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OT: Who can beat me? - 4/17/2009 3:50:59 PM

skrewball

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I was just looking through some of the post counts of alot of the regulars here and I noticed that "Joined" date...

So I looked at mine, I remember I joined these forums way back in the day waiting for UV to be released. I can still remember when the CD showed up at my door!

So, has anyone joined before 12/10/2000? Wow, I've been a Matrix Supporter for 8.5 years now! And I was so graciously rewarded with the command USS United States! (Those of you with WITP:Plan Orange know what I'm talking about!)

Yes this can be consider a "Look at me" thread, but I am curious whose been around the longest!

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/17/2009 3:58:31 PM

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I don't remember seeing any 2000 joined dates.

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/17/2009 4:31:43 PM

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RevRick ( sp ? ) is late 2000 I think . I responded to a post of his the other day and noticed that his was the earliest join date I had remembered seeing.

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/17/2009 5:09:09 PM

m10bob

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A few of us joined much earlier than the posted dates. Look in my profile and you will see I am on my third registry. The forum has had teething problems.
I joined maybe a half year after SPWAW was released for free in a magazine, IIRC.
(I suspect Terminus already had 17000 posts at that time?)

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/17/2009 5:20:40 PM

Marc

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Hi skrewball,

I don't post very often but I can beat your joining date.

I remember playing Pacific War Matrix Edition and War in Russia Matrix Edition in the first months.

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/17/2009 5:33:44 PM

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Ah, but the true test of an artist is how much they can say without saying anyway at all. Hence my short join date and big post count.

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/17/2009 6:17:32 PM

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But tis better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt. Thus my early joining date and low post count. Only my PBEM opponents know for sure I'm a fool...

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/17/2009 6:21:14 PM

Hornblower

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Mogami is / was 2000.

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/17/2009 6:49:58 PM

RevRick

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I've been around a bit. I was playing PacWar back in 1994, and part of me still misses the ability to really push a game into the mid 1944 range. But that was back on the old Halisp (SP??) PacWar board where I know some of the really old gringos came from to this board... Just can't remember who all was there. Rich Dionne comes to mind, along with a guy named Bear, Jorser, and several others with whom we talked about a more advanced game about the PTO.

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/17/2009 6:55:46 PM

Hard Sarge

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I still around

in the old days of computer gaming, always wished there was someplace to ask questions when you had trouble with a game, once I found this place, it was pretty good at it, and I hope I have been able to help others who had questions, when I knew the answer (or at least thought I did)

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/17/2009 7:16:56 PM

John 3rd

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Marc

Hi skrewball,

I don't post very often but I can beat your joining date.
I remember playing Pacific War Matrix Edition and War in Russia Matrix Edition in the first months.

Marc--I really like your art for header and footer. Where did you get the pictures?

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/17/2009 7:32:30 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: m10bob

A few of us joined much earlier than the posted dates. Look in my profile and you will see I am on my third registry. The forum has had teething problems.
I joined maybe a half year after SPWAW was released for free in a magazine, IIRC.
(I suspect Terminus already had 17000 posts at that time?)

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/17/2009 7:46:20 PM

Marc

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quote:

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

quote:

ORIGINAL: Marc

Hi skrewball,

I don't post very often but I can beat your joining date.
I remember playing Pacific War Matrix Edition and War in Russia Matrix Edition in the first months.

Marc--I really like your art for header and footer. Where did you get the pictures?

Hi John,

they are from plastic model kits.
The Hiryu picture is from an old kit from Aoshima 1/700 not in production anymore.
And the Kate is from a Hasegawa kit if I remember correctly.
You can find many small pictures from kits here: http://www.hlj.com

And then there is this book with many paintings from Yuzuki Takeshi:
http://www.wohld.com/product_info.php?products_id=5070
I added a picture from Atago from the book.

I have many covers from ship kits still lying around. Among them is the Hiryu.
If you want I can scan it and send it to you.

btw. I'm reading your AARs since many weeks. They are very entertaining. Thank you for your effort.

Attachment (1)

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/17/2009 7:51:44 PM

Rainer

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11/21/2000

Cheers
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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/18/2009 8:01:43 AM

Reg

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Get some time up young feller.....

GRUMP!!

I will agree with m10bob in that we go a lot further back than that. I also lost over 460 posts in the great forum reset of 2000!!

(Compare that to how many I've racked up in the next 9 years...

).

If you look at the member list sorted by join date, you will see the Matrix staff were loaded into the current forum around the 27Mar00 and then the masses started to (re)create their accounts from the beginning of April 2000 onwards. To show how popular the forum was back then, I am 17 pages into the member list despite only re-joining a few weeks later. (This a bit of a nostalgia trip looking back at the membership list from the early days

)

I was playing sp2ww2 & spww2 when I started hearing about a new project called SPWaW which was going to be based on the SP3 engine which turned out to be the best yet. Never looked back!!

Edit: I just checked my CD rack and I still have an unpatched copy of SPWaW V1.0.

Maybe a museum would be interested???? (SPWaW was up to V3.0 by the mid 2000 according to my e-mail archive).

< Message edited by Reg -- 4/29/2009 1:48:13 PM >

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/18/2009 3:18:21 PM

Apollo11

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Hi all,

2001 for me...

Leo "Apollo11"

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/18/2009 3:25:23 PM

Grotius

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Wow, and I thought *I* was a longstanding, loyal customer. Just 2002 in my case -- seven years.

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/18/2009 3:47:23 PM

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/18/2009 3:50:40 PM

Czert

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Screwball - you has ben beated. :-).

BTW anyone know exact date in which AE start beging developed ? I know it started 2 years before, but not more info, and if you look on my join date... my firs post was about planed expansion for WITP.....and after certain time AE was anouced.

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/18/2009 3:57:08 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Czert

BTW anyone know exact date in which AE start beging developed ? I know it started 2 years before, but not more info, and if you look on my join date... my firs post was about planed expansion for WITP.....and after certain time AE was anouced.

Depends what you mean by "beginning" ... AE is an outgrowth of CHS/RHS which have been around for years - some players decided to go with a full-blown "expansion" and formed a new development operation... the official Matrix AE announcement was late in 2007, iirc, so not quite 18 months ago... of course, it had been being worked on for some months before that.

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/18/2009 4:24:03 PM

Czert

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Mayby it was sound like I was claiming "I was started development of AE" but it was no point. My point was who can beat me in proximity of registering and official anoucment of AE.

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/18/2009 5:46:38 PM

Monkey

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Only 2004 I'm afraid, I have been posting a lot recently too

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/18/2009 6:17:19 PM

Terminus

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Czert

Mayby it was sound like I was claiming "I was started development of AE" but it was no point.� My point was who can beat me in proximity of registering and official anoucment of AE.

I think the first rumblings of it was in late '04.

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/18/2009 7:25:55 PM

Czert

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Termie, you knows how to ruing ones day.

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/18/2009 10:13:31 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Terminus

quote:

ORIGINAL: Czert

Mayby it was sound like I was claiming "I was started development of AE" but it was no point.� My point was who can beat me in proximity of registering and official anoucment of AE.

I think the first rumblings of it was in late '04.

Just a few weeks after WITP was rolled out, then, eh?

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/18/2009 10:14:22 PM

Terminus

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Yup! Some people are never satisfied...

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/19/2009 1:39:29 AM

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ORIGINAL: RevRick

I've been around a bit. I was playing PacWar back in 1994, and part of me still misses the ability to really push a game into the mid 1944 range. But that was back on the old Halisp (SP??) PacWar board where I know some of the really old gringos came from to this board... Just can't remember who all was there. Rich Dionne comes to mind, along with a guy named Bear, Jorser, and several others with whom we talked about a more advanced game about the PTO.

Interesting that you guys used to be on Halisp. I hosted a mailing list there for a while in the late 90s through about 2000. I know there were some wargaming groups there when we were there, but I never joined them.

That particular mailing list is almost as old as the original PacWar. It's been around since 1993. Halisp was just one of its many homes.

Bill

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/19/2009 4:10:49 AM

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It takes a brave man to admit mediocre quality and number being mor4e important than quality......I read some of your posts...generally just before sleeping...they were almost as bad as mine.LOL

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/19/2009 4:12:43 AM

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It has been said that the mark of a person of intelligence has more to do with what is not said than what is.

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RE: OT: Who can beat me? - 4/19/2009 5:39:51 PM

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