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What do you consider a veteran eve player?

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MacKael
Perkone
Caldari State
#21 - 2013-08-04 13:20:46 UTC
Someone over 50 msp and has been in null,WH,and maybe Indy life. As well as dabbled in incursions,building and maybe piracy. Until you have done all things eve your not a vet.
Jake Warbird
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#22 - 2013-08-04 13:32:05 UTC
Considering the comments here, I was a vet my second day in Eve.

Sugar Von MurdererTits : Jake Warbird gets my vote for most intriguing and attractive male character in Eve.
Dalatem
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#23 - 2013-08-04 13:33:04 UTC
MacKael wrote:
Someone over 50 msp and has been in null,WH,and maybe Indy life. As well as dabbled in incursions,building and maybe piracy. Until you have done all things eve your not a vet.


How is that even a vet... that's average... at best...
Whitehound
#24 - 2013-08-04 14:12:01 UTC
You are a veteran when:

  • you have seen the majority of your friends quit EVE
  • the rant of noobs makes you angry
  • you have stopped tanking damage, because you have lost patience for it
  • your next forum ban is going to be a permanent one

Loss is meaningful. Therefore is the loss of meaning likewise meaningful. It is the source of all trolling.
Guttripper
State War Academy
Caldari State
#25 - 2013-08-04 14:30:27 UTC
You're a bitter vet when you go from desiring to log into the game to wondering if you have a need to log into the game...
Cipher Jones
The Thomas Edwards Taco Tuesday All Stars
#26 - 2013-08-04 15:53:16 UTC
Wrayeth wrote:
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.


Like no stacking penalties like mentioned above? Dont forget pre nano nerf.

I had to lol at the irony a bit.

internet spaceships

are serious business sir.

and don't forget it
Ken 1138
State War Academy
Caldari State
#27 - 2013-08-04 17:03:51 UTC
I've been playing since early 2010, I've been everywhere and done a bit of everything. I don't consider myself a vet, nor am i jaded or bitter. So no.
Maxpie
MUSE LLP
#28 - 2013-08-04 17:05:42 UTC
>10 years of playing. Sadly, I'm still a noob.

No good deed goes unpunished
Idicious Lightbane
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#29 - 2013-08-04 17:13:27 UTC
You stop being a noob in eve once you become a bitter vet ;)
Lugalbandak
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#30 - 2013-08-04 17:21:38 UTC
MID SLOT WARP STABS!Evil

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Starkiller Lothlorien
Doomheim
#31 - 2013-08-04 17:58:52 UTC
Vet when decide only two types eve players: me and bots.
Zimmy Zeta
Perkone
Caldari State
#32 - 2013-08-04 18:24:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Zimmy Zeta
Tippia wrote:
\o/ I'm both an in-game and a forum newbie! Forever! Yay! Big smile


I just realized that we started the game in the same month and the same NPC corp.

Creepy.

Meanwhile Tippia has become a forum legend- and all I got was these lousy goggles. What?

I'd like to apologize for the poor quality of the post above and sincerely hope you didn't waste your time reading it. Yes, I do feel bad about it.
PinkMonkey Dragon
Bittervets United
#33 - 2013-08-04 18:48:57 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
When you become bitter.


Not only have I done that...

I created a corp to celebrate it.
Gogela
Epic Ganking Time
CODE.
#34 - 2013-08-04 19:38:27 UTC
Whitehound wrote:
You are a veteran when:

  • you have seen the majority of your friends quit EVE
  • the rant of noobs makes you angry
  • you have stopped tanking damage, because you have lost patience for it
  • your next forum ban is going to be a permanent one

This is a better answer... +1

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Bravo Z
Rapier Fleet
#35 - 2013-08-04 20:31:42 UTC  |  Edited by: Bravo Z
LittleTerror wrote:
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 :)



QFT! Cruise Kessies and dual MWD cruisaers were brilliant!

Also;

The old UI.

No T2 mods or ships. No BC, Destroyers, miners or Capitals.

BS were a rarity.

Flying as many drones as your bay held.

M0O Corp's Mara/Passari camp.

Having to REALLY graft for the majority of your first month's sub just to get enough to buy your first cruiser.
Aadris
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#36 - 2013-08-04 21:28:39 UTC
When Eve launched it used to have an official IRC channel where you could buy and sell stuff and ask questions about the game, some staff/gms were also there I think (it's 10 years ago now, i'm struggling to remember). Concurrent players was about 2000-3000.

I started playing 2 weeks after beta and me and a RL friend were mining Arkonor or whatever that orange **** is in 0.0 in frigs. We literally didn't see any other players for 2 weeks - jump after jump 0.0 was totally and utterly empty, forever. I flew to the edge of the galaxy without seeing anyone. I played for about 6 weeks in 2003 before quitting and starting Eve again in 2006. I wasn't in "hubs" much in 2003 but I didn't see a single player in a cruiser in all that time.

The game is totally different now. I do slightly long for a time when everyone was **** at the game and hadn't figured out how it works and knew exactly what to do. Everything is such a known quantity now. People are flying EFT perfected cookie cutter ships all the time. Stuff seemed a lot more random and chaotic back then because people were still figuring out the game.

Eve has attracted a lot of bottom feeders too since then, the sort of people that spend all their time griefing miners, station camping in empire or spend their entire eve life in one single low sec system waiting to drop a carrier on someone. There were no falcon alts, no boosting ships sat cloaked in a safe spot, no cloaks in fact.

Also the whole bittervet thing pisses me off although it's often tounge-in-cheek for some people (i.e. they still love and play Eve). If you feel bitterness or think you've got some sort of special status because you played a videogame for a long time you need to go outside more often.
HostageTaker
Band of Freelancers
#37 - 2013-08-04 22:08:09 UTC
Two thousand three.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Titans on fire outside "The Alamo" of NOL-M9. I watched massive Super Capital fleets glitter in the dark near the BKG-Q2 gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain...  Time to die.
Drynockers
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#38 - 2013-08-04 22:21:13 UTC
if you have to discuss what a "bittervet" is... then you are not one.

if you label yourself as one... you are not.


i am not a bittervet and never will be :D
Eraza
Fuzzyness Enterprizes
#39 - 2013-08-04 23:38:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Eraza
LittleTerror wrote:
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 :)




heh, i remember all of those things

also, yulai as the main trade hub

0.0 was empty, you could go days without seeing more then 10 players total

nearly all pvp was 1-5 players, blobs were more of a "WTF? someone gathered 20 people to fly together??"

majority of my friends did quit eve, i'm down to mabey, 3, of the 30+ people i flew with 8 years ago



and when you suddenly realize you joined eve at 20 years old, in the beta, and i'm now 31... wow time has passed..

edit: MINES! i used to love messing with mines, even if they were pointless
still dream of getting them back in..
Vaerah Vahrokha
Vahrokh Consulting
#40 - 2013-08-04 23:51:16 UTC
Jir Elmkal wrote:
What do you consider a veteran eve player?


A Veteran could be a 2 days old player.

What matters to be Veteran is to have learned that what for everybody else is a problem, to you it may be an opportunity. Sometimes the opportunity.

While they'll sulk and cry in a corner, the Veteran will adapt and overcome and then actually use the situation at his advantage.

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