might re-sub for another whirl. How's things?

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I still recall the day Gamestorm/AirWarriors popped up on AOL. "Gee, this looks like it could be interesting........."  31 years + umpteen thousand $ later..........

LOL

At the time, in Phoenix, we had just gotten one of the very first hi speed internet cable services - but I purchased dial up AOL just for Air warrior.

[hazmatt]

LOL

At the time, in Phoenix, we had just gotten one of the very first hi speed internet cable services - but I purchased dial up AOL just for Air warrior.

I remember starting on GEnie back in the day. My monthly bills were close to the same price as my rent but i was single and didn't have an responsibilities so it didn't matter so much.

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I remember starting on GEnie back in the day. My monthly bills were close to the same price as my rent but i was single and didn't have an responsibilities so it didn't matter so much.

haha! By the hour, wasn't it? I've heard tales.

[Brooke]

I remember starting on GEnie back in the day. My monthly bills were close to the same price as my rent but i was single and didn't have an responsibilities so it didn't matter so much.

I remember those days well.  $12/hour on GEnie for a while, then dropped to $6/hour, then to $2-3/hour.  I had a pal, who in the mid '90's or so, was paying (in inflation-adjust 2026 dollars) today's equivalent of $1500/month.

It is amazing that we can play as much as we want for $15/month, and in a game that is so vastly better than the early days.

And, best of all, Scenarios, which Doktor Gonzo (Dok) began running in the early 1990's, are still running to this day!  Woot! 

[hazmatt]

Ya, It was by the hour. I remember that my priorities were a bit different back then. I think it was rent, gas money to get to work,  and then the GEnie bill or beer, not sure which one was higher. Anything else was "nice to have"

It's crazy how much much "what you can afford" changes when you go from young and single to a family of 5. Luckily for us there's many games like WoW that offer options outside of their monthly sub that have kept us from having to pay monthly. They kids for the most part use their birthday money to buy robux in $5 increments, however, I don't think they have enough income yet to sustain a monthly subscription as only one has paid the $10 for a Roblox premium account and that was only for one month.

I also seem to recall the sim gear to be much more affordable. I seem to recall being able to get the FCS and WCS brand new for less then $70 and the RCS for less hen $100. I remember you could get them for less then that on sale.

Oh boy going down memory lane now. I remember when Linelink came out with the 14.4 modem for less then $100. My modem was faster then all the local BBS at the time that only had 9600s. It was a big update from my US robotic 2400. Back in the days when you had to make sure your UART chip would support the speed of your screaming fast external modem and I'd have to turn on my external drive for my A500 and wait 10 seconds for it to spin up before turning on the computer. I must have gotten old.

[Animl-AW]

Sure does make $15 for 30 days (.50 cents per day) seem meager.

Reminds me of old timer story - “…we used to have to crawl 5 miles on our bare hands and knees…through a desert of crushed glass and razor blades… just to go to school”

Didn’t play nearly as much AW then with a pentium 285 and genie being ghastly expensive. Could do both upgrade and per hr.

I don’t remember my number ID, but when text names were allowed I started out as , 1994ish Arrow”.then in AOL new account used Anim (and Bigweek nntp). Then GA AWAR_Animl, then in AH FT_Animal, now Animl.

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 Well I've got to say that I've been having a lot of fun with the game and it's exciting for me again. To the point where right now I'm driving home from work and I can't wait to get home so I can fly! Lol.
I'm stopping by Starbucks to get a big caramel macchiato first though. I made a joke and game the other day that for my $14.99 a month people should be letting me kill them. That I could have had a Starbucks but noooook


So I decided to have the best of the best of everything. Starbucks and the game. Lol. See you guys up!

[toddbobe]

Is there a lot going on? Been several years since I've played last and it was a bit slow back then.

Come on back!!! If everyone that said they would come back but for the numbers we would have full servers 24/7!
Toddbobe

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I've been playing for hours and hours. Still really horrible!

Sketched these ideas for new squad art. Put the R.I.P. Akak in there and I also want to add a p-38 zooming over the tombstone.
So far just two of us are back in the squad, which is now called Elite Top Aces -1 Mexican.
When we originally formed the squad, it was AKAK that came up with the "+ 1 Mexican" part - he said he'd join if we added that, so I think he'd approve and think the name was funny.

I miss AKAK. He was a history buff and also like an AH historian. I knew him for over twenty years and we never met in person despite living only about 20 miles away for the last   15 years.

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Last night I jumped into a CV to defend it against a bomber coming. And then I noticed the only plane that I could take was the see hurricane, and that was just barely because of ENY.

I was thinking that that's kind of ridiculous, especially if you weren't able to take any planes off of the CV to defend it. I think that those CV planes should always be available.

I still don't like the idea of the ENY system anyway. I never did . If it gets to the point where I can't up in one of maybe six different planes that I like, I'll just log off. I wonder if most people are like that? It doesn't entice me to change countries because to me that's a pain in the butt. I just like to be where I'm at. I don't want to change countries and then start killing the people that I was just flying with. Lol. Or letting them kill me rather hahaha.

I think if anything that there should be a cap on which planes become unavailable, no matter what the numbers are in the game. Like maybe only take away the very top rides. At the very least you should always be able to up a plane to defend a cv under attack. Just because there's temporarily more numbers on your side shouldn't mean that you have a sitting duck CV out there or you can't defend anything. To me that makes the game not fun.

[Lusche]

I think if anything that there should be a cap on which planes become unavailable, no matter what the numbers are in the game.

There is a cap. ENY Limit is 29, no matter what the numbers are, so all ENY 30+ planes are always available. In case of CV planes, these are: F4-F, A6M2, A6M3, B5N, D3A, TBM, SBD-5.
And to get to ENY 29, the numerical imbalance must be pretty crazy.

Also, IIRC Sea Hurricane is ENY 25, which also would allow F4U-1 and A6M5 to be selected. If there was only the Sea Hurricane available, there would be something wrong with the arena setup.

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I don't think there should be any ENY, but I think it would be better if it was in effect only for the very top planes. Like 5 ENY.

And also it shouldn't even kick in it when they're super low numbers in the arena. Like when a country has 15, another has 10 and one has five it shouldn't even kick in. That's just ridiculous. It's not like an overwhelming odds situation. I don't really care about the war or winning the map or anything like that I just want to fly and shoot at things. And I don't like having to pick a crappy plane to go up against super planes when I'm not even that good. I just log off instead.

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I went to look at the eny values in the carrier just now, and I must have been missing something because I didn't see that you could get the zero and the F4 and some other ones. So my bad!

[DmonSlyr]

I do wish carrier ENY was capped at 10 ENY though and the 1D was moved to a 12 or 15 ENY. Its crazy to me a 1D is a 9 eny plane. If your team is trying to win the map from the CV, you have 0 fighters with heavy ordinance that has some what of a chance to do some damage and defend itself after dropping. The 50 cals are worthless against buildings, tanks, and manned acks. The Hurr is okay with the 20mm hispanoes but is incredibly slow, the a6ms are also very slow. Reason why most people dont fly them.

It is tough when one team decides to take the night off and neither defend or attack, thus no fights on ther side which means people log in and then backout when they have 0 action or teamwork action on their side. That Scandvy map is a great map, but the ledt side (where bish was) is not that grest of an area to fight in compared to the right side with the Canal and CVs that map it one of the best battle areas in AH.

I dont really know what causes this phenomenon where one side gets no action, but its certainly due to one side not being apart of any battle so they just log off and imbalance the #s rather than fly to a base and shoot at things undefended.

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Well I don't want to make this about a squeak fest or anything, because I'm enjoying the game a lot. But last night eNY kicked in for our country. We had 27, the rooks had 25 and the bishops had something like 17 or something like that. And then the eny was like oh toejam I can't fly like half the planes I like to fly now. But with those kind of low numbers, the odds are not stacked against anybody really. And who knows who's sitting in the tower or in vehicles or whatever. So in my opinion when the numbers are low like that there should not even be a cap. Like wait until the numbers are in the hundreds before you start doing that. Because when you're talking like 20 players on one country and 10 on another, that's not some huge disparity. Especially with how big the maps are and how people are in vehicles or whatever they're doing.

But I have another idea for a thread that I might start called what happens in the arena doesn't stay in the arena. And I just kind of want to present a recap of the day's events in sort of a humorous way. I mean I've been online hours and hours each day. Lol. So I just want to relate the things that have happened or are happening that I think are funny or interesting, and then have people chime in on that.

You guys are really awesome and I love seeing you guys in the game. Really enjoying the game again thank you!