POLL: Average age on the forum.
 

The question was asked in another thread, but I think an anonymous poll is better. Just select your age range and click enter.

I like this poll being anonymous. :grin:

LOl - yes I thought that would deliver more responses -- lets see.

I am 33 years old but my wife always says "you are a pc moron" when i fly with my weird (for her) flight accessories for hours. :)

My wife and my friends. :)

When I stumbled across this sim I thouht OMG this is awsome. I showed my family and friends. They just kinda look at me with this funny smile. What the hell is wrong with them. I am 47.

Mental or...?
 

59 but feel like 19!

Viking

I have 39,5....: Rolleyes:

S!

Started playing this game as a young and handsome guy, at least in my own opinion..now only "and"..such is life ;)

33
 

Me - 33, but I feel as a panther in to the skies! Il-2 gives me superhuman powers. REALLY!
~S!

I'm a doctor , neurologist,42 yrs old and flight sims are my addiction in the computer game world.
I don't really feel like I'm a child, or my patients,but I can't say the same about my wife...

Gah, why not. Previously a sales manager, now studying a degree in cs. Have written for PC Gamer, ran v successful clans. Not giving out any more detail :)

Love that.

i know what you checked...
you know what i checked...

hehehe

34

45

what about the 0 to 9 year olds ????

22 and a half :)

33 here but when in game 0-3 i think! :)

47 going on 10. People are funny aren't they? They'll roll their eyes at us with our joysticks and funny hats then go spend 8 hrs on facebook. To each his own.

I'm seriously impressed with the range of ages! It's like a Tom Petty concert here.

I cannot make voting. I do 40. Which category I am living in? Sorry, schoolboy error in poll formulations ;).
Barndoor

How old do you feel??

Technically unless today is your birthday, you'll be "40 years+xx days" old, so you'll belong to the "Between 40 and 50" class. :)

Anyhow, as already said, the important is "How do you feel"?

By the way, I am 50,5 :)

I bought my first book on the aviation in WWII back in 1977 when i was 11 years old. Oleg don't ruin my childhood dreams please. :grin::grin::grin:

Puhahahahaha... i love that. :grin:

46 here. Mabye some day I will grow up. (But Im not looking forvard to it.)

was this really necessary? Every time I visit this forum I catch a strange scent of mothballs and bengay

Most likely it derives from your own prejudices...

At 60 years old, I remember my first pc flight sim experience. It was called F-19, (I think), and there were no joysticks. It was a low resolution model played against an orange background (way cool). The whole sim was loaded on a few floppy discs, and it ran on Windows 3.1. Later more flight sims required DOS agility, and custom start-up discs. (anyone remember TFX?). Then US Navy Fighters came out and it required Windows95. The genre has come a long ways since then. Long live combat flight sims!
Flyby out

My friend! ;)

yeah, that's me (titanium hips and all!!!) LOL!!! :D
Flyby out

41 51/52 years old here, and like everyone else it seems, feeling multiple years younger. Was about 35 when I discovered IL2.

Heh, you mean this one?

http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/ss/6911_0.png

And we thought it was as real as it can get - LOL.

BTW it's an actual screenshot, not a thumbnail. Resolution 320x200 pixels was common for games at that time.
Good old times... :rolleyes:

61. Friends and family shake their heads but not my brother in law. We tried flight sims online decades ago and he's mainly offline now but crazy about M_DS. If they ever ship us out to an old folks home it better have regular LAN parties.

considering Oleg admits that the core of the sim wont even be finished with the release of BOB ( still alot of tweaking and graphics enhancements and probably tons of patches) and also considering that this platform is tailored to work with third party developers, i think it will become a staple, id give it a 2-3 years more than il2 due to all the other developers that will use the core to build other things, SOW BOB will be less sim than il2 and more like a GAME ENGINE, think of it like the counter-strike engine, and when another replacement comes it will probably carry over a lot of the core functions of SOW and build on them

35 here.

My first flight"sims" were "F18 Interceptor", "Gunship", "Falcon 1" and a game (I don't remember the name) where you could fly a tornado - all on the Amiga 500.

Those were good times

Hm. This is the first time I've had to tick the 40-50 years box.
It suddenly made me feel much older. Not good.

Anyway, my father is flying this sim quite often, and he is turning 75 this fall.
He gets rather quick tired of aircombat though, so I'm making fairly easy missions for him, mainly to scramble and intercept a few transports or groundpounding trains. This game goes well with all ages!

Skarphol

I'm 53 and thought I was old, lol. How about a geriatrics squadron?

53

I'm either 47 or 74. Can't remember right now as I haven't taken my medicine yet.

OT, I know!
 

Sort of reminds me of a friend who said” I still chase women but I can’t remember why!”

Viking

Puhahahahahaha...:grin:

hey thats how i remeber it too :) and iam 20 something younger :).

cheers

At last I feel like a youngster in a forum so I can blame my lack of common sense on my inexperience of socializing with other individuals. 35 outside, around 16 inside.

Also seeing that there are a lot older grandpas than me running around buying TIR's and joysticks makes my day! I think only because of this thread I'll invest more on my 'idiotic' gaming devices that cause a lot of head shakes with my wife.

Bless you old geeks and blue skies! =)