EVE General Discussion

12 years for me,

You're right Herzog this game has come far. Maybe the longest running game ever?

I remember working to get 5 million for my first osprey, and then losing it because of a phone call. :)

I'll be here forever, Eve is so cool.

+1 to all you non-bitter vets.

I think it was about 9yrs ago I did my first trial account. I remember being frustrated over some broken mission and loosing a ton of standings over it. It was after some patch, and confirmed many missions were broken. I eventually came around to getting a regular account, some time after SWG launched the NGE update which was the final straw. Master Bounty Hunter was so much fun, killing off Jedi players which equated to permadeath for them. Teh tears, Oh the glorious tears
So wish EVE had a serious BH system here, bu wuevah.
HB!

ps I still never mined

I think I belong to 12 year group also. I beta tested Eve online back in 2003 and got the game box 4 days after the launch. Thanks to a massive database crash at that time, my employment history got erased a little.

I use an alt nowadays though since Caldari Achura looked so much cuter.

What I miss from Eve is Clear Skies.

I passed the 10 years mark a while ago, it made me look back on what I've achieved and how & why my path is what it is. Old friends who still play this game and still, after all this time, somehow manage to lead a massive alliance and be super active. A lot of "what if" crossed my mind but ultimately I'm happy with my semi dormant play style.

For EVE itself I see some very good long term changes and also some really bad ones, each year we get closer to a game that I personally don't like, where the carebears win. I guess that's part of why I don't fully invest my time into it anymore: I don't trust the long term path CCP is taking, in fact I've been trying to quit this game since 2009. Still being around could very well be proof that I'm wrong, or perhaps just too weak to quit :P

I hit my 10th last month! Holy smokes, has the time flown! I can barely recall what the game was like back in '05. I can recall not knowing what the heck I was supposed to do. I found myself flying aimlessly in the starter ship with no direction or guidance. Back then, one could still find NPC pirates floating around the gates. Sometimes having to kill them off while flying to the gate. Like many other noobs, I was sucked into a mining corp. I spent too much time harvesting minerals. I became so OCD when outfitting a BS to mine in, figuring out what my optimum harvesting rate would be and how long it would take to fill a jetcan. Now, I get satisfaction in running missions and chatting with other pilots.

Fast forward to the current evolution of Eve, I am happy to see it still kicking when so many other MMO's have come and gone. Too many MMO's promise this and that and never delivered to the player's expectations. I am also happy with the progression of this game in terms of graphics, ship addition and evolution, and overall gameplay. I sincerely hope Eve Online can bring us, at least, another decade of good times.

Fly Safe, pilots! o7

Just passed 2 years :D
And 20 mil SP :D

How long till bittervet status ?

Glad you old farts are still around.

o7

did a trial in early 2006, much confusion, liked the game but was too wrapped up in another game, came back in jan 2007 after a clan mate ITTigerClawIK hassled the shite out of me to return.
this time it stuck,,

wasn't long before plans began, ideas grew, members in the corp grew, all went great
i even dragged all of my clan members kicking and screaming into EVE lol
things went great for about a year, we built and mined and sold stuff and killed more NPC's than i can remember.
along comes a merc corp, WTF pwns us we lose almost all members except for 4,, and decided ,, yup,, corny as it might sound,, to HTFU!
we recovered, made mistakes and learned real fast to read for 1 hour for every 4 you play. intel is everything lol.
for all the corp mates who did stupid things and had me in tears laughing, all the guys who gave us a hail mary when it looked like there was no way out, for the guys who hauled like mofo's without a single whine, for those endless hours of bashing pos's and running like scared sheep lmao,, for all you spias!!! ,,, for the wine incident,,,,, oh the wine incident. lmfao.
6 litres of wine,,, ice mining op for alliance towers,, somehow i think my corp mates are trying to take over my corp and kill me, i begin defending my corp, i shoot anyone who's near me, i can see nothing but back stabbing bastards who are trying to kill me ( they're running reps on me i think they are lasers) lol i kick all corps from the alliance, i remove everyones rights on TS, website, forums, everything lol,,, lots of emotion,, RL drama,,,,,,,,,,, lol
i wake the next day to my wife,,, she says,, you better say your sorry to your friends in EVE,,, i say why,,,, then the memory flashes begin,, lol..
to say i was sick would be an understatement lmfao... they forgave me
for all these moments i thank you all from the bottom of my heart what a trip,,, looking forward to the next 8 years of madness

6 yeas for me.

However i tried the game couple of years earlier but got confused and drowned by all those buttons - i had no idea what to do.
Got into a noob HS corp, then joined 4s through RL contacts - well now i am here :)

The earlier you get into a corp in eve the more likely you stick around - at least thats what i think.