The first time I played the original EV, I just wandered around and gambled all of my money away until my registration date expired and I got attacked and killed by cap'n hector. So I re-downloaded, re-installed, and this time, I read the little white messages at the bottom of the screen. That was the day I learned to jump. I didn't even figure out how to buy new ships until I somehow scraped together enough money to buy a defender. At the time, I thought it was a really awsome ship, but I didn't know how to shoot primary weapons, even though I looked at the controls. So because I didn't know that laser cannons and that kind of stuff were called "primary weapons," I instead of making use of the "really awsome" defender's laser cannons, I sold them and bought missles. However, I didn't buy a missle launcher, so I didn't know what was wrong. I finally learned that you had to do so and so, in order to do so and so, basically piecing together the game, and it was actually fun Then I went out in search of the sequel... TO BE CONTINUED IN THE EV:O WEBBOARDS

I was shown how to play by a freind, so I spent a week cruising the galaxy in a heavily beefed up courier. After that I bought a corvette, learnt to trade and bought a kestrel. Then I did the Confed mission string.
I was in love with the game for about half a year.

Then I grew up

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Originally posted by disco:
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What did you do the first time you played EV?
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:rolleyes:

Before I ever played I RTFM.

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Joe Burnette
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Being the far-too-conservative-to-be-fun player I am, I spent literally months (well, maybe a couple of months) doing missions -- mostly rush deliveries -- until I had enough money to buy a scoutship, and eventually a corvette. Then I learned how to do the Monty Python maneuver, and combat in EV became a lot less fun.

I recently went back to EVGE and started to play while trying to minimize using the MPM, but with little success on large ships like Confed Cruisers. It's great using my Corvette to charge a Frigate or Kestrel though.

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I first played the game when I was 7. This was the first game I ever really liked, course me a little boy wanting to go into space, I got excited. I first got the game in Mac Formats Christmas edition. Course I spent hours in the shuttle in the one damn system. I got bored. About 4 months later I was going through my CD collection. Then saw my Mac format. I put it on and read the text at the bottom of the page and jumped, I was amazed! I immediately realised there were many more things than just exploring a system. I some how I managed to carry on with the game. I'm now 16! I still play the game! I know its not important not even related to game play in anyway, but that’s my story.

Sharky

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(This message has been edited by Sharky.G (edited 10-27-2002).)

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Originally posted by Sharky.G:
**I first played the game when I was 7... I'm now 16!...

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Interesting how you played the game three years before it was released. Or maybe you live on a planet with shorter years than Earth's.

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Originally posted by Joe Burnette:
Interesting how you played the game three years before it was released. Or maybe you live on a planet with shorter years than Earth's.

Bwuhahaha. Well done.

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Is it!!!!!!????? Damn that’s embarrassing. I was there when the really old website first came up. I was playing it when I was really young. There were still them old ship graphics. Let me think I played that caterpillar game and some others. If it was in Mac format must be brand new. So I must have played it when it recently came out. Okay literally 16 only a couple of days ago. So how many years have I played it? I’m too thick to figure it out.

I went red, I felt my face burn!!!! Me so dumb.

Sharky

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Originally posted by Sharky.G:
**..So how many years have I played it? ...
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Maximum 6 1/2 years since release of EV.
Or put another way you started playing when you were 9.

(I started playing when I was uh..er...39. Yeah, that's it, 39.)

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... Me so dumb...
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Nah, like all kids you got no sense of history

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Originally played EVO but I had to throw away the MacAddict CD it came on because of a problem and I had to reinstall my system. A couple of years later I got a Mac World subscription and it came with a CD game pack and had EV on it. I still spent hours in one system but finally looked at the bottom of the screen.

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(This message has been edited by pooper (edited 10-29-2002).)

thanks Joe. I agree I have no sense of history. Anyway I bet you all had a good laugh maybe even had a fit.

Sharky

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Bravo to all the mindless idiots who enjoy watching that little drum-playing bunny go. BRAVO!!!!! I read the entire manual through before playing, yes I'm a dork. I remember sturggling in my little shuttle, trying to explore the galaxy, constantly getting blown up. Then I bought a clipper. I thought, heheh, man, look at this, this ship is great! I put a couple a of guns and some rockets on the ship. Note I didn't buy a javelin pod. Well, I got blown up, bought an Argosy, got a 'vette, bought a Kestrel, got blown up, bought a Reb. Cruiser.
I recently started over, and I've been making money. (At least in my mind) Fast. I made 3 mill. in my 'vette this morning after playing for about 2 hours. (Where did that time go?)

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(This message has been edited by pooper (edited 11-02-2002).)

The first time I played EV, I had no clue what I was supposed to do, so I ended up getting chased by pretty much everyone in the galaxy. Fun stuff when all you have is a milk-cartain for a ship ;). Ahh... those were the days...

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Ah... the shuttlecraft... the flying bathtub... hehe.

I was at a friends house, checking out macaddict CDs.
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Originally posted by Joe Burnette:
**:rolleyes:

Before I ever played I RTFM.

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That's because you're old.

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The first time I played EV must have been 1996 or 1997 sometime. I installed this game that was supposed to be good, and went straight in without reading the manual. Seeing the shuttlecraft next to Levo, I assumed that this was a game where you controlled an orbital defense thingy and you had to shoot down the things attacking the planet (sort of like Patriot Command in space, I guess). Needless to say, I was baffled. Being about 11 and having no patience, I trashed the game immediately.

A few months later I reinstalled it unwittingly - I had forgotten I had already played and hated it. I printed off the instructions and read them that night (I still actually have the original printout in the original folder). I played it and loved it, even though it took me about a month to get a Clipper. I loved my Clipper, and had it for ages - however, eventually I saved up enough and bought a Lightning. Big mistake. My combat skills were very poor and the Lightning is no good for anything else. I gave up again for a while.

Again I reinstalled it, this time version 1.0.4. It stayed on my hard drive and I loved it to bits - I played EVGE, Epic, Pale, GS and all the classic plugins, and I spent MUCH too much time on it. EV is great.

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I started playing EV when I found it on the premier edition of the Mac Addict supplimentary CD on a friend's Performa 600 Series.

I remember buying a clipper and discovering a button that caused my ship to shoot. Completely dumbfounded and excited I went off to search for my first victim. The only ship in sight was a confed frigate and I learned my first lesson: There are bigger fish in the sea.

I also remember the first time I ever attempted the Alien mission. I had a kestrel that I stripped down to nothing and loaded up with tons of torpedos. It worked =).

There was also the little mass expansion bug... I would wander around capturing bulk freighters and converting their hold space to my weapon space. Thankfully, they fixed that bug.

-AJ

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Originally posted by forge:
**That's because you're old.
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Well, DUH.

Old people have learned not to waste time making stupid mistakes - either by making them in the past or seeing others make them.

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Spring of '01. I got EV from a friend, who had loaded it up with cheater plugs. So I went around the galaxy on a rampage, and soon got bored. That's when I learned what a mission was. I soon was an EV addict, and came to these boards. Look at me now... the most recently registered member of the top 25 posters. Sad story, ain't it.

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