I would like to invite all of you to share you favorite memories of the last 23 years of eve, regardless of the time you’ve spent within that 23 year period.
I remember feeling so disgusted by all the AFK mining and nauseating carebearism in Highsec, I almost quit the game. One day, I invented ganking, and as I watched that first miner explode I knew I was destined to be the greatest capsuleer in the history of EvE Online. I felt a tremendous surge of energy and began to glow - ever since I have been greatness personified.
2 Likes
1st time ever in a roaming gang in low sec we bagged a drake. A few days later in the same system we got a vagabond.
2 Likes
I’m a miner and mining feels relaxing.
2 Likes
First time when successfully escaped gate camp felt really good. Heart was beating like crazy, good adrenaline, loved it!
Then when for the first time I moved to null, into CVA Providence while the region was NRDS, I was overwhelmed with the intel and standings setup, it was so cool to be part of that.
And lately, very nice experience was when successfully finished AEGIS Capital Ship Security Facility without dying and snaching almost half a billion ISK in several minutes of gameplay. Recommend activity for your heart and blood pressure training.
2 Likes
Well, its definitely an eve memory, because i was playing the game when it happened….but it didnt happen in the game at all.
Way back in 08, the year i began playing…i was still gaming on some ancient pc i had whipped together to play planetside and sim race with. It was some old pentium III with some old video card that somebody handed down to me….the card name escapes me now.
It ran EVE like a charm…much better than most the other games i tried to play back then. I still had the big fat monitor and all. 
So one evening while trying to still find my way through this game, im probably struggling through a mission or something…and my monitor just goes black, boom. Right afterwards i heard the loudest bang in my dedicated computer room that id ever heard…..i though a damn gun went off. It made me hop up so fast that in that split second, i hit both knees under the edge of my desk. I had a bruise above both knees from it for about a week.
I then began to smell the electronic smell fill the room and seeing wisps of smoke coming out the back of the computer. What had happened was a capacitor had exploded in my power supply. Its the only single incident of that happening to me ever…while playing eve online.
The rest of the many thousands of interactions in this game arent that exciting, too many to try and remember. Ive done a lot of amazing and dumb stuff. If i can remember any decent ingame memories then ill repost.
Watch out for those pesky capacitors…the ones on your ship, and your computer.
3 Likes
1 Like
My first POS in nullsec… about 15 years ago, with a group of really dear friends. I still remember the system. Catch - 3-SFWG - DOTLAN :: EveMaps
2 Likes
The 1st time someone in our corp said “Goons are coming.” And the chill that ran up my spine when I heard that.
A long time ago in a galaxy near you… 
We used to roll wd’s against all the null blks and add a merc war for profit every wk. All null blks that came after us were driven off with heavy loss. Except Goons. We were too small and they could absorb the loss to make any effort not worthwhile. Then one day, I guess we had opened our mouths once too much and they decided we would be a tasty treat! A channel of apx 40 dudes fell silent. Half our corp were actual combat vets. Everyone vs everyone was why we played. The FC started giving commands, but we all felt doomed. We could not back down. We slaughtered them!
But for all the broken bones, stiches, a missing fingertip and heartbreaks, I still count that chill up the spine as one of the scariest moments of my life. When playing EVE used to mean outwitting and out thinking another human. Not npc’s.
Next; The time it took 7 players to take out my worst loss. A blinged out T3 and pod. They warned me but hubris holds a high price! Through 4 wh’s and agro timing, I managed to keep ahead of them. My last jump was for freedom but had lost track of the 7th dude. Halfway through warp, I figured it out but by then it was too late. If I had jumped to 100, I would have been able to warp off and log off safely. I should have applied to them but didn’t think they would accept and would just want revenge instead. Opportunity lost…
@Aaaarrgg Thanks for that last like! Means more to me than all the useless forum awards.
I remember the 1st time I pulled off to the side and busted his butt for not being red. Players should try interacting with their opponents. Anyone willing to learn or to make an effort gets a surprising amount of info and humor!
The time I creatively acquired a wh. I warped into them just as they took down their station. Grabbed all the loot while they were worried about just the sta. Made far more isk. And when I quit, they were waiting but instead of grabbing the loot, took the sat. I made out again as I still another station in storage!
I could go on but I remember so much ■■■■ from this game because it was so hard to earn.
@Tessa_Springfield I would suggest you read
What do you miss about Eve that is now gone? - Communications Center / General Discussion - EVE Online Forums
from top to bottom. Fly safe!
Edit; I’m fuzzy now because I tried to help new players. Won’t make that mistake again.
MB ThePhotographer | Character | zKillboard
1 Like
Oh, and then there was the Romanian corp. A simple merc dec. When they asked why, I said nothing personal, just a merc dec. Then they asked me to teach them how to defend themselves! So, I explained and by the end of the wk, they had driven me away! I could only fly a Maller at the time, but we kept in contact for apx 6 mo. I helped them defend themselves but google translator made it hard to get the finer ideas across.
TiDi fights.
The Finanar war….which I think was almost exactly 4 years ago now.
At one point there were two main Fortizars to destroy….with timers very close together. There must have been 2000 people or so in the system, and the main Absolute Order fleet of several hundred was on the other Fortizar, while I was in a very small fleet of just 5 or 6 taking care of the timer on the other Fortizar….with no logi.
Well…that small fleet was being attacked not only by the Fortizar but by 30 or 40 enemy ships as well. I was flying an Apocalypse, with about 150K EHP, which was going down and down. It was like the 300 Spartans. I was on the brink of being destroyed, when the main Fortizar blew up and the main Absolute Order fleet moved over to where I was, and I finally had logi.
I was still taking damage, and had to dock up. So ironically despite having made a stand for some time, I was not there when the second Fortizar finally exploded. But I had a satisfying sense that I had ‘done my bit’.
1 Like
In my first couple of days playing EVE someone in the newbie channel mentioned ninja salvaging as a potential beginner career path.
Don’t have standings to pull level 4s or the skills to fly a ship capable of running them, you can still have all the loot and salvage from one if you can fly a T1 explo ship and train basic probing skills.
I was so happy finding a game where you could break into someone’s mission/dungeon and filtch their loot from under their nose.
Of course salvage has been nerfed hard and that’s not so lucrative any more, but EvE still delivers the best PvP and opportunities for PvP which aren’t just some kind of Zerg map rush (like GW2 or ESO) NvN or Battle Royale.
2 Likes
First time I got into a Coercer and applied the police skin, the ones with red and blue lights, about a month ago. So now when I go ratting it looks like I’m the police going after bad guys, lol!
3 Likes