1) ...there was a tab to repair
2) ...the closest you could get to mining was the prospecting missions
3) ...stopping in the middle of a fight to hold still and line up your shot was a successful tactic (against me at least)
4) ...I thought I came up with the idea for a jetison menu

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/me steps aside to let the AB players pwn his ass

AB players pwn nobodys ass

5) UIT was called Gold, and then Neutral Territories
6) My first char got a 'hog
7) My memory was at least half-decent

/me smites Norseman with his almighty AB powers

You forgot "The moth was not yet in play ", Smittens, and the corollary "At first the moth didn't fit into the docking bays".

o.O I remember when there was no Moth. I also remember when NPCs used Atlases instaid of moths.

Now you *want* the alpha/beta players to mope about what has been? Make up your minds.

8) ...furries pwnd everyone!
9) ...motherships

10) sector 17 and 18 where scary as hell
11) I was helping scubasteve find the wormhole to s17
12) I found sector 16 (all the golds where looking in 15)
13) we all spammed so much at once, the devs logged on :D

14) All ships had the same ports
15) You could only own one ship at a time
16) Each of your characters was locked into a ship class (Light, Medium, or Heavy)
17) We had station defense turrets
18) n00bie terrorized the universe
19) The 18 - 14 run was worth an insane number of credits

Blue ions ftw!

20) No licences, cash was king
21) CTF was the only thing to do
22) The hidden station in S10 WAS hidden
23) You could tell what nation someone was by the colour of their chat
24) You could have station wars and no SF came to bother you
25) Your could dock in an enemy station using the jump / explode bug
26) Everyone had a bounty and a score

27) You could fly a red nation ship on a blue nation character.

28) You had to PAY for repairs(did not last long though)

29) and you guys missed the big beauty of Avalon wars!!!

30) Money bug!

31) Chasing some Gold into my first secret worm hole, S8 --> S14.
32) Getting station camped by said Gold and his buddies on the other side of the said worm hole (pwease pwease bring teh Ceres sytle stations back! :> )

33) Weapons had no mass! (A.K.A. the day of the tri-flare valk)

34) It's free.

When there wasn't any secret wormholes, and the wormholes themselves were giant sphere's that you had to enter before you could jump. CTF ruled supreme in the universe of no more than 9 sectors...
when the best ship was the vulture, and red always ruled!
go serco ftw.

35) No Strike Force
36) Different Engines!
37) Station guards on nation sectors only, so that made way for station wars! (s7 FTW!)
38) s0! O_o
39) NANITES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
40) no mining
41) Alts were easy :D
42) No varients (mk 1, mk 2, etc)
43) Avalons, boy were they fun!
44) BountyBot!
45) Furies in s15, s17, s18
46) Friggy with Fighter Escort
47) No boosting while having the flag

(I didn't name EVERYTHING I remembered, so there were some for the non-AB players, however I will have to chime in with one of my favorites...)

48) You had to bribe officials to get your licenses

49) Scores reset every 15 minutes

50) Powerups

51) neutrons were called tachyons
52) noone used flares and "backrolling" was considered a cheap tatic.
53) 1 million creds was a lot of cash
54) Edras k-3 "bot crack" (got over 1000 bots in the sector at a time...Oohhh what fun :D)
55) CtC was the main event
56) The prom was god ... then nerfed ... then made god again