A map that had all the major US airports?
ack-ack
yes. it was a pretty fun map, only problem tho was that it was a HUGE map, and only 8 ppl could be in the room at once.
i wish HITECH would consider putting some of the old 8player room maps in the MA. they were very fun.
If I recall it was just custom tiles depicting the taxiways -- not geographically accurate.
Also, those "airport" rooms were nothing more than an excuse for the host to play dictator/god. You had to do everything their way, and they were the only ones allowed to shoot anything, and if you didn't request clearance to take off they'd sit outside the hangar in an Ostwind (back before wirbs were around) and shoot you down.
It was a massive ego-stroking trip for the person "running" the joint. Nothing more.
HTH rooms served a purpose for a while. Then they became a den of folks condoning cheating and hacking of the game code. Regulars, too. Long-time regulars. That saddened me. I'm glad HTC put the axe to it. You'd never have seen the blatant MA hacking you saw a while back (well... only once before HTC caught it and banned them, but still) without the rotting dissident group that was living in HTH. Not everybody was bad, but a large number were. They even had forums set up laughing at their ability to hack HTH rooms and brainstorming and supporting the guy(s) doing it. It was negative impact to the game and the community.
Had nothing to do with such false notions as "freeloading" or loss of profits.
while i dont agree with everything you say, i do sort-of agree with the "dictator" part.
i remember one room i joined, (was a snow map) the host, and 2 other ppl were camping the entrance to the spawn hanger with tigers. they didnt want ppl taking off with bombs. (why idk, im guessing not to bomb them, but if they werent on the ground they wouldnt have to worry about it,right?).
basically they said, if you spawn with bombs then you had 3 seconds to jettison them or the host&his friends would open fire.
i decided to be sneaky, and spawn in a mosquito with the 500lbers in the bomb bay. i guess the host didnt know the mosse had a bombay because he gave me clearance to take off.
as soon as i was airborne i proceded to divebomb all 3 of them.
i guess i made him upset, because he kicked me from the room
