There actually is a Knights of The Sky being developed....15 current viewers couldn't be wrong.




I'm 57. Will I get to actually play it before I go to that great aerodrome in the sky???..or am I doomed to having had Red Baron as the only WWI flight sim I ever knew.

Even as great as it was....as great as the SPs have been... after 18 years I have 'bout had enough.

We should no more in a few months. I'm 59 and have been waiting for SOW for four years. So eat healthy and get some exercise.

Blimey! I'm a youngster here - I'm only 52!

You bunch of old tarts!!..

At least Trooper didn't call us a bunch of old farts!

I'm 52 like Dunkelgrun, still love playin' games like a kid, but growin' old waiting for the next big one (sim that is).

Chivas said it best:


Btw, with the years comes a healthy dose of patience too, something I'm hoping will play into the favor us willing to take the time to hunt in the future.

(KOTS the first sim made with old codgers in mind)

That's interesting. I remember that the Red Baron community also had a relatively high number of older fellows than most games (and even most simulators). What is it about Great War aircraft that appeals more to that age group than the younger ones? Maybe the younger enthusiasts ignore the old wood-and-canvas kites because they're slow. Well, they don't know what they're missing.

I'm tempted to say that we can remember them when it was all new, but that would be stretching things a bit! Perhaps it's because our grandfathers took part in WWI, which makes it a bit more personal?
One of mine was in the RFC, although nothing glamorous - he was a 'Driver (Petrol)', which must have been a step up from 'Driver (Horse)'! Also, my Nan could remember the Zeppelin raids on London.

Same here Chivas it's been weird travelling from Siddartha's river to Flanders fields but here we are, dodging the Reaper. I was just saying to the Home Secretary the other day that we'd be boxed up already if it wasn't for all the drugs

On living forever who wants to anyway: stem cells are going to fix everything if they can't persuade the monkeys they don't need those glands under the 'Free Bananas For Life' scheme

Ming

Bunch of young kids. Seventy-six here and lovin' it.
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Ha! I have every right to act childish then, I'm only 41! My wife things I play childish games, but it would seem that I am mature past my years!

My wife doesn't mind as I'm not messin with her while I'm flying, but she doesn't realise that I've long since forgotten why I messed with her in the first place. j/k

Are you calling the younger generation a bit backwards?

Younger generation...LOL, looks like I fit into that demographic being a sprightly 42.
Perhaps ViKs and the team ought to model some bath chairs and blankets for the older gentleman fliers here

I think it is attractive for us old fellows, because it is slow.

I tried some jet simulations, but it is way too fast. I can't appreciate the sceanery, and than I just have to let go at some ballon or other to calm my nerves.

You know, when I got back into flight sims about three years ago I thought I was on the older side of the community. I mentioned that in some thread, at The Zoo no less, and was very surprised when a lot of the guys who answered were well over 50. You couldn't have guessed that from the behaviour of some of them I suppose we are a mentally young bunch, and I'm only 33

And then, maybe when we have a youngster in our steely grey gunsights we might think twice about killing off yet another generation.

(not)

+1

Assassin's Creed on the van as we speak, Mass Effect up on D-Day. That must be a sign. Oleg do something

Ming

Well for me the appeal of WWI was pilot selection criteria.

If one was relatively young and daring and generally fit, one could become a pilot.

Eye glasses were okay!

So if I were magically transported to 1913, I could put some money down on flight lessons, build up a logbook, and volunteer as a pilot a year later. A lot was overlooked if one could already fly an aircraft.

Any of us would be considered genuises of flight. Imagine telling an instructor that spins are resolved by putting the stick in neutral and the rudder into the spin while retarding the throttle in 1914! They'd hang a medal on us, and then swear us to secrecy!

In every simulation past WWI it's with a nod to the fact that I would never cut the mustard on a flight physical.

And any of us could fall in the great attrition... Both of my grandfathers failed to qualify and knowing the jobs my paternal one was interested in my probability of existing would have dropped by 50% if he had succeeded (I can see risking my existence before I'm born to fight the Nazi's but to fight Imperial Germany???).

Perhaps the greater popularity is simply due to "Alls quiet on the Western Front" and "Dawn Patrol", or perhaps it comes from living at a time when Great War Veterans were still alive in large numbers.

I personally can't quite understand the American fixation on World War Two, Vietnam and Desert Storm
(of course it might just be that our history tends to emphasize equally: 1812-15, Boer War, The Great War, World War Two, then Korea and Afghanistan). Even World War Two looks different (specifically the great losses incurred in battle of the Atlantic and the night bombing of Germany, as well as greater actions in the Mediterranean and Burma).