Today marks the fifth anniversary of me starting to play Eve. I'm not been entirely faithful over the years, but it keeps dragging me back.
It's scary how different the game is from when it launched. Back then I ran off to 0.0 because it was safer than Empire as M0o explored the limits of the game's rules (and how modules stacked). That was what really started Eve on it's way I think, although I pretty much hated them at the time. It probably signaled the change between CCPs game and us playing the game how we wanted and CCP were smart enough to recognise this and let us run free with their baby. Hey, maybe that CSM thing may actually work after all.
When I think about what we had back at the start the game was so much smaller. We didn't even have Battleships, let alone POSs, Capitals, Alliances and Tech 2. Now we've got factional warfare and ambulation coming. As long as CCP keep adding the features I think I'm here to stay.
Here's to the next half decade.