Storch, you am be an idiot.
My frustration is not, nor has ever been, due to "difficulty dealing with the growing success of the MMOG flight variant". Rather that the genre has yet to live up to its potential.
That I don't play the game is more a tribute to a lack of time and the ambient suckiness on display in the main arena. Some nights the MA is so bad I swear I could see my screen start to go concave from it.
I have always hated the Horde Ethic. It's effective, but dull and inefficient. And it erodes the the skill level of everyone involved. The critical toolkit for a fighter pilot is just as much instincts and decision making as flying skills and gunnery. In the Horde, only the last two are of use and get developed. You do the math.
What makes The Survivors of GEnie so special isn't that we spent more money than we should have. It's that during that narrow band of time we were able to immerse completely in the game in a way that hasn't been possible since. And its that We Were There when the game crawled out of the swamp and sprouted legs. In my case, that goes back almost 20 years.
In any event, I am still very much alive. The real DoKtor GonZo, Hunter S. Thompson, took his own life earlier this year. There were several discussion in this very BBS about it.
