The Way the Game Was??

[Oldman731]

Folks generally look back at whenever the peak of their activity was as the golden age.  If you look past the individual to the collection, if you look at what is in the game and what you can do here, the golden age really is now.

I saved something very nice that Blue Baron wrote about AW.  I won't post it all here, but the last part is key:

"Thus, there is only one golden age - the time when YOU first learned the
game, and played it for long hours every day or every week. Each of us has
his own good old days. And for each, they were just as good.

And for the so-called veteran who complains to me how my latest release
killed the game he loved, I can say, "Yes, and you killed the game I loved.
You and your kind chased away all my buddies seven years ago." In both
cases the accusation is unfair. That's another thing all players from all
eras share: the good old days can never last forever. Enjoy yours while you
have them. Remember them fondly when they're over. In either case you are
experiencing or have experienced something evermore rare in this world."

[Yeager]

Words like those are universal, applying to a LOT more than just a game.  They apply to life in general, and need sharing from time to time.

[Rebel]

Here are some of the biggest differences-

Day one of Open Beta, I shot a chute.  I was hunted for the remainder of the night.

Flying as if your life depended on it was accepted as a perfectly valid way of playing, rather then being called "teh lame". 

[MonkGF]

Anyone else remember AW when you got 12 (?) planes updated near you and that was it? So flying into an enemy formation of buffs with escorts and your friendly interceptors and planes kept blinking in and out as you drove through the mass? That made scenarios fun!

I do not miss my analog modem one whit...

[DrDea]

OK one thing that changed, but it goes back to Airwarrior.  As soon as winning the war became an option, the game changed.  Air combat was no longer a mandatory part of the game as folks could find a way around it to feel "success".

Worst thing that could have happened in an air combat game.

That being said, I still have fun.

Amen brother,amen.

[DrDea]

8 yrs ago I used to go AFK on auto-climb to take a piss and come back at 4,000 feet alt. Now when I come back I'm at 10,000 ft   

You may wanna get that prostate looked at.

[guncrasher]

Burn.



Semp

[Bear76]

You may wanna get that prostate looked at.

Is that what that thumb is for??  

[DrDea]

Is that what that thumb is for??  

 Im not giving detailed medical advice.Im sure you understand

[Bear76]

Burn.



Semp

Why? Are you a witch? Burn the witch 

[betty]

Nothing has changed.  Lots of good people, still having fun.

The only time the game has ever changed for me, is when I start taking it too seriously.  Then somehow I can find things that are 'different'.

In the end it means I've changed at that point.  A couple of good augers and I'm right back on track

i agree with corky, nothing has changed, just some of the  players that i used to enjoy fighting against or with are gone...there will always be people that play the way they want to play, you just have to find them few individuals that enjoy playing in the same style as you and start a good fight with them!

[Chilli]

   we had squid   
    we had sheep
   we had no running after 2 kills
  we had less complaining
  we had HTC staff come online more often and play with us
   

Top of my list >>>>>>  It was a WHOLE lot easier to capture a field.  I have gotten into a bunch of disputes over this.  The most recent change in town layouts is just one step
(57 buildings > 92 buildings) in the obvious direction of raising the field capture bar. 

The olden days:

• town buildings disappeared when destroyed
• fewer ack guns
• vehicle bases had one hangar
• 50 cals killed ack faster (in my opinion)
• I don't remember if we had ostwinds, I know we didn't have wirblewinds (I was too busy flying Goons or Bf110s to notice)
• AH2 >stepped it up = 3 VHs on vbase
• town buildings didn't disappear when destroyed
• increased ack guns and 50 cals less lethal on ack(IMO)
• Since then > updated ENY
• Tried base capture sequence (capture this base before you are able to capture that base)
• Split Arenas / Arena Caps

Do I wish things would go back to the way they were?  NOoooo    However, I would like to see efforts to balance  the "fun sucking" from base capture.  Adding incentives like the AT guns that were added to the fields, able to line up on a hillside (would be a hoot) to attack a target  instead of defending a couple of corners of an airfield. 

[FiLtH]

     A few things...

   Less people, it was easier to remember most everyone in game once upon a time, and how they played.

   Now even if the guy has a name, it seems like a numbers guy...just too many to remember.

   People play for score rather than the fight. More tend to use the superior planes to increase survival rather than superior flying.

   The twinks were few and always were called out as such, now many think being one is the key to success, and its contagious.

   Players have always loved to win, and the object has always been to make the other guy lose, and get mad about it. Its just that back then even most of those people handled losing with a little more control. Atleast most of them blamed themselves.

  Overall most things that have changed isnt the game's fault, its the players. HTC can't guarrantee his game will be played by people who got enough love as a child.

[redman555]

My fav thing about the game how it used to be....mainly the fact it originally had FUN MAPS, that you never see played anymore.

played from like 2003-2004 and then just couldn't deal with maps anymore, and the facts it was hard to do squad nights with split arenas and arena caps.

-BigBOBCH

[Vulcan]

IMHO the game has consistently gotten better over time.

What surprises me is how many of those that whine don't play in events such as scenario's or FSO (which are the icing on the cake in AH).