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Back in my day...Vet Whine Thread

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Kalaratiri
Full Broadside
Deepwater Hooligans
#61 - 2012-08-10 01:36:36 UTC
Solo pvp existed.

She's mad but she's magic, there's no lie in her fire.

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Jypsie
Wandering Star Enterprises
#62 - 2012-08-10 02:03:29 UTC
Jerick Ludhowe wrote:
8 no stacking penalty dmg mods on a geddon


I was just thinking that. Full rack geddons. Also remember nanovagas face raping everyone w/o a huginn/rapier.
Jerick Ludhowe
Internet Tuff Guys
#63 - 2012-08-10 02:32:02 UTC
[M00] corp :)
Ptraci
3 R Corporation
#64 - 2012-08-10 03:04:51 UTC
Mag's wrote:
Vertisce Soritenshi wrote:
How do you "loose" a battleship? That sounds like it would hurt.
Bits falling off, as there was not enough tape?


Nah back then no one flew Minmatar...
Mr M
Sebiestor Tribe
#65 - 2012-08-10 03:19:29 UTC
Damned younglings! Back in my days
...there was no tutorial.
...there was no auto pilot and you couldn't "set destination".
...there was one (1) tech V mining laser.

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Ruah Piskonit
PIE Inc.
Khimi Harar
#66 - 2012-08-10 03:24:32 UTC
did not have Wt0 and had fights. . .

oh I could go on. . .
Lilianna Star
Vagrant Empress
#67 - 2012-08-10 03:27:17 UTC
Back in my day the game wasn't nearly as good.
Lyrrashae
Hellstar Towing and Recovery
#68 - 2012-08-10 03:35:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Lyrrashae
Not a "vet" by most peoples' reckoning, but far from newb, soooo:

Back in my day:

Salvage was worth something.

L4 missions were hard (aggro'ing the room was not something you did unless you wanted to pull some insurance-fraud with a bare chassisBlink). Saying you could solo "Enemies Abound 5/5" in a Vargur --and having a Vargur, for that matter-- put you out as a cut above.

Insurance-fraud for high-skilled industrialists with nicely-researched BPOsTwisted (Anyone remember the few days before the nerf on the Jita 4/4 undock?)

People ratted in losec belts.

Rigs were one size, and very, very expensive, only the very rich used them, and only on at least BCs (rare), BS, or T2 variants, which they usually would never risk in PvP, because losing them would genuinely hurt. (ISK 1bn wasn't the new million then, to put it mildly).

No wormholes or Tech III.

Probing was much different, and much harder.

"Free-Form" contracts.

The community in general was much smarter, much more aware, and much more self-reliant. And infinitely less whiny and self-entitled. Because it was often CCP who were first to tell that ilk to "HTFU or give me your stuffs" when they whined.

Forum-trolling was an art, and proper trolls were worthy of respect instead of [/facepalm]

People didn't start whinge-jihads to nerf things into uselessness just because they didn't like them. And those that did got properly savaged in the forums.

The forums actually worked.

"WiS/Ambulation" was a vision that everyone could respect and be inspired by, not a bitterly ironic/cynical curse.

Space --yes, even hisec-- felt properly huge.

"Our logs, they show nothing."

E:

Yes, my sunglasses are actually rose-coloured (you just have to turn a little to the right), but this community has severely deteriorated, especially in the last year/year-odd.

Ni.
Shalia Ripper
#69 - 2012-08-10 03:43:29 UTC
There were no rigs/salvage.

There still were no salvage drones.

One guy in the corp had a Covetor and he was BADASS.

T2 was freaking expensive as hell. Not cheaper than Meta 4.

Sig blah blah blah blah
Urgg Boolean
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#70 - 2012-08-10 04:07:08 UTC
Long ago at the gas pump, the gas numbers went up faster than the money numbers ... oh wait, that's IRL...
King Rothgar
Deadly Solutions
#71 - 2012-08-10 04:31:37 UTC
Back in the day:

1) I GCC'd in high sec accidentally by shooting a wreck instead of salvaging it, there were no warning messages for such stupidity.

2) I jumped into a high sec system with GCC from low sec thinking it was another low sec system, see above explanation.

3) I killed many freighters who accidentally set their AP to travel through low sec and didn't realize the mistake until long after they were podded.

4) I flew BC's without rigs because rigs cost several times more than the rest of the ship and fittings combined.

5) I still own an anathema with large probing rigs.

6) I had my own personal carrier and that made me the envy of nearly all of eve, people shat themselves when I bought a second.

7) People used vagabonds instead of cynabals, cynabals were crap.

8) I ran lvl4's in low sec in a t2 fit BS with nothing but reds in local and this was considered a reasonable thing to do.

9) A Plex cost 200M isk.

10) 200M isk was a lot of isk.

11) You could count the number of titans and motherships in game on one hand.

12) Pods had a delicious squish sound when they died.

13) Snowballs and launchers every Christmas.

14) I saw a machariel orbiting a station at over 10km/s.

15) My hurricane then was faster than your dramiel today.

16) an 80 man fleet was big enough to make eve news.

17) My stealth bomber was ideally suited to ninja alphaing careless frigates.

18) I went on a freighter escort mission through low/null sec.

[u]Fireworks and snowballs are great, but what I really want is a corpse launcher.[/u]
Vaerah Vahrokha
Vahrokh Consulting
#72 - 2012-08-10 04:53:03 UTC
... we had some issues with boot.ini

... almost nobody had rigs and they were all large

... we had an outdated, yet functional and features "rich" forum.

... being a 0.0 seccer did not immediately recall: "blueball blobber"

... when one of the 5 or so titans moved, the news went "oooooh.... aaaaahhhh".

... guys like Kil2 were recording epic PvP videos attracting new players to such an awesome game and the same videos still do that.

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Liafcipe9000
Critically Preposterous
#73 - 2012-08-10 05:58:19 UTC  |  Edited by: Liafcipe9000
ships were shiny and EVE was weird(which is what pulled me into the game in the first place).

characters started with an actually acceptable sum of skillpoints and list of skills.

what else...? umm...

some modules required their skill at level 5 and not 4 or 3

new player training tutorials made use of a whole training complex in space instead of a single area with a sad and lonely rat.

rats in training complexes used to drop items that gave newbies some isk when sold.

rookie ships had a damage control instead of a single ****** piece of tritanium.

Minmatar ships had actual rust, and if you looked hard enough you could see bits falling off of em. Lol

you could actually tell the attributes of your character prior to completion of the character creation.

also, you could give your character a few more attribute points.

the introduction video was actually interesting and told you of the story. (there was a time when I used to check the 'play introduction at next login' checkbox every single day)

no ships and/or modules had a preview button.
Jack Miton
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#74 - 2012-08-10 06:03:00 UTC
King Rothgar wrote:
5) I still own an anathema with large probing rigs.


I still have a buzzard and a cheetah with larges. and my original large purger drake :)

back in my day, people were silly enough to attack bait sitting off WHs :P

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King Rothgar
Deadly Solutions
#75 - 2012-08-10 06:10:52 UTC
Back in the day, we didn't have WH's P

[u]Fireworks and snowballs are great, but what I really want is a corpse launcher.[/u]
Qel Hoth
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#76 - 2012-08-10 06:13:40 UTC
lanyaie wrote:
a alliance with a few Jump freighters was unique


There were jump freighters?


Back in the day logistics was carrier-jumping module compressed low end minerals from highsec.
Lord Wamphyri
Starside Lost
#77 - 2012-08-10 06:29:50 UTC
Seeing more than 5000 players logged in was a record.

I could travel through hisec and half the systems would be empty, and the roid belts would be huge.

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Kryss Darkdust
The Skulls
#78 - 2012-08-10 07:40:49 UTC
Deimos was awsome and feared.

You could make a fortune making and selling T1 anything

Hating BoB

Complaining about Hybrid Track..... eh wait... nm

The reality of Eve is that, if you don't love it like it is today, you should probobly go ahead and unsub. 
Kakk0 Warui
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#79 - 2012-08-10 09:15:04 UTC
If your mission ship wasn't cap stable , you were laughed at and called a noob.
Smohq Anmirorz
State War Academy
Caldari State
#80 - 2012-08-10 09:25:12 UTC
Lord MuffloN wrote:
We warped, uphill, both ways, and there was no warp to zero either, and god damn if your WTZ bookmark was incorrect.


...in the snow! and if the ship stalled, you had to get out and push! and we didn't have fancy scanners, we stuck out head out the window and looked!

You kids and your fancy jump freighters, we hauled it all with bantams! Sometimes for over a hundred jumps!

Whippersnapper!