Originally posted by DamnedRen
You're absolutely right!
I think yer off on the years. Didn't EA's AW go tango uniform in '01? Somewhere around tour 12-15?
Hmmm, how many tours in a year? 12? So, you're saying guys that had been flying a flight sim since '87 including some of those who've built WB and AH (the owners) had nothing to bring to guys who had a mere 1 year of flying? Yep, of the 600 or so posts as to who were old AW folks, guess what most if not all had more flight sim dogfighting experience than you may have brought to the game. Hmmmm, a year of flying...with the steep learning curve the game (FR) has to offer. 'Specially since it's basically FR. Please tell us just how shocked a noob like yerself was when a few hundred folks moved over at the demise of AW? Please spare us old timers your snide remarks about what AW folks did to AH. In fact, you can go from lets say '88-'01 and you never had the current mentality of whiners in AW that we have now. None of that ever came from AW.
What's that old saying...."if yer not part of the solution, yer part of the problem". So, your stupid remarks fall on deaf ears.
Ren
The Damned.
Hehe..........
The True "old guard" {those that flew AW/dos on genie etc} had a totally different mentality then even those in AW when I started in 1994. Many of the old hands had already migrated to warbirds by then. AW on AOL brought a whole new set of players (including me). Many stayed in "day care" {RR arena's} for years.....the FR had a code of ethics that was harshly enforced up to and including the use of "killshooter"....I remember -HR- and others picking guys off who jumped our fights....then merrily resuming stomping me to death.
Other then the change in FM I think AH benifited from the influx from AW and WB's. The overall numbers brought significant changes in gameplay due to the increase in "realism". The average sim pilot is significanty more skilled then his real life counterpart was.....especially back in FR AW where you had very very few baby seals at any given time.
Now you have roughly 5.000 (round number guess) total pilots....maybe 1000 have actual skill in the "mano e mano" combat more prevelent in AW.Maybe a few hundred are really "elite" in that aspect of gameplay. The middle segment have good overskills for AH gameplay (SA, gunnery, bombing, Gving) and the bottom 20% are still learning those skills. Air war in WW1 closely correlated to AW and it's "knights in the sky" concept. AH1 was probably equivelent to the "early war" on the western front in 39-42 where the concept of chivalry still existed in some form. AH2 (prior to recent changes) was probably the most realistic enviornment with regard to the meat grinder of latewar aircombat in WW2. Simply a war of attrition on both sides with pilot skill secondary to group tactics.....
