DougGraves Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 Was on a PuG yesterday. Everyone was nice and the team worked well together. Someone said CoH had the best community of any game. I commented that it was because we are old. Everyone started posting their age. I was tied for youngest at 51. The oldest was 71. Then we team wiped 3 times while chatting instead of fighting. 5 13 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoisesG Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 LOL😄 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snarky Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 24 minutes ago, DougGraves said: Was on a PuG yesterday. Everyone was nice and the team worked well together. Someone said CoH had the best community of any game. I commented that it was because we are old. Everyone started posting their age. I was tied for youngest at 51. The oldest was 71. Then we team wiped 3 times while chatting instead of fighting. All that experience and you just let the mobs kill you. Be ashamed. Be very ashamed 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nihilii Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 Thought this was a thread about exemplaring. From our resident level-locked-at-20? Madness! And I still fell for it. Well played, Doug. Well played. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeraphimKensai Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 I've played since the OG Beta back in 04, but still have quite a ways to go before I ding 50. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintD Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 Just turned 39. I have to do a lot of work to keep my lower back misbehaving. The idiot formerly known as Lord Khorak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InvaderStych Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 12 hours ago, DougGraves said: Then we team wiped 3 times while chatting instead of fighting. This is as it should be! 🤣 1 You see a mousetrap? I see free cheese and a f$%^ing challenge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Myshkin Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 I mean... statistically speaking the average player age based on just when the game launched versus now is likely somewhere around 38-42. If the demographic the game was "intended" for was 16-24 back at launch of 2004, we're 19 years in making the lowest point of a returning player (excluding scenarios where parents/guardians allowed younger to participate) would be 35. We all know that there was a considerable swing in the age bracket back then though and the player age ranged even then into the 70's, so I'm truly not surprised. At the latest point in the game's history (2012), we have just crested into the eleventh year (so really just a decade since "THE EVENT"), if a player were to come back now and say "Oh, I remember play this back then..." If they onboarded in the same demographic range then, that'd put them in the 26-34 range now... 1 Pylon Test Run Submission Proc Monsters (Controller Edition) Proc Monsters (Defender Edition) Pylon Test Run Results Proc Monsters (Tanker Edition) "Mad King Special" "Ceterum autem censeo Iram esse delendam" Mad King Special - Force Edition (NEW!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaghetti Betty Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 1 minute ago, Sir Myshkin said: that'd put them in the 26-34 range now... 👋 1 Mainly on Excelsior. Find me in game @Spaghetti Betty. AE Arcs: Big Magic Blowout! 41612 | The Meta-Human Wrestling Association 44683 | MHWA Part 2 48577 Click to look at my pets! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clave Dark 5 Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 I'll have to up my troll game, my dream is to remain insufferable until the day I die! Tim "Black Scorpion" Sweeney: Matt (Posi) used to say that players would find the shortest path to the rewards even if it was a completely terrible play experience that would push them away from the game... ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ Clave's Sure-Fire Secrets to Enjoying City Of Heroes Ignore those farming chores, skip your market homework, play any power sets that you want, and ignore anyone who says otherwise. This game isn't hard work, it's easy! Go have fun! ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Shocker Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 It's not the years, it's the mileage 🤣 Now git offa my lawn 2 There's a fine line between a numerator and a denominator but only a fraction of people understand that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyhawke Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 I feel my age (49) every time I miss out on a TF or something because instead of typing "tf plz", I send someone a missive from the front...single spaced. 3 Sky-Hawke: Rad/WP Brute Alts galore. So...soooo many alts. Originally Pinnacle Server, then Indomitable and now Excelsior Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InvaderStych Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 7 minutes ago, Skyhawke said: I feel my age (49) every time I miss out on a TF or something because instead of typing "tf plz", I send someone a missive from the front...single spaced. Must be something about verging on 50 (hitting that benchmark this year myself) that brings out our loquacious and verbose nature because I totally resemble this remark. 🤣 Of course economical word count was never my strong suit in the first place. 1 You see a mousetrap? I see free cheese and a f$%^ing challenge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braddack Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 ah i am 55 now and i am happy there is this game where my Grandpa Reflexes are enough 😄 1 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Fabulous Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High_Beam Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 I turned 50 in 2019 and absolutely nobody at the party my spouse arranged for me got it when I shouted DING! and challenged them all to run to Atlas Park and level up with Miss Liberty. 7 3 Girls of Nukem High - Excelsior - Tempus Fabulous, Flattery, Jennifer Chilly, Betty Beatdown, Totally Cali, Two Gun Trixie Babes of War - Excelsior - High Beam (Yay), Di Di Guns, Runeslinger, Munitions Mistress, Tideway, Hard Melody, Blue Aria Many alts and lots of fun. Thank you Name Release For letting me get my OG main back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seed22 Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 I played back in i5, don't exactly remember when that was...but now I'm 26. It's really hitting me just how fast that bugger flies! 2 Aspiring show writer through AE arcs and then eventually a script 😛 AE Arcs: Odd Stories-Arc ID: 57289| An anthology series focusing on some of your crazier stories that you'd save for either a drunken night at Pocket D or a mindwipe from your personal psychic.|The Pariahs: Magus Gray-Arc ID: 58682| Magus Gray enlists your help in getting to the bottom of who was behind the murder of the Winter Court.| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El D Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 53 minutes ago, Seed22 said: I played back in i5, don't exactly remember when that was...but now I'm 26. It's really hitting me just how fast that bugger flies! Issue 5 was August 2005, so you were playing... at 8 years old? Dang, here I thought I started young having been in high school at launch. Also, found a screenshot for this thread! 2 3 1 Global is @El D, Everlasting Player, Recovering Altaholic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 I'll be hitting 60 this year. It's not that I'm nicer, I just don't get riled up about little things anymore perhaps? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oubliette_Red Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 3 hours ago, El D said: Issue 5 was August 2005, so you were playing... at 8 years old? Dang, here I thought I started young having been in high school at launch. If I recall correctly, Pepsiman was pretty young when they started playing back on Legacy. 1 Dislike certain sounds? Silence/Modify specific sounds. Looking for modified whole powerset sfx? Check out Michiyo's modder or Solerverse's thread. Got a punny character? You should share it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go0gleplex Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 I'll be tagging 57 in a couple months myself. Still no signs of aliens to partner up with though. Dang it. >< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Shocker Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 coincidentally I was editing my profile a couple of days ago and noticed that somehow these forums had decided that I was born on Jan 19th 1921. I know I'm old but I didn't even get a card from the late Queen 1 There's a fine line between a numerator and a denominator but only a fraction of people understand that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seed22 Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 On 3/7/2023 at 10:38 AM, El D said: Issue 5 was August 2005, so you were playing... at 8 years old? Dang, here I thought I started young having been in high school at launch. Also, found a screenshot for this thread! Back in my day we had to go up n down the Hollows...both ways! Nurse: oookay granpa, now could you please just place your bingo chip? And yep! With parent supervision ofc. I mean, all I really did was run around with whacky toons and get em into their teens at most. Wasn't until years later I got a 50. 1 2 Aspiring show writer through AE arcs and then eventually a script 😛 AE Arcs: Odd Stories-Arc ID: 57289| An anthology series focusing on some of your crazier stories that you'd save for either a drunken night at Pocket D or a mindwipe from your personal psychic.|The Pariahs: Magus Gray-Arc ID: 58682| Magus Gray enlists your help in getting to the bottom of who was behind the murder of the Winter Court.| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KC4800 Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 I'll be 59 at the end of March. 2 Victory: reserved for future use Indom: Schtick, Pummel Pete, Plymouth, Pilkington Reunion: Ghost Legacy, 7s7e7v7e7n7, Mind Funk, Bluto Excelsior: Phrendon Largo, Fred Bumbler, John van der Waals,Allamedia Jones, Tzapt, Sn1pe Torchbearer: Phrendon Largo, Kenny Letter, Bewm, La Merle, Enflambe', Rock Largo, Bulk of the Weather, Retired Phrendon Everlasting: Phrendon Largo, Krown, Buzz Words, Bicycle Repairman, Dee Fender, Carmela Soprano, Radmental Boy, Beet Salad, Sporanghi,Sue Ahn Cuddy, Fukushima Technician, Snow Globe Girl, Thug Therapist, Apple Brown Betty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High_Beam Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 Sadly there were friends I played with in game back on live who were in their late fifties so you know that some of them passed before being able to once more play. Pours one out for the original Doctor Finetush, my best friend in game.💔 3 Girls of Nukem High - Excelsior - Tempus Fabulous, Flattery, Jennifer Chilly, Betty Beatdown, Totally Cali, Two Gun Trixie Babes of War - Excelsior - High Beam (Yay), Di Di Guns, Runeslinger, Munitions Mistress, Tideway, Hard Melody, Blue Aria Many alts and lots of fun. Thank you Name Release For letting me get my OG main back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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