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Offline Yarbles

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« on: January 17, 2008, 07:57:47 AM »
Who can tell me what AH was like when it first started and what planes/gv's there were/ werent
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« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2008, 08:01:42 AM »
Can't remember too much and I wasn't here at the very beginning. For one it cost 30 bucks. I know that. Another was that there were no Tigers. People would have 10,000 gv perks and no where to spend them.
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« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2008, 08:14:32 AM »
In no particular order:

Night time came around every couple of hours and lasted 20 minutes. Milkrunners took advantage of night to launch buffs while others tweaked gamma to shoot em down.

There were no SpitVIII, Spit IV or Spit XVI, or La7, F4U1-A, Ki-84, 109-K4,
B-25, B-24J, P-38G, P-47N or Sherman M-4.

50 cals were much more concentrated and deadly.

Towns had about 1/3rd less bldgs.

Rants on ch 200 were few and far between.

Skyrock and Vanscrew didn't own anything other than a pair of socks.

Hitech used to fly, and chat a lot in BLUE.

Maps changed every Wednesday morning and Skuzzy answered thousands of silly questions.

Base acks fired higher but less deadly salvos.

Rooks all cherry picked from 35K...oh wait...that hasn't changed :aok
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« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2008, 08:20:19 AM »
You had to walk from the hanger to your ride, in 4 feet of snow. It was hell.
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« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2008, 08:26:13 AM »
You had no Spit IV, VII, or XVI??!! That musta been devastating!! ;)
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« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2008, 08:29:22 AM »
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You had to walk from the hanger to your ride, in 4 feet of snow. It was hell.
Up hill with no shoes :)
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« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2008, 08:32:38 AM »
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50 cals were much more concentrated and deadly.

Yep... I could kill bombers from 1.1 out with F6Fs, nevermind P47s, routinely.  The 50cal (the hit bubble rather) and hit sprites gave you much more precise feedback than today's.

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Hitech used to fly, and chat a lot in BLUE.

Maps changed every Wednesday morning and Skuzzy answered thousands of silly questions.

And that was really cool.
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« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2008, 08:37:52 AM »
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Up hill with no shoes :)


and we had to write up our AAR's on the back of a shovel :D
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« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2008, 08:51:12 AM »
best was is to go to the news and announcements forum, show all threads dating back to the beginning, then jump to the last page of post. :)
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« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2008, 08:57:40 AM »
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Up hill with no shoes :)


...both ways...

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« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2008, 09:07:55 AM »
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...both ways...

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... 5 miles each way, and work a 14 hour day in between ...
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« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2008, 09:15:56 AM »
I remember 90 players online being a huge turnout.  Community was small and most everyone got along well with the exception of the luftwhiners who were alwasy stomping off threatening to quit en mass.  FMs were very strange for that first year until someone came along with some hard rocket type data and HTC made some corrections.......I could go on I guess, but thats enough for me.
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« Reply #12 on: January 17, 2008, 10:06:51 AM »
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Up hill with no shoes :)

Up Hill Both directions... I know thats what you meant...
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« Reply #13 on: January 17, 2008, 10:22:39 AM »
It was a virtual paradise until all of you doofuses showed up and ruined it. That's what it was like.
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« Reply #14 on: January 17, 2008, 10:28:30 AM »
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best was is to go to the news and announcements forum, show all threads dating back to the beginning, then jump to the last page of post. :)


I followed you suggestion... found an old post from before the beta version of AH was released. I added a posting to a 8 1/2 year old thread, It was a hOOt, titled "When will we see it Pyro". I couldn't resist the standard answer of... 1,209,600 seconds. Funny how the more thing change, the more they stay the same.:lol
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