EVE General Discussion

i've said this before...but this is about the only game i play that i feel like just about everyone else is way older than me lol

i'm too young to contribute anything useful to this.

but nice thread anyway.

Anyone remember the BBS game Trade Wars: 2002?



Ah, the good ol' days...

Back in my day, we thought Space Invaders was cutting edge and played it long enough to have wrist trouble.

Before that, there was Pong, and the occasional joy of scrolling curse words all over a screen on a Commodore Pet.

If you wanted to send an email, you have to put a huge letter E in an envelope and mail it. Then you had to fend off the dinosaurs that camped the mailboxes. They always camped the mailboxes. We didn't have no warp to zero either.

A group of my friends loved Titan. I was always a bit more partial towards Civilization.

Steve Jackson Games are fun too and I agree with a bunch listed above.

Played a ton of Cosmic Encounters as well.

I believe the average age of gamers has been going up as a whole, although Eve players do tend to be on the older side.

I'll be 23 later this year. I'm usually the youngest person in any channel I join. I do remember the old modem noise though. First console was a Sega Megadrive....still got it. somewhere.

I did not start to play Eve (on my other character) until I was in my early 50s.

Before then, work was too demanding as was getting our daughters to university etc.

Now I am in my late 50s I find I have more time to enjoy Eve.

I do not do anything 'fancy' in Eve, just potter around trying different aspects of the game every now and again.

Unlike some of the other older players here, my only gaming experience before Eve was a couple of goes playing pong (I think it was called) in the early 70s.

Compared to the gaming generation I think I am considered "old" with mid-30. Yes, I have a life and cannot plan it around EVE. But I am part of a great corp which is part of a great alliance and we have many dedicated man and women to split tasks. Some have more time, they do more (and earn more ofc), others not.

So my advice to you is: Find a good bunch of people who keep things running when you're off - but be available when they really need you, if possible.

See, you're not all that old. At 11, I was still breathing the outdoor air, riding my bike, playing baseball. There was only one company in town big enough to even have a computer, and it was in a big glass room next to a soundproof room full of keypunch girls.

When I was 21 and in the Navy, I traded a 10-speed Schwinn (back when both terms meant something) for an almost-new TRS-80 Model I Level I 4k with cassette player. My favorite program was the T-Bug debugger. I went through all the upgrades - to Level II 16k, expansion interface 48k, disk drive, RS-232 and modem, Orchestra-80 synthesizer. Then I made the switch to Heathkit and CP/M. H-8, H-89, a combination 8" floppy, 8" 5MB (yes megabyte) hard drive. That phase lasted until the IBM clones came out.

I miss the days when you could actually understand the parts in a computer, and the programs that run on it. Software that was often written by just one guy. Writing code that seemed useful at the time. I miss the ability to concentrate on a problem all night long on pizza and caffeine, and still function the next day. I miss being the guy doing the work instead of the guy managing the guys doing the work. But I don't think I'd want to trade places with an 11 year old today.

Wasn't that Jet Set Willy?

Up hill. Both ways. In the snow. Barefoot.