EVE General Discussion

Probing was painful, really painful. Level 3 mission were given to you by a level 2 agent if you've done a lot of L2s, kinda like storyline ones work now. Smart bombs weren't marked as an offensive weapons lol. Podding didn't give you sec status loss.

Aaand a bunch of other things, read here http://community.eveonline.com/news/patch-notes/improvements-and-bug-fixes-27

Let's see here, let me get my bifocals. A lot has been covered already.

-LOADS of people mining in Badgers with one mining laser fitted. For Days. and Days.

-the Moa was one of the scariest ships in the game

-no missile flight limit. no sig radius effect on anything

-no overview, at least not like now.

-could multiple MWD anything

-insta bookmark lag monster. still have tons of these

-no cloaking

-NPCs bought everything at a fixed rate. mined for days in Umokka, Kernite or omber, in a Merlin, and when belt rats showed up I had to warp and refit and come back to clear the belt, refit, come back to mine, all without a hauler to earn up a hauler and then do that all over again to earn up a cruiser.

-lack of instas meant my first trip from Lonetrek to Fountain took ~4 hours. saw one person on the way down. this was summer '03. .

-no battlecruisers, no destroyers, no capitals, no T2 anything as has been said before, CU Vapor Bore was the ****.

-Jita. What's Jita?


I quit after about 2 months. Servers never rose past 3000. A year later I re-subbed, surprised the game was still alive and, aside from some RL hiccups here and there, have been firmly devoted ever since.

MWDs worked in missions.

Missiles were also slower. You could easily outrun them in a cruiser with an mwd. Then you had a nice little pearl bracelet following your ship until they ran out of flight time.

Yeh how were mines, i see the blueprints being sold every now and then but never really hear about them. How did they work in combat, how long were they in game?

In the beginning, Eve was alive. Now it is dying.

That other thread reminded me that when I started in 2004 there weren't any killmails, just loss mails. They did come in somewhere in 2004 I just can't remember when.

i remember aura laughing at you whenever you got podded... that needs to come back
There was the endless mine-fields that would instantly blap your prized battleship you worked so ******* hard to get then if you moved, the mines got your pod and aura laughed at you.
No warping to 0, no autopilot.
Bookmarks that would crash the server if you had too many. Useful in a fight if you were losing.
"Hey guys this whole 'podding yourself around to places where you have an office' seems pointless give us a reason not to remove it" debate of 2003.
No stacking penalties was awesomely fun. So was the no tracking and the siege missiles in rocket launchers.
Alliance tournament battleships that people used.
NPC market in Yulai (the jita of yesteryear)
and alot more i cant remember.

Cute story; there were rumors in the rookie corp channel at the time, that if you searched hard and deep, you could find a battleship and skillbook somewhere in the cluster. A bit like the tales of the City of Gold.

Oh, and Omber was the best stuff to mine in high sec.

That's really not true. It wasn't nicer.

We had a corp of 12 people who all knew each other in RL, and we just got owned by a griefer corp. Yes they existed back then. New players would come on, play a couple of weeks, found a corp, and like clockwork they were wardecced.

There were a great many tears. It hasn't changed that much community wise. It's just crowded.

They didn't work in pvp is the short answer.

What typically happened was someone would think a minefield was a cool idea and deploy one. Two weeks later he'd be bopping around highsec when he suddenly got concorded because someone else had hit one of the mines

They were around for a couple of years. I don't remember them after 2004 but they could still have been around. They were viewed as the domain of the stupid by then - like smartbombs in high-sec empire.

I never met anyone who managed to kill the right target (first time) with mines.