[crossfire] Oldest character still in game

[Mark Wedel]

On 09/27/2017 10:16 PM, Robert Brockway wrote:
> Hi all.  Just occured to me that this might be a fun question to ask.
> 
> I have a character that I started playing in 1995, Lars the Northman. Lars still 
> survives on my server although he's been a dedicated DM character for a long time.
> 
> FWIW Lars has progressed through various changes in the game.
> 
> So how old is your oldest character, in real-world time?
> 
> Can anyone beat Lars at 22 years?
> 
> I understand that Crossfire was started in 1992, 2-3 years before I started 
> playing it.  I guess that means that the oldest possible character would be 25.

  This got me curious.  Looking on my system, I find a character with the last 
modification date of Aug 9, 1997.  That is in a players.bak directory, so I had 
probably copied those as a backup at some point (I wonder how many hard 
drives/filesystems that file has migrated across)

  There isn't any way to tell when it was created, though I suspect it was when 
I first got involved, which I think was 1994.  Though I've not actually played 
that character in a long time, so I suppose it depends on 'still in the game' 
really means.