define an AH "vet"

[storch]

fellows, without being disrespectful there are other adjectives which immediately come to mind that I could use to describe what a person who pays $_ per hour for an intardnet game is.  

[straffo]

Vet :: someone in AH since 99.

[TheflyingElk]

Guess that makes me a AW/gamestorm Refugee!!!:O

[daddog]

I am a $2 an hour Warbird transfer.  What did AW cost?

[TequilaChaser]

all this banter about what a vet should or shouldn't be doing has gotten me to think about who is defined as a vet and who is a noob.

Vet Qualifications:
 at least 1 month bill on CC for AW - $971.75  (actually had 5 to 6 months in a row of these bills )

1 X-wife ( supposedly  left because I only cared about the game )

Burnt Out ----> at least 5 times over 10+ years


then at the other end, enjoying the game for what it is, and what  Tiff  posted in his 1st reply........ anyone know who Tiff is? if you know who Tiff is you qualified for "VET" status possibly

[straffo]

Originally posted by TequilaChaser


then at the other end, enjoying the game for what it is, and what  Tiff  posted in his 1st reply........ anyone know who Tiff is? if you know who Tiff is you qualified for "VET" status possibly

Sorry TC it's not a Vet ,it's more a old guy

[g00b]

Well, in RL a Vet is someone who participated in a previous "conflict" (they hardly call 'em wars any more).

So I'd say anyone who has any flight time in previous on-line flight-sims should qualify.

If you flew in AH1 you're a vet.

If you flew in warbirds, AW, falcon, etc... you're a vet.

If you flew kesmai AW you get "grizzled vet" status.

[Edbert]

Originally posted by storch
all this banter about what a vet should or shouldn't be doing has gotten me to think about who is defined as a vet and who is a noob.

To be a BBS-vet you have to have been PNGed at least once.

--== seriously ==--

One year or more may be enough to take off the n00b label, but I'd say you need about 5 years to be an "AH-vet". Closer to 10 years to a "MMOL aircombat-sim vet".  So if you didn't play AW or WB in the 90's I would not call you a "vet".

If you've been playing these silly games longer than 10 years you are probably (like me) saddened by the "progress" of the genre, where strategerie, "winning", and scores take priority away from actual aircombat and fun.

Edit to add (after reading the whole thread):
I had one months bill from WB reach over $300, never said I didn't have a problem. I'd estimate my online combatsim time has cost me well over $4k over the years, and that does not count joysticks and PC hardware. The exhorbitant charges certainly worked at keeping the children out of the arenas. I guess everything is a trade-off somehow.

But those were the early days of the intardnet, back when they called it the "information superhighway" and a dialup service was 9600 baud and cost $30-40 a month for unlimited access. To be honest, back then it was not really the intardnet anyway. Most of the folks online back were mature professionals and other than the perpetual flamefests of usenet there wasn't that much tardness. Now that the internet is full of 7 year olds it is certainly a different place.

[Heater]

If you remember paying $400, 00 Dollar a month phone bills and $1500, 00 per month Credit card bills (Genie $6.00 per Hour) Then I think you can be called a AH Vet

[aztec]

Originally posted by NoBaddy
A noob can recognize the game for what it is and play accordingly. This is why all noobs aren't dweebs and some 'vets' are.

 

I humbly refer you to Jedi's Book of Dweeb Sir...any search pros out there that can point the way? Will be back with a link if I can find it.

[Grits]

Originally posted by Heater
If you remember paying $400, 00 Dollar a month phone bills and $1500, 00 per month Credit card bills (Genie $6.00 per Hour) Then I think you can be called a AH Vet

My total cost per hour for AW when I started was $13/hr. GEnie was $6 and I didnt have a "local node" (if you know what a "local node" is you are a Vet) so I had a $7/hr long distance call on top of GEnie. I had 5-6 CC bills in the $400-$500 range and too many to count in the $200-$300 range.

[aztec]

http://www.virtualpilots.fi/feature/articles/bookofdweeb/

Hope this works, and hope you enjoy.

[Grayeagle]

yassir ... DOSAW on the Amiga with a screamin 2400 supra hot rod modem was a bit of fun, livin in Adelanto (a suburb of Victorville ..LOL) ..I paid a surcharge on top of the GEnie dialup ..my average bill for the first 3 months was over $1k/mo .. wife worked, kids were in high school, I played a *lot*
since she worked late most nights.

4-5hrs every nite, all day saturday, most of the day sunday .. that was me
Tail number 1326.

Initially I kept a log of flight time just to see what the numbers would be .. after 3500hrs in the Mustang in AW alone I stopped loggin 'em.

SVGA AW was a huge step up .. but it murdered my Amiga .. 5fps in a furball just didn't cut it .. and into the PC world I went.

-GE

[storch]

unless one was very wealthy, I would describe paying hundreds of dollars per month to play a cartoon game as irresponsible.  even then I would call foolish.  there would be other words to describe paying thousands.  I saw an ad for AW in flying magazine back in the early/mid '90s, I didn't have a puter but was interested in pursuing my wwii aviation interests so I called the 800 number on the advertisement.  when the sharpster at the other end began to describe the costs he found himself listening to a dial tone.  there was no way I would spend that kind of money in such a trivial pursuit.  take that same money today and place it in a safe money market fund and do so until retirement and see what the significance of that expenditure was and is.

[SAS_KID]

A vet is a 1337 80 year old dude playing AH on an Orange screen comp with a stick and buttons from his shirt as his joystick and a can with a piece of fishing wire attached to it for his headset.



And listens to Heavey Metal at the same time.