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[For the Vets] Back in my Day.........
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The Colonel
#101 - 2012-07-09 18:33:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Alexorr
Gates didn't have sentry guns, you spawned the other side in exactly the same spot every time, without a courtesy cloak, and there were no such thing as a flashy red.

LOLsplashdamage from torps

hmm what else, earliest memory is when the game started minerals were seeded at a standard price on the market, once that price started to move, all the miners took to the forums to complain Lol

5k PCU

good times.
mogwai
Gremlin Mining and Exploration
#102 - 2012-07-09 18:40:13 UTC
Mines...... oh god, Mines Lol

Laying a minefield in hi-sec, wandering off, dock up, go afk, undock 3 hours later to CONCORD wtfbbq'ing your a$$ before you remembered what you'd done Oops
Hudzen Ten
Doomheim
#103 - 2012-07-09 18:58:04 UTC
Rats wrote:
When honour and your word was important ...

Tal



What day was that? Elite Frontier?


True Sight wrote:
Rylor's PleasureHub wrote:
Character creation was deeper, you started with ~900k SP and a few level 5 skills.

Oh and mining in a badger II was the ****.


Ohdeargod, mining in Industrials. I remember doing that :(


Ahaha yes the horror... the horror...

I remember when people didnt work out how to exploit the game so fast it was constantly broken. Having a bm folder of about 10k bms for gates from all angles was prob ground zero for the meta-gaming slaying this once proud gaming nation.

p.s they dont visit us much here in the care home (wh)
Lareon Denery
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#104 - 2012-07-09 19:12:07 UTC
Rudgier Thorrin wrote:
Starting characters were different depending on what you choose during character creation.


This, when you had to chose your bloodline, than your background, than your career. You started the game with a character with near 900k sp, able to do many things (even if not well) since his creation.


Back in my days the Vagabond was the fear of nullsec ratters. Solitary pilots that hunted in a cruiser faster than a ceptor were a common sight, both in system and in intel channel.
Bane Nucleus
Dark Venture Corporation
Kitchen Sinkhole
#105 - 2012-07-09 21:43:32 UTC
Having the devs fly CONCORD ships and forcing you off the Mara/Pass gate Evil

No trolling please
Barqs
Peanut Factory
Good Sax
#106 - 2012-07-09 21:46:59 UTC
Then randomly end up deep in 0.0 after being killed.

Barqs-
Prandax Xeon
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#107 - 2012-07-09 22:12:56 UTC
People did not use a station, they used a Deeeeeeeep safe. Big smile I think everyone was scanning the day CCP nerfed deep safes and pushed all those ships within scanner range.

How is a Wyvern like an Ibis?  Neither have a drone bay!  
Gogela
Epic Ganking Time
CODE.
#108 - 2012-07-09 22:18:55 UTC
Prandax Xeon wrote:
People did not use a station, they used a Deeeeeeeep safe. Big smile I think everyone was scanning the day CCP nerfed deep safes and pushed all those ships within scanner range.

Oh I totally forgot about deep safes! That was really sweet. They should bring that back and adjust the item de-spawn timer so it's feasible again. Deep safes were a good way for small groups to get a foothold in null, and a good incentive to exhaustively scan a system Big smile

Signatures should be used responsibly...
Viktor Fyretracker
Emminent Terraforming
#109 - 2012-07-09 22:24:38 UTC
back in my day when I first started gaming.. mining an asteroid meant a white triangle that mined by shooting white dots. And the UFO Rat could instapop your ship with its own white dot.

EVE is like swimming on a beach in shark infested waters,  There is however a catch...  The EVE Beach you also have to wonder which fellow swimmer will try and eat you before the sharks.
Fiona Tsero
Doomheim
#110 - 2012-07-09 22:34:51 UTC
Gogela wrote:
There was something called a "convoy" in which freighters w/ massive support would try to make it from null-sec to empire.


I remember those. My first time in lowsec/nullsec ever was as part of a convoy. Me in a week-old character flying a Caracal.

Good times.
Zimmy Zeta
Perkone
Caldari State
#111 - 2012-07-09 22:42:17 UTC
Lareon Denery wrote:
Rudgier Thorrin wrote:
Starting characters were different depending on what you choose during character creation.


This, when you had to chose your bloodline, than your background, than your career. You started the game with a character with near 900k sp, able to do many things (even if not well) since his creation.


Hehe...when I started this character, I figured it would be a smart move to have as many skills as possible at low levels and no high level skills at all. Because skillbooks cost money and training time is free.......

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.
Brewlar Kuvakei
Adeptio Gloriae
#112 - 2012-07-09 22:45:33 UTC
A time where CCP did not gift pet players with advantages like T2BPO, the time is now the place is China and the sever is called Serenity.
qDoctor Strangelove
Doomheim
#113 - 2012-07-09 23:08:42 UTC  |  Edited by: qDoctor Strangelove
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Jolly Roger attacking on gates...
Plutonian
Intransigent
#114 - 2012-07-09 23:35:09 UTC
Paranoia was not so rampant.

When my first corp closed in 2006 I was only a couple weeks old in-game... and pretty lost. A guy on the Eve-O forums named Yggr (of Red Frog Investments IIRC) offered me and a couple other clueless noobs a chance to scout a convoy full of goods down to ISS Marginis station for pay. He sent me an Atron fit which I could skill for in time, which was cap-stable with MWD on (but, sadly, no weapons could be fit). Sent me a set of gate bookmarks too (as Warp To Zero had not been implemented).

When we arrived at ISS they put the goods on the market, including their ships, and began to return home in pods. But I'd had such a good time, I kept my Atron, waved them goodbye, and spent the next week tearing around null, weaponless. It was great fun just seeing how close I could get to the gangs hunting me and still survive.

Brought that Atron back home too. Most fun I ever had in this game.
Betrinna Cantis
#115 - 2012-07-10 00:06:49 UTC
Val Amora wrote:
Learning skills... plus x2 faster learning up to 1,600,000 skill points. Wish the boost was still thar.

Ahhh yess...those were the days...Roll

Alts have been changed to protect the Innocent. You may have mistaken me for someone who cares.....
Lancezh
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#116 - 2012-07-10 11:38:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Lancezh
Oveur. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDTmrbHqlhk

When SB's used Cruise Missiles.

When Carriers where introduced and everybody hated the ****** minmatar carrier... oh and lets not forget:

http://nightwalkers.be/files/thekiller8/ep7.swf

If you dont know it now you do, the best and only video about Eve that ever was relevant.
Goremageddon Box
Guerrilla Flotilla
#117 - 2012-07-10 11:41:49 UTC
True Sight wrote:
Goremageddon Box wrote:
BACK IN MY DAY....

Quote:

CCP Atropos

Posted - 2008.12.16 12:07:00 - [69]

June 2000, Orion: Internet Spaceships, serious business..
October 2000, Sputnik: Character creation, character selection, in-game combat and a station.
November 2000, Laika: UI design (1) and UI design (2).
January 2001, Crystal: Bantam combat and the first 3D UI.
June 2001, Phoenix (start of the Alpha): a Raven and the fitting screen as it used to be.
September 2001, Mandala: A Rifter and the radar, more radar, and some NPCs.
February 2002, Emerald: Things are starting to fall into place, explosions and some mining!


http://cdn1.eveonline.com/EVEHistory/2000.06_Orion.jpg
http://cdn1.eveonline.com/EVEHistory/2000.10_Sputnik_createCharacter.jpg
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~theodjs/EVE/2002.02_Emerald_HilmarFlyingAroundStation3.jpg


I actually remember the UI in the third shot.


Thats bad, lol.
Tarryn Nightstorm
Hellstar Towing and Recovery
#118 - 2012-07-10 12:28:54 UTC
I can't be the only one who mined in a destroyer with the lo slots full of CPU-mods thinking I was just the ****, now can I?

Star Wars: the Old Republic may not be EVE. But I'll take the sound of dual blaster-pistols over "NURVV CLAOKING NAOW!!!11oneone!!" any day of the week.
True Sight
Deep Freeze Industries
#119 - 2012-07-10 12:33:45 UTC
Tarryn Nightstorm wrote:
I can't be the only one who mined in a destroyer with the lo slots full of CPU-mods thinking I was just the ****, now can I?


Yes, because when I started playing desteroyers didn't exist. Only the mega-rich players owned the first few Battleship BPO's (and had worked together in large groups to save up for them).

I remember warping to an asteroid belt to see a guy mining with FIVE... yes FIVE Miner I's on his amazingly looking Thorax, I couldn't wait until I could afford to buy my own!
Michael1995
Lazerhawks
L A Z E R H A W K S
#120 - 2012-07-10 12:52:56 UTC
Way back then there was alot less whinging, then again I don't remember reading the forums everyday.
Nerf the forums I say and make people play the game!

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