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 ๐
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 ๐ I don’t put any ISK value, because for collectors they are priceless anyway ๐
| 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
Congratulations good sir!
I hope that you stay around for another ten years in this fantastic universe!
Best regards. o7
Tazhaul
Hi Lukas Rox, congrats to your very special Birthday from M109 \o/
Live long and prosper =)
Grats for a whole decade, holy crap!
I’m barely coming up on my fifth year. But all in time, Fly dangerous o7
(wopolusa)
Happy 10th birthday! Congrats!
sainttora
I just started playing about three months ago… But I sure hope I’ll be still around, when my character has his 10th birthday ๐
All the best wishes o7
Mike O’Doyle
Happy birthday man, if i win i want the mine BPOs
LastGunslinger Tull
Happy 10th Birthday!!
It’s scary to think that mine is coming up in 2 years
Belten
Happy birthday to you and thank you for sharing with eventually poor players that really appreciate your birthday party ๐ Fly safe for the next 10 years to come!
o7 Kazikings
Congrats on your 10th Anniversary!! How many skill points are you up to? (In game name: Stalence)
Congratulations man, may you have many more years ahead!
Happy Birthday! And congratulations Capsuleer!!! Fly safe for many years to come!
Congrats m8 and fly dangerous!
Happy Anniversary
Daemic
Epic!!
Gor Fera
Congratulations on your anniversary and may Bob be with!
Happy Birthday
Love
Mira Fluxion
Roniin Makami – Been playing since January 1st of this year.
Happy 10th! Your killmail list must be staggering…
happy birthday
ingame name: Demotress
Happy Birthday!
Ingame: SkulX Hekki
I asked CCP for a pressy when I turned ten…. they said no ๐ This is a much better idea.
Karl Mason
Congratz on your milestone. I just joined this past august. (Please don’t one-shot my frigate)
Easi
Congo Ratz on 10 years in an ever changing universe. Here’s to 20 more.
Regards, Strybjorn Ironhand
Happy birthday! !! I’m going on 9 years myself…
The tebo.
Princess Androiette wishes you a reocuring decade.
Happy Birthday.
Glad we would meet online ๐
Thank you very much for giveaway! And Happy birthday!
Have a wonderful day,
John MidWolfie
Congrats on the decade!
Drakthon
Congrats. Change recap over years would be fun
Gratuluje wytrwaลoลci ๐
Always a big fan, and I have a polish name to boot. <3 kyle yanowski
Congratulations my friend! I’m coming up on my 7th year anniversary. Here’s to another decade!!
Congratulations! I’m up for my 10th next year ๐
Marcus Terani
Hey fella, happy freaking birthday.
I think all the old players and yourself will agree when you look at how much the game has affected you and vice versa.
The lifelong friends you make, the ingame enemies you love to meet up with at events to have a drink with, the life lessons you can pick up and on top of it all that overwhelming sense of paranoia that every bugger and their dog is out to get you!
Have a good one,
Rathnon Domitras
Hello, I’m Ismar Berkant in the game. Happy Birthday!
I think this game is one of the most magnificent things ever created for the internet. The social aspect is top-notch and the variety of the things you can do, the way you can interact with the game and the means by which you can create content and participate in the lore are unprecedented in any other MMO ever released. It’s good to meet a lot of people from all over the world who cherish this game. Enjoy, man!
Congrats On 10 Years!!
~Rageheart
Concracts!
You’ve sure had a long career in New Eden. Maybe there’ll be another decade ;D
Goodspeed,
Figrif Ziffider
10 years… woaw man, awesome!
Ty for this event and much luck in game and otu of it! o7
Thank you everyone for the warm wishes, I’m humbled by how great the EVE Online community is! You guys are the reason I still play this game after so many years! And CCP of course ๐
Thanks again!!
Now to respond to some of the comments.
Speaking of the biggest achievemnts? Organizing the EVE Player meet in Warsaw last year was certainly one of them. It was so cool to meet all those people who share the passion for internet spaceships ๐ And the look on CCP Gargant face when we gave him the bottle of Frachtรณwka (Freighter Vodka) ๐ Priceless.
The idea for a reminiscence how the game eveolved over the last ten years is great, and I have thousands of screenshots from that period. I’m sure I can tell you a story about that ๐
Dang happy pod birthing day! I’m only around 7 years licensed and have been going through all my old screenshots, memory lane.
Congrats on year 10! Big milestone to hit!
Culu Dunkatar
Happy Birthday sir! many years a happy char, may it continue for more to come!
Happy Birthday
Happy birthday, keep up your sub ๐
Egsise
Happy 1st decade!
May you enjoy many many more. ๐
Happy Birthday, been playing for around 6 years myself.
Jason Dunham
EVE changed so much in ten years, but the good people are still here, having fun …
Happy Birthday man ! And keep flying safe o7
awsome 10years i salut you o7
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! I just came back today after a year away. Please don’t kill me
Congratulations for playing EVE online since 10 years! Fly safe o7
Sir Lycador
Grats, my char celebrates his 12th birthday nex month….
Whoa! That’s awesome mate! I always envied those who started in the year EVE was released ๐ Much respect sir!