I noticed a lot of military folk enjoy EQ...why is that?

[Ahldagor]

EQ diplomacy anyone?

[Loke]

I don't think there is any real overriding correlation between military service and eq, just so happens that a lot of people have served in the military recently and people who served tend to talk about it a lot since it is a huge part of their life experience, so it makes them visible.

Personally the only time I played EQ while in was when my unit had just gotten back from deployment and were in a relaxed training phase, and I was recovering from an injury so I had to be around during "working hours" but could basically just sit in a barracks room and hang out all day. Luckily it was right around the time Progression 1.0 came out.

Blows my mind that some of you guys were able to play on deployment though. Even on my last deployment I'm pretty sure our main FOB had spotty internet half the time, and you could forget about it out at the battle positions. I thought I had it good when we'd make it back to the FOB and I could convince my buddy in the comm shop to hook it up with movies and offline games he pulled off the RCT share drive. The servers at Al Asad (im assuming thats where they were) were like a poor man's pirate bay.

But yea, I think it is really just that people in the military talk about their jobs a lot more than people not in the military, so it looks like they are a higher percent of the EQ population than they actually are. Not to mention there are almost 22 million veterans in the US, so it isn't like it is a particularly small group of people.

[Destron]

Originally Posted by Loke [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think it is really just that people in the military talk about their jobs a lot more than people not in the military.

We have a winner folks!

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[Sckrilla]

I was able to play here and there on Kandahar while deployed. D3 was a little less forgiving on that connection however. Now when I was at Al Udeid in Qatar... lol shit was faster than any Internet service I even had in the states.