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The Enslaver
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:01:00 -
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May 6th, 2003. "Server starting (600 seconds)"
Three years ago today, the tranquility cluster started up for the first time. Since that point, the game has changed almost beyond recognition. Alliances have risen, fallen... Alliances have risen in their place, and again fallen... Or in some places - they have even survived. EVE provides the ultimate platform for both group and solo PVP, this is one aspect that CCP has truly mastered.
I started playing EVE about a month before it was launched, in the late stages of beta. I was very lost at first due to the lack of a decent tutorial - but within a week or so, I was hooked. I can't remember everything that happened but I do recall things such as killing other newbs randomly outside a station in 1.0 space when there wasn't any concord response and sentry guns were broken (ahem), and joining my first corp, which I knew from Earth and Beyond - the British Space Corporation. I mined arkonor with them in a 0.1 system called Arakor, and after the game was launched, I admittedly also spent the first week or so mining arkonor in the same system... But I don't want to talk about that!
Since that point, I've explored almost every aspect the game has to offer - I've been a miner, a mission runner - and mostly, a PVPer. I've headed up the construction of outposts, I've been part of alliances as they have both risen and fallen, but the strange thing is, after three years of playing for multiple hours a day, I still feel as if I have barely scratched the surface.
EVE is a truely incredible game - a true PVP game, both with its dynamic markets and its PVP - and most of all the player created entities that have been forming, evolving and now are starting to become true rival's to the games NPC factions. Thank you, CCP, for this - you have created a true masterpiece.
I'd like to add a final note that I think is important. Everyone in this game - all the 90% of the population that lives in empire, should try 0.0 life for a month. After that, trust me when I say - EVE begins in 0.0. --------
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Atlas Oracle
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:04:00 -
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you deserve a cookie
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Dark Shikari
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:09:00 -
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Edited by: Dark Shikari on 06/05/2006 00:12:06
Originally by: The Enslaver Since that point, I've explored almost every aspect the game has to offer - I've been a miner, a mission runner - and mostly, a PVPer. I've headed up the construction of outposts, I've been part of alliances as they have both risen and fallen, but the strange thing is, after three years of playing for multiple hours a day, I still feel as if I have barely scratched the surface.
EVE is a truely incredible game - a true PVP game, both with its dynamic markets and its PVP - and most of all the player created entities that have been forming, evolving and now are starting to become true rival's to the games NPC factions. Thank you, CCP, for this - you have created a true masterpiece.
This is one of the best summaries I have ever seen of the EVE experience.
Happy Birthday, EVE... and many more!
P.S. Good job getting the post in one minute after the turn of the clock
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Aeaus
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:11:00 -
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Originally by: Dark Shikari Edited by: Dark Shikari on 06/05/2006 00:09:37
Originally by: The Enslaver Since that point, I've explored almost every aspect the game has to offer - I've been a miner, a mission runner - and mostly, a PVPer. I've headed up the construction of outposts, I've been part of alliances as they have both risen and fallen, but the strange thing is, after three years of playing for multiple hours a day, I still feel as if I have barely scratched the surface.
EVE is a truely incredible game - a true PVP game, both with its dynamic markets and its PVP - and most of all the player created entities that have been forming, evolving and now are starting to become true rival's to the games NPC factions. Thank you, CCP, for this - you have created a true masterpiece.
This is one of the best summaries I have ever seen of the EVE experience.
Happy Birthday, EVE... and many more!
Seconded *mad stamping spree*
*gets emotional*
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Rutoo
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:12:00 -
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yea it's been great
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Mned Graydroggen
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:13:00 -
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Thnx for a great ride Dev's, Been a great three years, hope there will be many more
Mned
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Dark Shikari
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:24:00 -
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And as a little "anniversery gift" to the EVE community, here's the original EVE theme music. It was still in the STUFF files last I checked (8 months or more ago), but most players probably don't know its there.
I like it.
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Dimitri Chandler
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:27:00 -
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Originally by: The Enslaver Posted - 2006.05.06 00:01:00
Nice
And congrats to the dev team and all the veteran players for sticking eve out so long and making it the great game it is today.
Nothing on the planet even comes remotely close.
Exiles recruiting
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kieron
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:39:00 -
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On behalf of the Dev, GM and volunteer teams, I would like to express our deepest and most sincere thanks to each and every member of the EVE community. Here we are, the game that the 'industry experts' said wouldn't last 6 months, celebrating our third anniversary and we owe this to the community that has stuck with us through it all.
Thank you for supporting EVE and CCP. Thank you for 3 wonderful years and here's looking forward to another 10+.
kieron Community Manager, EVE Online |
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Dark Shikari
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:40:00 -
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Originally by: kieron On behalf of the Dev, GM and volunteer teams, I would like to express our deepest and most sincere thanks to each and every member of the EVE community. Here we are, the game that the 'industry experts' said wouldn't last 6 months, celebrating our third anniversary and we owe this to the community that has stuck with us through it all.
Thank you for supporting EVE and CCP. Thank you for 3 wonderful years and here's looking forward to another 10+.
IAK! (In After Kieron!)
I am honored to be part of the community that you are thanking. To another 3 years! *toast*
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Beringe
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:41:00 -
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Well done CCP, and...til hamingju. ------------------------------------------- "Never underestimate the power of language."
--Daitan Beringe, honorary director in charge of bottles-- |
Sakura Nihil
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:43:00 -
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Congrutalations on the great work guys, I couldn't have been happier to have found this game a year ago.
May our collective future be bright together .
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Barthez Thed
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:43:00 -
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And just to think that lately the numbers have risen to bursting point (literally) so in 3 years time are we going to see 50k concurrent users online? will we have the hardware to support such a feat? I hope so.
Happy birthday eve
"It's hard to be religeous when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning" -Me
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Valar
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:45:00 -
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I too played in beta and joined EVE again shortly after release. I was unable to join the first few days because I was moving. Then I was just a regular player... hooked on EVE and driving my gf mad with the "Can you wait just 10 more minutes, I have to finish this mission" or "I can't leave the computer now, I'm in dangerous terratory".
I was so overwhelmed with the quality of the game that I wanted to be involved.
The first step in that direction was joining the ISD bughunting team in January 2004. The bughunting really cut into my EVE playing time, however, being involved in making the game I love better more then made up for that.
8 months later, after spending most of my free time bughunting, Hellmar invited me to CCP for a job interview. One week later I was working for CCP, in the QA department. Ca. 3 months ago I moved on from the QA department to the operations team and became a DBA and now I am the guy that makes the server say "Server starting (600 seconds)".
Its amazing how EVE has changed the life of so many people... mine being one. ------ Valar Database admin - Server operations team CCP Games How to write a good bugreport |
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Danton Marcellus
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:50:00 -
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Edited by: Danton Marcellus on 06/05/2006 00:50:22 It's my duty to be on this thread.
Oh and worst summary ever!
EVE taught me to pilot spacecrafts when Elite failed.
Congratulations guys.
Remind me about The Maze.
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Lonagan
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:51:00 -
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Nice post Enslaver
And happy birthday EVE
Hmmm wheres the cake?
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Cetshwayo
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:52:00 -
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Edited by: Cetshwayo on 06/05/2006 00:52:40
Originally by: Dark Shikari And as a little "anniversery gift" to the EVE community, here's the original EVE theme music. It was still in the STUFF files last I checked (8 months or more ago), but most players probably don't know its there.
I like it.
Ah memories...
Do you by chance have the Castor music that plays just as you load the client but not connect yet? I really liked that one as well for some reason.
Also...happy B-Day EVE!!
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Kasibee'an
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:52:00 -
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You've had me hooked since day one. Thank you for the gaming experience of my life.
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Hermia
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Posted - 2006.05.06 00:55:00 -
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i think i joined about a month after release (not with this char, with my other account "Jayad"), been following eve ever since.
I think its the community really, it certainly has its moments, very entertaining.
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Benglada
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Posted - 2006.05.06 01:02:00 -
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Im in tears To many more years... ---------------------------
Originally by: Wrangler Unfrtinately you dnot get to vote..
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Nyphur
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Posted - 2006.05.06 01:18:00 -
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The fact that eve rose from practically nothing, from just a bunch of guys deciding to make a game, inspires me. Ideally, I would like to get a placement year at CCP next year to get some internal experience but they haven't gotten back to me about it so I assume they don't want me. Some day, I want to be in Oveur's position, not in eve but in my own creation. Maybe not any time soon but some day I will have made a game, successful or not, that's based around my own personal vision and not around making a profit, keeping players happy or getting a lot of subscribers. It'll be my own little world.
I could start now but I don't have the time with University and everything and any time I do have is spent playing eve. And then every time I actually start working on it, I eventually get disheartened by the responses my friends give me when I talk about it. Other people can be pretty demotivational sometimes and it doesn't take much to make me get depressed and give up.
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Karunel
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Posted - 2006.05.06 01:24:00 -
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Such a long way from these pre-release days when almost all testers were screaming "Don't release yet", and a not-so-optimistic view of the future shortly after release...
Well, I guess the quality in EVE's design managed to keep it alive while it was still a bit green and now the vast improvements it has gone through have shaped EVE to be what's in my opinion the best game ever. Such freedom, possibilities, the "feeling" of being part of something alive, even the background, most of the time a bit too scarce for those of us with a liking for a good story; all of it have sumed up to make up the whole of EVE. A game in which you can't pretend you know everything even after playing for 3 years, always changing, always evolving to a better thing (even if sometimes you can't but miss the good old days TM).
Thank you CCP for such an awesome game, and may we have the opportunity to celebrate many more EVEbirthdays.
GO EVE!
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Darken Two
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Posted - 2006.05.06 01:27:00 -
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OMG Happy Birthday Eve. Three years and I still love it. If only I could keep a girlfriend this long.....
Originally by: Blind Fear Generally, when trying to be a puppetmaster, it is considered good form not to wrap the strings around your neck and choke yourself.
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Erik Pathfinder
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Posted - 2006.05.06 01:56:00 -
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Happy Anniversary, EVE-Online!
Good job keeping the game running for 3 years, CCP.
May it keep running for years still. ---------------
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Edison Frisk
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Posted - 2006.05.06 01:58:00 -
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Originally by: Danton Marcellus Edited by: Danton Marcellus on 06/05/2006 00:50:22
EVE taught me to pilot spacecrafts when Elite failed.
I dont believe that until the devs introduce a tricky elite-esque docking manouver without autodock where you have to line up your ship with the rectangle slot - aaah those were the days!
Congrats CCP and happy birthday Eve, can't imagine what else I would spend so much of my time on, I am awating reconnection at my house after a move and have to resort to watching TV at home, god help me if the wife gets frisky
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Kaemonn
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Posted - 2006.05.06 02:36:00 -
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Happy Birthday Eve! Heres to another awesome year *drinks mug of beer*
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Xorus
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Posted - 2006.05.06 03:28:00 -
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Congratulations to all those that have helped to make and shape EVE in to what it has now become, i didn't take part in the BETA nor did i get it atrelease, i have only been a member of this community for about 2 years but already i have seen it blossom and grow in to what we now call home.
There have been many changes to the game over the time i've been playing and i have enjoyed every second of the time i have spent playing EVE and now as an ISD member i'm finally able to help give something back to the community that i have loved so much.
CCP i salute you and i thank you for creating something this enjoyable for both me and everyone i have grown to know over the years, here's hoping that things carry on for years to come
*Raises Glass*
Happy Birthday EVE-Online
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Becq Starforged
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Posted - 2006.05.06 03:46:00 -
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Happy Birthday, EVE! (I was threatened with being podded if I didn't say this, even though I'm currently in the middle of a fight in a mission.)
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Leandra Anor
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Posted - 2006.05.06 03:48:00 -
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I have been playing Eve for 6 months now and wish I had known about it long ago! Kudos on the anniversary and thanks for an awesome game!!
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Bbllaarrgg
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Posted - 2006.05.06 04:12:00 -
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Originally by: The Enslaver
I'd like to add a final note that I think is important. Everyone in this game - all the 90% of the population that lives in empire, should try 0.0 life for a month. After that, trust me when I say - EVE begins in 0.0.
Have to agree with that, whilst i may live in mission *****ing land atm, hes 123% right.
Anyway, this was the game i always wanted and diddn't even know it till i started playing. I wish i'd payed more attention to my buddy who started a good 6 months before i did.
Thank you for making it ccp, may your women be free and plentiful, and your beer mugs never run out.
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