"I remember when..."

[Rubbernuke]

I remember when there were no fuel Rats, no fuel tanks, no self destruct-just you and the map. I remember taking a 10 jump rares trip and having every jump carefully plotted. If you messed up, you set silent running and lit a Hamlet. No rodent hand holding.

I remember when 50,000 credits was a goldmine, and that buying any module was a real decision. New laser or better FSD? Decisions decisions.

I remember going bust on more than one occasion and having to pirate to make money to get back on my feet.

I remember fuel and repair being expensive, and that smaller ships being cheaper to run made sense.

I remember having to drop out far away from stations and the NFZ and full burn to safety.

I remember when the collision detection blew your ship up if you grazed the floor.

I remember when docking numbers vanished for a laugh.

 

[Cmdr Snuffler]

...the day the very first alpha build was released

 

[Whitehair]

I remember approaching a station and exiting Super Cruise to find myself INSIDE the station.

 

[Siobhan]

I remember when all of this was line drawn white on black polygons... as far as the eye could see.

And I'm still smokin' hot.

I remember those white lines... early versions of the standard sensor suite weren't up to a lot really... (even an E rated model does more these days). Then again, we did get a rear window to make up for it.
I also remember having a max 7LY jump range too. Ah those were the days.

 

[Vardaugas]

I..... forgot.

 

[Noctover]

When Interdictions didnt require you to just stare at the joystick to win.

When "Hostile ships may be sent against you" meant hostile ships might sometimes NOT be sent against you.

 

[Lordxenu]

taking a cargo mission, not realising it was a multi stop mission then realising the last station was 300,000ls out and it was an outpost and I'm in an anaconda.....

 

[ApexWanderer]

I remember when there were 'Free Hugs' in Sagittarius A.

 

[DNA-Decay]

I remember Suzy Thunda.

 

[aardappelianen]

When hauling biowaste in my courier was big business

 

[13A]

Hauling food cartridges until i had enough credits to start hauling domestic appliances.

Hauling enough domestic appliances until i could afford to buy a hauler.

My trading career really took off when I could afford to buy 1T of Prog cells. Before I knew it I was in a D rated Adder

 

[13A]

Also, waiting until the last moment to drop out of SC so you didn't have to fly 200 km to dock, whilst hoping you haven't left it too late and bouncing off the side of the station before exploding.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

When the FDL didn't overheat.

When being seen in a Python sparked fear and panic.

When I could rain down rockets for skimmer and power generator missions.

When searching for escape pods on the surface, actually meant searching for escape pods on the surface, not just a "here I am" mission.

When NPC's used to bounce off asteroids. It never stopped being funny.

When NPC's wanted your limpets.

When signal sources were pre-labelled.

 

[o2thaZ]

Membering ooeeeh, ahhhhh.!!
Member the 80s emember emember chewbacca?
Member when marriage was something between a man and a woman?
Member the password?

 

[clivewil]

i remember Seeking Luxuries down in Beta Sculptoris. now that's old.

a few seconds later all the hollow squares would vanish

yeah, carting Palladium into the starter systems trying to be helpful - but it was like they were roaches and the 'conda was a lightbulb. instant panic and scatter. ungrateful wretches.

 

[insanephoton]

I remember the weekend of the spinning cobra.

I remember a time before stations

I remember when Port Zelada was the only place to land, if the crazy flight controller didn't switch pads on you a the last second.

I remember capital ships spawning from each other and taking the framerate down to glacial levels.

 

[Ozmodion]

I remember when all you could do was trade or bounty hunt and missions only came to you after you reached Dangerous Rank and then few and far between.

 

[Jason Heik]

I remember a time before Haz rez when we would go into the nav beacon to kill pirate! And that we would need to coordinate our fire to share the kill with our wingmate... except we didn't have wing, it was before that!

 

[Siobhan]

I remember when all you could do was trade or bounty hunt and missions only came to you after you reached Dangerous Rank and then few and far between.

And when there was only one starter system... Lave.

 

[Viscera]

..when the midnight black paintjob for the T10 was only a pound.