Pepper Solette
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.04.24 14:16:00 -
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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.
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