nature of sov warfare; sometimes you woke up and your stations have been taken by a small dedicated group who shot them the whole night while everyone was asleep on a different timezone. It was very annoying OFC, so something had to change. POS were already introduced as operation bases for places far away from stations, so I guess CCP took the simply solution of integrating them in sov warfare, hence one had to beat the POS infrastructure and defenses to get a shot at the station. This was an alright solution for the moment, reinforcement timers provided cover over timezones, etc.

To compensate the tedious job of shooting structures dreadnoughts were introduced. POS spamming became the standard tactic, and the whole sov system showed its big flaws.

CCP tried a number of different approaches which all ended up being gamed by the playerbase. What I consider one of the biggest errors is the introduction of the totally unnecessary super capital class, for a number of reasons including bringing conflict between dominating 0.0 entities to a halt, or creating a high entering barrier for smaller alliances wanting in on 0.0, etc etc.

Another error I consider is the incredible ability to project power over long distances in short amounts of time. In RL big empires usually crumble because it is difficult to project power, even for USA its a big deal to send a carrier task force to the middle east, etc.

So today we pretty much have the same state in 0.0 as in the beginning, except now sov warfare is beyond broken, there are these things called super caps which everyone is piling up, but is afraid to use, pvpers looking for a real fight where their piloting capabilities matter now avoid 0.0 and aim for WHs or low-sec...

The days when 3000 players on at the same time was amazing, and a missile Battleships were the kind