EVE General Discussion

Similar threads on WoWs GD reveal that the ages of players of that game do tend to be older anyway. Or that could simply be a forum thing.

Get off my lawn ya durn whippersnapper!!




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Eve is just a game but the people are still real, granted it being a game allows you to take on a personality that you might have never gotten to experience RL. I'm 25 myself but I have players that span from 19 years old to 50. They span form being a simple college student to ex marines to being a baker in spain. You get all sorts and that's half the fun.

I am similar although opposite as well,

The older I get the less tolerant I get of people especially if it involves the Labour Party then I want to gank them all. I've only just recovered after the last time they screwed the country up.....sorry got elected.

I'm 40 btw and I find most people on here are of the older ilk.

I started eve 7 years ago, i was 13 .

Of course it gave me something that others teens didn't have. I could speak every day with grown up players , learning a lot about eve and IRL early.

It also gave me a good english level and some leadership skills, and it's something that helped me quite good.

On the other side, i've spend so much time on this game that i guess i missed a lot of things IRL. But that's how eve is : if you don't invest, you'll learn nothing.

not the oldest in the thread, but older than the OP

26 here, so i'm kinda young, but.....

Right now i have a girlfriend (Also a gamer) i've living with for the past 4 years (I'll marry soon TM). I have an stable job, i have a degree....and...you know what, i've been a gamer (And pretty hardcore) all my life.


The thing is to balance out the things you do in your life. If you use 8 hours per day to study, then go play Eve if you want! But don't play Eve for 14 hours and don't study at all. Same applies to job, first things first....BUT....


Don't think you are losing your life for playing a video game (Specially with this heavy social interaction). What are you missing ? Getting drunk with RL people ? How much different is the feeling of getting drunk in corp comms with some mining friends while you shoot at space rocks ?, shootting space rocks and talking to friends in corp while drinking a beer it's no different than being in a bar, drinking a beer with your friends while watching girls *sses (As long as the feeling you get it's the same, the fullfilment in the social interaction, it's ok)


You don't lose your life for playing a video game, you lose your life if you don't share it with anybody besides yourself. We live to share things with other important people, not to be alone. As long as you can remember that and keep your head clear, you won't be "Wasting" your life by playing a video game.

I find reality TV shows have made me far more tolerant and less willing to impose my views on others. Why? Because they have shown me that people live some crazy ass lives that can't even imagine are on the same planet as me, much less my country. So I definitely have no business telling them how to live those crazy ass lives.

Although I don't know what a Tory is. I'd still gank a big government politician, or any Democrat, any time... assuming they play Eve.

My experience in eve has taught me me many skills, like ignoring my family, trolling (unsucessfully) people in the forums and in game, opening convos with conspiracy theorists in Amarr begging people to stay out because we support slavery, learning of all the strange diseases some people have on them and forces them to play eve and other mmos almost 24/7 , thinly veiled attempts at setting sexual RL encounters, overtly blatant attempts at pimping my partner in webcam for isks (you know who you are you pervert) , people selling me online medications, people asking me about how much I charged for virtual seances to speak with dead ones, Nigerian Scams , malicious links, pornstar knowledge as I see ships with strange names, people wanting to scam me and others in myriad ways, lame drones that die in 3 shots and they cost too much to replace, angry people shouting in comms that turned me off for ages and made me go mute on field ops back in the day, the loss of a beloved alliance and how I still can not get over it and being dirt poor once with all ships locked in a enemy station.

I mean really, why do I even need to go out to the streets? EVE > Real Life, and I think , being a bit more serious, young people here if starting, like all other online games, need a parent or tutor counseling telling them how to behave and what to expect, else we might get maladjusted beings that have issues coping with life.

Asocial and Sadistic entities currently dwelling within the EVE cluster were born broken anyway, so they have a nice spot here

I also , like others, believe EVE is a kind of mindset game. That´s what has kept me hooked for so long (8 years and counting!), no other game has kept me here. I sometimes go away, but always return, nothing out there beats the feeling EVE can give.

So more than a "young man" game, it essentially embodies the "niche" game spot.

I have , and I am not making this up, invited over 50 people to the game, some of them having given "codes" , others the link for the trial, others the now extinct 5$ steam offers, for the past 8 years. NONE of them remain here , and only a handful did stay for more than the 2 week trial.

This game is not really for everyone, neither young men or old men.

There´s something "unique" , like the french say a "je ne sais quoi" quality that makes you attracted to such an impersonal game.

You can even see the backlash from the NEX store, the not so delicate attempt at trying to bring other types of people here, that actually shocked the core userbase and even CCP itself.

EVE´s sandbox and style is their biggest boon and greatest bane.

I am 31. And I've played many mmo's when I had the time. I have never had so many experiences and met so many people in a Such a short amount of time. Eve was actually my choice as the last mmo I will play before I quit gaming. And well. I don't want to quit now that I learned how to play it. Im somewhat determined now. Oops.