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Title: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Mars on January 22, 2011, 12:39:05 am
I wonder how 'old' the still active population of HLP is.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Admiral LSD on January 22, 2011, 12:42:41 am
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Date Registered:
February 21, 2001, 04:00:00 pm

:D
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Mars on January 22, 2011, 12:47:55 am
Da heck?  :nervous:
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Black Wolf on January 22, 2011, 01:54:13 am
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    06 August 2001, 10:00:00

I took a few months to register - after all, I didn't want to join that upstart new community, it was doomed to failure, and all the cool stuff was on the VBB. :p
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: headdie on January 22, 2011, 02:22:36 am
I had an account back in 2005ish though didn't do much and went inactive for a couple of years so I think it got cleared out when that purge of inactive happened ( 2006 or something like that) cause I had to re-register
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Nohiki on January 22, 2011, 02:30:04 am
Date Registered: April 26, 2010, 06:21:54 am

BLARGH Ima noob :(
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Ghostavo on January 22, 2011, 02:54:02 am
Date Registered: December 11, 2003, 10:14:00 pm

I blame VWBB closing.  :nervous:
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: karajorma on January 22, 2011, 02:54:33 am
I pointed people at HLP as the modding centre for FS2 for quite a while before joining it myself.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on January 22, 2011, 03:12:46 am
September 27, 2006, 05:05:20 pm

Took a couple of years off of FS2 for RTCW before coming back mostly because I had no idea any of this existed.  After PXO and the VBB went down kind of lost touch. 
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Pred the Penguin on January 22, 2011, 03:49:22 am
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Date Registered: February 07, 2009, 09:04:41 am
Lots of lurking around... :nervous:
Plus one year off FS in the middle I think.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Nuclear1 on January 22, 2011, 03:56:02 am
    April 10, 2002, 10:36:40

Right about the time VBB closed.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: NGTM-1R on January 22, 2011, 04:25:35 am
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September 05, 2004, 08:09:29 pm

Suspect I'm one of the oldest non-VBB survivors on the board. They all still call me noob. :(
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: BlueFlames on January 22, 2011, 04:44:22 am
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Date Registered:  April 17, 2001, 02:52:12

Nearly a decade, now.  I joined right about the time Ross 128 kicked the bucket.

And yes, that's about 350 posts, in nine years and nine months.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: T-LoW on January 22, 2011, 04:50:47 am
I'm around here since 2005 - but finally registered July 18, 2010, 12:12:20 am :)
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Ransom on January 22, 2011, 05:13:37 am
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26 October 2003, 10:10:08

Started lurking here before the VBB went down, I think, but I never actually went there. I am amazed I'm still below a thousand posts
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Flipside on January 22, 2011, 08:20:04 am
2nd November 2001. Was one of the first games I learned how to Mod after my attempts at Homeworld just led to one frustration after another :)
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: CP5670 on January 22, 2011, 09:31:08 am
August 01, 2001, 03:00:00 am

I took a few months to register - after all, I didn't want to join that upstart new community, it was doomed to failure, and all the cool stuff was on the VBB. :p

Same here. HLP also had a focus on modeling and rendering back then, while most of the mission designers were still hanging around the VBB.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: castor on January 22, 2011, 10:08:07 am
27-03-2002. About the time VBB went down, I guess.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Polpolion on January 22, 2011, 10:18:44 am
June 15, 2005, 04:40:21 pm

Nearly six years feels like a lot less with all these VBB alumni here.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Kolgena on January 22, 2011, 10:49:59 am
Smidge over 2 years here. Lots of you guys are ancient :P
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Bob-san on January 22, 2011, 10:55:57 am
About 4½ years now. It's been a while. I've been more or less active on forums for around 6-7 years.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: iamzack on January 22, 2011, 11:20:03 am
05 December 2008, 18:04:03
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: sayoqod on January 22, 2011, 11:40:21 am
About a week.....:P
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: BrotherBryon on January 22, 2011, 11:41:41 am
January 17, 2006, 06:27:42 pm, Lurked regularly for years before ever registering and posting though. I remember not reading the board for a week or two and missing the whole Derek Smart fiasco. Haven't gone more than a few days without at least checking the board ever since.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: SpardaSon21 on January 22, 2011, 12:05:02 pm
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January 28, 2008, 03:13:05 am
Not quite three years.  I have no idea why I've been on HLP for so long.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Crazy_Ivan80 on January 22, 2011, 12:23:28 pm
May 05, 2001
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: MR_T3D on January 22, 2011, 12:46:48 pm
June 15th, 2008
not quite 3 years, came over when BrTL broke up and Diaspora started up.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Nuclear1 on January 22, 2011, 01:40:10 pm
I'd have about four times the posts I have now...but my e-penis got circumcised years back when GD posts stopped counting :(
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Snail on January 22, 2011, 01:48:17 pm
may '06
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Thaeris on January 22, 2011, 01:52:14 pm
I'd have about four times the posts I have now...but my e-penis got circumcised years back when GD posts stopped counting :(

Oh, lol. :D

October 25, 2008, 09:59:28 pm

Working on three years - I came here after BtRL died on Game Warden. Seeing as Game Warden in general seems to be the retarded sibling of HLP (/points at SoL fanbois), I'm glad I did regardless.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Flipside on January 22, 2011, 02:04:33 pm
I'd have about four times the posts I have now...but my e-penis got circumcised years back when GD posts stopped counting :(

A great many inches were lost that day, by many people, I was on around 13,000 posts iirc ;)
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: JGZinv on January 22, 2011, 02:10:24 pm
    October 03, 2006, 07:09:10 pm

About a month after the official start of FringeSpace.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: achtung on January 22, 2011, 02:11:45 pm
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February 12, 2005, 02:18:04 am

Almost six. I remember I was desperately trying to find a way to get FS2 legally. I found karajorma's FAQ first, then ended up here. I eventually bought FS2 on eBay for like 20 bucks or something after pirating it and wanting the real thing.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Scotty on January 22, 2011, 02:15:15 pm
Today is my two year anniversary on HLP.

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January 22, 2009, 05:08:00 pm

Little less than three hours here until it's exactly two.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Nuke on January 22, 2011, 02:35:13 pm
Been here ever since May 21, 2002, 11:42:27 am
thats whay 9ish years
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Ravenholme on January 22, 2011, 04:16:31 pm
Nov '09, after lurking for a year or so.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Bobboau on January 22, 2011, 04:30:13 pm
my user id is 57, I have you all beaten
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: pecenipicek on January 22, 2011, 05:42:13 pm
it'd be amusing if Shrike or Kier appeared all out of a sudden :p


also, due to user ID's, Kier created HLP as a standalone forum or what?



as a side note, i'm coming up into my 7th year here.



sweet satan, i joined when i was 14...
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Herra Tohtori on January 22, 2011, 05:59:40 pm
2005-10-19, 21:24:31

Five years, three months, four days today.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: MatthTheGeek on January 22, 2011, 06:15:51 pm
1 year and a half. But my previous experience with HW2 modding helped me greatly to get integrated here :).
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Droid803 on January 22, 2011, 06:38:53 pm
2 years ish, I think.
EDIT: ok, 2, closing on three.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: sigtau on January 22, 2011, 06:41:55 pm
Lurked for a long time before joining, as in I remember the vbulletin and the heated FS3 debates.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Bobboau on January 22, 2011, 07:40:14 pm
2005-10-19, 21:24:31

Five years, three months, four days.


from a stroke.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Pred the Penguin on January 22, 2011, 07:43:12 pm
sweet satan, i joined when i was 14...
Gotta be scary to notice how fast the years go by. :lol:
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Nuclear1 on January 22, 2011, 07:46:04 pm
sweet satan, i joined when i was 14...
Gotta be scary to notice how fast the years go by. :lol:

14 nothing, I joined when I was 12...I'm 22 now :p
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Admiral LSD on January 22, 2011, 07:50:51 pm
my user id is 57, I have you all beaten

I could have sworn mine was 27, 29 or something at one point...
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: pecenipicek on January 22, 2011, 08:38:00 pm
sweet satan, i joined when i was 14...
Gotta be scary to notice how fast the years go by. :lol:
its scarier when you notice the **** you spewed in the bygone ages...
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: ssmit132 on January 22, 2011, 08:43:59 pm
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September 25, 2006, 01:17:43 pm
I remember I joined up when I needed some help with Derelict. Wow, that was a long time ago.

its scarier when you notice the **** you spewed in the bygone ages...
Oh I can attest to that. I'm embarrassed by quite a few things I said on forums (not just this one) when I look back on them.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: pecenipicek on January 22, 2011, 08:50:58 pm
i dont even want to remind myself of everything i spewed around here.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Nuclear1 on January 22, 2011, 08:52:13 pm
Yes, I remember some of the....colorful things you've said here :p
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Flipside on January 22, 2011, 09:09:34 pm
:lol:

I think all of the longer term members have done/said things in the past they feel a bit silly for now, probably best not to drag them up ;)
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: NGTM-1R on January 23, 2011, 08:15:08 am
Oh come on, we used to bring up the Klangers all the time...
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: kode on January 23, 2011, 12:09:44 pm
It'll be ten years in may. Oy vey.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Dark Hunter on January 23, 2011, 12:15:35 pm
Just passed the five year mark.

It feels longer than that, somehow...
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Flipside on January 23, 2011, 12:16:37 pm
Oh come on, we used to bring up the Klangers all the time...

Well, some moments are just....pivotal ;)
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Titan on January 23, 2011, 04:53:53 pm
Coming on six years and I'm still the resident n00b.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: redsniper on January 23, 2011, 04:59:33 pm
Buh, I joined in May '03 and lurked the VBB and VWBB for years before that. I remember when glow maps were cutting edge. :nervous:
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Polpolion on January 23, 2011, 05:27:28 pm
Coming on six years and I'm still the resident n00b.

Coming on six years? but you registered Nov '06, that would make just over four.  :nervous:
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Col. Fishguts on January 23, 2011, 05:47:47 pm
Buh, I joined in May '03 and lurked the VBB and VWBB for years before that. I remember when glow maps were cutting edge. :nervous:

Ah, I fondly remember the first screenshots of glowmapped ships :)
I joined in October'03 to file some SCP bug report (there was no Mantis yet back then IIRC), and had to move here permanently when the VWBB was closed.... it feels like ages ago.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: IceFire on January 23, 2011, 07:02:16 pm
Such a long time :)  According to my user profile I'm 2 days away from 10 years so I marked down 10 years.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Gortef on January 24, 2011, 04:19:23 am
23-04-2001, 04:00:00

Almost 10 years... crikey. But I do remember just registering myself back then and still be more active on VBB than here... IF I remember right that is.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: perihelion on January 24, 2011, 08:56:52 am
September 23, 2005, 08:05:50 pm

So, a bit over 5 years.  I lurked for a bit before that.  I think I found this place like someone else mentioned earlier in the thread.  I was looking for a legal way of getting a copy of FS2.  I remembered one of my old room-mates highly recommended it years earlier.  Eventually, I bought a used copy on eBay.  I kind of wonder how many of us took that route.

Mostly, I still lurk.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Titan on January 24, 2011, 09:07:32 am
Coming on six years and I'm still the resident n00b.

Coming on six years? but you registered Nov '06, that would make just over four.  :nervous:

I did insta-math 2011-2006 = 5 :p
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: BlueFlames on January 24, 2011, 12:07:01 pm
Coming on six years? but you registered Nov '06, that would make just over four.  :nervous:

I did insta-math 2011-2006 = 5 :p

Sure, five years, in November.  You can't be getting close to six years, when you're still ten months away from hitting the five-year mark.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: watsisname on January 24, 2011, 03:42:37 pm
Lessee here... I've been on HLP for...
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Total Time Spent Online:
    29 days, 11 hours and 42 minutes.

WOO one month!
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Scotty on January 24, 2011, 04:39:31 pm
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59 days, 9 hours and 9 minutes.

I'm approaching two.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Kosh on January 24, 2011, 04:45:31 pm
August 05, 2003, 12:49:31 am


Buh, I joined in May '03 and lurked the VBB and VWBB for years before that. I remember when glow maps were cutting edge. :nervous:

Not to mention shinemapping. And high poly modelling? Forget it.


Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Colonol Dekker on January 24, 2011, 04:55:34 pm
Counting lurk time. From before derelict came out.... I remember steaks array and the download section fondly. A.decade of shibby fun. Love HLP, love life. Yes..... I am loved up again, need tochnge my title.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Nuclear1 on January 24, 2011, 05:10:39 pm
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59 days, 9 hours and 9 minutes.

I'm approaching two.

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111 days, 14 hours and 38 minutes.

Almost four :p
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: General Battuta on January 25, 2011, 12:13:01 pm
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177d 12h 11m

Only two of ye can beat meh
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: iamzack on January 25, 2011, 12:14:50 pm
39 days, 6 hours and 37 minutes

:<
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Bob-san on January 25, 2011, 01:39:20 pm
40 days, 4 hours and 3 minutes.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Mefustae on January 25, 2011, 06:08:01 pm
Around about 5 years if you add in the month or two I spent lurking.

I'm sure I'll get around to doing something useful around here. Someday.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Rodo on January 25, 2011, 06:16:54 pm
27-04-2008, 18:39:19...

and..

53 days, 2 hours and 15 minutes.

Wow, spending time on the webs, eh?
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Hades on January 25, 2011, 06:24:14 pm
Joined up on the 27th of March in 2007, 2 days before my 12th birthday. Been online for 85 days, 12 hours, and 9 minutes apparently.
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Droid803 on January 25, 2011, 06:54:10 pm
71 days, 14 hours and 24 minutes.
Much less than I expected :nervous:
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Sololop on January 25, 2011, 10:50:32 pm
Since December 15, 2008, 09:09:14. Intriguing. I joined when I had some issues for FS2, and was then told I was basically doing it wrong. I lurked then, I lurk now. Muaha
Title: Re: How long have you been on HLP?
Post by: Pred the Penguin on January 26, 2011, 11:11:53 am
10 days, 17 hours and 3 minutes spent online. :lol: