I responded to a post by Guppy35 in another thread where he stated:
Originally posted by Guppy35
And the nature of any of the Flight Sims has been a constant change in people. There are very few of us who have been around for the long haul.
I wonder how many guys are left from the early days of this board or AH overall. I doubt it's a very large percentage of the player base.
My guess is at least half the player base are what I'll refer to as "long-timers". This is nothing against Guppy35 in any way but it made me curious. How many ARE "long-timers".
Since Tour 12 ended 1/31/01 then tour 1 must have ended on 2/28/00. Since the first tours were beta and other sim's were still alive then lets use tour 12 as the beginning so the question is, how many have played flight sims since 1/1/01 or earlier.
Please post only once so we get a good count. Include your starting date as closely as you remember it, the sim you started in, and your guess as to the percent of long-time players in AHII.
I started in '96 in Air Warrior and my guess at long-timers is half the player base.
