General Age of Sub Simmers?
 

Ok, one of my friends clams that only old people play submarine simulations.
He says that even hardcore flight sims and wargames appeal more to teens.
So please tell me your age, I want to know if this is true
Truthfully please(On the forums i moderate i pretend to be a 19 year old girl hacker who lives in Sweden)
I'm 15 by the way

Dishonest moderators are usually poor ones. I'm not saying that you are a poor moderator, only that you must be honest with the members if you expect them to be honest, and remain honest with you.

I'm 33. Joined SubSim 10 years ago. Started playing submarine simulators in my teens.

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Dude, one of the paste bars(a type of forum in china) i moderate is one of the biggest Marilyn Manson fan sites on earth
What can you expect?
here is the link if you would like to check it out:http://tieba.baidu.com/f?kw=manson&t=12

Remember to say hi if you do:salute:

I'm 25, I started playing subsims about 8 years ago and was in to flight sims about 2 or 3 years before that.

Most of the old movies you talk about, I saw in the theater. I picked up my first guitar in 1965. I saw the Beatles live in 1966. I was in Vietnam in 1970. Married in 1974. Divorced in 1985. My older daughter is about to turn 31. Her 'baby' sister is 28, and has given me two grandkids. I started playing tabletop wargames in 1973. My first subsim was Silent Service in 1986. On the other hand I still play rock 'n' roll and the blues, and some country, jazz, folk, and anything else I feel like.

I'm also absolutely honest about everything I do. The only reason I have a screen name is because when I first came here even Neal had one. I no longer pretend to be anything, excepting maybe human.

What can I say? I'm 60.

ps. Every Thursday night I play a truly hardcore flight sim, which involves pushing trolleys around on the floor of the local hobby shop, with model airplanes.

I'm 31 and started sub simming with Silent Hunter 2 and sub command ten years ago.

Joined subsim under different name somewhere in 2000-2002 if memory doesn't fail me but have since lost the account. Have since started going back as forum member from 2006

Started flight simming about 7 years earlier.

You know it's not true that only old people play subsim while younger ones play flightsim.
Just that sub sim titles are hard to come by and not everyone would want to take a try at them.
It's like when we were teen and we prefer to seek out and get attracted to the opposite sex teenagers but after a while(or maybe a long while) you just realize mature women could become more appealing than younger opposite sex. It's part of growing.
It's not the women or the female teenagers who have changed but your realization and perspective.

The general scene of opposite sex attraction is like
1. Male teenagers under 20s spotting a few hot or pretty teenagers->They go all crazy and without restraint to their explicit behavior about it I mean just by looking at them
2. Male young in his 20s spotting hot or pretty girl->They have a crush inside but show more explicit restraint
3. Male mid age in his 30s above spotting hot or pretty women-> Ummm...., Meh

When you're psychologically in category number 3 even when it doesn't mirror your biological age you're ready for sub simming LOL


Subsim is just more refined and takes more dedication and passion than the explosive flight simming in general.

Hands down you win :O:

That Thursday night revelation . . . . . . .:haha:

Hello, my name is razark, and I'm 34.

I've been a subsimmer since I was 8 years old. It all started when I got my hands on something called Gato:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...2/Gatoshot.png

It worked for a while, but then I started finding new and better subsims.
Silent Service, Red Storm Rising, 688 Attack Sub, Silent Service II, etc.

Mid 40s

You call yourself Lisbeth, or Wasp? ;)

I'm 36, and this was my first sub sim. (edit: If you want to call it a sim that is. )

I'm 17 and started sub simming when I picked up SH4 as soon as it came out. Plus my sim days started when a family friend gave us Janes F-15 when it first came out before moving to Jet Fighter 4 and KA-52 Team Alligator.

I'm 22, joined Subsim and WPL when I was 14, so about your age now.

I've been to three Subsim meets and they're truly something special you never forget :arrgh!:

Hiiiii, Razaaarrrk! :sunny:

I'll turn 50 in a few weeks. One of the white-haired geezers with slow reflexes! But old age & treachery will overcome youth & skill! :woot:

I remember playing that for hours when I was little. I guess that was my first subsim, although I didn't become obsessed with the genre until I got Sub Command back in 2002. :sunny: