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Re: might re-sub for another whirl. How's things?
« Reply #30 on: May 09, 2026, 09:38:37 AM »
Made it back into the game last night! Had fun! Game name is Gina.

I've always kind of sucked, but it's fun.

I'm going to jump on again in a little bit. I'm still trying to remember and figure out how I want to map all the buttons on my stick and throttle. It's funny because I mapped them how I thought I would want them and then I found that muscle memory was always going towards certain buttons for features that I guess are burned into my mind. So I ended up changing those to what my instincts were telling me it was supposed to be. Lol.

One thing that I really had fun in before and I haven't tried yet is the world war I planes. I know a lot of people don't play that, but when it first came out it was hugely popular for a short time. And then I remember a few dedicated people would go in there or squads will go in there on a squad night. That's a lot of fun though. Those planes are just nothing but fur balling fun. You can't really do a lot of running or out monkey stuff in there.

Anyway. I'm back! As promised. Lol. Take me or leave me. Hahaha
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Re: might re-sub for another whirl. How's things?
« Reply #31 on: May 09, 2026, 10:22:33 AM »
Cool, glad you're enjoying already! Going with your instincts is way better than trying to re-train...if it ain't broke, dont fix it   :aok. There was WW1 night going on, not sure if it stopped...but there is the NYE fur ball in WW1 planes which is a blast.

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Re: might re-sub for another whirl. How's things?
« Reply #32 on: May 09, 2026, 11:53:55 AM »
Good to have you back, Gina.

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Re: might re-sub for another whirl. How's things?
« Reply #33 on: May 09, 2026, 01:09:24 PM »
thank you!
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Re: might re-sub for another whirl. How's things?
« Reply #34 on: May 09, 2026, 04:33:33 PM »
Made it back into the game last night! Had fun! Game name is Gina.
Anyway. I'm back! As promised. Lol. Take me or leave me. Hahaha

Welcome Back Gina  :salute
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Re: might re-sub for another whirl. How's things?
« Reply #35 on: May 09, 2026, 05:16:50 PM »
Thanks!

It's been fun! I used scaling on my stick and rudder for the first time ever, and I think for me it makes a big difference in keeping the nose steady for aiming. I think my buttons are all mapped okay now.

I need to learn radio stuff. Violator pm'd me and offered to have me join his plane for tips - and it took me like 5 minutes to figure out how to respond back to him on the private channel.

People have been nice in the game, saying hello and stuff. I'm still seeing some names online that go way back, and that's neat. None of us are getting any younger.

Laughed a few times at the banter on the radio. People are fun and you guys are funny.

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Re: might re-sub for another whirl. How's things?
« Reply #36 on: May 09, 2026, 10:40:58 PM »
Thanks!

It's been fun! I used scaling on my stick and rudder for the first time ever, and I think for me it makes a big difference in keeping the nose steady for aiming. I think my buttons are all mapped okay now.

I need to learn radio stuff. Violator pm'd me and offered to have me join his plane for tips - and it took me like 5 minutes to figure out how to respond back to him on the private channel.

People have been nice in the game, saying hello and stuff. I'm still seeing some names online that go way back, and that's neat. None of us are getting any younger.

Laughed a few times at the banter on the radio. People are fun and you guys are funny.

200 cleaned up very nicely. It is literally a good time now days. Glad you made it up
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Re: might re-sub for another whirl. How's things?
« Reply #37 on: May 09, 2026, 11:44:36 PM »
Welcome back Gina!  :aok
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Re: might re-sub for another whirl. How's things?
« Reply #38 on: May 10, 2026, 09:22:06 AM »
Thank you, thank you!

I'm waiting to log into the arena right now because it's loading terrain files. It's downloading at an extremely slow rate. Going to take about 30 minutes or more to download the new map.



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Re: might re-sub for another whirl. How's things?
« Reply #39 on: May 10, 2026, 11:21:31 AM »
I’m going to try to upload crucial files, including terrain maps and stdshapes file to my Google drive space, OR my website space but it limits what type of files. Just to ease the pain of downloading them.
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Re: might re-sub for another whirl. How's things?
« Reply #40 on: May 10, 2026, 12:42:20 PM »
I’m going to try to upload crucial files, including terrain maps and stdshapes file to my Google drive space, OR my website space but it limits what type of files. Just to ease the pain of downloading them.

If  your needing to send large files (up to 5 G) go to Filemail. They have a free version that is limited by still large enough for the majority of gaming files. I have a subscription with them, iirc $5.00 a month. I use it sending the "stdshape.res" file to other players when needed.
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Re: might re-sub for another whirl. How's things?
« Reply #41 on: May 10, 2026, 04:38:52 PM »
If  your needing to send large files (up to 5 G) go to Filemail. They have a free version that is limited by still large enough for the majority of gaming files. I have a subscription with them, iirc $5.00 a month. I use it sending the "stdshape.res" file to other players when needed.

It sounds like you have to send it. I’d rather they just take it as needed. My site and my google account combined is 27gb.

Bu site is specific what common files it will take, I tried google drive 3 times and I get no upload starting,…so far. But I didn’t spend much time on it at the time

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Re: might re-sub for another whirl. How's things?
« Reply #42 on: May 11, 2026, 01:30:15 PM »
I've put 15 hours into the game since Friday night, lol. I played Sunday until by A*s hurt

Even though the numbers were not huge, there was always some decent fights going on. I like to just fly planes and fight other planes, and I was always able to find that.

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« Reply #43 on: May 12, 2026, 11:46:44 AM »
Spoke with several players going back to AW days on 200 last night. Was cool! It's so nice to see so many people still around. The names that were brought up brough back so many memories - for me and I think for those guys too.

In AW I was ->SUN - of the (/\)ido(/\) (\/)akers  - widow makers.

Some of the names brought up ->OD. ->AIR, Steve, Coors, Silat, Cuca, SPIN ( oSPINo in AH) and several others that lots of old timers all know.

I'm good friends with Steve and used to fly a lot with COORS.  After ->OD left the game I ended up being CO of the Widow Makers.

Was a lot of fun talking about old times - Death Star B-17s, goons with the side gunner, dropping a million drunks at once and freezing up the server. lol

I'm so happy to know there's still quite a few people around that can relate

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Re: might re-sub for another whirl. How's things?
« Reply #44 on: May 12, 2026, 12:14:24 PM »
I still recall the day Gamestorm/AirWarriors popped up on AOL. "Gee, this looks like it could be interesting........."  31 years + umpteen thousand $ later.......... :joystick: