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What do you consider a veteran eve player?

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Jir Elmkal
This is a Corp
#1 - 2013-08-04 04:43:04 UTC
What do you consider a veteran eve player?
masternerdguy
Doomheim
#2 - 2013-08-04 04:45:31 UTC
People become veterans when they become jaded, angry, and tell "back in my day" stories.

Things are only impossible until they are not.
Cipher Jones
The Thomas Edwards Taco Tuesday All Stars
#3 - 2013-08-04 04:48:38 UTC
Ones who served in the military.

internet spaceships

are serious business sir.

and don't forget it
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#4 - 2013-08-04 04:52:01 UTC
When you become bitter.
Berke Negri
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#5 - 2013-08-04 06:31:32 UTC
When you unsub.
Ziphis
4S Corporation
The Initiative.
#6 - 2013-08-04 07:58:04 UTC
when people say that ship used to look good then CCP remodelled it

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'  - T. Pratchett
Marcus Harikari
#7 - 2013-08-04 08:43:10 UTC
people who played before there were wormholes
LittleTerror
Stygian Systems
#8 - 2013-08-04 09:07:29 UTC
Yulai incident

boot.ini

Cruise missile frigates

fitting more than 1 mwd

warp to 15

contracting insta bookmarks, lagging the eve server so much CCP introduced warp to 0

Jumping blind into null sec, no bubbles, no nasty dictors

no stacking penalty battleships obliterating everything

splash damage!

mines

I tink thats enough :)
Gogela
Epic Ganking Time
CODE.
#9 - 2013-08-04 09:08:32 UTC
At the point when you realize, fundamentally, that this is not a game of grind or NPCs... but rather one where you defeat other players to get ahead and cut your teeth, you're a vet in my book. That simple realization is all it takes. You might figure that out in 3 months.... or it may take years. When you realize that you're a real player and vet in my book.

Nobody gets rich with their stupid spreadsheet.

You get rich and start getting ahead when you start taking it from other players.

That's it. Big smile

Signatures should be used responsibly...
GreenSeed
#10 - 2013-08-04 09:21:02 UTC
in my book, a veteran is anyone who continues to play eve after the tutorials.
flakeys
Doomheim
#11 - 2013-08-04 10:09:05 UTC  |  Edited by: flakeys
baltec1 wrote:
When you become bitter.



So marriage makes us all veterans ? Blink


Marcus Harikari wrote:
people who played before there were wormholes



Mmmm i'd rather go for '' people who played before we had T2 , or before mining barges , before warp to 0 , before stacking penalty or or ...

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Dalatem
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#12 - 2013-08-04 11:00:44 UTC
Me, and anyone else who proves themselves to me.

The rest of you are shitlords.
Kehro Urgus
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#13 - 2013-08-04 11:04:18 UTC
When they stop playing.

Yeeee! 
Templar Knightsbane
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#14 - 2013-08-04 11:05:05 UTC
When you hold down the bunker alone facing 16 Al-Quieda soilders running through all ammuntion, including grenades and then resorting to throwing the machine gun stand at the on-coming foes screaming like a banshee and frothing at the mouth.
Solhild
Doomheim
#15 - 2013-08-04 11:09:18 UTC
Templar Knightsbane wrote:
When you hold down the bunker alone facing 16 Al-Quieda soilders running through all ammuntion, including grenades and then resorting to throwing the machine gun stand at the on-coming foes screaming like a banshee and frothing at the mouth.


This, plus playing before the 24 hr skill queue.
Klandi
Consortium of stella Technologies
#16 - 2013-08-04 11:56:53 UTC
Easy - however there are two answers here

So in Eve, when you can fly 95% of all craft in various permutations and don't miss the bacon

On the forums, when you have been:

Visited by Chribba at least once (in post)
Been berated by Tippia 30 times
Remember who Ginger magician was and
ragequit twice.


I am aware of my own ignorance and have checked my emotional quotient - thanks for asking
Wrayeth
Inexorable Retribution
#17 - 2013-08-04 12:06:24 UTC
That's a really hard call and extremely subjective. Personally, I'd say anyone 2006 or older, as anyone who was around back then will be able to share my definition of small gang PvP (i.e. small gang is "2-5 ships", not "20"), since it was around 2007 when EVE's population began massively expanding, and quantity became the meta of choice, replacing quality. See: old school Burn Eden for an example of how it used to work.

Disclaimer: I've been around since 2004 and have achieved bittervet status.
ZeeWolf Novus
Saor Alba
#18 - 2013-08-04 12:23:08 UTC
When you remember a time before Jita 4-4 and when Battleships and Interceptors were serious business.
Mr Pragmatic
#19 - 2013-08-04 13:07:00 UTC
Klandi wrote:
Easy - however there are two answers here

So in Eve, when you can fly 95% of all craft in various permutations and don't miss the bacon

On the forums, when you have been:

Visited by Chribba at least once (in post)
Been berated by Tippia 30 times
Remember who Ginger magician was and
ragequit twice.





Your second point is so true and so obnoxious.

Super cali hella yolo swaga dopeness.  -Yoloswaggins, in the fellowship of the bling.
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#20 - 2013-08-04 13:16:17 UTC
Klandi wrote:
Easy - however there are two answers here

So in Eve, when you can fly 95% of all craft in various permutations and don't miss the bacon

On the forums, when you have been:

Visited by Chribba at least once (in post)
Been berated by Tippia 30 times
Remember who Ginger magician was and
ragequit twice.
\o/ I'm both an in-game and a forum newbie! Forever! Yay! Big smile
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