It was a sunny summer morning. I got up early, even though I still had over a month of summer holidays. This is one of the aspects of student’s life I miss a lot: three months break in the summer. I started browsing the internet, looking for something on sourceforge. And there it was: this little banner of EVE Online.
A friend, who attended classes with me, told me about the game earlier the same year. A colleague of his started the first polish fansite of EVE: eve-centrala.pl. My friend didn’t say much about the game itself apart from the fact it’s about spaceships, but this was enough to get me started. I have browsed the EVE website and a couple of fansites which I could find on google. I liked the setting and I liked the concept, but didn’t want to start playing a game with subscription.
So this morning, when I saw the EVE banner, I have decided to give it a try. I have signed up for the trial quickly and downloaded the 500 megabyte client package. I was to learn later that this was the ‘Cold War’ edition, which then had little meaning to me.
I started up, watched the intro and at 9:21 (7:21 EVE time) I created a new character. I really liked rolling eyes in the old character creator 🙂
Ten years ago, Lukas Rox was born.
A decade is one hell of a lot of time. A lot has changed, both in my life, and in EVE. Wrecks were added. Wormholes appeared. Graphics engine was upgraded twice. It’s hard to write it all up in one short post.
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The images above were shot is in the very same place and in the very same ship
So instead of focusing on the history, I will focus on
CELEBRATION!
That’s right my friends, a giveaway is in order!
Simply comment under this post using your in-game name (so I can reach you if you win) to get a chance of winning one of the amazing prizes.
For example Mines and their blueprints were already deprecated when I started playing in 2005, but due to a showinfo glitch I was able to obtain some Blueprints from NPC sell orders. All you had to do is have a showinfo link – this is something I was able to create myself. Once clicked in In-game Browser, this link would open a normal Show Info window. All you had to do now was to right click, choose “View on market” and the NPC sell orders were still seeded, so one was able to easily buy any amount. CCP has long since removed the source of these blueprints, so no source of them exists anymore, and all those left are now collector items with long history 🙂 I don’t put any ISK value, because for collectors they are priceless anyway 🙂
| 1. |  |
Men’s ‘Sterling’ Dress Shirt (Ishukone Special Edition) | 1.9B ISK |
| 2. |  |
One Billion ISK in cash | 1B ISK |
| 3. |     |
Genolution Core Augmentation set CA1 through CA4 | 450M ISK |
| 4. |   |
Python Mine BPO (never unpacked), Anaconda Mine BPO (never unpacked) | ??? ISK |
| 5. | Assorted ship SKINs Catalyst Intaki Syndicate SKIN, Thrasher Nefantar SKIN, others |
250M ISK | |
| 6. |  |
GDN-9 “Nightstalker” Combat Goggles | 150M ISK |
I’m overwhelmed and humbled by how great the EVE community is! Thank you everyone for warm wishes!
I dug in my hangars a little more and found two more sets of Core Augmentation sets and added them to the giveaway!
Bonus prizes
| 7. | |
Genolution Core Augmentation set CA1 through CA4 | 450M ISK |
| 8. | |
Genolution Core Augmentation set CA1 through CA4 | 450M ISK |
| 9. |  |
Bonus prize
Rattlesnakedonated by The Angel Project |
330M ISK |
| 10. |  |
Bonus prize
Nightmaredonated by High Drag Podcast |
400M ISK |
| 11. |  |
Bonus prize
PLEXdonated by Llediarth |
1B ISK |
| 12. | |
Bonus prize
Rattlesnakedonated by Aideron Technologies |
330M ISK |
| 13. |  |
Bonus prize
Dominix Navy Issuedonated by Aideron Technologies |
570M ISK |
Comments must be posted between Aug 22, 2015 0:00 and Aug 29, 2015 0:00.
Random draw will be held next weekend using Chribba dice.
The ticket list which will be used for the draft is available here.
Good luck!
And fly safe o7
Congrats mate ingame mrbobvilla
Oh my god prizes…. 🙂
All the best Lukas. Llediarth greeting 🙂
Congrats on the 10 years Lukas and here’s to the next 10!
Congrats!
Happy Birthday, Lukas! A long run in which you’ve created a lot – I look forward to seeing where you’ll continue to go and what you’ll create.
Happy EvE Birthday almost twin Lukas! Boci (me) was born 8/19! I’ll bug you on twitter about it 😛
Congrats on 10 years!!
Happy birthday Lukas Rox and long life to you and your blog, i find it when you were doing the summary expansions better than all others.
Awesome, glad to see long term retention like this!
10 years, Im rrrrrrlly far away from that ^^
Vincent Eneticum likes prizes though so, gratz to you & luck for me 😛
Congrats on 10 years!
Congrats! I’m nowhere near that yet, but I’m on my way 🙂 (In-game: Uriel Paradisi Anteovnuecci)
Congrats on your 10th birthday! I still have some mines, but never did get a BPO… nice one! 🙂
IGN: Lexx Jonlan
congrats on 10 years
Geno Side
Happy 10th birthday! (your giveaway reminds me of LOTR, cause hobbits give away gifts on their birthdays)
Dude! Long time to play!! (8 here) congrats andfly safe
– red queen tntimmy
Congrats on 10 years 😀
Warpguy Warpgod
Congrats on 10 years!
Congrats!
Playing since one year here. The only thing i regret is that i started so late. Plissken Jack
Congrats Lukas.
Congratulations! Hope you have many more years to go.
happy brirthay dude… congratz.. i come late for the price, but is not to late to salute you.. xD
very nice 10th bday response, I wish I had thought of that when it was mine, Linia
Congrat!
Happy Birthday From Marclonus Shouna
Congrats mate. May your killboard stay green and your market orders be profitable the next 10 years.
Fly safe & godspeed
Happy Birthday, Lukas! 10 years, wow! I can only wonder how the game was in 2005… Mainly how piracy was back then… I just started playing in the last 7 months and having a blast being a blinky pirate!
And also thank you for giving away items to other players, when you could just blow them all in style 😀
Fly safe o7
Happy Birthday! My name is Garageguy
Congratulations, in game Cato Stark
Happy birthday!
that’s awesome!
IGN: Carl Sagan Andballs
Happy Birthday Great to know the game has given you 10 years of content – Senor Kittens
Congratulations!
Gonzalez Gonzalez
Congrats on the 10th birthday! May you play many more years!
Cheers,
Turistu Etern
Well done and congratulations on a milestone of madness, here’s to another 10. Cheers. “15070P3”
Happy Birthday!
Gregora Mai
Happy 10th! In game Xavier Strange
Have a wonderful Birthday!
o7
Aivoras Ohm
Najlepsze życzenia od trolla centralowego 😀
Gratz mate, to many more to come 🙂
Congrats!
Congratulations for your 10th birthday \o/ . Hope we all still be there to wish you the 11th 🙂 .
(only 8 years in the business… 2 more years to celebrate)
Ellina Sewi
Congrats m8! I’ll take a whack at the drawing, put down Cap’n Schmitty as an entrant.
Congrats, cheers and here’s to another 10 years !
I’m turning 5 in November! Where I am now, you were at when I started! In-Game name: Sadew42
Happy Birthday 🙂
Najlepszego stary! 10 lat się męczyć w statki kosmiczne to kawał czasu… życzy Laira Ohtar
Congratulations, ingame name fetox74