I noticed a lot of military folk enjoy EQ...why is that?

[tekniq]

coincidence?

[Ambrotos]

Plenty of time to play after fuck fuck games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVPSKdpRXA

[Swish]

Most countries have dial-up at least by now, and its probably one of the few games that'll still run on 4kb/sec :D

[Clark]

Most countries have dial-up at least by now, and its probably one of the few games that'll still run on 4kb/sec :D

:D

[iruinedyourday]

when I first got ventrillo my roomate said, why does everyone in the middle west play this stupid game you love so much?

I KILLED HIM FOR CALLING EQ STUPID

[Clark]

when I first got ventrillo my roomate said, why does everyone in the middle west play this stupid game you love so much?

I KILLED HIM FOR CALLING EQ STUPID

Hahaha :cool:

[zolex]

Plenty of time to play after fuck fuck games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVPSKdpRXA

haha wow never seen that. too good

[Itching]

I am an active duty person in the military and I can give you a couple of good reasons.

1. Big open spaces- as opposed to where I currently live out of a 2.5ftx6ftx2ft box where I sleep and all of my shit is kept, and I can only go at most ~500 ft in one direction and ~100 ft in another (soon to change because I am about to come back from deployment YAY!). EQ on the other hand is a vast world that has a sandbox element to it where you can explore just about anywhere, and have the freedom to do just about anything, something which no other game really offers at such a massive scale.

2.In the military you are not given many personal freedoms, at all you are told what to wear, your appearance is dictated 100%, only allowed to eat at certain times and only what they offer. In EQ I can make a shaggedy assed halfling and run around buck naked, drunk, beating fire beetles with a stick to my hearts content and no one can tell me otherwise.

But that is just my two cents.

[Alexakis]

Personally, I played and loved EQ as a young teenage so the nostalgia is a huge part for me for playing P99 as an active duty Soldier.

Now plenty of the Soldiers in the battery I command play a lot of CoD/BF4, LoL, and WoW.

Currently, I also play TESO with a few of my friends from IRL/P99. Always loved me some Bethesda!

[Clark]

In EQ I can make a shaggedy assed halfling and run around buck naked, drunk, beating fire beetles with a stick to my hearts content and no one can tell me otherwise.

:D

[iruinedyourday]

I am an active duty person in the military and I can give you a couple of good reasons.

1. Big open spaces- as opposed to where I currently live out of a 2.5ftx6ftx2ft box where I sleep and all of my shit is kept, and I can only go at most ~500 ft in one direction and ~100 ft in another (soon to change because I am about to come back from deployment YAY!). EQ on the other hand is a vast world that has a sandbox element to it where you can explore just about anywhere, and have the freedom to do just about anything, something which no other game really offers at such a massive scale.

2.In the military you are not given many personal freedoms, at all you are told what to wear, your appearance is dictated 100%, only allowed to eat at certain times and only what they offer. In EQ I can make a shaggedy assed halfling and run around buck naked, drunk, beating fire beetles with a stick to my hearts content and no one can tell me otherwise.

But that is just my two cents.

haha I like that second cent.. its very endearing :) what classic eq is all about! runnin around killin beetles!

love it :D

[Valdarious]

Plenty of time to play after fuck fuck games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVPSKdpRXA

What the hell are fuck fuck games? lol
All the time I spent in the Army, never heard that term before along with green corvette.

[Bazia]

u musta been in a long time ago fuck fuck games is pretty damn common terminology

[Valdarious]

Yeah, I was in twice. 90-94 and again from 2003-06.

[Brynnag]

I started playing EQ in 2001 while stationed in Korea. Was awesome being able to talk to normal people that didnt hold every day conversations in army infantry jargon. Also to see something (even if simulated) other than squinty eyed koreans who are always angry or dykes in BDU's.

I actually made a lifelong internet pal while playing on my first character ever in NRO

[Valdarious]

I was already back from a tour in Saudi and having a great time in Germany. I mostly played EQ because of my love of DnD and midevil fantasy stuff. I was running a computer gaming center at the time so I was able to play all day while I worked.

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

It's like that with a lot of games from what I can tell.

I played the shit outta borderlands 2 with a serviceman who didn't want to leave base and go get drunk.

[Cistern]

Military life is hard, I assume. I also assume the nostalgia plays a huge part and offers a great deal of solace to their tiresome minds.

[myriverse]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/130339-NSA-Spies-On-MMOs-Says-Snowden-Reveal

[fadetree]

Military life can also be really, really, boring at times.

[Cistern]

Military life can also be really, really, boring at times.

Yeah, I've heard from pretty much everyone it's a hurry up and wait kind of deal most of the time.

[Destron]

Also to see something (even if simulated) other than squinty eyed koreans who are always angry or dykes in BDU's.


L.O.L.

[Faisca]

Interesting thread.

I had noticed this before too, and I always thought the draw was in the similarities EQ has with the military life, you know, being involved in guilds and raids sometimes feels like being in the army. :D

[sulious]

That's strange I noticed a lot of civilians playing 99.

[Whirled]

That's strange I noticed a lot of civilians playing 99.

[Lictor]

I've heard female soldiers are huge sluts

[Destron]

I've heard female soldiers are huge sluts

This sweeping statement needs to be confirmed or denied, no bias please.

[Whirled]

This sweeping statement needs to be confirmed or denied, no bias please.

I'm going to take a wild guess and say the answer may just be in here:
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread820508/pg1

[Brynnag]

I've heard female soldiers are huge sluts

they are, especially when deployed or stationed overseas. The ugliest fattest nastiest ho can have literally 10-15 hard up motherfuckers buying them shit and taking care of thier bills at any given time.

[Korben]

-Off peak hours while deployed means farming contested camps is a joke
-Runs on pretty much any internet connection
-Runs on pretty much any PC made in the last 15 years. I run it on a laptop.

Afghanistan was actually too shit of a connection for it to work. Iraq was mostly too shit but sometimes could log in. Kuwait was baller, WiFi everywhere so I was on every second I wasn't working a 13-14 hour shift, at the gym, etc.
Also, one day off a week and nobody to call because it's 3:30 AM stateside? EQ.

[Ahldagor]

EQ diplomacy anyone?

[Loke]

I don't think there is any real overriding correlation between military service and eq, just so happens that a lot of people have served in the military recently and people who served tend to talk about it a lot since it is a huge part of their life experience, so it makes them visible.

Personally the only time I played EQ while in was when my unit had just gotten back from deployment and were in a relaxed training phase, and I was recovering from an injury so I had to be around during "working hours" but could basically just sit in a barracks room and hang out all day. Luckily it was right around the time Progression 1.0 came out.

Blows my mind that some of you guys were able to play on deployment though. Even on my last deployment I'm pretty sure our main FOB had spotty internet half the time, and you could forget about it out at the battle positions. I thought I had it good when we'd make it back to the FOB and I could convince my buddy in the comm shop to hook it up with movies and offline games he pulled off the RCT share drive. The servers at Al Asad (im assuming thats where they were) were like a poor man's pirate bay.

But yea, I think it is really just that people in the military talk about their jobs a lot more than people not in the military, so it looks like they are a higher percent of the EQ population than they actually are. Not to mention there are almost 22 million veterans in the US, so it isn't like it is a particularly small group of people.

[Destron]

I think it is really just that people in the military talk about their jobs a lot more than people not in the military.

We have a winner folks!

/thread

[Sckrilla]

I was able to play here and there on Kandahar while deployed. D3 was a little less forgiving on that connection however. Now when I was at Al Udeid in Qatar... lol shit was faster than any Internet service I even had in the states.