I just wanted to take a minute and say how much I appreciate ALL of you other players - I won't try to name names (it'd take WAY too long) but I really enjoy this - it's kind of like a big family - sort of like the way it was back 40 years ago with CB radio - everyone sitting around listening to each other and just having a good tiime!

btw - it'd be interesting to see just how "wide spread" this is and learn a little about some of you great people out there.

I'll start if off:

I'm Dennis Martz, a 63 year old "Semi Retired" computer game lover. I live in Rancho Mirage, California (a stones throw from Palm Springs). Very happily married to my high school sweetheart Lynda (we actually dated in High School - I went into the Air Force and we split-up - married (4 times!!!) and 32 years after splitting up, found her on Classmates.com and we've been married for 14 Wonderful (finally) years now. I love flying R/C electric planes (I'm also a Private Pilot - but who can afford $150/hour for THAT???)

Thanx again folks!!

Dennis
The Instgtr

Hiya,

It's a pleasure to meet you. I am from the US East coast and studied to become a Korvax, IRL. When that didnt work, I turned to a carreer in computers.

When NMS came out I quite literally hated it. It is fun now, however. It satisfies my itch for a pretty sandbox game. I've played more multiplayer games than should be allowed. In all kinds of settings, suffered burnout, and have slowly been getting back into computer gaming, limited to retrostyle games. Mainly singleplayer. NMS runs offline here. Got a bad taste for most things RPG and multiplayer, thanks to SOE.

For pretty sandbox games, NMS
For ugly sandbox games, Dwarf Fortress
For survival games, I mainly stick to permadeath tactical squadbased rogues, too many
For shooter games, 1/2 Life or Red Faction Gorilla
For puzzler games, SpaceChem and snail suduko at the local watering hole.

Ive seen almost 50 harvests. Worked at Babbages, when it had a great big PC section. If it sounds like gaming is my life, it prolly is more so than most folks. No wife. No kids. Just pixels and bananas, for this me.

birdbathscuba

And you thought you were old.... LOL!!! (Croak, sputter,hack, hack hack...) Korvax IRL ? What's that?
You probably have a better life in Computers anyway...
btw -what's "SOE" ??

IRL, in real life, a Scientist, 5yrs in applied physics and 4yr in experimental chemistry.
Ya. I got to see lotsa circuitry and cabling. Also, some smelly human biology spinning test tubes, for med techs.
SOE is Sony Online Entertainmet. A badly disfigured guy, blew off his jaw when his rifle breached ran a guild in one of their poorly run games, Star Wars Galaxys. He all but lived in that virtual world, his RL face was a disaster. Then Sony just unplugged us after a dozen yrs of operation, people in our guild were forming virtual weddings, we met up every night. A rich community formed. There is a special place in hell for those heartless SOE execs.

Is this your first scifi game? I tend to lean towards less twitchy games with crafting and tactics.

I guess I'm gonna have to start a list of these letters...

That Rifle breach sounds pretty nasty, I know my mom got kicked in the jaw by a 12 guage shotgun she fired for the first time... messed her up, but only for a couple of weeks - hope he eventually gets better...

Can't remember ever hearing of Korvax before this game - the word does sound familiar, just doesn't ring any bells...

As far as computer games - I've been playing them since computers first hit the market in the 70's - have probably played close to 1,000 different games - being a Private Pilot, I enjoy Flight Simulators, but after so long, even they can get boring... I "borrowed" a number of computers before I actually bought one (P.E.T. Computers) - My first computer was a Commodore 64 - bought it just as they went from $599 down to $199 and they could have charged me the $599, but they were cool and gave me the new price - so I bought the Hard drive with it. It's amazing just how much that little monster could do!!!

I can't remember what my first Sci-Fi game was - but they sure have come a long way! I absolutely LOVE NMS, even with the bugs.... I do lots of crafting and building - not into the "shoot em up" kinds of games at all - I love using Excel and keeping track of everything (if I can figure out how to do "live" updating of inventory quantities, I'll be in 7th heaven!!!)

Later my friend!

Dennis
The Instgtr

IBM 386slc, 1st PC. A huge mistake. Owning this state-of-the-art machine was like owning a Vette with no engine and no steering wheel. IBM made no faster chips. OS/2 had no devs. It was a real nice package, great keyboard, quiet as a mouse, and a HUGE thirteen inch screen.