Just to set the record straight: nobody speaks for "the AW crowd." Many of us have come to AH recently, and for all sorts of reasons. Some came because they were bored with AW, some came because they were pissed off at EA.COM, and some came simply because they were looking for a state-of-the-art combat flight sim - something promised to Air warriors for a long time, but never delivered.
Now, I've read posts here that called us "refugees" forced to come here, and others that implied that we were just waiting for the subscription costs to come down, etc. Maybe so, for some. For others (like me and my squad, The Flying Tigers AVG), the reason for not moving until now was loyalty - loyalty to our friends, loyalty to the community and loyalty to the game. My squaddies and I have done a lot of soul searching, and have held out the longest of any squad in FR, trying to build the numbers back up after mass defections a few months ago.
We have tried everything to keep AW from going down the tubes, but now the fat lady is warming up, and there's virtually no one left to fight - they're all over here.
What you have here is people who started flying in AH, and a lot of people who started in other sims. Every other game id I see in the MA is somebody I know- either an old friend, or an old enemy. Like it or not, AW and AH have merged, and the new community that is evolving as a result will hopefully have the best of both worlds (and, of course, the worst of both worlds, too).
Finally, as to "the AW crowd": we have loud mouths, and we have quiet folk; we have arrogrant amazinhunks, and we have people who would give you the shirts off their backs; we have people who will dedicate huge amounts of time and energy to making AH the best community and game it can possibly be, and we have people who only want to fly and have a good time. Some of us are awesome flyers, and some of us will always be mediocre.
In short: we're just like all of you. I'm happy to be here, and I look forward to flying with - and against - you all.
Stiletto
Originally posted by Pongo:
No my stadards dont mean crap except for me to evaulate the value of your observations and critisisms of the game and the community. And as a measure of whether you should be puting yourself forward to represent the AW crowd.
Refer to your first post above in case you have forgetten how you got here. Now that your becomeing one of us try to read it as we might.
