Originally posted by culero
I was relatively a newby Air Warrior player, started in 1997. There were routinely well more than 1000 players online in the AOL arenas then.
culero
When I started playing AH during the beta in 1999 player numbers were so low, sometimes I would log in and find I was the only player online. It happened more than a few times as well. Of course my time zone is not exactly peak time, but to me back then 15-20 players was a crowd.
It seems strange that more of the AW crowd werent trying out AH back in those days; it was a free beta. I came straight over from Imol (space sim) to AH and had never even heard of AW. Warbirds had a strong profile in AH for obvious reasons, but not AW. That sure changed with the AW influx a few years ago, which incidentally, went along way to swamping my creaky dial-up < intense profanity right about here>... but then adsl was recently invented in my neck of the woods.