EVE Online’s Forgotten Ticklics Plague | Legacy Stories Ep. 01

Before EVE Online had endless guides, wikis, videos and answers one search away, a lot of knowledge travelled through chat windows, and sometimes that knowledge was complete... nonsense. In 2004, a few suspicious dots on an Exequror were enough to create the legend of Ticklics: a highly contagious “space plague” that supposedly infected ships left outside in space. What happened next is one of those tiny pieces of EVE history that was never important enough for chronicles, but somehow perfectly captures what the early game felt like. And there is a reason I remember this particular story…