EVE General Discussion

A little later, when T2 was introduced, certain groups specialized in their production. They had web pages specifically set up to take and track advanced orders.

It was nothing to be on a 3 month waiting list to get a Deimos, at prices considerably higher than today.

Sometime after the beginning there were constant system crashes where entire clusters would shut down eventually causing the server to crash.

I blame John Rourke and the Clear Skies.

At one time there were Interceptors that had a top end velocity of 12km / sec.

No faction wars, and definitely not the high quality graphics that you see today.

Have a look yourself;

http://web.archive.org/web/20030801050441/http://eve-online.com/


*I only discovered this today and haven't stopped searching for websites since

**The 2003+ forum functionality isn't all that, you might get better results from chribba's eve search

To me early Eve was...

Good corp mates ninja mining high sec bistot
No Concorde
Over powered rats on gates
At war with Techell corp
Losing my first cruiser to M0o and Mara, then my my pod as I wanted to hear it squish
Lord Zap running threw empire high sec "meep meep"
Empty space JK-FIX

...and dreaming of what Eve might become

Most of the first alliances were not very creative with their nomenclature, so you had a lot of names like "Curse alliance, Fountain alliance, Stain alliance" and so on.



Indeed, it was in those days you could get truly ridiculous windfalls from doing next to nothing. (T2 BPOs from research lottery)

I'd love to go back in time to get more T2 BPOs from the lottery. It was a fun mechanic, waiting for the evemail that would change everything from your research agent.

Guess this would have given a different meaning to having been tackled.

Making your first million was HARD. I remember being so excited I even took a screenshot. And here it is...

http://i.imgur.com/ggkGxc2.jpg

EDIT: Ironically we were in the Forge region because it was quiet and somewhat out of the way back then :)

Besides all the other stuff already mentioned, the range modifiers on ammo didn't work, so there was no point at all using anything but the "shortest range" ammo for all purposes. They took a long time to make those modifiers work.

You also used to be able to target lock missiles and shoot them. I used to rat in Curse with an Armageddon, shooting down incoming missiles from the rats with my lasers. Torpedoes used to cost as much as a frigate, too. And they had AOE and collision, which was pretty bad if someone got in the way in high-sec. But they would blap frigates like you wouldn't believe - if they could catch them.

Also, ship modifiers didn't work, so everyone used to just use whatever weapons they wanted on their ships. 720mm 'Scout' arty Mallers were all the rage at one point.

NPC cruisers in null were the biggest rats, and were actually pretty damn dangerous.

Having to manually set standing on everyone in your alliance since there was no corp standing or formal alliance system... That was horrible.

We've come a long way.

This is how I earned my first billion, selling mexallon @ 22.40 isks pu to NPC orders in 0.0

instas bookmarks were boring to make and manage !

I am so going to get flamed for this, but, hell....

Of all the things I remember/miss from the old days, it was the font they used for on-screen notifications and stuff. It just looked so...epic and kinda storybook like, compared to what we have now.


Yes, even the font was cooler "back in the day". Now git off mah lawn.