As a younger player in eve. Its been just me and my friends, and i seem to not find anyone around our age. Every corp we join is a deathtrap the monent u say hi on comms, bam, leave our corp. thats the experience me and my friends have been having since we started! Were struggling to find a community we could be a part of, and ive been loosing interest since i tried to start my own corp to find my community. It feels like i’m the only minor in this game. If your able to help, or atleast understand why a younger person joins your corp disuissing to be a older person, think what it could bring if your could let them be a part of community, or help them find a community they could work with. Thanks!
EVE is not for children. It’s full of terrible people and their terrible habits, such as:
- casual cruelty - It’s a pillar of this game
- confidence tricks - literally everyone will try to scam you
- gambling - now with official game mechanics!
- frequent drug use - you’ll always fall behind in PVP if you’re not pumping at least 3 drugs
- and Bob knows what else.
There are much better things you could be doing with your free time. Why not check out an open-source game like Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead and try to contribute? I guarantee that working on it can be just as addicting as any game.
But I bet you’re a recalcitrant youth and still want to play EVE anyway so I recommend EvE-Scout. They’re probably the only stable and reputable community that actively avoids all the nasty social tropes in this game.
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No, there is a lot of adults here with 13 year-old brains.
Welcome to Eve.
I don’t have any demographics on the game, but I recommend you invite other friends you know personally. Meaning the other teenagers who live nearby with PCs of their own. Don’t have any? Then you join a teen discord group and chat about getting others into the game. I know a lot of people here will discriminate a 13 year old … oops too late. I was only 5 years older than you are now before I joined the army. Enjoy your youth while you can.
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EVE is a 20+ year-old niche MMO, and the player base skews older.
This may be hard to understand at your age, but not every adult wants to hang out with children or accommodate children in their social circles. There is also significant liability involved and a lot of added headache in policing what corp members say or do when children are part of the group.
Headaches, and nothing but. I suggest you play with people in your own age bracket. Form your own corp and put up a recruitment thread specifically looking for other young players. Just be sure to screen the hell out applicants so you keep the weirdos out.
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From my experience, yes, corps in EVE are reluctant to accept underage members. There’s a reason for that – EVE players’ average age tends to be somewhere in late 30s or early 40s. We don’t want drama and immaturity that comes with underage guys/girls. I used to be in a corp that didn’t accept anybody below age 30. So, if you think 13 is young, you still have more than a decade to go to get doors open to some other groups in the game.
(And sure, some young people are more mature than others, but still immature compared to guys in 30s and 40s and up in general. I’m talking in overall general terms here, so no need to start to refute this by telling me some older guys are immature as well).
You can probably find a corp if you keep looking. Some don’t care about age, and might be more rowdy themselves. In fact one of my friends in this game hung out (in-game) with a 15-year-old a couple of years ago, so there are younger players around, but that age group is definitely in the minority in the game. But you should keep looking around on your own, also this forum post might help you find some peers as well.
While 13 is the bare minimum to play EVE, you may have a hard time finding a corp. Best thing to do is go through the recruitment channel here and find a corp that has a more lax style that would consider you and your friends.
While EVE and the forums are rated PEGI-12, like most any other online interaction, CCP cant monitor them all, so you will most likely encounter bad language, then again 13 yr olds today are nothing like the 13 yr olds back then.
Good luck
I’m sure you’re not the only kid in EVE, I’ve seen some before, but it is rare to see kids in EVE.
But people don’t often explicitly share their age with others, so there may be more kids in EVE than we know.
Not every corp requires people to speak on comms, many just need you at most to listen to the Fleet Commander in fleets, so you could be part of a group without telling or showing people your age.
The alternative is to find or start a group with young players. I never started my own group but I can imagine it’s challenging.
13 may be a bit young to be playing this game. It’s ruthless, it’s made grown adults cry and quit but hey, if you think you can manage then ok.
Best of luck and fly safe o7
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join one of the training corps, like eve uni. focus less on age and more on learning game mechanics and deciding what you enjoy doing.
Eve is filled with ruthless losers, i myself am an Ass____ there are very few young people in this game because the ruthless losers are not here to make it fun for others.
that said welcome to eve.
If a 13-year old applied to join my corp I would reject them at once. If I found out after the fact I would kick them out. Beyond just being a massive liability, there’s just so little we’d have in common to talk about and I don’t want the responsibility of having you around. Any adult who wants to hang around children on the internet is someone you need to be very cautious around, and EVE has plenty of those (famously a former CSM).
Find a friend group your age IRL to form a corp with, don’t trust strangers online who claim they’re also 13, and don’t look for strangers online to take you in, because if you do find someone like that it’s high odds they’re a nonce.
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I bet you make a lot of new friends with that name. I am shocked @Aiko_Danuja has yet to comment.
Well … my grand child is a bit younger than 13, I had her create my 3 characters while I read a book. That was 2 years ago, where does the time go? She wanted to call them Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella. I told her Disney would sue me. Well 2 years later and she still prefers to play Black Desert over this game. Players in chat are completely uncensored on Black Desert.
She has more virtual doll houses on Black Desert and plays with the chat hidden. This is so she can rip your arm off and beat you to death with it. She said that to me once, but it wasn’t an arm she she ripped off. Kids say the darkest things.
If she ever changes her mind, and starts playing Eve Online too, I only hope she doesn’t make people cry here. I honestly don’t know why all these people are so worried about a 13 year-old. Of course, I don’t recommend Eve Online for a few of the adults I know. Why? Because after playing this game for 2 months they would be perched on the city clocktower with a sniper rifle.
Best not to mention your age or sex in the public forums, like me, you might assume I am an old woman having a grand child… but I could be a 35 year-old gold digging slut with 70 year-old sugar daddy. Just take care what information you dish out.
Have fun!
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I don’t have a problem with a 13-year-old playing EVE, because (brutal as it may be) it’s not EVE’s content or gameplay that are at issue. I would, however, have grave concerns about a 13-year-old playing EVE (or any online game) with a random group of adult strangers. The least negative outcome would be that the youngster might be exposed to adult conversations, exchanges, or influences that they aren’t yet mature enough to handle. The worst case scenario is that they could fall victim to a predator.
As a former mentor IRL, I know how valuable good adult role models can be for developing teenagers—particularly, for boys without a father in the home. But in online spaces like EVE, there’s no vetting of the individuals interacting with those teens. You really have no idea who’s on the other end of that chat, and whether they would be a positive or negative influence. It’s also far too easy to lure a youngster out of the game and into third-party apps like Discord, Signal, Telegram, etc., where there is no GM visibility or recourse.
Any corporation that were to allow underage members would have to have very strong and attentive leadership, firm family-friendly policies, a solid community commited to all-ages participation, and a lot of guardrails to make sure nothing goes wrong.
Short of that, I think it’s best for everyone if teens play EVE with other teens.
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I’m a 42-year-old male. I love men. I have no issues with my age or identity. In fact, I want people to know, and I think more people should be real about who they are, not roleplay the forums/game for alter egos.
The original poster wants to find his peers in this game. Good. The only way he can do that is if he is honest about who he is. It’s useless recommending him to pretend he’s older and go hang out with guys 10-30 years older than him. That’s not productive for anybody.
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It’s not your age, gender or identity that makes a good EVE player, just your effort.
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While that is good on you, I personally understand why most women play as men, and keep their sexual identity a secret. Once people have been told, or know for a fact, you are a female, the drooling starts. No amount of; I am married, have children, and old as dirt seems to impede their advances.
In the past, I briefly played World of Warcraft, they didn’t believe I was a female gamer. I was okay with that, most players were real jerks, but later in other games the “all players are male” sort of irritated me. I know most females typically play online Bingo at my age, I do play Bingo and 2D hidden object games. I am also a human being and like to play something with a bit more depth or meaning.
I also can see that gender is not as much of an issue as it was 30 years ago. I see this very often in my grand daughter, who is going to make someone regret dating her. She is very course and outspoken in nature and probably takes after my side of the family. At least she stopped beating up the boys back in preschool. The point is, I know my grand child personally, but I have no idea about the OP. Maybe they very mature and can handle anything life throws at them.
I am just telling the 13 year-old poster, to take care what dark alleys they might walk down in life.
Have fun!
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I still say, enjoy the next 5 years, because 18 will hit hard for a young man or woman. To quote the 1984 Ghostbusters, You don’t know what it’s like out there! I’ve worked in the private sector. They expect results.
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Age guidelines
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Under 13: Players under 13 cannot create an EVE Online account.
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13-17: Players between 13 and 17 must have their parent or guardian’s permission to create an account and must have that guardian take responsibility for their compliance with the user agreement.
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I’ve been married to a female gamer for almost 30 years. Can confirm.
and the death threats