Who's the oldest vet still here?

[Wiglaf]

I know Fitz and Googlie have been here recently, but I haven't seen too many others from a while back. HP left IIRC four or five months ago, so scratch that.

So Vel, Fitz, Googlie...anyone else? or is that all for the AC faithful from way back?

[RedFred]

{waves cane}

Seems surprising to me to hear that Fitz is a vet. What was his former name?

There are still a few .owo types around. Most have moved on to other games.

[Lefty Scaevola]

Well, acording to registration date i have been here longer than wiglaf, but I do not feel like a veteran.

[Yxklyx]

BTW, when did SMAC come out?

[Velociryx]

I remember when I was a newbie too terrified to post lest I say something that one of the old salts would regard as stupid! So....I lurked here for prolly two months before it dawned on me that this wasn't "that kind of place"....that new posters were welcomed as just part of the gang.....so eventually, I opened my mouth, and then nobody 'round here could shut me back up....

-=Vel=-
(still here!)

[Ned]

I joined two years ago just after I purchased SMAC. The guys here were really into discovering the intricacies of the game's various formula's and listing all the bugs for Firaxis to fix. I think Firaxis actually paid attention to us then.

Ned

[Googlie]

Many of the vets are still active in the Multiplayer forum, but only occasionally visit here.

A quick perusal of the profiles reveals (and I apologize in advance if I have inadvertently omitted someone):

March 1999: Fistandantilus
April: Googlie, Vel and cousLee
May: Flo and JAMiAM
June: RedFred and Hydro
July: M@ni@c
August: Dilithium Dad
October: Ned and Buster
November: Tau Ceti
December: Misotu

Some of these are more active in the parallel forums (Fist, cous, Flo and JAM over at ACOL and Buster at CGN)

::grows misty-eyed:: then there were the grizzlied OWO vets - Bossman, CEO Bernard, Blue, Imram, et al ...........

G.

[Earwicker]

Well, if longevity equates to "vet" status, I'll join the ranks. My housemate got me SMAC the week it was released and I moved over from the old Civ2 forums to look for de-bugging help.


Who, then would qualify as the "Commando"?

[Method]

the people who it says registered in 1969...

[Fitz]

Who are you calling a vet? You wanna step outside?

I'm not really a vet, just someone who loves the procedural/analytical side of the game and makes the occasional big noise in the forums. I never even saw ACOL until after it had turned into a general forum.

Unfortunately for my SMAXing days, I just bought Civ3. But since I'm the only one of a group of 5 friends who are SMAXers, and it doesn't have MP yet, I'm sure I'll be playing some for quite a while.

[mark13]

Being a relative newcomer to the forums, it's always interesting to see the progress of things before your time. Thing is, the .owo forums were the original SMAC forums - when they died, people flocked away, some to ACOL, and some here to Apolyton.

Ah well. Another couple of years, and I'll no doubt be one of the SMAC vets at the Civ3 forums...

[Wiglaf]

Woah, lots of you are still here.

It's just that, it seems like a lot are leaving as flocks of new civ3 fans come in. Just curious to see if the 'established' community was still checking in every once in a while.

Civ3 general is a MESS, topics are bumped down to the second page in about ten minutes! Before release, it took five or six hours. In many ways, it looks like traffic has picked up here as well, not that that's a bad thing at all. Anyhoo, just making sure.

[Basilisk]

A lot of people won't be flocking to CIV3 because of the huge problems, and the huge processing power and amount of ram required to run it smoothly.

[JAMiAM]

Originally posted by Basilisk
A lot of people won't be flocking to CIV3 because of the huge problems, and the huge processing power and amount of ram required to run it smoothly.

Not to mention, that with respect to MP, IMO Civ3 is hopelessly broken.

[MariOne]

Apolygies accepted, Googlie, and you forgot Aredhran too, part of the group (with cousLee, Goob, Nell, Raspy...) who came here almost together when MarkG opened the AC Multiplaying Forum on OUR request...

Now, I don't think I will move on to other games, when so much time gets invested in a game that has infinite MP replayability, I am not exaclty keen to start learning another one, if it's not extremely appealing.

For sure, CivIII has nothing to do with SMAC, and I begin to wonder if "culture" and "resources" alone are enough to make it a significant improvement over CivII. Frankly, I begin to think that it's just a minor variant to it after all, I'd call it rather Civ 2.64...
For me, so far, apart the curiosity for the novelty, it hasn't more appeal than civII in gameplay.

Now, IF only we could finally see S!SG development start moving again... and then there's MoO3 underway, and infogrames promised that if CivIII was succesful they would have considered MoM2! (please hire someone else than firaxis tho...)

MoSe

PS: did Bossman ever *play* the game actually? I think he just used to "play the forums", rather...