any1 my age play this

25 Years old.
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Well I'm 20 and I'm like to play SE5 so does that count?
Don't have a job, still getting a degree.

I'm 25, and I too still getting a degree...

me 27 computer technition I have been playing 4x games since I was 16 started playing stars!

I'm 23, and I played the demo of Space Empires II back in 1996, when I was 12 or 13... by the time I had a credit card to order the full version, SE4 was out

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47 Feeling like a hundred on a bad day (like today - sore throat).

Pretty much played most every 4x including board games before the advent of the PC.

30 and still playing games.

Board games eh? Check out this thread
http://spaceempires5.com/en-US/node/2119

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27 and gamin since before I could walk...4x came alittle later than that

26 yrs old and been a gamer since i knew what games were . would be more than happy to try and organise a 4x game like SE5 with ya, its also something ive always fancied trying but never quite got round to it.

I'm 31 soon to be 32.

I've been playing games since I got a copy of Star Flight on my Dad's PC...if I remember right it was a 286 and had a speed of 6Hz. He had to buy another PC as he couldn't get me off his.

Science teacher to kids aged 10-14...it pays the bills

And still loving it....

Heh, a 35 year old pokemon fan?

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I'm suprised at the number of +20s
I'm 26 myself

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24, playing since SE2 (around 1997, 8th grade). Been playing computer games in general since kindergarten (Kings Quest III and Thexder).

My first space 4x game was VGA Planets version 3, to which I was introduced by members of a local BBS. I had to dial in on my 2400 baud modem to upload my turns 3x per week.

Fortunately, 4x games have improved the user experience a bit since then.

I just recoverd from the same problem but I just asked the site to reset my account and send me a link to my email.

Just turned 51. Played Stars!, missed SE1 but been here ever since. I actually played PONG in bars while trying to hit on girls.

Death, destruction, mayhem and confusion. Another perfect day.

43 almost 44 and playing SE from the early days of Se III.

You'd expect more people around the age of 15 - 18 years but I guess this kind of game is for the more "Matured" players..

Okay let's just face it. We're getting old..
Hahahaha

As I Stand In The Twighlight, I Don't See The Full Extend Of The Day Nor The Full Of The Night.
But I See Enough Of Both Sides...

But I refuse to grow UP!!

Death, destruction, mayhem and confusion. Another perfect day.

25 here. I am not surprised by the ages of the people here. The younger generation of gamers just sees guns and cutting edge graphics when judging a new game. Most of us however, were probably playing video games in the 80's and remember what life was like playing Asteroids and Super Mario Bros.

I'm 26 and finishing up my PhD right now. I've been playing 4X ever since Master of Orion I or perhaps even Star Control I (if that could be defined as 4X). I played Stars as well... I first got into space empires when I got a SE3 demo, and I was immediately hooked.
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I know you're looking for 20 year olds that play this game, but the mix is interesting and seems to cover the whole range. I must be the oldest to play this, I'm 52. I grew up gamimg on a VIC 20 and never quit. Yes, I remember when Pong and Tanks came out.

Turn 55 in 28 days.

Bought Intellivision for $250 when it 1st came out.

Have played Avalon Hill Board games long before that. Military days of the early 70's.

So yeah Jagzeplin I'm one of those "old" ppl that play TBS.

JosEPh

"Old and slow.....Watch out!"

Been dedicated to SE since SEII. It's actually the only game on my PC. SEIV and SEV.

Nick (bearclaw)

"You don't know the Power of the Dark Side. I must obey my Master"

Just a little ahead of you there, Demon Spawn - I'll be 64 in a few days. I was playing games on mainframes LONG before there was even Pong. Things like tic-tac-toe and Hunt The Wampus.

Ha ha ha! Good one, Jag.

I'm 54. My first game (not counting games of Pong or Pacman played on commercial machines) was Starflight.

Ahh, yes! Spent MANY hours mining, searching for Endurim and locating the Black Eggs.

I still have my original SF1 and SF2 disks, maps and notes. And it's still fun to play once in a while. The best emulator I found for it is DOSBOX.

Yeah Starflight was great I think I played that on an Apple II with 48k of RAM. The potatoe race was funny and sometimes dangerous.

And Star Control I - III. Hmmm can't find SC I. There was a silicon race (?) supposedly created by an ancient race and no-one knew their purpose...

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You know, I liked Starflight so much that I raced to buy Starflight 2 when it came out. I was unfortunate though, I bought one of the copies of the game which lacked the ability to save the game, so I never finished it. A few years ago I found a copy on the internet. Since I had a Pentium III at the time my machine was too fast for it. I installed a program to slow my computer's CPU down, but apparently it interfered with some of my kids' games, so I never finished. The kids have their own computer now, but even with DOS Box my P5 is so much faster than the systems that Starflight was designed to run on I don't think it would work. I'm not sure if Mo-Slo will work on an XP system. Anyway, I've gotten spoiled by better graphics. It's hard to get into something with such blocky graphics.

Wow, I've been hoping somebody would make a Spemin shipset...

I'm a 36 year old Dentist. I was playing SE III demo, lost track of SE until SE IV gold, got hooked and now happily playing SEV! I remember back when I was a kid playing Carwars with little flat paper cars. My first computer was a sinclair, it had an expansion module so that it had an amaizing 16K of memory!

SEV, more than a feeling.

That's what I played Starflight on and I still have the Commodore 64, tape drive, and 1541 external floppy drive in my basement. Ah, the memories.
Before the computer I was an avid D&D player and Risk was my board game of choice. 4x games have been my addiction for over 20 years now.

I cut my teeth on Kingmaker, Squad Leader, Europa, Star Fleet Battles, AdnD and such. So turn based, strategy computer games is a natural progression. I loved Civilization and Colonization. These things will cause the heat death of the civilized worlds.

And I still have my TI99-4A along with cassett recorder/player and several tapes all boxed up together. My oldest son, who was about 8 at the time, and I spent many hours playing together and typing in programs that we picked up in various places. Yes indeed - very good memories!

exactly what is a "4X" game? I've been gaming since 79 and haven't heard the term until the last year.

4X = Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate - basically a turn-based strategic conquest game, along the lines of Space Empires, Master of Orion, Civilization, Dominions, and a host of others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4x

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Been playing since early college. It's all good!

42 -- wasn't that the meaning of life or something like that?
SEV, more than a feeling.

According to The hitchhikers guide 42 was THE ANSWER TO LIFE THE UNIVERSE AND EVERY THING. It isn’t it is actually......

I'm 51 and I find it very funny when the young guys at the computer stores find out I play WoW and other games.

when I explain to the kid upgrading the speakers in my car that "Godsmack killed my speakers".

I'm just 31, and happily modding this game the ground up . My first experience in gaming was on a COCO 2, using tape recorder as HD... Things have changed a lot since .

Wow, so many old folks in there, i did not know 4x games attracted that kind of crowd...

Fallen Haven wrote:

I'm just 31, and happily modding this game the ground up . My first experience in gaming was on a COCO 2, using tape recorder as HD... Things have changed a lot since .

Wow, so many old folks in there, i did not know 4x games attracted that kind of crowd...

I think one of the attractions of this type of game for older folks is that it actually involves some stragety and requires thinking - as opposed to many games that are just 'shoot-em-up' which take no real planning.

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Ahem! The term is "older" - not just "old." (As you will discover in about 20 more years. Heh-heh-heh!

Well, i should have worded it that way .

I always been attracted to that kind of games, never liked the twitchy gaming that require only reflexes to play. I find it sad that most "strategy" games are at best management games that require more multi-tasking skills than brain. And AI wise most games are brain dead, or have very simplistic routines that most gamers can figure out.

I like Se5 because, while incomplete, it has the potential to blow away all other 4x games out there. My mod show promise also, i have reports that my AI is quite good and do manage to provide some challenge. The flexibility of this engine also allowed me to implement a lot of features only the developpers could have come out with if it was a regular game. It is also cool that Se5 don't attract the bad gamer that cheat or complain all the time...

Oh and for thoses that don't know, my mod is "Inter-Related Conversion".

I'm 22, playing games since 1989. I like to whipe out civilizations and manipulate things, and for this SE attracted me from around SEIII Demo.

Wow...I think im the youngest to reply to this topic so far. Im just about to turn 20...no job, still in college studying networking. Been playing 4x games since playing an SE3 Demo. I admit, I also like the FPS reflex type games, and the Strat games. But I love 4x and TBS games as well. Damn, I feel like, im playing an old person game now lol . No offense to those older people.

32 myself, and most of my SEV is played mulitplayer with myself and my 63yr old father.

I'd have to class Heroes as 4X myself, and a fun one too. They might have gone a wee bit overboard on the new one, but it's still good.

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28 here.
I usually blame Civilization for my 4X addiction. I would literally spend entire Saturdays playing from when I woke up to when I went to bed. Then I got a hold of Master of Orion I, and it took Civ's place. I still play MOO2 from time to time.

Started Space Empires with SE3. Love SE4, and SE5 has enough potential to be just as great IMHO.

I'm 18. I played since the Space Empires 2 demo. I can't remember when that was but it was probably 8-10 years ago, right? I wonder if anyone's going to beat me.

well, i think i speak for many of us in saying that the first game like this i played was the NON-computer tabletop game, Starfire Empires

not to mention the empires version of Star Fleet Battles
but if you've read about AAron, i got that he was a SE fan too...
Not that it wasnt obvious.

Anyway, we were playing that ... it came out i guess when we were 13? or so?

So i would say you started younger-
i would have had i the exposure. I started D&D at 8...
Its been a slide into gamng-geek debauchery ever since!

Welcome to, i hope, Good Company, "Youngster!"

Anyone who wants power; by definition, cannot be trusted with it...

First off, I’m jealous of all of you who say you played since 8 or 10. I’m one of those old guys so there weren’t any kind of PCs then. . My first computer game was Rogue running on my universities VAX. 11/780.

Back to the original post, I am surprised you played Stars if you are only 20. That is still one of the best 4x games and was way ahead of its time. Amazing since I think it was pretty much a one man show. I hate that they never found anyone to fund the sequel, Stars Supernova.

I'll turn 44 yo in 2 months , seems like i'm the oldest here playin the game lol

"Starflight", yes! -- as well as "Zork" ("You are in a cave. It is dark. A tunnel heads north. A ladder goes up...") and the F-16 simulator. First played computer games on my university's computer in between writing FORTRAN programmes on punch cards. I was late buying my own computer; first one I owned was an Atari 520ST (mainframe, floppy drive and keyboard all-in-one). First game that got me hooked was "Dungeon Master", pulled so many all-nighters playing that I almost lost my job. Loved the old Simulations Canada text-based wargames (came with a plastic-coated gridmap and grease pencils), "Red Storm Rising", and "Empire". Used to spend days creating maps for "Empire Deluxe"... still have the original boxed floppy disk set. I still play "Stars!" now and then. Ahh, great games, makes me nostaligic...

Cosmic Marvel wrote:

boromeo wrote:

I'll turn 44 yo in 2 months , seems like i'm the oldest here playin the game lol

Ahhhh - haven't read through the whole thread, have you? I've got a birthday coming up very shortly - I'll be 64. :)

Cool Cosmic Marvel ..then i'm the second oldest then..lol...

Hmmm now I see a 55 and 51 here too , seems like now i am in fifth place..lol..

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I can remember getting access to a mainframe when I was kid to play Star Trek - a sort of turn based, ASCII game. I also had Zork, Leather Goddess of Phobos and whatnot when we finally got a PC in the house. Before that, I played a lot of Avalon Hill games.

I played Stars! before finding SEIII and then I pretty much bought SEIV and SEV the moment they were available.

I play a lot of different things too; BF2, SimCity and NWN, but I always come back to SE.

what about Starfire/ starfire empires?

Our young marine WAS right, to some degree - bunch of crusty old wargamers in this bunch...

Troll? No, Sir, I am a BADGER!

boromeo wrote:

Cosmic Marvel wrote:

boromeo wrote:

I'll turn 44 yo in 2 months , seems like i'm the oldest here playin the game lol

Ahhhh - haven't read through the whole thread, have you? I've got a birthday coming up very shortly - I'll be 64. :)

Cool Cosmic Marvel ..then i'm the second oldest then..lol...

This type of game seems to appeal to us older folks because it actually involves - and requires - some thinking. As opposed to the shoot-'em-up, quickest guy on the mouse click wins sort of stuff. Sure, there's a place for that but it gets pretty boring after a little while. And that's one of the reasons I liked games like the original Zelda on the NES. You actually had to figure out puzzles and things as opposed to all the simple leaping and jumping in many other games.

It's exactly that Cosmic Marvel.., Older folks prefer playing games that needs some thinking, i love playing wargames and simulation games ,I'm not into Xbox playstations and Nintendo stuff cause 99 % of the games are shoot and die games , if i was a teen i would prolly like those games (all we had at the time was intellivision and atari consoles with games that sucked) ,but not anymore , i suppose that when today's teen will reach their 40's or 60's they will be the same too...

and that thread was a damn good idea Cosmic Marvel..

boromeo wrote:

It's exactly that Cosmic Marvel.., Older folks prefer playing games that needs some thinking, i love playing wargames and simulation games ,I'm not into Xbox playstations and Nintendo stuff cause 99 % of the games are shoot and die games , if i was a teen i would prolly like those games (all we had at the time was intellivision and atari consoles with games that sucked) ,but not anymore , i suppose that when today's teen will reach their 40's or 60's they will be the same too...

and that thread was a damn good idea Cosmic Marvel..:)

I haven't started many threads but I'm not sure which one it is that you like. Care to tell an older guy whose memory usually doesn't fade but sometimes DOES?

hmm not sure to understand Cosmic Marvel , sorry my english sux sometimes (Ima French Canadian)

Do u eman whcih games i like the most ? or is it which threads i like the most ?..(confused)..lol..

I was asking about this statement: "and that thread was a damn good idea Cosmic Marvel..:)"

Just wondering which thread that was?

it was yours.lol....It's ok for french , there's no shame to have , cause french is a lot harder to learn , My girlfriends is american , she helps me a lot with my english , taht helps ..

I'll be 60 in Oct. Thought I would be the oldest, but noted a couple or real old timers slipped in there.

Hi, Folgra,

Yep, there's a few of us here - surprizing, isn't it? And since today's the 3rd, I'm only 5 days away from 64.