EVE General Discussion

HA!

I'm 41. I often AM the oldest dude in any given fleet. I'm often being FC'd by people that are literally half my age.

I consider it a serious selling point in Eve that many of the players are a bit older than your average WoW or CoD fan.

I've flown with 60+ year old grandfathers in this game...and grandfathers tend not to get all drama-llama over internet spaceships. Refreshing.
The younger guys I fly with, to a one, seem a different breed (well, other than fleet chat porn links) than the twenty-somethings that us old-timers like to shake our fists at and yell to keep off the lawn.

Whippersnappers, the lot of ya.

Amen, between my real life job dealing with crazy people and then having to deal with crazy people at home, if I couldn't' take my frustrations out on a few hundred Sansha/Blood/Angel/whatever ships (or occasionally, a couple of Goons lol) per night, I might be in a straight jacket right now.

At first I thought this topic was going to be about how hard it is to hit the tiny sliver of an overheat button during a fight.

I am in the same boat as op and want to give my support to this topic. No matter what he does I hope ccp keeps some options open in game for people who just want to play eve and aren't necessarilly interested spending huge amounts of time in game. And yes keeping up with friendships takes time in or out of game. So requiring people to build social connections in game makes eve much more time consuming - and takes from time people could be building social connections outside of eve.

For me eve is a tv alternative when I go home, I refuse to look at it as a job. I do low sec solo pvp and have been having a blast lately.

I used to do faction war but it became more high maintenance with station lockouts. You spend more time reshipping and moving stuff versus fighting. Also the fighting has become much more focused on just a few systems where you need fleets and fleets take even more time per quality fight. I understand some faction war corps even require everyone to do one defensive plex per day.

Unfortunately there seems to be allot of eve players who have too much time on their hands supporting the trend to making eve higher maintenance. I have actually been called lazy by some eve players, because I do not spend more time playing this computer game. Just think about that a second.


Well I hope more normal people take a bit of time to speak out about keeping eve a possibility (at least in some capacities) for people who can't dedicate their lives to it.

edit: BTW: not to say everyone has to pvp. I would like all aspects of eve to have some good options for more casual players. PVE, PVP, Socializing, mining, whatever people do in eve.

EVE is a hobby like many others. If you like your hobby you make time for it and your signifigant others helps you do that (as you help them have a hobby they can use to de-stress as well).

Ultimately, it's about life choices, I'm 38 and I've got old college buddies who make way more than I do but never ever have time for anything, most of them have to try to incorporate relaxing activities into their jobs (like abusing the hell out of their travel accounts, taking clients to strip clubs etc etc). Some of them keep wanting me to quit my crappy/dangerous government job and come live the high life with them. But for all the downsides of my job, I get actual OFF time to spend with family and pursue my hobbies (of which EVE is one, the others involve paint balls, climbing gear and beer lol).

If you've made life choices inconstant with your hobbies, just find a new way to do your hobbies.

42 here with a wife and kids.

My grandmother had the old Atari. No, not the 2600, the first one. When we would go there, my brother and I would play the COMBAT cartridge all day shooting each other in TANK and BIPLANE. Oh , the memories!

My friend had a C64 and my first system when i was 17 was the Amiga 500. Then onto a 486SX33 with no cd-rom.

I've been listening to all the computer games everyone played but my first ever foray into space-based stuff was the game called Starfleet Battles. You used to have a space map that covered the whole dining table and little lead ships on stands. You had to mark your sheet when you were hit etc. I personally used to play the Tholians. After that, it was onto the computer to play Elite, Wing Commander etc. Then i played FPS for many years until someone got me into EvE. 5-6 years on and i am still here.

I've done the mission, construction, pirate and null-sec thing. Had a lot of fun, but null is hard work if you are in any senior position. Lots of work and a pretty thankless task as a lot of ppl in the Alliance don't know....or even care......what you do as long as they are making money and their needs are met. "When are we getting the station upgrade, where is the jump-bridge?" gimme gimme gimme, mine mine mine etc etc. I spent too much time at the computer dealing with one clown to the next that i hardly got to actually play the game in a ship sense. Then it got to needing to set my alarm clock to be at certain "important" things like station timers. That's when i left. Because the important thing to me was my family. I wasn't the most alive person when i had to get up at 2am for something that was supposed to take and hour went on for 3 or until dawn. So i walked away from it a while back and spent more family time. Now that i am coming back I will probably go back to multi-box piracy or look for a small group of senior guys where i can just play the game again for what it is supposed to be, an enjoyable break from real life.

while not as old as many in this thread, i've got plenty of responsibility including; career, family and other hobbies. one of the reasons i love this game is because you can set your play style to fit your RL time constraints. a lot of industry tasks can be structured around a busy schedule, not to mention, i can work on spreadsheets in my spare time at the office. and when more time is available, i can break out some ships and go exploring.

When I heard the next EVE expansion was called Odyssey, I remembered that after seeing the commercial Pong arcade game, my family bought one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnavox_Odyssey

When you got tired of playing tennis, you put a colored plastic film over the screen and called it hockey.

38 year old own my business so I'm quite lucky in that I can actually play when I like , I remember my first zx spectrum and I actually learned to programme through magazines that my dad subsrcibed to the annoying thing was saving up all the issues typing out the whole thing and then it didn't work because some nerdbert at the magazine had made a typo!!

I remember star wars the arcade game and the following return of the jedi as very early loves of mine and I guess I've always had a soft spot for space games

I tell kids about dial up now and they're like 'WHAT you cant make phone calls at the same time!!'

Anyway what times bingo on?

Heh I'm actually a good bit younger. I just drilled this fact into my head when I got out of college. A lot of people my age don't and they end up in trouble at work for it.

Although I doubt I fit into the "older" bracket. I have found myself in a good situation in Eve whereby I am in my own corp with a few close Eve Players that I trust, and I have multiple char channels devoted to staying in touch with other like minded players, so when I log on I just ask in one of those channels... "Anyone roaming?"

If the answer to that question is no, I just jump in a PvP ship anyway and go look for a few fights and then ask if anyone wants to join me. I've done a fair amount of FCing, so it's easy to get a fleet together. I just tell people I am out looking for trouble and people come join me. That's how my fleets generally start.

I take breaks from Eve from time to time. I've spent a large amount of time playing Warframe recently. But I always come back to Eve. And the moral is, you don't need to devote a huge amount of time to Eve to get enjoyment out of it. Having lots of ISK is a secondary concern that actually does take a lot of time or commitment (not always, but mostly).

I think I am ranting, so I will cut to the chase. For me, what it comes down to, is having people who trust me and are willing to join me in what I am doing. That way, I just log on, ask if anyone wants to join me and usually someone does. Being in a big friendly corp helps a lot, but they need to know you and trust you.