EVE General Discussion

I recently got into EVE about a month ago and have been having a whale of a time. Recently I started doing some factional warfare and the more I look around the internet, the more it seems that joining a corp is the best way to get the most out of EVE in general.

The problem is, I am only 14 years old and most online gaming communities hate teens. Normally this wouldn't be a problem but the vast majority of corps seem to have comms as a requirement. This makes me a bit cautious about joining one so I'm wondering if most corps in EVE are against having an adolescent among their ranks due to the sound of their voice or a bias.

I always make sure they are old enough.

Not gonna get into trouble for a bit of fun, no way!

If you're not an annoying screecher no-one will really notice. If you are, and use your age to justify being annoying, people will remark that you are an annoying screechy teenager. It's as simple as that, really - and for some reason this seems to be the case for female EvE players too.

Plenty of the decent folks have kids (some of whom play) and are reasonably tolerant. Avoid the intolerant ones, don't take it too personally etc. You don't have to tell everyone your real age either btw. Maybe your close friends or corp leadership when you join. Otherwise tell them you're a late bloomer and prepare for some teasing. If people go out of their way to torment you over your age, shoot them and say it was an accident. In a really high voice.

There are some corps that are 18+ only. So check up on that before you look to join. Many corps run open fleets and/or there are open fleet opportunities all over Eve. I know FW had open fleets all the time and the people there would recruit if you were a good pilot.

You might consider trying out some open fleets and if you can follow orders and show discipline, you'll get corp invites from people who will vouch for you.

I have a person in my chat channel for months, only recently I learned he isn't even the legal drinking age here in The Netherlands (which is 18 years now).

Before that, I would have estimated him well in his 20s.

So, age isn't usually a big thing for other players, it's how mature you are.

Any EVE player would rather play with a mature teenage player then with a childish and bitchy person in his early 40s.

I used to be with an alliance which had a member that always let his little girls say hello to everybody when he logged in on Teamspeak.

That was always both funny and adorable.

Specially, if he didn't saw that we had coalition people also on the teamspeak

Last I heard it lasts a year, frrom birthday to birthday.

TS 1: squek squek
TS 2: Get out!
TS 1: squek squek
TS 2: Kicked from TS server and from corp

14 lasts about 1/14th of your life, 50 only lasts 1/50th. So proportionally speaking, 14 is much longer than 50.

As for the OP's question: there are corps who refuse to take minors (anyone under "age of majority" or whatever) simply because they don't want to go to gaol for talking about sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, and thus being accused of "grooming" a minor. An infection can be cured, Child Sex Offenders Register is for life.

\m/

I've done recruitment for a few corps and I can honestly say some of the best players I've ever recruited were teenagers who explicitly broke our 18+ or 25+ label. We let them in because we liked them, as people (and despite a fair bit of teasing, they gave as good as they got). An awful lot of 'vets' are suspiciously young too IRL especially when they've played the character continuously. We just put that age minimum into our recruitment to reassure people we were mature (which was a complete lie, old people are disgraceful at times).

There is perhaps a justifiable concern about longevity in this game along with personality, but otherwise it's just intolerance. Whenever I see a corp description announcing "no drama" I take it as a "no women, aiiii" sign. After a bit of study it appears that they have enough drama queens already, and can't cope with the competition.

@ Jimmy anyway, good luck with the search, and as previously mentioned - take it in stride. Sometimes it takes a while to find the right corp, but the friends you make along the way are worth it. Use ingame channels and the forums to get in touch (and stay in touch) with likeminded people. There are some mouthy teen players who have been fairly high profile, and trolled to hell over it, but persisted. So stick with it, even if you mess up.

One of the richest people ingame informed me of his age a while back, and when I worked out his starting age was close to yours, I was really impressed tbh. Mainly because he's so much more likeable and mature than virtually everyone else ingame. But his corpies have to have known his age along the way, and it doesn't seem to have done any harm.

Speak for yourself...