I'm still 20 (for 19 years now ~:doh: )
No , seriously i'm 39.
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I'm still 20 (for 19 years now ~:doh: )
No , seriously i'm 39.
is Maltese for old similar to Qadeem in arabic? no just kidding, you're not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Reno Melitensis
but what is maltaese for that? (too curious)
I hope that didn't come out wrong:wall: :wall:
I was wondering what the media is now after all these replies.
No sorry, no way, I'm too lazy to do it again ;) :sweatdrop:
Lots more, I'm sure, if the number of downloads of each version of EB is anything to go by.
my bad hehe I could find the poll option for the other thread...:stupid:
or perhaps its just that I'm so used to be a non-insider (IGN boards...that means you cant do anything but post unless you pay) that I forgot that making threads was possible here hehe :embarassed:
This should had been a poll indeed...
my bad hehe I could find the poll option for the other thread... :stupid:
or perhaps its just that I'm so used to be a non-insider (IGN boards...that means you cant do anything but post unless you pay) that I forgot that making threads was possible here hehe :embarassed:
so could you please post your age in the other poll? :2thumbsup:
I'm nineteen years old.
I also would suggest turning this into a poll, makes the actual statistics much more transparent.
Btw, I'm 18 now and will finish the Spartian Agoge (= school time :yes: ) in about 3 days :2thumbsup:
I think a part of the "older" players simply has not the time or interest in being active in a forums, as they are simply engaged enough with working, having a family and of course playing EB :book:
I for my part know several "elders" who play EB but simply have many other things to do than being active here. They are 44, 44, 56, 57 and one far cross the limit is 83 years old (and yeah, he knows how to use a computer and pwn the world with the Saka Rauka...freaky old guy, but absolutely cool and incredibly fit for his age :smash: )
I'm 40, having an 8yrs old boy keeps me feeling younger though!
Planning on buying my first sports car soonish, no, not a mid-life crisis, it's just when you get to my age, you get on top of the financial side more.
Only 69 people have yet voted!
That's hardly enough to make a relevant ramdom sample, for a statistical analysis! More people should vote, I think. This is interesting!:laugh4:
Ahh,
But I think all this thread will tell us is how old people are who vote in polls on the EB forum, not sadly how old the average age of an EB player is...
I think those polls should not be misinterpreted; people of 40-60 don't have the habit of playing computer games (indeed most of them don't know how to use computers...).
Probably, in the future much more people of 30-60 will play computer games (and EB is a very serious game, which means historians, archaeologist and philologist would enjoy it). Now only the new generations (ok, let's include people under 35) have the habit of playing them.
The computer games, yes I agree to an extent, but knowing how to use a computer?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jaume
Dude, seriously... :no:
How do you think such people earn a living - use an abacus?
I think you have to go 60+ to find a large percentage of people who arent computer literate. Even then in certain cultures/countries the majority will still be more than competent.
Eg: my grandmother is writing her life story and emailing bits out to all her mates - and she is 83. :egypt:
And, yes, I am under 35.
Looks like it's a majority of youth here. I expected a lot more people in their 20s.
That's quite a nice normal distribution wer'e getting, slight skew towards the younger end.
Who's the one over 90? Teleklos? :laugh4:
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Originally Posted by Jaume
Seriously I've been "using" computers longer than 1/2 the people who post on this board have been alive. My first computer was an Apple IIe back in 1983. It was my generation that really started the whole personal computer thing to begin with. :dizzy2: So yeah people 40+ do know how to use computers.
You're right, I exaggerated a bit. But when I say "using computer", I refer to search and download a program, installing it, to post on forums, to solve some basic problems, to turn off firewalls, etc...Quote:
Originally Posted by Cambyses
Yeah you're right some of them only need to know how to use Word and write and e-mail, but really they don't know how to use a computer.
Anyway forgive me for the misunderstanding.
My dad plays mostly snooker and card games on his computer. He tried fighting a battle once when I left it on Pause. Should have seen my surprise when I came back home and saw a very decent victory there. My mom tried NFSU a few times and wasn't that bad but she's far more into books... So not all old folks are that bad in computer games.
Anyway, I think it's good that kids play this mod. They learn a lot this way. Like for example that Egyptians didn't go to war wearing gold armour. They also will listen more carefully on their history lessons to a teacher telling them about Punic Wars or Diadochi...
This poll tells you:
How old are people that:
- Bought and played RTW in the first place
- Searched on the web for more stuff on this game
- Came to the org and downloaded EB here
- OR: found EB elsewhere (I got my first version from the TWC, for example) and came to the org for other reasons
- Registered, write and stay on a forum where the majority of users seems to be between 20 and 30 (what also requires to be a native English speaker or above average knowledge of English as a second language)
Not surprisingly that you come up with the result that these are people usually between 20 -30. I think the result would be different if EB would be sold regulary in shops and you would check the age of the costumers.
52, and counting! But my lovely wife thinks I'm a little kid, playing EB.
This one is important. I know many Spaniard people who loves EB, but look at the forums... from Spain, only Cartaphilus and me. And I can ensure you that there are a lot of fans of EB here in Barcelona.Quote:
Originally Posted by konny
The problem is that we, the Spaniards, have never been polyglots :laugh4: :oops: .
that must be one scary old man indeed! then again, biologically he may be 83, but he clearly pwns like a 38 yr old..Quote:
Originally Posted by Senshi
I can't even grow any proper facial hair yet, exceptions made for the odd whiskers here and there.
Hahaa... Yeah, I'm 17.
:beam:
36 here...
Another statistic kill, I'm 14.
32, and I had to post after a 14 year old....
I'll bring it back down, 18.
I'll be 19 near the end of July.
bump... seems that more people are posting in the original thread...:thinking2:
I'm 20.
OK guys, now who's over 90?
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Originally Posted by Jaume
But we are. We speak catalonian and spanish. :laugh4:
I knew some people that play RTW and one of them was the guy that told me about EB. All of them are in their thirties.
28. And proud.
34.
Also, I'd like to criticize that there wasn't a "gah!"-option in the poll. Only real numbers. It's not completely valid without gah!
22 but I've been playing RTW in one incarnation or another since it was released way back in 2004.
The main reason I began playing RTW was because I as really interested in history, although after starting the game I realized historical accuracy wasn't exactly at the top of CA's list :laugh4: As I didn't have internet where I was living at the time I played vanilla for nearly a year until I read about RTR in an issue of PC Gamer, after which I promptly went to a Net Cafe, dowloaded it and installed it. Playing it after vanilla was awesome, but over time I realized it wasn't accurate enough to satisfy my historical hunger. Finally, a few months after RTR I got into EB and haven't looked at vanilla, RTR or any otherRTW mod since.
I'm XVIII years old, in September I'll be XIX years old.
Latin numbers are easy. i dare you to post it in ancient Greek numbers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Constantine I
i am 21
I am 31, the ten years since i was 21 has sure gone fast!
LOL!!!! :laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by Irishmafia2020
Iam 32 Cheers.....
Another grizzled veteran at 48....
Jesus...at 46, am I really in the 97th percentile in this group??!!?? :inquisitive:
So many of you on this board, probably having never experienced the combination of sheer joy and anguish of you and your buddies moving stacks of die-cut cardboard squads, commanders and support units across a hexagonal grid on a card table in your basement, surrounded by reams of unit stats cards, piles of multi-colored dice, and dictionary-sized rulebooks...we've come a long, long way...
But I love the fact that I can use this forum to learn so much about classical history from folks who are my kids' age!! Glad to be a part of it...
Dammit, I'm still only one of two people my age :no:
I ain't posting mine until the other person does:laugh4:
Tarkus - ah, the good old days.
...why have two people voted "over 90"?
It is the hidden "Gah!"-option. :yes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hax
30 even. recalc
All you have to do is flip those votes! Under 10 it is!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hax
[Brushing off cob webs and reaching for the walker...]
44
Dang, I was fixing computer bugs before many of you were born. What a depressing feeling.
I'm reaching the age where I have to take a second to think about how old I am.
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Either I'm getting old already, or I have brain damage from drinking far too much hard liquor.
..16..
why does the poll have the option of "over 90" in the first place?
https://img145.imageshack.us/img145/344/ageel8.jpgQuote:
Latin numbers are easy. i dare you to post it in ancient Greek numbers.
Hehehe, no I dont understand nothing about greek numbers but google is our friend...
For those too lazy to go look for it: 19
17! Though I started playing EB when I was 15 or 16
Shouldn't it had been the "Self-Auto-BANZ!!!1" Option?Quote:
Originally Posted by Centurio Nixalsverdrus
I'm 24 at the moment of this posting.
Haha, three people actually voted over 90!!! :laugh4:
Why is that depressing???????Quote:
Originally Posted by Sygrod
Did you just post the sign for an imaginary number, and an angle measurement?
44 in a few days and I beg to differ. Been playing computer games (as well as making it my career) since I had my Apple 2e at 13 or so. Ultima and 5 1/4 floppies ftw! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jaume
Another Squad Leader or Avalon Hill fan in general I presume? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tarkus
'Qadim' in maltese is used to describe old thinqs, for example, an old chair = siggu qadim. For people we use 'xih', an old man, or we say 'ghandu hafna zmien', ghandu=he has, hafna=many, zmien=years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ibrahim
Cheers.
Alexander had conquered the world by the time he was my age. I haven't even conquered my own house: "A man's house is his castle" - HA!
A word of advice to the young men: drink and fight and get laid and smoke ... cigarettes and generally have as much fun as you possibly can - while you're in your teens and early- and mid-20's.
Sometime around age 26-28, you'll sense that something has changed. Then - and only then - should you settle down with a good woman (or man, if that's your thing), and act responsibly.
Be comforted Count Belisarius. I'm 24 and well on way for not even having my own house by that age ;).Quote:
Originally Posted by Count Belisarius
22 here
well im 18 since may the 8th :2thumbsup:
32.
It doesnt feel so old until you write it down though...
....36....
That sounds funny. I always thought Maltese was a romance language. But it sounds rather semitic now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Reno Melitensis
Turning 17 in couple months:yes:
Ive been playing EB since 0.81. My history grade is going up thanks to EB and this forum:2thumbsup:
26...
my lill bro (he's 8) played one turn of EB... does that count for him?
indeed maltese is related to my dialect of arabic...(palestinian arabic to left.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Reno Melitensis
adeem=qadim
shekh=xih (how is x pronounced here?)
3indo=ghandu
hifne=hafna (in palestinnian=buch, or clump)
zman=zmien (palestinian=time, age)
im one of those who are over ninety and as im retired i have more time to play EB you young whippersnappers
at least we dont have the risk of breaking a finger whenever we click the mouse, anyway u dont see many people of your generation playing on the pc, not to mention a game that is already 4 years old, although on the other hand its slow-paced.Quote:
Originally Posted by Happy balroae
I'm still one of two thirteen year olds :furious3:
I don't know if I trust those 4 "over 90" votes, but at 30 I certainly feel a lot older than I used to...
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Originally Posted by Apgad
I think they saw it as „over 9000!”
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Originally Posted by Apgad
Indeed, I would have hoped the EB forum goers were more mature than to think pretending they were 90 was funny...