mrbrklyn is on metalforge for a long time
On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 11:55:54AM -0700, Mark Wedel wrote: > On 09/27/2017 10:16 PM, Robert Brockway wrote: > >Hi all. Just occured to me that this might be a fun question to ask. > > > >I have a character that I started playing in 1995, Lars the > >Northman. Lars still survives on my server although he's been a > >dedicated DM character for a long time. > > > >FWIW Lars has progressed through various changes in the game. > > > >So how old is your oldest character, in real-world time? > > > >Can anyone beat Lars at 22 years? > > > >I understand that Crossfire was started in 1992, 2-3 years before > >I started playing it. I guess that means that the oldest possible > >character would be 25. > > This got me curious. Looking on my system, I find a character with > the last modification date of Aug 9, 1997. That is in a players.bak > directory, so I had probably copied those as a backup at some point > (I wonder how many hard drives/filesystems that file has migrated > across) > > There isn't any way to tell when it was created, though I suspect > it was when I first got involved, which I think was 1994. Though > I've not actually played that character in a long time, so I suppose > it depends on 'still in the game' really means. > > _______________________________________________ > crossfire mailing list > crossfire@metalforge.org > http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013 _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire