EVE General Discussion

I love playing EVE. I keep quitting but, in the words of Al Pacino, "Just when I think I've escaped, it pulls me back in". (Or something like that.) Trouble is, as a reasonably senior Exec in a global Corp in 'real life' - and having a young family and other 'real' responsibilities that middle-age brings - I don't have a great deal of spare time - and I certainly can't plan it around EVE.

Question: Am I alone in this? Is there anyone else who is in the same situation and wants to share game advice? If not, I'll just sail off into the sunset and leave New Eden for the under-[insert key demographic here].

Thank you for listening.

Play when you can, but keep your priorities straight. Well past middle-aged here, and I play EveO when my RL responsibilities and commitments are taken care of. I guess the nice thing about being a student is that you don't have any real responsibilities, especially if mommy and daddy are paying the bills.

I could strongly recommend Faction Warfare, its one of the few things in eve you can just jump in and join the little time you do have to play.
Start with frigate pvp, its easy to get into and doesnt cost much to lose the first 20 ships (takes some losses to learn).

I'm in my 40s. Kids. Grand-kids even. House. Cars. Principal Software Engineer for a major global software company. Been putting in 60 hour work weeks for the last couple months as delivery date nears.

I just maintain a causal play style were my activity level is really not that important. Log in when I want, do what I want, make sure that I'm not pestered by others.


I tried being in null. Too many hassles. One cloaky camper and your play is shut down. I don't need that. So, I moved back to high sec.

I was in big corps. Again, too many hassles with war decs and such. Now I'm just in my own corp with just my alts. Was dec comes in, I just drop to NPC corp until it ends.

Friends keep trying to get me to be more involved with their corps, and I just refuse. I don't want to be in charge of anything.



For me, EVE is my relaxing escape from the stress and hassles of real life. If there is something in EVE that is stressful or a hassle, I simply don't do it. If there is something in the way of not letting me play when and how I like, I just use game mechanics to get around it.

Middle aged here, my advice is to play when you can, and to enjoy the time you spend playing.

Ah, the days when you had to align the ship to get off a shot with your spinal mount meason gun, only to have the enemy hidden behind a wall of debris thrown from his sand casters. ;)


My Traveler play time was in the early 80s when I was in high school.

The Eve player base age shows whenever you get a bunch of us talking about how much we loved the old spaceship game Elite. Like many of you I've been at it since the TRS80/Apple II era, and still live like a big kid watching anime, Star Wars and Doctor Who, much like I did back in the 70s.

... and it was searching for 'Elite' that brought me to EVE around three years ago. The ZX Spectrum was the platform of choice for me in the '80s - and Elite was truly awesome (even if docking was frustrating).

When I read rookie chat for the first time, there was a 12 year old kid throwing a fit that ended with: "C'mon y'all. Let's get out of here! This is a game for old people.



Off thread remark, please forgive = I just love your avatar pic.

You opened Pandoras Box, it can never be closed, this thread is now about older gamers, Elite, Dr Who, and possibly Wing Commander.