How Old is KSP's Userbase?

[3_bit]

11-17 is a bit unfair. Us teenagers prefer to have our own group; 15-17 is preferable.....

[Tw1]

20 here.

[razark]

11-17 is a bit unfair. Us teenagers prefer to have our own group; 15-17 is preferable.....

All age categories are rather arbitrary.

*shakes cane*

Someday you younguns will understand that!

[JelloTickles]

I'm 13 here.

[TheTriniFlyer]

Good to know I'm not the only 13 year old. rryy I never would think that you're 13, I always saw you as a professional KSPer with years of experience, I still see you as the same but now easier to relate to. When did you start playing KSP?

For me I stared to play the Demo in August last year, Got the full game (.18.2) during the Christmas sale and my forum account as you can see on the left in May.

By any luck is there anyone here from Trinidad and Tobago?

[flyin_ruski]

22 here. Going to be 23 next month

[leax256]

and my group prevailes 0,82,85,33,33,11,9

[Mr Shifty]

Pretty cool to see so many younger teenagers interested in this game. I had to stop for a minute to think if I would have been interested in this when I was 13, then I remembered the ungodly number of hours I spent trying to master this game at about that age. Any of the other fogies remember that one?

[razark]

Any of the other fogies remember that one?

I remember seeing it, but I never played it.

[Finis]

Pretty cool to see so many younger teenagers interested in this game. I had to stop for a minute to think if I would have been interested in this when I was 13, then I remembered the ungodly number of hours I spent trying to master this game at about that age. Any of the other fogies remember that one?

I was far too involved in this one for the 2600, but I was only around 7 then. For 13 I was playing this one.

[Brenok]

Pretty cool to see so many younger teenagers interested in this game. I had to stop for a minute to think if I would have been interested in this when I was 13, then I remembered the ungodly number of hours I spent trying to master this game at about that age. Any of the other fogies remember that one?

Wow, that game is quite impressive, specially for the Atari.

The thing that buga me is that Skylab-like station, which had already been deorbited when the Shuttle started. Or is it a fictional station?

[rryy]

Good to know I'm not the only 13 year old. rryy I never would think that you're 13, I always saw you as a professional KSPer with years of experience, I still see you as the same but now easier to relate to. When did you start playing KSP?

For me I stared to play the Demo in August last year, Got the full game (.18.2) during the Christmas sale and my forum account as you can see on the left in May.

I got the demo in May last year and bought the game last June when 0.15 came out. I joined the forums in November, but my account got wiped in the Great Forum Purge.

[Spyritdragon]

I just turned 17, discovered the game some 3-4 weeks ago i think, downloaded the demo a bit later, bought the game 3 days ago :-). I've always been interested in space though.

[legodragonxp]

AARP REPRESENT! (just kidding)

-Lego

[Epthelyn]

Started in one boundary, now I'm in the next

It's nice to be in the most-voted group

[Sir Nahme]

Old enough to know better, and still too childish to not have cake for breakfast

[bracknellexile]

I shifted boundaries while playing too. As a result, later this year I reach the best age for a Douglas Adams fan to be. After that it's all downhill....

[AdamGM]

I may not vote on this poll I'm 28 though.

[ComradeGoat]

Pretty cool to see so many younger teenagers interested in this game. I had to stop for a minute to think if I would have been interested in this when I was 13

Quite. I might have been interested, but I didn't study the maths behind orbital mechanics until I was 18 (I'm a 39 year old woman). I guess the game can be mastered without knowing about conic sections, eccentricity and suchlike, but it would make the learning curve much harder. Good for those picking it up early and making their space programme work!

[ComradeGoat]

I just told him "Because it's fun. Trust me, going out and getting drunk gets old really fast unless you're very easily entertained." I think the last time I went out with the intention of getting drunk was back when I was... 23? Over half a lifetime ago.

Too right. It starts to hurt too much as well. The stuff I did to my body with alcohol at 18 would half kill me now. Half of it leaves me feeling dreadful for days. Can't be doing with that these days.

[ComradeGoat]

Tone is difficult sometimes in the casual nature of forum conversation. I was/am amused that it seemed like the 14 year old gamer I was responding to implied (deliberately or not, this is my interpretation) that video games are new enough that us old guys are just discovering them and getting interested in them.

LOL! I remember writing my first video games in BASIC on a VIC-20. First one of any substance I did was a lunar lander game, and here I am, thirty one years later having come full circle, playing "lunar lander" again.

[asmi]

29. Sort of in the middle

[SoldierHair]

[worriedlaugh]ha..ha ha[/worriedlaugh]

13 here

[GJames]

I'm 16, but I am surprised that there are so many older people kicking around here. Still, hope for the future I guess, I wouldn't mind playing an occasional bit of KSP when I'm 40! Course, it'll be 2036 then...

[Technical Ben]

Quite. I might have been interested, but I didn't study the maths behind orbital mechanics until I was 18 (I'm a 39 year old woman). I guess the game can be mastered without knowing about conic sections, eccentricity and suchlike, but it would make the learning curve much harder. Good for those picking it up early and making their space programme work!

Great to hear from a different perspective. Thanks.