Wormholes

I just spent a few minutes on general discussion forum, trolls everywhere, locked threads everywhere, tears and people with names like "Lrn2Pl@yn00b" etc

In general I find these forums alot better than other sub-forums and those in game to be more mature.

Of course this is hard to prove statistically or anything since maturity is subjective. In general though we throw alot less excrement around here.

There has been some statistics before about average age of eve players [citation needed] but I wonder if its higher here? The youngest guy in my corp is probably 18ish and he gets plenty of banter at him because of it but for most games he would be the tough older kid :)

I think the average age in Bitten was 35 last time we checked

I've met plenty of immature ppl in wormholes, but they have a nasty habit of getting evicted or podded back to kspace. That might be the real reason.

In my opinion yeah, I think the environment that wormholes create: lawlessness, honourable fights, everyone being on their toes constantly etc makes people less likely to be whiny little kids. Highseccers are definitely synonymous to spoilt little kids being sheltered and crying whenever something doesn't go their way, with nullbears not being too far behind.

Now obviously this isn't the rule, and there will be mature and decent players in all kinds of space as well as immature ones, my opinion is just based on my own observations of forums/in-game players.

Well, it's not Tuna's fault when he was born.

We're all teenagers, but we consider ourselves reasonably mature, relatively speaking. The responsibility of having young families while trying to find jobs in an economic downturn has put wizened heads on strapping young shoulders. We all look up to our eldest, however. At 19 years old, this venerable pilot has been an inspiration to us all, sometimes just logging in to hear his sage council, knowing that at our tender years, we still have much to learn.

But we daren't entitle ourselves as 'mature'. At least not until Zeyta's voice breaks.

@ OP You asked if EvE players are more mature that's not synchronous with being older

The first is based on your personality and personal mental growth the second on physical age.
Might seem pedantic to point it out, but it's a valid point.

Our alliances youngest player (who posted above) is incidentally also one of the most mature in his approach to the game.

To play wormholes (for one of the larger groups) you have to be able to co-operate with other players. You have to be able to realise that workload is split, and be able to suck it up sometimes even if you feel like you are pulling the hardest.

All rewards take much longer to get then the more instant gratification of 0,0 (both for pvp and for pve) Immature players don't tend to fit into this playstyle)

In general wormholes is much more about social construct and slow rewards then the rest of 0,0. This means that the more immature groups or players tend to fail pretty hard in wormholes. We can usually tell very quickly when our recruitment filter has accepted a player who isn't suited for wormholes.


The point above in regards to wormholes being initially populated by players all wanting to get away from the 0,0 dramalama bullshit is also very valid and at least in Norco wh division the most important factor in why we initially wanted to try wh out.

This.

I have the same experiences as Sandslinger: the youngesters (you know who you are <3) acting more mature than the seniors ;) sometimes you need to remind the seniors that there are underaged people on comms as well.

One of the reasons I think is indeed because of what WH space requires (patience, teamwork, player skills, higher SP, being reliant on others), the WH recruitment process is more stringent than nullsec/lowsec. But, I might be mistaken as I only lived in WHs.

This is true. Generally speaking, 18 year olds have different interests to 40 year olds. Perhaps a more insightful question would be "Does the wormhole environment appeal more to a specific demographic?"

My personal experience is that is does. Most of the groups I have been involved in wormhole space have generally been 25-35 year old, married post-graduates in full-time employment. Bear in mind that this is quite a crude generalisation and of course there will be exceptions, but I believe the bulk of our group fit into this category.

The average EVE player is about 30 years old so that would be just the average, nothing special to wormholes.