EVE Online

OneofOne said:

Not gonna lie, seeing Goons brought so low warms the cockles of my heart.

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Aaron said:

Sure, here are a few, in no particular order. These are from about the first 5-10 years of Eve, so some of this stuff might not make sense in a current context. Presented in no particular order:

• I remember well one of the first expansions, Exodus. CCP added tougher belt rats in 0.0 expecting people to flock from High Sec to 0.0 (the Exodus) to kill them, but they made some bad judgments and made them too tough (remember, most people had only a few hundred k SP at the time) and the belt rats obliterated most players and so people fled from 0.0 to High Sec. Good times watching the ships killed during the days that followed.
• Talking about shitty patches, one of the very first patches they put out was so fucked up they had to roll back the servers. But they didn't roll them back far enough to prevent our first corp theft (in before you could lock expensive things such as Blueprints, corp hangers were fully open to all corp members back then). After that shitty patch they founded their QA department!
• About a year or two after launch during the height of my play time I was in a good corp with people from many different European countries and a handfull of Yanks (mostly East Cost). We were noob friendly though most didn't stick around long. One such noob was called "Fiona". She was a blast, but never used Ventrillo except to listen. (First red light, but we were all in our late teens, early 20s, and this whole "internet gaming" shit was new to us). Apparently she had been born without vocal cords. But she was fun as hell in Eve chat and our private forums. We finally found a "text to speech" function in Ventrillo so she could "talk" to us. She was from Texas she said. She really hit it off with one of our European boys who was unemployed at the time and could play late into the night. They started flirting and shit. She still flirted with a lot of us. She sent me as a PM risky photos she said she had taken (Second red flag, I should have realised two things, first that the photos were of different, but similar looking ladies, and second, they were very old and grainy magazine scans, but hey, see the first flag). Fast forward a couple of months and the two were very intimate. We eventually held a big "marriage" in game between the two with the whole corp showing up and giving gifts. Among the gifts were a month of subscriptions for the two. It was easy to give to the Euro Bro, but there was a problem for Fiona and she ended giving our corp CEO her account details so he could add a month. That's the third flag, as he noticed the username was quite masculine (can't remember what it was). Finally, after another couple of months she suddenly announced she was going to have a radically experimental and dangerous surgery to try and give herself a means to speak, but it was risky (fourth red flag!). We all supported her. The date of the surgery came and went and we heard nothing until we got a new forum member sign up and post saying he was her brother and that she had passed away due to complications from the surgery. At first we were all a bit traumatized, especially the dude who "married" her. That's when we started digging. Our private forums were run by one of our Euro Bros (a close RL friend of the "married" bro), and he checked out Fiona's account details including the registered e-mail and the password they used. He tried using the same password on her e-mail account and it worked. That opened up a whole can of worms. We found out that ... drum roll... Fiona was actually a young dude. He liked "water sports" as he had a few e-mail receipts from porn sites such as wettingherpanties.com (or something like that). He was also in charge of setting up a website for her sister's upcoming wedding (which used the same password to administrate as the other things). Anger rose with us and we pondered what to do about him, and revenge ideas included posting info on his watersport fetish to the wedding site and then changing the passwords and such, but in the end we're mostly decent people so we didn't. We just confronted him and forced a confession. Apparently it had started as a university project (psychology or sociology or summin?) to study gender bending in games. He hadn't meant it to get out of hand, but he got caught up with it and tried to find a way out. Well, we all learned our lesson not to trust "women" on the internet again. The poor Euro Bro took something like half a decade to recover but is happily married (to a real life flesh and blood woman) now.
• Back around 2008-2010 or so most small and medium sized corps were bitching no end on the forums about how hard it was to run one moon mining operation. In our corp we had a dude who was a wizard at it. He, mostly single headedly (but with some small help from the rest of us) ran something like 30 moon mining ops with 3 or 4 accounts. He ended up getting "job" offers from some of the largest alliances at the time to run their entire null sec moon mining ops but he preferred mucking around with us (we were all RL friends by then. He was a great guy but died a year or two later, I suspect suicide.

There are more but can't be arsed to write more.

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Empires of Eve - Wikipedia

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Borzak said:

They're still large, just losing the region they have been in since they moved to Delve. Everyone is guessing where they will end up. Largest alliance in game for years and years now.

When I first started Eve years and years and years ago you had to join their forum to join the corp. Then you had to pay to join the forum. No thanks.

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OneofOne said:

Pepperidge farm remembers the patch that changed/deleted the game's .exe file. Only... it wasn't the game's, but your computer's. They were paying for customers to have to take their computers to Geek Squad.

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Creslin said:

I haven't played since maybe 2007 but played with Shinra and then reikoku way back when, nothing will ever come close to the feeling of crushing defeat I had when we lost in C-J, I can still remember the name of that system 15 years after quitting the game.

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Creslin said:

We had a huge fleet from our alliance and got beat by like 100 guys in a 10 hour fight... it sounds cool in the history video but reality was a laggy shit show. It was against red alliance at the time but shortly after that fight goonfleet allied with them and started to expand their territory. Our alliance started to fall apart because the vassal alliances in the red alliance territory were pretty weak and started to lose territory and the bigger alliances/corps like Shinra really didn't want to keep flying up and mobilizing the defend people we didn't care that much about.

We had a big fight after that in a system that I can't remember and Chowdown who was a leader in Shinra revealed his titan in the fight, only the third titan in EVE I think along with Shrikes and that Aesir one that got destroyed. The titans at that point had real super weapons, like AOE instant kills to any sub caps that hit an entire grid, literally hundreds of ships blown up in a single shot. Even with the titans we lost that fight in that system after a few more hours of fighting.

After that we retreated to our home territory in tenerifis and the war was on our doorstep instead of far away. At that point BoB who hated goons for some reason had finished their war with Aesir and joined on our side against goons. We fought for a long time there, like months of stalemate and Shrike lost his titan being an idiot like the day after they nerfed titans. After that we eventually lost tenerifis and shinra moved to pirate space still allied with BoB but really on the ropes. After about a month in pirate space we merged with reikoku and the war continued until the whole BoB disbanded shit went down.. its been like 13 years since then and goonfleet has been on top for a long time so them finally falling apart if they do is huge.

Goons were looked down on at that time cause alot of us were day 1 03 players with tons of skills flying battleship fleets and goons tended to fly shit fleets with poor loadouts and just zerg. Red alliance was legit terrifying tho.

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