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.

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.

and role playing in the late 1970's with GDW's Traveller while I was serving in the military.

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.

Truly encouraged by responses ... many thanks all! General thread appears to be to keep EVE for an escape into something more simple which I guess I already felt but was getting frustrated as there's still so much EVE opportunity and so little time. Really pleased. Thank you.

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.

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.

I use a recording of a modem's sign on squelch as a ringtone, and many of the teens around here as "What is that sound?"

I use a recording of a modem's sign on squelch as a ringtone, and many of the teens around here as "What is that sound?"

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.

Tell them it's 20th Century dubstep

If only CCP would give us sandcaster turrets and incorporate line of sight combat so we could hide behind obstacles...

... 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).

...possibly Wing Commander.

... The ZX Spectrum was the platform of choice for me in the '80s ....

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.

My teenage son fell silent in stunned disbelieve when I showed him my still working ZX spectrum 48k. 'It takes 20 minutes to load that game from a tape?!? Wah???..........'

Tsk, youngsters....

48k? you were spoilt, 16k rubber beer-mat is where it was at, still got mine. It lives in the cupboard with a ZX81, BBC B, Vic 20, C64, Amiga 500 and an Acorn Archimedes, all in working order, unfortunately the Atari 2600 got water damaged and no longer functions, should really get the multimeter out and figure out what's broke.

Any of you geezers ever play any of the old Avalon Hill board games? I used to have quite a collection of them when I was a kid. I miss them sometimes-

Any of you geezers ever play any of the old Avalon Hill board games? I used to have quite a collection of them when I was a kid. I miss them sometimes-

Any of you geezers ever play any of the old Avalon Hill board games? I used to have quite a collection of them when I was a kid. I miss them sometimes-

Bunches. Micro or pocket games from other companies too like Heltank, Warp War, and Ogre. I got hooked on Starfleet Battles out of those (that one game more complex than EVE.)

Bunches. Micro or pocket games from other companies too like Heltank, Warp War, and Ogre. I got hooked on Starfleet Battles out of those (that one game more complex than EVE.)

Any of you geezers ever play any of the old Avalon Hill board games? I used to have quite a collection of them when I was a kid. I miss them sometimes-

3. Dont join a nullsec alliance that makes demands of its players. Nothing worse than having a teenage FC who is a sef diagnosed Aspie telling you what to do and how to play your game.

ok im old 45 but some of you guys are giveing new meaning to the name dust 514

haha jk dont pod me

Anyone remember the BBS game Trade Wars: 2002?

Ah, the good ol' days...

Bunches. Micro or pocket games from other companies too like Heltank, Warp War, and Ogre. I got hooked on Starfleet Battles out of those (that one game more complex than EVE.)

Any of you geezers ever play any of the old Avalon Hill board games? I used to have quite a collection of them when I was a kid. I miss them sometimes-

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.

Anyone remember the BBS game Trade Wars: 2002?



Ah, the good ol' days...

... I got my first computer at the age of 11 ...

This thread has cheered me up no end.......being 20 - 25 years older than almost everyone else in my corp makes me feel like "Mother Hen" sometimes.

Some real blasts from my past coming up here too. Titan, Car Wars......I still hanker for "Lunar Jet Man" or "Starglider" from my ZX Spectrum days on occasion.

Anyone remember when Manic Miner was the hot game to have

Wasn't that Jet Set Willy?

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.

if only to put your brain somewhere else for a few hours each week.

I'm in the "older" bracket, too. I co-own and operate a small company, employing 25 to 30 people (summer students make the number fluctuate) and I deal with their issues as well as anything on the "family side".

Like any good game, EVE keeps me sane.


So, the only I advice I can offer: Keep playing now and then, if only to put your brain somewhere else for a few hours each week.

I'm in the same boat as a lot of folks here. Work a lot with obligations outside of that. I usually play when I'm doing homework (mining allows for little interaction).

I'm not sure about definition of old but I definitely miss the days of playing Privateer and thinking how awesome it was to be able to go do almost anything. I missed out on some of the games you guys are mentioning as I didn't get into computers and computer games until the late 80's early 90's just as video games started their evolution. That was when I started to learn about batch scripts so I could run one command to get my games up and running (ie memmaker).

Alright, I'm off to go kick some dirt in someone's lawn.

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.

RL>EVE, every time.

Play when you want and do whatever, but don't let Eve interfere with your real life. Eve can be a part of your routine, but it doesn't HAVE to be nor should your routine be molded to fit around making time to play it. It's a game.

Anyone remember the BBS game Trade Wars: 2002?



Ah, the good ol' days...

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

I think that us that are over 40 (maybe that includes you?) with families, jobs/businesses are keenly aware of this fact. It's likely one of the draws to us as we only have sporadic or limited play time and with EVE a week, month, quarter off doesn't mean we've fallen behind outside of some twitch skills refreshing.

Anyway what times bingo on?

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.

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.