World of Banished

I have noticed a lot of 50 or older players on the forum so I decided to do some data mining and see which group if any is predominant.

Be Proud! Be Loud!  VOTE!!!

voted! 38!

i was born in 17/7/1985 .i voted 20-29. should i have voted 30-39?

 :D Nice that I'm not clicking the 50+... for one more year. :o

Quote from: WorldofBanished on February 26, 2015, 11:27:25 AMNice that I'm not clicking the 50+... for one more year.

Bah... 10 more years before you can join us sexygenarians...

;D

i did the 50+ !!!! we are leading the cavalery looks like !! lol

I am starting to feel like a member of the Howard Families.

I was born in 1937.  Is there anyone here who is older?

I'm proud to state that I'm a 1975-ian and not in the danger zone of a 40 year's crisis for an other seven months. After that it will be harleys, rtw travel and ill kept beard of course.

Banished reminds me of growing up as a 'hunter/gather'.

We were quite poor and ate a lot of game, (deer, bear, grouse, ducks, fish) gathering mushrooms, berries, wild onions, licorice, salmon berry shoots, cattail tubers and whatever else was in season.
As life improved we became 'subsistence farmers'; cows, geese, rabbits, chicken, pigs, a multi-fruit tree orchard and a 1hectre vegi garden.
Mom filled three large deep freezers and over 1000 jars every summer/fall, to get us through the winter.... guess you could say she was like the Banni hoarders.  ::)

Methinks our 'age' might have to do with the appeal of this game.  ;)

The 50+ gang rules  8)

Voted. 32 atm, 33 next month.

Interesting at this point 42+% are seniors (50+).  Demographically, we are getting to be a very large group in both the U.S. and Canada.  That's a lot of old cows and steers to support.

I added my bit for the 60-69 contingent. Maybe it's like voting; the older are more likely to vote? Part of what keeps me playing Banished (aside form the fun) is the existence of World of Banished. Thank you @solarscreen for making this community possible.

I keep playing in part because of the great crew on WorldofBanished and mods like @RedKetchup's. Joined the 50+ crowd.

58 here. I'm not sure I would still be at this game, if not for WoB and all of you fine people!

Quote from: paralias on February 26, 2015, 10:19:18 AM
i was born in 17/7/1985 .i voted 20-29. should i have voted 30-39?

I was born August 10, 1985 and also voted 20-29.  I'm not quite 30 yet!  And neither are you for a few months yet.   ;)

1965 ... the year they stopped making silver quarters.  I wonder if there's a connection?

Yay! The 50's are still winning!

Quote from: solarscreen on February 28, 2015, 06:23:23 AM
Yay! The 50's are still winning!

Ageism on World of Banished?  ;D

Clearly we need to do some serious recruiting in the under 20 and over 100 categories.

If you go with mental age, I could change my vote to <20 years (way less than 20 years).

Wow, no wonder this is overall a very respectable and lo-troll forum!!!

And I turn 42 on wednesday. And yeah, I got the ill-kept beard, and does it count that my job has me on the road travelling all over the western US (and a bit in AB & BC)? I don't own a motorcycle tho, so I don't think I'm a complete loss in the mid-life crisis department.

Heh!  Wait until you arrive at late middle age (70s).  Now that I am thoroughly retired from the business suit, briefcase and air miles crowd, I can do what I damn please, so I shave with a pair of scissors, and generally look after myself, myself.

The only thing about being older than a lot of people around you is that they are still in the rat race.  Fortunately, after my wife passed away, I was able to find a senior's apartment that is full of little old ladies and a few guys who are either contemporaries or older.  The problem there is accidents.  Today, one of our most senior neighbours fell and broke her hip (or broke her hip and fell, it is not clear which).  This lady is over 90, and up to now, had her own place, but she will need secondary care now at least for a while.  We have a buddy system in this building, so we call each other daily to make sure everyone is OK.

Because I am somewhat crippled up with a back problem and arthritis, I do have a cleaning lady, but beyond that I (and the others around here including two who are on oxygen) look after myself.

I'm 73 & retired. I have LOTS of time with Banished. Wife (72 yo) and Son (44 yo) and Daughter (46yo) also are "Banished".
I am the only one who is a member of WoB ... so I don't know if you will add-in the rest of my family to your 'Age" list.   ;D

Quote from: A Nonny Moose on February 28, 2015, 12:46:53 PM
. . . . I can do what I damn please . . . .

Yes! Exactly what I tell people when they ask what I am doing now that I am retired. When that doesn't satisfy them I make stuff up.  :D

42 here. Playing less Banished, but playing.
I like to follow this Forum and get news. Without this one, I would have stopped Banished.

like many :) i m pretty sure ^^

um ... normally we do not ask a lady his age .... ok ... as you're nice, I'll tell you ... but shhh !! do not to shout it too loud.
ok.. so....46 and... um... some months  ::)

Nice to know I'm not the only golden oldie here!! Born in 1950  ;D

The 40's are winning, we need more 50's to step forward and be counted!

Seems to be settling down into the normal demographic bell curve.

no one under 20 years!
all flipped to shoot with Counter-Strike!!  ;D ;D ;D

I'm 58.   ;D   I've noticed over the years that a lot of people who post to message boards about city building games are in my age cohort.  That's been true since way back with Caesar II.  Dunno if that means we're the majority playing, or if we're just the ones who like to talk about it on message boards.

We, the grown ups, are the only ones with attention spans long enough to play games such as this and SimCity 4.  Big, slow simulations are not responsive enough for the Generation X,Y,Z babies who want instant gratification.

I suspect that if it is not an FPS, most of today's little darlings can't stay in touch with it long enough to get anywhere, let alone climb the learning curves.  Banished takes quite a while before you learn to balance all the variables to avoid some general disaster that kills everyone.  And then the game is full of nasty surprised with which you have to cope, not the least of which is accepting too many nomads.

I agree with you @A Nonny Moose
With age, we become patient. We are looking to slowly build something beautiful, not something quick which fall to the first storm. And even if everything is destroyed, we start again,again and again.
We don't capitulate to the first fall .... we react and are improving rather than say that the game isn't well

I'm not comfortable dissing on an entire generation.   I was about to say it's just time-of-life, but back when I was in my late 30s, I was playing city building games and talking about it on message boards with people in my age cohort.  So maybe it's just that message boards appeal to a certain type of person--one who enjoys city building games and the particular structure of online conversations one finds on a message board (as opposed to a blog or twitter, say).

I think city building was one of my first games I start playing. Back on the early 90's I bought I SNES and as a bundle it included SimCity (the very first version). I had also a ZX Spectrum with some games bought on late 80's, mostly puzzle ones, but at the end of the day, the SimCity on the SNES was my favourite.

Quote from: Rayden on March 05, 2015, 07:12:35 AM
I think city building was one of my first games I start playing. Back on the early 90's I bought I SNES and as a bundle it included SimCity (the very first version). I had also a ZX Spectrum with some games bought on late 80's, mostly puzzle ones, but at the end of the day, the SimCity on the SNES was my favourite.

Quote from: Goblin Girl on March 05, 2015, 07:05:00 AM
I'm not comfortable dissing on an entire generation.   I was about to say it's just time-of-life, but back when I was in my late 30s, I was playing city building games and talking about it on message boards with people in my age cohort.  So maybe it's just that message boards appeal to a certain type of person--one who enjoys city building games and the particular structure of online conversations one finds on a message board (as opposed to a blog or twitter, say).

My first real computer was a locally built 386 (I did have a Commodore Vik 20, but . . . .) and my first game for it was the original Sim City. I was hooked on city builders from the first time I fired it up. At the time I think I was about 40ish.

I've noticed in playing Civilization V my grandson (age 13) and I use very different approaches. I'm allying myself with city-states, trading with everyone who will trade, making friendship pacts wherever I can and going for a science or cultural victory. He ramps up military production and conquers everybody as fast as he can. Not sure whether it's generational or personality.

About Civ, the first time I've played it I also went straight for conquering. With Colonization, the nation I picked first was Spain because in the game they had the most powerful military force (navy and soldiers), if I wanted to colonize and trade, then I would pick Holland. But then I was much younger :D

personally i prefer to make a realm-fortress and my prefered settings are Highland , with tectonic (ridgelines) mountains. i tent to find out and decide my border and i put cities at every entrances :)
and then i try to win 1 of the conditions.

Now I feel old computervise. The first rig I had was a locally built (eb friend) speciality with a modified ms-dos and 16 garish colors when 'everyone' had standard pc-dos (ibms version of ms) with rgb and wonderful games like burger, pac-man, styx. The strange graphics renderer meant that trying to run bootlegged programs seldom worked. Snake was the only game in town that worked other than the ones we programmed in basic.
Ah, the wonder of when we upgraded to a rig with ega and the same operating system that 'everyone' else had. Leisure suit larry, manhunter, diverse textbased adventure games and ms flight simulator- the world as made up of dots and steel thread.
In good time we got a 286 rig with turbo button that gave all 16 Mhz and vga screen. That was when sid meier caught me in his net. Since then vaious simulations, city builders and civ's have been my staple diet of games. Broken off by a bout of Fallout 2 when I'm in the mood.

@kee Well, I don't feel quite so ancient.  I did have a TRS-80 as my first home system complete with 5-1/4" floppies and only 384K memory, but it did what I wanted, and I could occasionally run CPM just for fun.

Before that I was in large-scale computer sales support and was playing in the GE computer division.  The shiny new time-sharing systems were making a bundle at the time. and our mid-range systems were selling to the banks  (1960s).  It was a great time to be a programmer.  Eventually, I became an academic, and retired in that business.

Quote from: Rayden on March 05, 2015, 07:45:24 AM
About Civ, the first time I've played it I also went straight for conquering. With Colonization, the nation I picked first was Spain because in the game they had the most powerful military force (navy and soldiers), if I wanted to colonize and trade, then I would pick Holland. But then I was much younger :D

Oh, me too. I remember in the early days of playing Civ I as the Aztecs rolling across the plains of Asia with a whack of tanks and mechanized infantry to conquer the Chinese and thinking "What?!?" It was fun. But then Civ 1 was pretty simple compared to what came later.

And you're right about Col. I almost always played as the Dutch because of the bigger ship at the beginning and the potential for more money. Then I'd buy an army and declare independence. Occasionally I'd even win!

Just added one to 60-69.  If we had two more 70-79s, the graph would be symmetrical around 49/50. :D

1976 model.  :)

'84 model Aussie here.

~JD

I am a german 76er model  8)

Quote from: Brathaehnchen on March 16, 2015, 01:01:43 PM
I am a german 76er model  8)

Interesting. The Germans must have come up with some kind of technology to keep a roast chicken fresh since 1976!  ;D  Seriously, @Brathaehnchen, just seeing your screen name brought back good memories of a student year spent in Heidelberg in the 60s when Wiernerwald was a major splurge--but so much better than Col. Sanders. Thanks.

We in Germany can not do much. But good food and football, we have a clue.  ;D

Don't overlook some of the finest classical music from Germany.  Many composers, and some very contemporary.  I like Kurt Weil as well as Carl Maria von Weber.

I always say: Bier, Brot und Wurst (beer, bread and sausages) that´s the food the Germans do the best. (OK die Brathähnchen im Bierzelt in Bayern is quite enjoyable too).

Quote from: Nilla on March 18, 2015, 02:45:42 PM
I always say: Bier, Brot und Wurst (beer, bread and sausages) that´s the food the Germans do the best. (OK die Brathähnchen im Bierzelt in Bayern is quite enjoyable too).

Yep, I would argue that we are the bread and sausage country number 1 in the world.  8)
In beer I can not have a say. I hate beer or any alcohol.

Sorry to say that I didn't get to Germany when I was in Europe in the 1970s, but likely the most authentic German food can be found in the area around Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario.  Before WW I, this area was called Berlin, and it is loaded with 19th century German immigrants.  The food in the German club is delicat, und immer gut.

Aber ich finde dieses Vorurteil mit der Weißwurst und dem Bier ist auf 'Deutsche' bezogen übertrieben @Brathaenchen. In Bayern stimmt es eher. Ich komme aus Norddeutschland und habe noch nie Weißwurst gegessen:D

Last year I was in Iceland on vacation.
There live also many German. And the food there was like at home.
"We" Leave all over the world culinary traces.  ;D

Quote from: Trizeropz on March 18, 2015, 03:14:30 PM
Aber ich finde dieses Vorurteil mit der Weißwurst und dem Bier ist auf 'Deutsche' bezogen übertrieben @Brathaenchen. In Bayern stimmt es eher. Ich komme aus Norddeutschland und habe noch nie Weißwurst gegessen:D

It's like the Bavarian Dirndl and leather pants. All over the world think many people all the germans are wearing Lederhosen and Dirndl.
I also like no white sausage.
Only the pretzels and Fleischkäs from Bavaria I like. And sweet mustard

:) Germans know how to enjoy life with good food and drinks! 
love the marzipan and baumkuchen / lebkuchen! with the Reinheitsgebot germany has some of the best beers in the world (not that i drink them... but still)

Quote from: Brathaehnchen on March 18, 2015, 03:19:50 PM
It's like the Bavarian Dirndl and leather pants. All over the world think many people all the germans are wearing Lederhosen and Dirndl.

Same goes for Dutchies..   the world think we all wear clogs and traditional volendammer dress, drink heineken and smoke the herbs, while visiting the red light district ;)
( or putting a finger in a dyke to save the land from flooding :P )

oh ! do you know what is the most fun about germany, note that little video is making alot more.... enjoyable .....

it is that : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmGjaqi74qo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmGjaqi74qo)

:-*

;D ;D ;D

Quote from: RedKetchup on March 18, 2015, 06:07:40 PM
oh ! do you know what is the most fun about germany, note that little video is making alot more.... enjoyable .....

it is that : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmGjaqi74qo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmGjaqi74qo)

:-*

;D ;D ;D

Argh, again as a piece of Bavaria.
For me personally, Bavaria is a troublesome boil on the ass of Germany.
If I could I would give away this state.
I pray every night before I go to bed that anyone takes us this State. As it did with the Crimea in Ukraine, the Russians.

All this just because of the bizarre customs and the horrible dialect.

For the benefit of those of us who have little or no German:

Quote from: Trizeropz on March 18, 2015, 03:14:30 PM
Aber ich finde dieses Vorurteil mit der Weißwurst und dem Bier ist auf 'Deutsche' bezogen übertrieben @Brathaenchen. In Bayern stimmt es eher. Ich komme aus Norddeutschland und habe noch nie Weißwurst gegessen:D

is translated by Google to be:

"But I think this prejudice with white sausage and beer is on ' German ' in relation exaggerated @Brathaenchen . In Bavaria, it's more likely . I 'm from Northern Germany and have never eaten veal sausage : D"

An interesting way of putting it.  I sometimes think that languages don't really translate mechanically.

Quote from: A Nonny Moose on March 19, 2015, 05:31:25 AM
An interesting way of putting it.  I sometimes think that languages don't really translate mechanically.

Nope they won't, although Google Translate usually does a good job.
Weird actually, since English, Dutch and German are all in the same language group.
think the isolation on an island for a long time did some things to the language ;)

Quote from: Brathaehnchen on March 18, 2015, 08:00:59 PM
If I could I would give away this state.

Since I am both Canadian and American I make two proposals:

(1) Canada take Bavaria in exchange for Germany taking Alberta
(2) USA take Bavaria in exchange for Germany taking Texas.

I think we could work out a deal in either case. And I'm pretty sure that Canada or the US would come out well ahead. Maybe we could even throw in Disneyworld so Germany doesn't lose a fake castle.

;D

If it were up to me personally I would give this State without compensation.
Although Swan Stone Castle looks beautiful ... but if you can get rid of the Bavarian mountain people I do without like a fairytale castle.  ;D

The Americans can not do anything with Bavaria.
From there can be very bad to listen to politicians phones.  :-X

English started out as some form of ancient Celtic, got tainted by ancient Danish/Norse, then by the Saxons (from Europe), then by the Romans, then the Normans.  The medieval Franks did a real job on the vernacular, and everything was a sort of Franglais.  It has developed from there.  There are many dialects on the home islands alone, and then you come to America with two general dialects; General American and General Canadian.  GA is getting a big dose of Hispanic language while GC is full of French and Joual (Quebec French dialect) as well as some Acadian now that some people have returned from Louisiana.  It's a living language as are the European languages. 

Odd, but the European language I know best is Italian and I've never been there, but heavy study of Latin has done it to me along with a couple of years of uni level Italian.  Interestingly enough, I've recently had my Latin vocabulary expanded in to the exceedingly vulgar with the publication of some of the stuff from Pompeii and Herculaneum.  Those must have been pretty raunchy cities indeed.  Most of my new vocabulary isn't repeatable even among unmixed company.  Funny, we all know the "dirty" words but most of us never use them in any context.