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General Discussion => General Non-RP EVE Discussion => Topic started by: BloodBird on 09 Jun 2011, 20:50
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So, ever since this tread (http://backstage.eve-inspiracy.com/index.php?topic=2245.15) I've been tempted to make a tread dedicated to the old memorable things hiding in the back of each of our aging gray-matter containers.
There are thousands of players and several dozen of us frequent this forum, so this combined may well be hundred of thousands of memorable things. I'd like to hear about these as much as I am tempted to share some of mine.
So here it is; Post here and tell us a bit about those great moments/battles in your EVE-life, from the humblest noob-experience that makes you wonder these days, WTF you were thinking back then, to the more recent but not any less interesting exploits.
In an effort to not swamp the others with walls detailing your glorious deeds from 03 to 11, kindly stick to one event/memory per post and try to wait 4-5 posts until you share another, this way we might get varied events by various people and who knows, the tread might get popular. Also, if you have several events that transpired after one-another you could share these in cronlogical order to tell a story ;)
I'd love to begin but I'm rather tired right now and I don't want to forget any important parts of anything. Also, perhaps waiting to see if this get's any notable interest first is wise.
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I still remember my first fleet battle in 0.0. Or rather, the travel to the fleet battle. Flying my rifter in formation with so many battleships - I think there were over a hundred in the fleet.
I even took screen shots!
Getting tackle on enemy battleships while defending the gate was awesome. Warping to the carrier fight to try to shoot tacklers was a bit less wonderful as my grid didn't load before I exploded.
But still, that sense of awe at being part of something like that still warms me, years later.
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Locking down Kale Ryoko during the Strix-Phoenix Wing-APEX-Stimulus-Omerta-Kitchen Sink war. If memory serves (it's late for me for a change, instead of early), he was solo in a Vaga, and I was in a Celestis, parked outside a station in Tourier with a fleet whose co-FCs (Gerrard DuNord being one, and I think Brother Simple was the other) were debating whether or not anyone could lock him.
I volunteered to try. In those days, I was young, stupid and my ships were really cheap. I've gotten better, or more likely worse. I thought Gerrard heard me, because he said "yeah yeah".
I very soon realized that my microphone was unplugged, because I'd gotten Kale locked down and my fleet members were still sitting there listening to the debate even though I was yelling "Guys, I HAVE HIM LOCKED DOWN!" ... though unfortunately, my first clue that it was unplugged was Gerrard's asking "What the hell are you doing? Say something!"
And then I no longer had Kale locked, and very soon after that I went boom.
Then years later, I found myself in Omerta, after leaving Stimulus, which was all sorts of odd on some levels. I should have Vieve join APEX at some point to get a full circle thing going (though these days I think she'd have to join Veto in order to join Phoenix Wing).
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My first experience with large fleets and Capitals. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAhjTgwRPpg)
I was in a Wolf while all of SF and the rest were mostly flying around in cheap T1 Cruisers. Was a great moment, and the warpin of the hostile caps was just as awesome as the video makes it. I loved it. Getting to get in some kills on Amarrians were great.
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I'm always happy to see that one kill on an Amarrian is still worth about 20 of anyone else. 8)
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Well, you make it so easy to love hating you.
/me grins.
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Let's see... my first big 0.0 fight. Flying with Morsus Mihi during the first MAX invasion by BoB, right when BoB had first started hitting M-O (the gateway system from empire) in Tribute. We titan bridged in (first time I'd seen a titan, incidentally) on top of a BoB capital fleet and killed a few, then ran around the system skirmishing with subcap fleets and trying to flip POSes. After one such skirmish, we were getting repped up while standing by for the next skirmish in a POS when I, low on ammo, decided to venture outside the bubble to loot some hostile wrecks for more rounds.
So, after propelling myself the huge distance out to the wreck field (it was maybe 170-200km off the POS) I started looting. A few minutes into this, BAM! My overview fills with the entire BoB fleet, landing right on top of me. Screaming, I start warping back to the POS even as they evaporated my shields, quickly ate through my armor, and knocked me into half-hull before I warped... because in a 150+ BoB fleet, they'd all shot me but never bothered to tackle, apparently. I was on such an adrenaline high right then...
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Most awesome time for me was the first time I was titan bridged in my heavy plated phat abaddon.
First when we were gathering around the avatar titan in a CVA POS, with the FC restlessly yelling like a madman "DON'T FUCKING BUMP THE FUCKING TITAN YOU FUCKERS !"
Then we were bridged, and all went suddenly wrong when I loaded the grid right in the center of the system (meaning : in the core of the local Star, apparently a bug happening in the past). This was the biggest and most awesome bump I had of my life. With the abaddon inertia my velocity went up to something like 2398349398 m/s, and the bump lasted easily more than 5 or 6 minutes. I was still laughing in front of my screen when it finally stopped, not sure after how many AUs...
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Day One in Eve: "Who are these Angel fuckers and why are they shooting at me?" :)
I think that one of my favourite periods of Eve, even though I wasn't playing as much as I used by that point, was when Ushra'Khan placed a bounty of 1 ISK on Karin Midular. In RP terms, it was a really interesting time to be a Minnie, with the differences between the various Minmatar factions really coming to the fore.
Maggot's announcement: http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=469598&page=1#1
News: http://www.eveonline.com/news.asp?a=single&nid=1390&tid=4
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Nostalgia?
Anyone played this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckbM2xCQu4I) game?
If you can prove it to me, I'll give you a million ISK :P
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Descent!
Edit: No, wait! Terminal Velocity.
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Nope. Hellbender :P
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TIE Fighter.
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Hellbender is what got me interested in space games in the first place.
Now EVE nostalgia. Flying 15km for every gate. I remember when I had to make a move from Cistuvaert, Verge Vendor to Earwik, Metropolis. That was a long-ass haul back in those days. I don't think I've even seen the Earwik system since Trinity.
But the names of the systems around that area - Iluin, Moselgi, Ofage, Fuskunen, and Uemon - very, very old, we're talking 2006 old - stomping grounds of mine.
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Edit: No, wait! Terminal Velocity.
YEEEEEEEEEEES. And Fury3, which had epic, epic intro music.
Those came before Hellbender, same engine. Didn't play Hellbender.
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Edit: No, wait! Terminal Velocity.
YEEEEEEEEEEES. And Fury3, which had epic, epic intro music.
Those came before Hellbender, same engine. Didn't play Hellbender.
Epic intry mosuc, perhaps. Did it also have kick-ass in-game music?
Among many games I've played these is one whose OST I've stumbled over again, re-visited a few old favorite sound-tracks.
This one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh0QVtoUIs0&feature=related), this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6wZwkWWwEw) and this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt5xd_cdap8&feature=related), to name only 3 of these gems.
I'm happy to own the game still, perfect condition after all these years :)
As for EVE... (Be warned, I might have told some of you this before.)
I recall our first major victory. We were a pack of noobs, and while we wanted to be industrialized anti-pirates and do some 'constructive' work instead of joining the legions of pirates that plagued our local areas of Bosboger, Olfeim and Amamake (much like today, though I kind of miss the activety in Olfeim) our record was never anything buy 'trying, but failing... so far.'
This changed one day. Having installed ourselves as the guardians of Olfeim at the time and keeping a watchfull eye on the local miners (loads of noobs mined the low-sec belts those days) we were faced with a pirate, coming to 'our' backyard seeking to kill some local guy for some past transgression or whatever. He would also, he claimed, kill anyone that tried to stop him.
This of course, we took very seriously. Soon a member of our sorry outfit, one insane Amarrian woman and ex-Bobbit (this was long before I started to dis-like BoB as a responce when they delved into the degree of idiocy they did later) had played his ego about, having him convinced she would personally oversee the 1vs1 fight between the pirate and his opponent and help kill anyone that intervened.
It was - obviously - a trap. Sure as hell he opened fire first and got himself nicely tackled. However, before we can land all of local besides himself on him and get him, he works himself out of scrambling range and warp out. A nice man-hunt ensues and we catch him by a planet. His maller and pod is soon downed, and we are ofc in high spirits.
Until the next day when we pull 3 destroyers out of a belt because he has returned in an Interceptor. Noobs as we are, we know T2 is superior but not exactly what an interceptor is. A non-corp retriever dies and he gloats. The next day he declares war.
That's a story for another day.
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When I used to play eve like this...
[spoiler](http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t126/hinkelmann/2007-6.jpg)[/spoiler]
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The good old days of pre-Captain's Quarters.
Now those were the days.
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Not all great moments are battles...
Walking along the Crystal Boulevard in a soft drizzle that picked up the lights and glowed. The occasion was a date: conversation before and after a performance of the famous Gallentean play Lady Anais; a glorious dinner discussing the play's themes of duty and freedom, so abstracted in the play and so personal for both of us; friendship and flirtation; realisation that our mutual support after hard breakups might come to be something quite different...
... and choosing to walk along the shimmering boulevard to the hotel where we were booked into separate rooms -- for this was our "we're not going to rush into anything on the rebound" slow wooing -- knowing the other was on the other side of that wall, and unable to sleep.
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Nostalgia's not what it used to be...
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I remember when missioning in Dodixie was laggy...June 2008 was my start.