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10 Years, 10 Questions..... The road less travelled i n Eve

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Rebecha Pucontis
Doomheim
#21 - 2013-04-25 02:25:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Rebecha Pucontis
Saulvin wrote:
Rebecha Pucontis wrote:
Interesting read to hear some of the old vets perspective on Eve.

Earth and Beyond, was that the game were you created your spaceship at the character select screen? I think I remember playing that for a month or so and then it was discontinued. Was a really horrible game compared to Eve to be honest if I am remembering it correctly.


Yes at character creation you were able to customize different aspects of the ship your class got assigned.
customize parts of the model like wings, engines, reactor, color, metallic glows, logo, name.

EnB targeted a different audience, aka it was not a Sandbox like EVE.
Taking I played from 2nd beta phase till sunset I can't confirm it was a horrible game.
Sure it was rather simple compared to today's MMO's but it had a great community.

regards

Saulvin



Thanks. Yes I remember playing the game now. The graphics were really nice which is what attracted me to it. But like you say it was a very simple game compared to Eve. It's funny because I had completely forgotten it until you mentioned it in your interview. Thanks for bringing back some old memories. :)
Mr M
Sebiestor Tribe
#22 - 2013-04-25 07:28:53 UTC
Entity is such a noob. I'm 1h59m older than him.

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Caleb Ayrania
TarNec
Invisible Exchequer
#23 - 2013-04-25 09:36:02 UTC
Mr M wrote:
Entity is such a noob. I'm 1h59m older than him.


How can you tell? His employment history is not showing the right date of birth.

Mine is date of birth : 2003.05.14 06:29:00 , and npc corp is not showing on mine at all, its straight from around june it added first corp info..

First corp : 2003.05.14 06:29:00
Mr M
Sebiestor Tribe
#24 - 2013-04-25 10:12:29 UTC
Caleb Ayrania wrote:


How can you tell? His employment history is not showing the right date of birth.

Mine is date of birth : 2003.05.14 06:29:00 , and npc corp is not showing on mine at all, its straight from around june it added first corp info..

First corp : 2003.05.14 06:29:00



He said it was 2003.05.15 14:26:00 in the interview, at least for that character. This one is from 2003.05.15 12:27:00 Smile I had to wait for almost two weeks until it was sold in any stores around here.

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Rhivre
TarNec
Invisible Exchequer
#25 - 2013-04-25 10:42:55 UTC
Typical...I was wracking my brain trying to think of old grumpy vets to interview who did things differently, and I completely forgot you Mr M

I have now fired myself.

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Caleb Ayrania
TarNec
Invisible Exchequer
#26 - 2013-04-25 10:44:47 UTC
I recall the delay being euro-wide..

Looks like I got there faster then you guys though, but almost on the same day(s)..

So I was literally born yesterday for you guys...
Mr M
Sebiestor Tribe
#27 - 2013-04-25 10:56:06 UTC
Caleb Ayrania wrote:
I recall the delay being euro-wide..

Looks like I got there faster then you guys though, but almost on the same day(s)..

So I was literally born yesterday for you guys...



Your memory sucks P Eve's publisher Simon & Schuster (who later dropped out of the computer game business) had a deal with Game or one of those chains so they where the only ones who got to sell Eve in Europe for the first couple of weeks. At the time they only had stores in the UK. One Danish gaming store that I don't remember the name of bought boxes from somewhere and sold them. They could also mail you the serial code so you could log in and use the updated beta client.

Then someone realised it was a **** idea and it was released all over.

About-ish.

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Mr M
Sebiestor Tribe
#28 - 2013-04-25 10:56:59 UTC
Rhivre wrote:
Typical...I was wracking my brain trying to think of old grumpy vets to interview who did things differently, and I completely forgot you Mr M

I have now fired myself.



No worries. I'll be around for the 20th anniversary too Big smile

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Rhivre
TarNec
Invisible Exchequer
#29 - 2013-04-25 11:06:44 UTC
Mr M wrote:
Rhivre wrote:
Typical...I was wracking my brain trying to think of old grumpy vets to interview who did things differently, and I completely forgot you Mr M

I have now fired myself.



No worries. I'll be around for the 20th anniversary too Big smile



I am planning on doing some other stuff relating to the "good old days", so I will add you to my list of people to poke :)

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Viscount Hood
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#30 - 2013-04-25 12:25:32 UTC
i got my original 2003 Eve box above me with its paper manual.
Rhivre
TarNec
Invisible Exchequer
#31 - 2013-04-25 17:53:00 UTC
Viscount Hood wrote:
i got my original 2003 Eve box above me with its paper manual.



I am impressed about the manual, most of those are probably well beyond readability by now!

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TornSoul
BIG
#32 - 2013-04-29 17:59:39 UTC
Mr M wrote:
Caleb Ayrania wrote:
I recall the delay being euro-wide..

Looks like I got there faster then you guys though, but almost on the same day(s)..

So I was literally born yesterday for you guys...



Your memory sucks P Eve's publisher Simon & Schuster (who later dropped out of the computer game business) had a deal with Game or one of those chains so they where the only ones who got to sell Eve in Europe for the first couple of weeks. At the time they only had stores in the UK. One Danish gaming store that I don't remember the name of bought boxes from somewhere and sold them. They could also mail you the serial code so you could log in and use the updated beta client.

Then someone realised it was a **** idea and it was released all over.

About-ish.


The store was called "Betafon" (it sadly closed around a year ago).
I was in fact the one who alerted them, to get them to get the game (which ended up being a week late)
(still have the mail - timestamp is 2002.08.22 P)
Rhivre
TarNec
Invisible Exchequer
#33 - 2013-04-29 18:49:43 UTC
TornSoul wrote:


The store was called "Betafon" (it sadly closed around a year ago).
I was in fact the one who alerted them, to get them to get the game (which ended up being a week late)
(still have the mail - timestamp is 2002.08.22 P)


:o I am impressed with the email keeping!

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