30 or over....

[Timo Pietilä]

Originally Posted by Nick

39 is a couple of years older than me ... when I started playing 12 years ago. And yes, I'm a mathematician...

Change "couple of years" to "few years" and you get my age. Though I started playing when Ben took over about two decades ago. I'm computer geek, not mathematician. Could have been if I had any teachers in math that could do any math. My physics teachers were way better in math than math teachers.

[Djabanete]

25 here, and playing Moria (and later Angband) since the age of 7. They got me when I was young.

[Cardinal Rob]

Originally Posted by Fendell Orcbane

Also it seems like a lot of you were math majors or something. Me ? I'm, pretty much bad at math...lol. I think I'd be a better player if I were more mathematically inclined.

I'm a sucky mathematician too, but I'm not sure you need maths to beat a roguelike game. I'm pretty sure you need patience. I always get killed by something I wasn't ready for, and didn't plan appropriately.

[fizzix]

I'm 32. I'm not very good at math.

[Fendell Orcbane]

Originally Posted by Cardinal Rob

I'm a sucky mathematician too, but I'm not sure you need maths to beat a roguelike game. I'm pretty sure you need patience. I always get killed by something I wasn't ready for, and didn't plan appropriately.

Well I've had my wins for sure...I'm just thinking that it would be easier to calculate stuff like weapon damage etc. if I were more mathematically inclined: also optimizing moves would come more naturally as would LOS. Which generally tends to work in the monsters favor : ( Those damn druj's get me every time. And they can easily kill you when you first encounter them.

[Fendell Orcbane]

Originally Posted by Nick

39 is a couple of years older than me ... when I started playing 12 years ago. And yes, I'm a mathematician...

Also I should say that I admire anyone that can code. I can't for the life of me. Which is probably why I haven't tried to create my own variant at this point despite having ideas for them.

[fph]

For the stats: 31, applied mathematician, average amateur coder.

[bron]

> Although I might be at 39

57; computer programmer (undergraduate degree in math)

[HallucinationMushroom]

35. Hate maths.

[Nomad]

31. Started playing Nethack around 2002-ish when I was at university (Cybernetics, for the stats), though before that I loved the Megadrive pseudo-Roguelike Fatal Labyrinth, and I always loved text adventures and RPGs as a kid.