Time muddles the mind, but I'm pretty sure that this version of OFPEC was created in 2003. I can't get access to the complete stats, and I can't view all my Post History, it keeps crashing, but if I did, I'd be able to give you the exact date. Plus I'm not at home, so I can't access my logs for what was done and when.
The site was taken down for what must have been a good six months I believe? During this time, it was moved to a private server that resided with HuBBa, and it was then that we had a major peak in the Forum, because naturally, people had to re-register.
Myself and Noon observed the Forum stats quite closely, with Noon taking it to the point of perversion with a 2.4mg Excel file, showing in graph, the rise and decline of posting.
We thought it was getting dangerously low at one point, but as Macguba points out, it's steady to middling, and nothing really has changed. The game provides such a stable balance of realism, people just keep coming back!!
The biggest hiccup was when we lost our original domain and had to move to OFPEC.com. We'd always planned that move, and we had both domains running at the same time, unfortunately, things went hairy muff and before we could make a major post stating that the domain was changing permanently, overnight, it got switched off, as it were. We lost nearly everyone to that change. Took a lot of dedicated people a lot of posting to get people back to the new domain.
So OFPEC has in many ways, resembled the , with a strong rise, a steady growth, then decline, and then rise, and so on, so forth. We've gone through several 'patches', and we've technically moved onto OFPEC2 with regards to this current system, because compared to the original ASP design, this is far superior and fluent, heck, I remember when we first took over the Missions Depot from.. Uhg.... Someone who's name I can't remember... Karl, that was it... We brought it on board, and every review was put on the site by handwritten HTML!!! Shocking compared to what we have now, through which we have to thank that Ninja of a man, Backoff, and many other guys.
OFPEC is bigger and better than ever before, and OFP is still as strong as every, beating down the opposition with its realism, definition and customisation.
Together, they are, the daddies.
ROARGHHH!!!