OT: How old are you ?

[zen.]

just turned 28 three weeks ago (*groan*)

Graphic Designer (anyone need one?), Northern Virginia (hi cheshire!)

Mostly into TFC (damned good HPB and SEIV. I much prefer turn-based to real-time strategy game...less stress for me.

zen

[Stone Mill]

29, New Jersey, Married. Instructional Designer: I write install & user guides and put together training classes for a Payroll software company.

8 year USAF, Gulf War vet (did security and anti-terrorism). Got out, got married, slowed down... but totally rely on gaming for peace of mind. Have 3 core friends who have been enjoying SEIV PBEM since it rolled out.
Also love other (mostly strategy) computer, RPG, and board games, such as Axis and Allies, Risk, Panzer General series, MOO2, Close Combat series, Civilization series...

My beautiful wife is closing in on me with the "kid" thing, so I will be doomed here in the next couple of years. She insists that "I won't have time for all these silly games" when we have children... BUT she does not realize my EVIL plot to teach them SEIV and all the cool games I know ASAP!

[Dragonlord]

27, New Jersey unmarried but girlfriend lives with me. I lived in the Netherlands for 8 years and am originally from the Dutch Caribbean. (anyone know Curacao?)

Came to the US to work as a consultant in Information Security, but recently got laid off Anyone have a job for me ?

Am playing way too much SE4 now with all this free time on my hands...

[dogscoff]

Are there any other UK players here? I know there are a few German / Dutch / Scandinavians but am I the only person on this island playing SEIV?

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"I think so Brain but, if you replace the P with an O, my name would be Oinky, wouldn't it?"

[Saxon]

30 and still getting acne. Mom said I would stop getting acne when I grew up. Therefore, I have not grown up.

Manage a staff of 110 local and expatriates, which gives me excellent training for SE4. Our organization takes 18, 000 African refugees a year and moves them to the US to start new lives. Living in Nairobi, Kenya is fun, but sometimes depressing. Main advantage of living in Kenya, I have a maid. Main disadvantage is the poor internet connections.

I have a wonderful girlfriend who doesn’t understand 4X; she wants to play Midtown Madness.

First space game was Gorf on the Vic20, later moved on to Empire, then Empire Deluxe, Pirates!, CIV I and MOO. In the Last year or so, Heroes of Might and Magic III has taken a lot of time from my life, then SE4 showed up.

[Sabre21]

Hey Stonemill

You have the right attitude with your kids...I was teaching mine on board games back in the late seventies/early eighties. Then came along my first computer..an apple IIe with a whooping 64k of memory..no HD. My youngest was still in diapers and learned how to operate that thing on his own...even learned to spell and count using it. Now he just graduated HS and is going to a computer tech school..hehe. My other has his own computer at college and we are constantly doing things Online together. The funny thing is I was divorced 12 years ago...so even though your wife may go (LOL)...your kids are there to stay

Now that my house is nearly empty, I've been trying to get my 2 german shephards to become computer literate...but they would rather chew on the mouse than work it properly..sheesh..and these ain't even old dogs yet

Sabre21

[Stone Mill]

Sabre21,

Too funny! That reminds me of my friends' kids who are barely out of diapers but routinely whoop my butt on all the first person shooters (darn kids memorize the mazes), it's remarkable. I guess that's why I stick to strategy.

So it pays off to stick a keyboard in the crib? Thanks for the advice. Is there any way to trade the ballerina outfit for a Star Trek officer's uniform?

Sorry to hear that your marriage did not work, maybe if she came around to gaming... Boy, that would seem to be the perfect marriage!

One Last note- You mean you are not supposed to chew on the mouse?!?