hmm .. AW vs AH playstyles?
AW had much smaller arena's for a long time. Only near the end were they gettin near as big as AH is now.
ie:
AWDos ..30 people max in an arena.
Weekend nights, if you dint get in early, you may not have been able to get in at all. .. funny thing was, when we went live on AOL, same thing happened .. arena's were much bigger then, but .. *lotta* folks logged in on weekends and filled the servers for weeks

You could tell who it was just by watching the dot or seein the plane ID pop up. 'ya, there's mac again, 20k in his frik-kin spitfire' (in half time ..it took a *long* time to get to 20k!)
Az blowin up in PAC before they could roll? ..look for HT in his tank just into the water north of N:15 ..shootin about a sector ..timing was *everything*

Lone p-38 high over C:1 .. Rapier no doubt, vulchin singles as they got to about 5k or so.
A-26 over C:1 .. prolly DoK or Pangloss .. easy to tell apart.. Pangloss would come after ya right down to the deck .. DoK would pick you off when you tried to come up to him.
..and that Wulf always climbin away from the merge, that'd be Hardrock.
Down in the weeds, twistin an turnin in an A-8 .. Mullah.
..and auguring in formation, tryin to spell words with craters .. FUBAR all the way baby

Seemed a lot more 'fun' goin on, instead of 'realism' .. altho the air to air was purty hectic at times. It got crazier the bigger the crowd got.
Furballs over the pond in the center of the AOL AW were a blast. You could come in at 5k or so and just watch, pick out the boom an zoomers, fly across the mess below an pick em off as they came out the other side ..BOOM : Subby has been shot down .. BOOM : Reflex has been shot down.. Muhhaahaaa!! ..and then of course I would dive in and pick off a few down there on the water ..and eventually get blown up myself by someone doin the same

AH I don't 'know' who it is by watchin the plane. Only a few 'handles' I run into where I really pay attention to what I am doin .. most of the time I am goofin off in the MA . . tryin crazy stuff just to see what I can get away with

..and what I can't.
The formation landing last nite in FSO ..17's, 24's, 38's, stangs all funneling into A76 .. kinda cool

Glad they dont model vortex or prop turbulence!
AH is fun.
AW is gone.
-GE -jest enjoy the day-