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You know you are an EvE Bitter vet when

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DeadDuck
The Legion of Spoon
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
#41 - 2014-09-29 13:48:52 UTC
When you discover that you have been logged in more then 1.000.000 minutes (1 million) Oops
Bronson Hughes
The Knights of the Blessed Mother of Acceleration
#42 - 2014-09-29 13:50:00 UTC
You know you're a bittervet when:

1. You fought with BoB in the Great Wars, you fought against KenZoku in the wars that followed, and you can't really remember which is which anymore.
2. You remember drunken IAC roams with fondness (even if you were only on the receiving end of them).
3. You remember fitting your fleet battleships to handle two of the old AoE Doomsdays.
4. You trained into a Moros because you thought a drone Dread was cool. (And you wish CCP would update the description to reflect the fact that it no longer has a "protean array of point defenses".)
5. You're still bummed because your CovOps V alt has "wasted" skill points in Cruise Missiles.
6. You're still scratching your head as to how CCP could turn the Crow into a fleet 'ceptor and not realize it would be overpowered.
7. You ran Level 3 missions in a missile Ferox because the Drake hadn't been released yet.
8. You remember when all rigs were one size and still have at least one ship with size-mismatched rigs (mine happens to be the Moros mentioned in #2).
9. You remember a time before rigs.
10. You can come up with a list like this in 2 minutes flat.

Relatively Notorious By Association

My Many Misadventures

I predicted FAUXs
Syssa Binchiette
#43 - 2014-09-29 13:57:19 UTC
<--- Bitter just not a vet.

Taking the time to fly into a star to see what happens.
Disappointment when you don't burn up.

It's only water, in a stranger's tear. Looks are deceptive, but distinctions are clear. A foreign body and foreign mind; never welcome in the land of the blind.
Marc Callan
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#44 - 2014-09-29 14:04:41 UTC
If you've ever dropped a bounty on a character before realizing you'd bought that character in the Bazaar ... you just might be a bittervet.

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegurt
War Kitten
Panda McLegion
#45 - 2014-09-29 14:43:18 UTC
Obsidian Hawk wrote:
You have,


Flown 20+ jumps and forgot the cargo.
MWD between the Jita 4-4 stations for the fun of it.
Attacked a (sentry, concord, gate) cause you were in a war deck and it was flashing red. (old overview bug)
Fought in the great privateer war before the wardec changes.


Needs more bitter.

Needs more vet tbh too. 20 jumps without cargo is just a careless mistake and the rest smacks of living in hisec all your life.

I don't judge people by their race, religion, color, size, age, gender, or ethnicity. I judge them by their grammar, spelling, syntax, punctuation, clarity of expression, and logical consistency.
Celise Katelo
State War Academy
Caldari State
#46 - 2014-09-29 15:48:11 UTC
I'm new but old & rolled a second account. I once forgot my name, email address, & clone, it took so long to Dial up... Wanadoo i so hated you. Years pass, the echo of EVE Dial up chill my spine, my clone in limbo, biomassed or just forgotten, since 2004.
I can remember playing these songs while playing Click me.

Light years pass, once again. The year of 2012, trial of the 14days begin... I was born "Celise Katelo" , Then i vanish in a wormhole after a week of doing /facepalm Real life stuff, till 2014.

Once again i return. I start to gain skill points, 11million skill points... all in the wrong places & duel in Jita in my Pod, fail fits & faction weapons for RP... EvE Bitter, no thanks i prefer Vodka. Vet... no thanks, i have no pets. I would like a Fedo P

EVEBoard ...Just over 60million skill points, each skill was chosen for a reason. I closed my eyes & clicked another skill to train... "BINGO...!!!" ... "This time i got something usefull"
Daemun Khanid
Corbeau de sang
#47 - 2014-09-29 16:38:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Daemun Khanid
You remember the interface looking like this...
OLD

Waiting for Castor to release so we could get to see the shiny new T2 stuff.

Your ship didn't cloak when you went through a gate, you had a loading screen and gate camps meant you were dead before you loaded.

The only way to land on a gate and insta jump was to make a bookmark 10k past the gate and manually jump to it. (great fun for 50 jump cargo hauls when buying commodities low and selling high was a good way to start making money as a noob)

You remember when everyone saw a the Jove ship gone renegade and thought for sure they were going to become a new race Soon(TM).

You remember Heideron... Rest his soul.

Concord didn't intervene in high sec and warp core stabs didn't have penalties.

Cap power relays didn't have penalties and the best way to fit Amarr battleships was with a XL C5L shield booster. You could dps while tanking all day cap stable and not only fit a full load of tachyons but hit frigates with them.

Finding out how long your cap would last meant unloading on asteroids till you went cap dry while timing it with a stop watch.

CCP still updated lore and released new fiction fairly regularly with links to the new stories on the home page.

Daemun of Khanid
Toshiro Hasegawa
Blackwater USA Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#48 - 2014-09-29 16:53:11 UTC  |  Edited by: Toshiro Hasegawa
when you remember dual mwd setups
when you remember when Ark and Bistot were in highsec
when there were no missions
no tutorial
when there was no AP
when docking was automated and took a long time ..
rats followed you back to the station
when you crashed every 2nd jump
when your ship sometimes turned into an asteroid when you went to warp
when the only ship you or anyone else in your corp was a noob ship - cause no one had played long enough to buy anything as luxurious as a merlin.
when all hauling was done in frigs.
when there was no warp to zero
when you had so many bookmarks... well you just had soooo many bookmarks .. and none of them were SS or bounces or undocks .. they were all for getting from gateX to gateY in long chains.. and were worth their weight in gold.
when the first corp you were in self destructed before the game was even released.
when domis could field 10 drones
when harvesters were common.
when it made more sense to transport 250mm rails then mins to and from null.
when you remember when there were no structures in non-faction space.
when there was no formal in game alliance structure but players created OOG and they still worked .. sorta.. maybe no .. well you had to be there GO CFS! .. sigh..

when you have quit eve and come back more times than you can remember cause even with all its issues EvE is better than any other MMO out there.

thing is i dont think im actually bitter .. maybe once upon a time but now i have moved to a high level of eve player .. accepting everything comes with it with a zen like countenance. I am happily trying new aspects of the game .. or at least new to me. Shockingly i might even try industry again .. for giggles .. no really.

History is the study of change.

OfTheAncients
Trust Doesn't Rust
Goonswarm Federation
#49 - 2014-09-30 01:22:25 UTC
When all the names of your characters and restarts over the years start to form a really, REALLY long-winded paragraph.

Also back when there was no "i" in caldari

And some bloodlines were overpowered.
Harrison Tato
Yamato Holdings
#50 - 2014-09-30 02:09:00 UTC
Dang. Eve sounds like it used to be pretty cool.
Rek Seven
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#51 - 2014-09-30 06:17:00 UTC
You realise that this game is too outdated to get any revolutionary additions and all we are going to see in the near future is more polishing and tacked on bullshit.

The wishlist is pretty much complete...
Marc Durant
#52 - 2014-09-30 11:10:33 UTC
When you can create a timeline in your mind pinpointing exactly "where it all went wrong for EVE", and that timeline stretches back close to 8 years. And you keep trying to convince people of the "overall changes and ideas behind it" but no one sees it.

Yes, yes I am. Thanks for noticing.
Mithandra
B.O.P Supplication For Glorious
Dracarys.
#53 - 2014-09-30 12:59:44 UTC
You remember missile splash damage

Eve is the dark haired, totally hot emo gothchild of the gaming community
Nalha Saldana
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#54 - 2014-09-30 13:07:23 UTC
when you have gotten tired of all eve content several times over but keeps coming back
Dwissi
Miners Delight Reborn
#55 - 2014-09-30 13:09:31 UTC  |  Edited by: Dwissi
<- old and vet but not bitter at all

I wanted to write but found my point on #42 already - darn

Proud designer of glasses for geeky dovakins

Before someone complains again: grr everyone

Greed is the death of loyalty
Yogsoloth
Fliet Pizza Delivery
Of Essence
#56 - 2014-09-30 13:15:00 UTC
When the thought of having to jump gates in order to find something to kill makes you want to logoff.
Boom McCondor
Doomheim
#57 - 2014-09-30 13:17:59 UTC
Prince Sanguine wrote:
You automatically hate players who like doing different things than you

*notasandbox*
Ncc 1709
Fusion Enterprises Ltd
Pandemic Horde
#58 - 2014-09-30 13:27:43 UTC
when you have old jb maps like this hanging around

http://i.imgur.com/StZKcFi.png
Misunderstood Genius
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#59 - 2014-09-30 13:32:31 UTC  |  Edited by: Misunderstood Genius
... the effort to buy a new ship and imps in Jita is more anoying than losing them.
... you still can't accept that your Falcon alt can't perma-jam from 230 clicks anymore.
... you buy again stuff what does still exist in your 200+ stations in EVE.
... you warp at 15 all the time because older times were better.
... when you complain about Rancer is safe.
... when you think you are a pro but get killed and podded by CODE in hi-sec and you've NOT been in a freighter or hauler.
... when you start to believe that running Anoms is better than PvP.
... when you think that this click-fest of selling 4 bil of Anom loot in Jita sucks instead of beeing happy about 4 bil.
... when you suffer from an EVE-boreout.
Zheng'Yi Sao
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#60 - 2014-09-30 13:41:39 UTC
Luna Lockhearts wrote:
You've flown all the way to New Eden to see the Eve Gate only to find its actually not that great and probably wasn't worth the trip.


It was way better than the City of God: lamesauce extreme...

How about, when you have circumnavigated the very edge of null sec just because you were bored...

or...

Every time you stray back up into hi sec and see miners sitting on the warp in point with freighters, orcas, and afk barges you want to go postal on the lot of them; even when you yourself are a miner. Or is that just normal disgust?

"It's funny the things you people think are mandatory for us, as if we don't do what we do because it's a hilarious good time in a space video game." - Johnny Marzetti