Depends. It's been 10 or 11 years since I started playing (I think I played a little while before making an account on the forum) so I guess I count as an old player now.
Platinum mining in penny, i used to drop by the giant pink even after the plat ore got removed, just to see if there are any old players trying to go there and mine. Is the planet even there anymore ?
I used to pay players to get me gaurd iff. I would hop in with the player who is technically in my ship, doing missions for me,paid by me. I used to do this because my english is/was really bad, barely even spoke, no one would understand me. But the players i paid to get me gaurd iff would let me be in the group, just because. [*USI*] banned me from joining them, i failed their recuritment process and couldnt rp with them in game.narendranpandian87 helped me for a couple of months and was my only friend for a while here.