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Any way to play earlier versions of eve?

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ISD Buldath
#21 - 2015-08-21 05:56:58 UTC
If you are able to somehow find a working install of an older version, you can only get as far as the log in screen.

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ApophisXP
Sadistic Retribution
Sadistic Empire
#22 - 2015-08-21 06:46:37 UTC
ISD Buldath wrote:
If you are able to somehow find a working install of an older version, you can only get as far as the log in screen.



Not true. I'm sure I'd get insta banned for linking, so I wont. Doesn't take much to find them.
BrundleMeth
State War Academy
Caldari State
#23 - 2015-08-22 12:00:35 UTC
You win the award for "The Dumbest Question Ever Asked"...
Emperor Furiosa
Doomheim
#24 - 2015-08-22 20:51:52 UTC
Scalding Holland wrote:
I was looking back at old expansions for eve and watched youtube videos of eve circa 2004.

Is there anyway we can play these expansions offline? For example EVE after the Caster (2003) expansion. Just to see what eve was like?


What is there exciting for you to go back in the past and play elder eve?
Glathull
Warlock Assassins
#25 - 2015-08-23 18:46:51 UTC
Suneai wrote:
Kestrix wrote:
Oh I don't know about that, you could do missions and mine uninterrupted to your hearts content :)
True, but it would take an insanely longer amount of time to get anything worthwhile done because there would be no economy, ships or fittings on the market without the other players around to produce goods.



You're missing the bigger picture. If you had access to older EvE server code, you could seed the market. Hell, you could hook into CREST and populate the economy with real-time market data. Adjusted downward for inflation, of course. Twisted

Honestly, I think it would be cool for Sisi to have the ability to choose a version of the game to play in, for old time's same. Prohibitively expensive? Yes. Problematic for all kinds of technical reasons? F*** yes. But awesome? Check.

I honestly feel like I just read fifty shades of dumb. --CCP Falcon
Sobaan Tali
Caldari Quick Reaction Force
#26 - 2015-08-23 20:52:30 UTC
Nope. Test server is the closest thing to that sort of thing, with it being somewhat behind TQ and, while not necessarily offline, you'd pretty much see no one else unless you head out to the PvP systems. Not quite the same thing, but that's just a nicer way of saying, "Hell no!"

To my understanding, CCP has already tried keeping two different versions on Eve running at the same time before with Trinity, and that didn't go over so well from what I heard. In a perfect world, it sure would be nice to hope in to Eve 2003 if only to see what it was like back then for those who missed it or for those who were really there to have some nostalgia time.

"Tomahawks?"

"----in' A, right?"

"Trouble is, those things cost like a million and a half each."

"----, you pay me half that and I'll hump in some c4 and blow the ---- out of it my own damn self."
Sarayu Wyvern
The Bosena Accords
Round Table Assembly
#27 - 2015-08-24 00:56:36 UTC
Kestrix wrote:
Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:
No.
Besides, EVE is not much of a game without all the people.


Oh I don't know about that, you could do missions and mine uninterrupted to your hearts content :)

The danger is what makes the game exciting. Take that out and it's just boring.

Alt of MidnightWyvern. (Mobius Wyvern in Dust 514)
Avvy
Doomheim
#28 - 2015-08-24 01:03:33 UTC
Kestrix wrote:
Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:
No.
Besides, EVE is not much of a game without all the people.


Oh I don't know about that, you could do missions and mine uninterrupted to your hearts content :)



Without the other people all that mining and mission running would be effectively pointless. You wouldn't be able to do it anyway as it's a player run market and as such there would be nobody to buy anything that you put onto the market.
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