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Long ramble of a veteran noob, back for more.

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HiltoftheDragons
Grievance3
#21 - 2015-04-18 22:06:29 UTC
ISD Ezwal wrote:
HiltoftheDragons wrote:
Your post here might get moved to the My EVE section.
I am sorry to inform you that the answer is no, this thread will not get moved.

Welcome back to EvE OP!


Well just to be clear here, i did say it might get moved.....wasnt asking in anyway for it to be moved. Ive seen patterns in the past with threads like these being moved.

With that said, im glad it stayed in GD. As i said before...we need more threads like these in this section of the forum.

Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny is always right now, right here, right this very instant, maybe.
Toshiro Hasegawa
Blackwater USA Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#22 - 2015-04-19 01:54:18 UTC
Iroquoiss Pliskin wrote:
Welcome back.

Ascendant Frontier, eh? They were the inheritors of the XETIC Federation, which I was a part of, and later left due to the impotence in their leadership to join the The Five & delete the weak.

http://nightwalkers.be/files/thekiller8/ep1.swf

Glorious times - Eve had more charm back then in my opinion, and has grown stale since due to the donuts and whatnot. Pirate CAOD brought the much-needed and integral drama then too - http://nightwalkers.be/files/thekiller8/ep2.swf

Now it is empty. Sad



Ascendancy Inc .. small corp not the Alliance .. we were never in that as far as i was aware .. but i left before BoB and main wars in the south.

History is the study of change.

Don Purple
Snuggle Society
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#23 - 2015-04-19 03:34:46 UTC
Thankyou for the story, I love story time.

I am just here to snuggle and do spy stuff.
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#24 - 2015-04-19 05:28:50 UTC
Ryushe wrote:
I hear ya. Early 2004 player here myself, with similar long intermissions between playing.
You seem to have the benefit of still having your group of people to play with, our group just sort of drifted apart, and I have no idea where most of them are these days :(
All in all your post resonated strongly with me. Started out as a young guy with plenty of time myself, and find myself with less and less time to actually play anymore, even though I, like you, think this is one of the best, if not the best, MMO made so far. It just ticks (ticked) all my boxes.

Perhaps all of us 'disenfranchised' oldies should just start a corp or something and see if we can rekindle the fun and camaraderie I miss these days, and tell stories to the youngins about the good old days...




Much is said about Eve being "WoW-ized" in the name of carebearship but perhaps CCP is realizing that they recognize a player base that has stuck around for nearly a decade or more and the single college student who started out a decade ago is now a parent with a mortgage and a career.

That's just the way things are. That a game can retain such players as it stands now is remarkable by itself.

Bring back DEEEEP Space!
Eternus8lux8lucis
Guardians of the Gate
RAZOR Alliance
#25 - 2015-04-19 06:18:07 UTC
2003 here. Loved the long read good for a slow sat night for me.

Have you heard anything I've said?

You said it's all circling the drain, the whole universe. Right?

That's right.

Had to end sometime.
000Hunter000
Missiles 'R' Us
#26 - 2015-04-19 12:00:14 UTC
April 2004 myself... And i can't believe i'm back into the game.. AGAIN!

It keeps sucking me back in!

EVE is like a drug, at some point u no longer get the rush and u can get clean if u want, but after a while u get a lil sniff of it and ur back into the darkened room snorting it all up again and longing for more! Shocked
Mike Azariah
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#27 - 2015-04-19 17:16:52 UTC
Retention is everything in this game.

"You can check out any time you like but you can never leave' E. Agles

And yes, our lives change and so does the game. Those who try to cling to the past in either case wind up sad (ever meet a middle aged 'bro'?) You don't, you are looking at new things to do, new challenges and the game shifts beneath your feet or behind your back and suddenly the old ways are gone and new horizons appear.

This is why OP has a long story is because Eve is made for that.

"ch ch ch changes" Bowie

m

Mike Azariah  ┬──┬ ¯|(ツ)/¯
Baaldor
Blackwater USA Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#28 - 2015-04-20 17:31:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Baaldor
Mike Azariah wrote:
Retention is everything in this game.

"You can check out any time you like but you can never leave' E. Agles

And yes, our lives change and so does the game. Those who try to cling to the past in either case wind up sad (ever meet a middle aged 'bro'?) You don't, you are looking at new things to do, new challenges and the game shifts beneath your feet or behind your back and suddenly the old ways are gone and new horizons appear.

This is why OP has a long story is because Eve is made for that.

"ch ch ch changes" Bowie

m



Not hanging on to the dual mwd's, the BM market we had because of warp to ZERO, not the huge pile of crap called SOV that CCP is trying to undue, not the two sets of learning skills we had to learn or the nerfing the hell out of speed..no it is not the changes made.

It is moving from the core of the game...a harsh, cold universe. Where loss really hurts, and achievements in this game is note worthy.

And albeit good intentions, I feel some lose sight of the basic core of the game.

Your myopic view of the world is slightly different from the "middle aged bro" , it is the moving away from the essence of what something means. it is not the changes made.
Terranid Meester
Tactical Assault and Recon Unit
#29 - 2015-04-20 22:10:23 UTC
Good story OP.
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