Who Are You? Who is the CoH Community?

[Bridger]

Well, Who are you guys?

[kippcasper73]

im the most indecisive person who plays CoH.... or am I?

[BlackLabel]

27 Year old who used to work for german gaming publishers. Long time RTS player since Dune2. ;) Got hooked with ww2 RTS since blitzkrieg and a modder ( read skinner ) since "Codename : Panzers Phase1". I guess thats what you wanted to know ? Strange Question , Bridger....are you bored ?

*edith*

seems that the "older" fellas answer more honestly....:hippy:

[Thanasis]

I am Batman.

[LTSearchEngine]

Er.. a chemical engineer who really likes listening to your replay shoutcasts?

Also, someone who can't wait for smoke / the possible phase bugs to be fixed in 1.5.

[fldash]

"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."

:)

[Evil Plum]

Retired company director, age 47 and bit of a Gaming God, (err Ok - make that "want to be" gaming god), been playing PC games for 10 years, co-manage a 20 member strong European clan competing in clanbase, (clan was playing Farcry, now plays BF2, will be playing either Enemy Territory or Crysis in a few months).

Tried RTS games online before, but always gave up because of the constant early rush by the 12 year olds. COH is the first time I have stuck with an RTS online.

We did a similar fact find on the Farcry official forum 2 years ago and about 20% of players were age 30 - 40 and 10% of them were age 40+. So assume therre are more old farts like me out there playing COH.

Regards - Mr P

PS: Favourite game of all time = Civlization

[Psymon]

The name's Bond, James Bond.

[paragon]

I am Spartacus

[Quercus]

No, I am Spartacus.


(couldn't resist).
Could you be slightly more specific on what sort of information you are after Bridger?

[Kon]

Lets just say everywhere you see a starbucks there is a little bit of me....
(I know, I know, "the evil empire" )

[black_ranger]

Who am i ?.Thats a very big question

[walmartconnect]

A combat engineer in the United States Marine Corps that loves to play war a little more than the real thing :P

[Tropper]

“I’m Brian and so’s my wife”

Actual i don't have a wife and thats why i have to waste my time with you guys. :P

[Kalipsojak]

I am 27 years old, born and raised in Canada (T.O.) I work as a full-time Chef at a local restaurant. I am a Senior 1st Officer of FlightLevel 370 "|FL370|" with about 25 "mature" members. The clan was formed by a group of pilots back in the Mohaa days and has been together ever since. I, until recently, ONLY played FPS "CoD/BF2" and now im am addicted to CoH and the WB. My past gaming history includes the Warcraft Series (Not WoW ewwwwwwwww...) I also did pretty well in Diablo 2, In selling my account for $150usd just before they released th 1.10 patch. After that I realized how much time you have to put into the RPG's to get anywhere and I started to get into FPS. I have competed in TWL and CAL-O and have found that in the end the competition is more irritating than fun.

I have managed to get about 25% of the clan playing CoH and they all love it. I have found the I really enjoy making CoH maps and somtimes find myself working on them for hours on end.


|FL370| Kalipsojak

Favourite game of all time = Betrayal at Krondor

[Oxykotex]

Name is ex-speedfreak FPS monster. 19 years old. my postal code is....

[Taipan]

Ive been rts since Total annihilation (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/totalannihilation/index.html?q=total) (first 3d rts) BTW the guy who made totala is now making supreme commander (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/supremecommander/index.html?q=supreme) .

Im a hardcore cod player and im in 2 clans (of one im clanleader)

My xfire stats: taipanner (http://www.xfire.com/profile/taipanner/)

[Sprinkles]

im a guy that thought the game was interesting so tryed it and loved it and then preordered it and then played a lot of the beta then played alot of the game then decided to join the forums

hope this answers your question :P

[Dark_Avenger]

known as darkavenger in DoW and in CoH, got into DoW, then I saw that relic made this game and got way into it

now I dont play DoW so much anymore, though its still fun

[PappaRock]

I'm father to a Rock:slow:

Seriously,
Long time video gamer...not much into RTS games until COH came out. Played starcraft and warcraft way back.
Mainly focused on FPS (Day of Defeat, CounterStrike, etc.) Started off in Quake days using Sgt. Rock but changed it when I found out I was going to be a daddy:bump:
Now everyone calls me PappaRock:screwy:

[tuffy!]

I'll be the first to be honest here.
I'm some pimply-faced overweight high school geek with glasses. I play CoH cuz I have no real social life. Or maybe I have no social life cuz I play CoH.

edit: I'm kidding. :)

[ÜberJumper]

More than you ever wanted to know (http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=132532).

[thetrippleb]

25 yr old former professional rock climber, now littigation attorney in manhattan.

Long time closet gamer, FPS since Duckhunt :slow: , and RTS since C&C.

Bridger, who are you?!

[Allagioia]

I am the walrus
Coo coo ca choo, coo coo coo ca choo

[tuffy!]

I am the eggman.

[Tak]

I am...


incredibly ashamed that I actually wasted a minute and a half of my life trying to come up with something witty to put after 'I am' that hasn't already been used.

[Some_Yeti]

just some yeti

[blackrook]

I'll be the first to be honest here.
I'm some pimply-faced overweight high school geek with glasses. I play CoH cuz I have no real social life. Or maybe I have no social life cuz I play CoH.Gee, thanks. :cry: :(

[Dwarfy]

im 26 from England

mainly play RTS, played RTS's since Dune2 on the amiga lol

only really play Team RTS's games :)

[mwaf]

Some people mistake me for a dog based on my nick, but that's not true! I'm human! (And no, my nick has nothing to do with dogs.) Played RTS games since Dune2 like a few others here.

[PanzerLehr]

30 years, from Flanders (north-Belgium - soon to be independant)
work in the software industry, support for IBM mainframes and some java things
have g/f, do some gym, got a temperament, die hard axis player, got hooked on RTS/wargames through Panzer General 2 & Starcraft (i still remember the first day i played Starcraft)
im a historian by education.

[Zaibatsu]

22 Years old from the Gold Coast, Australia.
Work as an excavator operator for the local city council, hobbies include webmastering, games ofcorse, golf, cricket and rugby league (go the wests tigers).
Favourite RTS titles - C&C series, JTF & CoH

[Raves]

30 year old Canadian studying bacterial genetics in Scotland (ate Haggis for Burns Supper last night). I used play a lot basketball, but since moving to the UK, I have taken up tennis and volleyball. I am an avid NBA fan, mostly I follow the Raptors and Suns.

I read Sci-Fi and War History in my spare time; my favorite author is Phillip K. Dick.

I've played PC games since Loadrunner on the VIC20. I have had so many favorite games over the years that I wont bother listing them. Recent favs have been UT, C&C:ZH, BF2 and CoH. My gf plays CoH too, and we frequently pwn n00bs together.

I learned how to play CoH well by participating in the Gamereplays.org mentor/mentee program. My Mentor was Bowtome, and he helped me out quite a bit.

I play with the 2eC clan (http://www.2ndeuropean.com) and we basically have fun, pwn and make movies (http://youtube.com/watch?v=O5XAuTZWwOA) n' stuff.

[LoranKorn]

43 year old Canadian living in Europe. I served four years in two different armies, now I am an archeologist/historian working as a consultant primarily in Eastern Europe. In the winter (off season as far as digging) I enjoy my two daughters' company and WW2 games. Have worked, under contract, for three developers so far mostly on sounds.
I am working on a sound mod for CoH right now.

Now, having said all that: and who might you be Bridger if you dont mind m'asking?

[RayLiota]

32 Years old... Canadian... Own a 'puter store... Soon to be a proud papa... CoH is the first PC game I've played since Total Annhilation.. Not much of a gamer but love CoH..

Oh yah.. The name.. I get mistaken for Ray Liota.. Hence the name.. Apparantly we are twins..

S.

[Brat_Boy]

17 year old Junior in High School who plays too many video games and needs to look at colleges more...

[Falaris]

Used to be a schoolteacher in social science, computer science, mathematics, a very rewarding job. Retired due to health reasons, long story I don't want to tell and you don't want to hear.

Been playing games all my life, all the way from manic miner, Elite etc. on the spectrum/C64 to populous on the amiga to .... well, CoH. :D

Also play MMORPG's a bit, simulators, reads books, web design.

Favourite authors.. Glenn Cook, Stephen Donaldson, William Gibson, Elizabeth Moon, David Drake. Many others, as well. I've actually counted more than 800 books I've read but there's more. Most quoted: Ambrose Bierce (the devil's dictionary) and Winston Churchill.

[freshfreddy]

37 years old, working in the "great" hotel industry ;)
Got hoocked up on WW2 games in general since COD; looove the Brothers in Arms serie (btw, can't wait 'til Ubisoft brings some more Hell's Highway news) and even had the luck to take part of the COH beta.
Now I am loosing sleep and too much time playing COH (and getting owned ;) ), and the Tales of Heroes Podcasts have become something like my sunday evening show....

[Warnstaff]

I'm 19 years old, living in a small town in western Canada and I walk with a cane sometimes - even though I don't physically need it. I'm a student with no friends that I've met offline and play too many video games. I very rarely play online (though XBLive is more friendly when dealing with fuckwads - they shut up more often to a real voice as supposed to words on a screen).

I own about...................250-350 games over 5 consoles and a computer, and have played (in many cases, beaten) them all. I love to cheat on single player games (it's more fun for me, though I do play without and still beat it). I'm strongly against copy protection malware - such as Starforce, and to a lesser degree, SecuROM 7.

In short, my entire life revolves around my games, internet, cats and guinea pigs :) I've also been playing games since the age of 1!

[SoxSexSax]

24 years of age (for another 2 weeks anyway), I live in a small town near London in England and I work as computer programmer. My hobbies are poker, computer games and playing with my dogs. I got married at 19 but have no kids yet (though the missus is beginning to nag me to start...gulp!)

My gaming experience is vast. At age 4 I got a BBC Micro and a Sinclair ZX81 and I never looked back. I estimate the number of different titles I have played on various platforms to be well in excess of 1000.

[Skyward]

Soon at the age of 20 and 6months from now serving at finnish army for 6-12months, which is every man's duty here in finland. After that, back to studies. I started gaming with Sega genesis, then PS1 and after that got in to PC gaming. After that I have never played consoles again.

With PC I have played pretty much it all: turn-based, simulation, racing, fps, rts, rpg you name it. First online gaming is as late as Warcraft3, but i played with friends in LAN long before that. After WC3 switched to FPS games like MoH, Cod, CSS, BF2 got bored to shooting and now here i'm at CoH back at RTS. I still like to play WC3 custom games(dota, td and such). I have been involved at clanplaying and what not, but now a days i'm a bit more intrested in 3d modelling than gaming, because now a days every game seems to be half-baked and the same thing starts with every time i switch game.

[Virtual]

IT Tech, Server Administrator and loves to play CoH ^^

[Gunnerside]

20 year old stundent, starting on my law degree after the summer.

until then I'm taking a few classes at the local university, drinking too much and playing CoH ;)

[TheBladeRoden]

TheBladeRoden is us.

[demonlord89]

27 yrs old, father of a son, mechanical engineer from sweden. Very much into FPS but interested in WW2 stuff. Thats why i bought this game.

[kakature]

30 years, from Flanders (north-Belgium - soon to be independant):')


18, Belgium, Student.

[Nainara]

25, Programmer Analyst
Well-rounded rts gamer, and veteran of many, many online rts games.

[Swoodle1]

23, Addicted to CoH, I do low lvl database security for a massive company (world wide about 60,000 users) but hoping to move into system anaylis and project managment position in the next year or so.

[Laspluviosillas]

I am cunningham and I dont know how to shut the fuck up.

[Gremlin Shoota]

21, Graphics Artist Designer :D A.K.A Your Worst Nightmare..., Vancouver, Canada <:-D

[dazzo1987]

Im 19 and im a uni stuent. YAY! :awesome:

[isquish]

33 Father of 1 seeks .. shit wrong board...

Network manager - UK into online gaming since I first played quake. played clanned fps since quakeworld 1.0 back when ISDN was LPB and pings of 200 were uber!

Primarily into FPS/MMORPG online - always saw rts as offline games as I suck at rushing. CoH has coverted me.

I'm normally found in CoH or CS:S servers if I'm on the pc..

:)

btw bridger - love the ToH - learnt alot from them - keep up the good work.

'Squish

[Valkeller]

Who am I?

I’m a 22 years old RTS fan. I have been playing RTS since well C&C and Red Alert and then AoE and many more after does. Never gone online until now actually (didn’t have an internet connection when I was young).

Been playing CoH since my neighbour told me about the BETA in the end of July or was it the beginning of August? And now we always play it together at weekends. I have a 08-17 hour work and take care of my daughter (who is 2,5) every day when I get home. So I play as much as I can during weekends. =P Guess that covers most of it, or some any way.

Didn’t really grasp the question about “who relic community is” but figure it answers it self with all the answers in this thread about us… that is if I understand it correctly. ;)

[bf2soldier]

erm....i like hippos, and lives somewhere around planet earth

[Relic]

22, crazy Community person living in Vancouver... loves gaming, hockey, skiing, computers, and various other strange interests.

[Noble]

21, living in Asheville NC. Currently getting paid to learn linux for a medical insurance clearing house. I play alot of Magic the Gathering and CoH. In between work and hobbies, I love to work on my novel and short stories, and read as much as possible. Beyond all that though, I try to party as much as humanly possible :D

[Quercus]

Looks like Bridger isn't going to answer my question.
Oh well, age 38, shoe size 10 1/2, male (apparently), live in the South of England (U.K.), work in IT as a tech support person, have a family, play games (online since the pre-broadband days of Counter-Strike beta), enjoy having a laugh. See my sig if you are really that interested and follow the link to the 1st Hussars clan.

[Blacksand]

26, Navy Vet.

I joined in April of 2001. During tech school, Sept. 11 occured. I spent most of the next five years overseas on various ships supporting our troops and most specifically, Navy pilots by keeping the jets in top condition. Avionics technician, for all intents and purposes, Electrical Engineering.

I have been around the world three times, and enjoyed every minute even though it killed my marraige.

I have been playing games since I was old enough to understand what I was doing, and that dates back to the Atari 2600. My first computer was a C64, and I never stopped since. First RTS experience was Dune 2, though I never really got into it until HW2. From there, I flirted with DoW a little - Beta through 1.3, but gave it up due to my deployment schedule.

I left the Navy with my honorable in May of 2005. Now I am back in school and working, studying to further my electrical engineering background while playing CoH and EvE and eagerly waiting on a little gem of a game called Sins of a Solar Empire. Any of the old Homeworld and Cata fans should know what this game is, and who it is developed by.

Finally, in qouting the immortal words of Silent Bob, "Bitch, what you dont know about me could just about fill the Grand Fucking Canyon."

[Scooter]

... age 26 phd student who finds CoH more fun than his research....