i have been playing eve off and on since 2003. its has something special that other games just dont have and as much as i love eve, i miss eve 2003 and i miss the pioneers i flew with. i started playing when i was 22. im 45 now and a grandfather.
i have reached out to all my old friends since I returned a year ago after hurricane forced break and almost no one i played with back then still plays.
so i here i am does any from the early days of eve still play? if so do any of you remember me, or remember Colossus Technologies, it used to be the oldest active player corp in eve, not sure what its doing these days though. or maybe im just a relic, the angry old guy that doesnt like youngins on his grass lol if your from the early days let me know we can riminess together
ill leave you with a story about TomB one of the early devs. it was in the early days of the Curse alliance i believe. there had been a patch go live that had accidentally replaced the grapical effec for the npc warp disrupter effect with a red and white ball, think of beach balls, any ways these beach balls would warp jam the ships but thau manifested as a n object about the size of a destroyer that couldnt be moved and the warp scrambling frigits would orbit you so fast and emit so many of these beach balls that youd get trapped and could escape the asteriod belts and youd die.
Tomb and a couple of gms came to our space to see what we was talking about on the forums and in tickets. he moved us all from station and spawned hundreds of npc frigates and in seconds there was great walls of these beachballs being formed everywhere around us then he asked in local if we wanted to see something hot and transported us to the center of the star in that systemā¦ there was some other shenanigans that happened but it was all in good fun and they was able to fix the file an hour or so later
i wish i had my original pc cause i had some great screenshots of that anyways if you played back then let us know maybe share a story of early eve, i feel nostolgic and want to connect to other eve vets if there out there
I started playing in 2006-2007 or so. It wasnāt the āearly EVEā era at that point, really, but I do remember the game before FW, how excited we were about wormholes, or core features of today like drone bandwidth and overheating being added.
Iām 2008 so not as old as you but I do remember CCP TomB, he actually visited a player made chat channel to talk with me and a few other playersā¦ Definitely a very cool person.. This happened sometime after Incarna 2011ā¦
I have been playing EVE since the last three weeks of the beta when i was at University still. Now i am 23 years older.
Over the years i went through all aspects of EVEā¦single player first, then highsec corp, then part of null-sec alliance, then pet of that once most powerful alliance in the game that got disbanded by a betraying director, then formed an own alliance, hatched an egg and built a station, built supers and many things more.
But as times change, so does social life and also the communities in EVE change over time. If you get older, you donāt have the time for fleet calls anymore and canāt hold and defend space. All your assets are constantly at risk.
And the other corpmembers faced similar decisions and experiences and at one point we decided to end the corp. Today i do my own thing in highsec, where you donāt have to constantly fear for all your assets. I still have my fun in EVE, but i again set my goals for me alone and play if i have the time.
EVE has run so many years now and i have invested so much time, effort and of course also money, that it would hurt my soul to just stop playing it.
Unfortunately thatās a lock in situation that can only be solved by CCP/FC doing very stupid decisions and having to shut down the game for good.
Iāve been playing since 2009. I suppose that doesnāt count as a āvetā in some circles. Been playing since 1983 in Real Lifeā¢ though, so a bit of a vet over here.
in the early days before implants and all that it was sometimes unavoidable especially since you couldnāt queue skills you had to manually start the next skill training
2008 player here as well. Popped into Eve when a friend recommended it. I remember back in those days we eagerly anticipated REAL expansions like Trinity, Apocrypha or Empyrean Age. In those days the game seemed more visceral and fun in many ways and CCP was far more adventurous and not afraid to take big swings to make big changes. It was also nice to see devs who actually interacted with players and were frequently in game.
There are many things that I donāt miss like the learning skills or medical clones. Overall I like the game better now but I do miss the many people whoāve left.
