I have been dropping by here since the late 90s, altough I only registered in 2002. I have always been interested in naval stories and got interested in submarine simulations when I got into computers. My first subsim was Jane’s 688 Hunter Killer which seems like a dinosaur compared to current subsims.
The SubSim website/forum was always the place to be if you were interested in submarine/naval simulations. There are a lot of knowledgeable members here, including current/former submariners/sailors and picked up a lot of interesting trivia over the years.
SubSim also has a more, let us say, “mature” crowd (most of the time anyway
), so it is easier to have interesting discussions. Too many gaming sites these days seem to be overrun with kids/young adults.
My favourite memories around here were probably during the 2005-12 period when popularity of SH3-4-5 was at its height and whenever you would pop in here, there would be a new game mod to discover. That energy waned afterwards, although it seems to be picking back up now that we have a new generation of submarine simulations, Wolpack and Uboat, to play with.