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[FrisianDude]

I'm quite new here, much to my regret I learned about Dwarf Fortress somewhat late. And that despite the fact that my main e-stomping grounds has had an "Anyone tried Dwarf Fortress" thread since 2006. 

[Nadaka]

I have been playing since the 2d version. and joined the forums in 2007, so I guess that makes me fairly old hat. But I mostly hang in the lower forums now and rarely play DF anymore.

[Kon]

I was lurking in the first posts for the game (or at least as far as they would go) and saw names that I have never seen posting currently. How many of "you" are from ye olden days of bay12?

Date Registered: August 05, 2009, 03:24:41 pm

to be precise. At least, that's when I registered on the forums which was probably about when I started playing.

[Max White]

*Checks signature*
Well from the d40 days at least, shame they took those out. But seriously, why are we trying to split the community between 'old' and 'new'? An escaped lunatic is still a valued member of the community here.

[0x517A5D]

But seriously, why are we trying to split the community between 'old' and 'new'? An escaped lunatic is still a valued member of the community here.

Well said, but I don't really see anyone trying to form cliques based on it.

It's just one of those "compare your e-peen length" contests.  No real harm in it.

The first version I played was 0.22.110.22f, and the date on my copy of the zipfile is 11/05/2006.  The exefile is dated 11/03/2006, so I downloaded it pretty darn quick after it was released.

Back then, if you dug out a 7x7 square with no pillar or support, it would cave-in in a month or so.  And there were no constructions; once you dug out a tile, that tile was dug out forever.

New features in version .22f included weapon and armor stockpiles, stockpile customization, and the ability to limit how many barrels and bins a stockpile can use.

Oh wow, my fort still loads!  Trade depot with the road going off into the wilderness, the entry hall with all of four cage traps, an undefended bridge over the cave river, kitchen and half-finished bedrooms between the cave river and chasm, and forges by the magma river.  I hadn't crossed over to get at the cyan stuff yet.

[CT]

But seriously, why are we trying to split the community between 'old' and 'new'? An escaped lunatic is still a valued member of the community here.

Well said, but I don't really see anyone trying to form cliques based on it.

It's just one of those "compare your e-peen length" contests.  No real harm in it.

I did not intend for this thread to become a e-peen contest D=, I was just curious at when people started playing DF and joined the forums.
Also while in the context of the forum yes a escaped lunatic has value here, I don't think that belief would go over well in the normal internets.....nevermind everyone on the internet is an escaped lunatic.

[nil]

I joined the forums three days before 2006 ended.  I still have my first big fortress in the original folder, on .23a ("Copyright (C) 2002-2006 by Tarn Adams").

[Athmos]

I dunno when I registered, because I lurked a long time, but I started DF back in the 2D days.

I had a look : I got here on August the first, 2007.

[Nivim]

 The forum tells me my forum-self is two and a third years old. I remember I was so enchanted when I first saw "Escaped Lunatic" beside my first post that I chose my text-snippet to complement it, and was dissapointed when it changed to Bay Watcher after only 10 posts, but I guess that just makes my escape officially successful! I probably aught to change my text-snippet or signature after two years, but can't seem to think of anything I want there (including what's there), and just change my location regularily instead.

[Strife26]

April 10, 2008, 11:01:01 pm was my sign on date, I played for awhile before that. Good lord but my first posts were atrocious. I was 16 or so? This has always been my only home on the internets. Like everyone else, I played before I posted. I remember when I couldn't figure out why my entry hall kept collapsing. 7x7 rooms of death.


In general, I'd say that these threads aren't that damaging, my occasional reference to VN might do a bit more, but still, nothing wrong with some memory, right?

[Kay12]

I played one of the oldest releases for a very short while because the machine I installed it on ran it very slowly and I was looking for a more traditional Roguelike anyway.

I joined the forums in 2009, was it? To share my glorious hippie strategies... in LCS. I played LCS for about a year before picking up Dwarf Fortress. And then came my military service, so I let both be for a bit over six months...

[antymattar]

by the old days you mean 2006 or the age of myth?

[Jay]

I caught on at the first release.
Never bothered registering an account until later on.
Has it already been that long?  Goddamn.

[Urist Mcinternetuser]

I started playing halfway through 40d. So I'm not that old.

[NewsMuffin]

Started playing around October 2009, registered on the forums in March 2010.
I'm not old, but I'm not new.