Who is CoX's OLDEST player?
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Posted on: 2009-09-26 14:25 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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I hit 40, my main hit 40, and had 40000 prestige all on the same day in 2005.|
Originally Posted by Zhanate
My tanker and I both hit 50 in 2005.
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So THERE!
I'm 19 and I was feeling /old/ last week when I realized I was almost 20 and OH GOD THATS A QUARTER OF THE WAY TO EIGHTY.
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I'm 41. All day I feel old. (I'm a high school teacher.) I come home and play CoH and I don't, because most of the people I play with are my age or older.
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I'm 36.
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I've had that happen in game also. In your Sig line about Wings - I asked my youngest son about Wings and his answer was "You mean Winghouse ?"
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Originally Posted by stever
I am 56 also.
I have met many others close to my age ingame. I occasionally make social references to older trivia items that sail over most of the other players heads, but will result in tells from other people who lived through the older years who recognize the references. ______________ You have to be careful though, or those in jokes will backfire on you. For example, years ago, I used to think it was funny to mention overhearing some kids talking, and one said "Hey! Did you know know Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?" That became much less funny a few years later when I told that, and one of the people there asked "Who is Wings?". . |
Slightly OT but - with so many age 40+ players, are there any Super Groups especially for us oldsters? If there are, who do I see for an invite?
I just turned 50 this past weekend. I see that we have a 57-year-old in the game. Kudos you to sir.
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And kudos to you. I'm happy that I see an older crowd still enjoying the fun of computer gaming.|
Originally Posted by stever
I am 56 also.
I have met many others close to my age ingame. I occasionally make social references to older trivia items that sail over most of the other players heads, but will result in tells from other people who lived through the older years who recognize the references. ______________ You have to be careful though, or those in jokes will backfire on you. For example, years ago, I used to think it was funny to mention overhearing some kids talking, and one said "Hey! Did you know know Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?" That became much less funny a few years later when I told that, and one of the people there asked "Who is Wings?". . |
And yes, it's disconcerting when you bring up something that you take for granted, and everyone else has never heard of it. I just read story here or in another forum, and the poster worked in a music store and the teenagers looking at a picture of Marilyn Monroe thought it was Madonna. After he finished telling them who it was, they walked away whispering "It's so sad, he works in a music store and doesn't even recognize Madonna."
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Turned 40 here myself this year.|
Originally Posted by Tommy Troy
Slightly OT but - with so many age 40+ players, are there any Super Groups especially for us oldsters? If there are, who do I see for an invite?
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Whilst not specifically for 'oldsters' one of the SGs I'm in and spend a lot of time with is Fusion Force on Triumph. We do have a general aged 18+ rule, the majority of folks in the group are mature adults many with kids, and a great attidtude towards family first when needed.
Check out the website: www.fusionforce.us
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I hope that I'm half that cool in another 25 years. |
Originally Posted by TyrantMikey
I will officially out my mom. She plays with me all the time.
I'm 42, and she's 21 years older than I am. And she's an awesome player, working on her 42 month vet badge. |
I've been the baby on the team at 38 years of age. My husband is 42. I remember one of our friends celebrating 63.
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I just relized that some of you are the same age as my grandma! 
Well, I'm 46... But my wife's father plays (we got her entire family playing the game).
He is 74.
To balance things out, our son also plays... He just turned 7.
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Same here. And I actually caught myself LEGITIMATELY using "I'm old enough to be your father." to to someone in their late teens and had to go wash my mouth out with hydrochloric acid.|
Originally Posted by Harry_Canyon
I'm just sitting at 36 here.
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Originally Posted by Harry_Canyon
But you are only as old as you let yourself feel.
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Originally Posted by Indiana Jones
It's not the years. It's the mileage.
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One of the nicest teammates we've ever picked up was around 12 playing on his dad's account. He was so happy when he found out it was a Mom, dad and teenager playing.|
Originally Posted by Clave_Dark_5
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I think the youngest player (that I know of) that I've played with was like ten? She was playing with a parent in e PuG I was in in the Hollows, most likely on another parent's account because she was running a squiddie. She was pretty cute; her Keldian(sp?) kept saying "meep!" and I'd go "Hm, must be squid-talk." |
I'm still kicking myself for not adding him as a global friend.
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I hit 48 in November. The last time this came up there didn't seem to be so many people fessing up. Glad to be in such great company.
My just turned 4 year old (quite the gap, eh?) loves to play. He really just runs around in the Hollows on a level 12 character tabbing from one victim to the next while his auto attack fires off. And my oldest, 17, has been playing for 4 years.
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Originally Posted by Tatmia
One of the nicest teammates we've ever picked up was around 12 playing on his dad's account. He was so happy when he found out it was a Mom, dad and teenager playing.
I'm still kicking myself for not adding him as a global friend. |
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I actually had to think about that. Is it bad Ive been known to forget I have birthdays, its not that I scared of getting older, I just dont care either way.
But anyways, Im 34
JJ
I delete more 50s, then you'll ever have.
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Whoot 45 here!
I turned 46 this August.
I think this is all the curious result of my generation growing up with Pong and Space Invaders in pizza parlors, D&D books on the shelves (Which I still play by the way...) and being automatically designated, with no prior evidence, by our parents as being the "computer whizzes" of the family.
So, after nearly 40 years of playing software games (I remember playing a clone of Spacewar! on a mainframe at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley in 1972. I was 8.), here we are.
I wonder what the current crop of 8 year olds are going to do to civilization? Biotech games I guess. Playing Pong with chromatophores on your skin?! The mind reels!
The weird thing is, if I take good care of myself, I'll live to see that. Medicine is getting better and cheaper all the time.
So let your freak flags fly all you glorious crotchety punks, dweebs and nerds! And always remember to be properly humbled when the new kids show you up!
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I'm 51, my dad played and he's 73 or so,
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I don't know if they are still active (I moved over to the EU from the US) but when CoH started the Paragons of Justice had a 25+ policy. With most players being rather older. You could maybe try checking them through the Justice server page, if you don't find anything else.
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Originally Posted by Tommy Troy
Slightly OT but - with so many age 40+ players, are there any Super Groups especially for us oldsters? If there are, who do I see for an invite?
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However, it turned out that Smith was not a time-travelling Terminator
... 48 here ...
Turned 44 this past June. I team with a married couple in their 50's.
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