Ya, I took allot of it off and havent been fully addicted in about 7 years I would say.
Amazing the thrill of a fur ball in the arena though.
Ya, it was free for beta, then 30 bucks, I was a trainer for a short while, then flew for a while at the 30 price before they dropped it down.
1800, even if I had paid that much is less then a great DSLR lens. Less then a good canoe, less then a great TV. 1800 is half of what it costs me to go down to the states for an NFL game.
The cost is nothing. Its the time.
Looking at where AH has gone and not gone, it is clear to me know that these guys had a very refined and powerful view of what was important in the game. Trying to explain to others what a powerful "team" and comraderie feeling you get with a good squad of guys who fly together every night is impossible. So everything that was implemented that built that was golden, other things are optional.
It is also clear that the hardest thing for HT and Pyro to wrestle with is the game of the game. It was terribly painful just to get the perk and eny systems into the game. The knights basically showed up for two months in nothing but hundreds of Hog Cs before the requests for something to ballance it went from "thats whining" to thats self evident. Little things, like you dont get kill messages until you land them. It wasnt that way at first, but did it ever improve the game when it got in.
Makeing the bombing so much more challenging, seems like a technical thing, but it is very much a game thing.
I still thing Sorti rates would be a great enhancement to the game, and would seem self evident after the fact.
That first sorti, in a spit IX that seemed to me to be shaking apart. Doesnt seem like yesterday, its seems like a long time ago.
