I'll be honest and say I'm a tad shy about CO'ing because of the probability of botching it bad. I'd only done the flight/group leader thing in the past. I executed plans, not made them up. But, the main reason I cannot is it's in the weekends. I'm on the boards now while everyone else here is getting dressed, showered etc and I drink my coffee. If these hit the weeknights (east coast US resident) I'll CO a side.
OK. Rantish lament via a soap box spiel:
A problem I see is alot of the indians moved fromother sism to Aces High and not alot of the chiefs. The folks who are the scenario builders took alot of time to get where they are in the respective sims/games and I'd be willing to bet they are too comfortable to start over elsewhere. And they just may liek where they are at more. Familiarity also breeds contentedness.
But years ago WB's drew over Dok Gonzo *The Scenario Master* come from AW and also Fletchman. Two of the best ever, imo. Two immensely experienced folks who not so much laid a new foundation in a new sim but brought the old one with it. 1996 and 1997 had *one* AW scenario not counting AOL.
The problem I see in AH is there is was a small core group of players, Verm and the CM team, that became the scenario makers which did not leave many left in the general populationto be the scenario "players". Players being the Co/Xo and flight/wing/group leaders. The rest who join into scenarios are what I call the "participants". They go where the staff made plan tells them to go for the most part. The problem, imo, is that apparantly is no one wants to do the staff work.
This AH community is full of people (actually, whiners) that try to talk a good game but are better at squeeking for the grease. Then when the grease is tossed to them they watch it land at their feet and then they get indignant noone will put it on for them. Hence later on some make lame bellybutton accusations of AH scenarios and historical being poorly run or not fun. But where the hell were they to contibute?
WE (all of us, all of you reading this) have to build this community from scratch. Take what you learnend elsewhere and use it. Better yet build upoon it and advance yourself to boot. Without events Aces High will always be a MA sim/game and in the long run the character of AH will wither.
To SaintAw, Camo, Vadr, Verm, banana, Daddog and all the rest of the past and present CM/events folks I say *thank you*. And to the new CM team please be patient till I (and others in my predicament) are able to contribute to events due to RL. Weekends just aren't going to be a good time for me and a severalfew others who have shown an interest in the past.
-Westy
[This message has been edited by Westy (edited 03-03-2001).]
