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Post by: Vector on January 05, 2004, 03:06:26 PM: janneh

ah, so many good memories :)
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Post by: Octavius on January 05, 2004, 03:31:01 PM: I don't belong... Tour 2 or 3, I forget
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Post by: aztec on January 05, 2004, 04:14:03 PM: ayuh
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Post by: Westy on January 05, 2004, 04:15:17 PM: Closed beta? No.

Open beta? Hell YES! Started on day one.
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Post by: eskimo2 on January 05, 2004, 04:18:23 PM: Day 1.

eskimo
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Post by: Vector on January 05, 2004, 04:24:23 PM: I ment the very first open BETA fliers.
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Post by: NoBaddy on January 05, 2004, 04:43:59 PM: No beta...did alpha tho.
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Post by: TequilaChaser on January 05, 2004, 04:51:31 PM: tryed AH out soon as it went open beta,

then flew off and on ocassionally until about a year before AW shutdown on EA

flew as TequilaC, then DamnedTC, then TC
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Post by: Monty405 on January 05, 2004, 05:06:00 PM: Open Beta

I still remember my first kill which took a few sorties.

was a spit in an la5
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Post by: Vector on January 05, 2004, 05:13:36 PM: Quote
Originally posted by aztec
ayuh

For me, that's so strange combinations of letters, is there any meaning of them that you could tell us?

-janneh
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Post by: GODO on January 05, 2004, 05:19:48 PM: The very first was a really funny map.
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Post by: Vector on January 05, 2004, 05:22:34 PM: Quote
Originally posted by GODO
The very first was a really funny map.

It was indeed!
The map was not any issue, but a real 'battlefield' :)

janneh
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Post by: Mister Fork on January 05, 2004, 05:30:26 PM: Here. FIRST PUBLIC VERSION as vruth. Now I'm just fork for those who like me, or @#)(*$! FORK for those who don't. :D
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Post by: Extreme on January 05, 2004, 05:46:55 PM: Ex-warbirder...quit that for a while before starting AH from first open beta.

Always been Extreme...

Ex.
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Post by: Lone Wolf on January 05, 2004, 06:11:20 PM: Hmmm...does alpha on original Confirmed Kill/Warbirds/AH count?
LW
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Post by: 214thCavalier on January 05, 2004, 06:16:04 PM: To be honest don,t know when i started but it was beta at some point.
Before the B17s and when the p51 ruled the skies it was so porked it was silly :)

I was also signed up on confirmed kill.
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Post by: RedDg on January 05, 2004, 06:33:47 PM: Yep I was there. Can't remember how I heard about it.. prolly in an AW text buffer.
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Post by: Killjoy2 on January 05, 2004, 07:32:24 PM: What version introduced the P-38?

Thats when I joined.
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Post by: rob53 on January 05, 2004, 07:56:33 PM: Day 1 open beta, or, as near as I can remember.........

The first open beta version was a bit more challenging then, than it is now. Torque effect was much more pronounced then. I enjoyed the game then as much as I do now, although I don't get near enough flight time now as I used to.

Thanks HiTech and crew for a most enjoyable game :aok

Rob53
The Flying Circus
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Post by: Ozark on January 05, 2004, 07:58:39 PM: Flew first day of beta and was promptly shot down by MarkAT. :)
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Post by: Pongo on January 05, 2004, 08:00:30 PM: I was probably in the first or second beta month. I think I found a link in combatsim.com No fuel usage, no limit on wep. No guns on buffs. No wings tearing off. HOing everyone I could find, calling people cheaters when they could turn inside me when I was pulling as hard as I could.

Every second day was a new version to download.
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Post by: Frodo on January 05, 2004, 08:29:58 PM: :aok
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Post by: Central on January 05, 2004, 08:47:08 PM: day 1er: was a DWHB member - then moved to to FDBs :aok

oh, the days of 2 people in MA at 12 midnight PST. :D something we'll never see again. :)
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Post by: Octavius on January 05, 2004, 08:55:33 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Central
oh, the days of 2 people in MA at 12 midnight PST. :D something we'll never see again. :)

THAT I remember well. Prime time was very fun. Chogs everywhere. Base capture was fun. Sneaky captures of 10+ bases by two people (two passes, ack down, troops in, poof) after midnight.

I always became depressed around 1-2am... everyone else had logged for the evening!

I was a buff dweeb. First squad, The Mad Bombers, lead by Sunchasr. Laser guided bombs from 30k to knock out HQ was always a blast.
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Post by: nopoop on January 05, 2004, 09:44:16 PM: It might have been alpha I don't remember. It was REALLY rough and primitive. Everything was tan except the bases..I remember that.

Too rough for me, I did a couple of weeks.

Was that beta, or alpha ?? I can't remember whether my "date" on this board came at the same time or a while after.
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Post by: 10Bears on January 05, 2004, 11:33:03 PM: First day... checking in..

First hour of Confirmed Kill

First day Warbirds
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Post by: Dead Man Flying on January 06, 2004, 01:58:08 AM: I was in there somewhere, on and off.

-- Todd/Leviathn
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Post by: cars on January 06, 2004, 04:13:56 AM: Day 1 or 2. Seems like so long ago.

vector..............ayuh is yeah spelled like it sounds with a heavy Maine accent.

cars
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Post by: Citabria on January 06, 2004, 05:13:41 AM: open beta dweeb.

hblair got me interested in it when we were stuck playing the old warbirds Air Combat Arena.

I played a couple times and imediately found the vertical flight modelling compared to warbirds in specific moves like hammerheads was not fluid or authentic. in fact i hated it (still do but i tolerate it) also the 3d cockpits and moveable head positions were incredible improvement over any other system of cockpit views in terms of realism. (and they still are the best)

it was free and better than the awful gameplay of the ACA and the buck an hour warbirds HA and MA was too pricey.
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Post by: SirLoin on January 06, 2004, 05:45:46 AM: I was there in the first month I think..so long ago.
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Post by: JimBear on January 06, 2004, 08:04:39 AM: Day 1 or 2, Still trying to unnerstand that ACM thingy I have been hearing about for ages.
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Post by: Staga on January 06, 2004, 08:39:47 AM: Open Beta

Edit: I'm not sure if this pic was taken in beta or soon after that. We were having only couple fields left at SE corner of the map but we were able to gather few decent pilots and pushed the enemy away from our corner :)

Dudedog, CavemanJ, Zigrat and me in heavy Corsairs heading to enemy base:
(http://www.kolumbus.fi/staga/pic4.jpg)
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Post by: Rude on January 06, 2004, 09:13:51 AM: Miss it
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Post by: dracon on January 06, 2004, 09:44:31 AM: Yup,

I knew Pyro and Hitech from WarBirds. Checked in the first day of the open Beta. AH was not what I needed it to be in those early days. I went back to WarBirds until a year ago. I took a look and went Whoa! This is kickin' WarBirds butt. :D
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Post by: Maniac on January 06, 2004, 09:51:45 AM: The pre 1.03 flight model was sweet :D

Open beta here... not first month tough...
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Post by: RAS on January 06, 2004, 10:10:58 AM: Checkin in

Open beta day 1

was RAS then, til CPID RASCAL became available.

RASCAL ~S~
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Post by: mauser on January 06, 2004, 10:41:06 AM: I started with v0.33 I think - not the very first version, but pretty early on in the open beta.

mauser
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Post by: Wanker on January 06, 2004, 11:04:29 AM: First day of open beta. I still prefer the pre 1.03 FM myself. The fights were all about energy, not yank & bank.
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Post by: Mathman on January 06, 2004, 11:08:01 AM: I started at some point in Beta 1. Been here since.
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Post by: LLv34_Snefens on January 06, 2004, 11:20:35 AM: Is it around that time again?

Yep, I was here from one of the first days of open beta.
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Post by: Phantom4 on January 06, 2004, 12:38:27 PM: Started in beta 1 a few days after it launched - been here ever since.
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Post by: humble on January 06, 2004, 05:19:16 PM: open beta...but a bit late to chrash the party...think it was tour 2
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Post by: humble on January 06, 2004, 05:20:52 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Staga
Open Beta

Edit: I'm not sure if this pic was taken in beta or soon after that. We were having only couple fields left at SE corner of the map but we were able to gather few decent pilots and pushed the enemy away from our corner :)

Dudedog, CavemanJ, Zigrat and me in heavy Corsairs heading to enemy base:
(http://www.kolumbus.fi/staga/pic4.jpg)

I dont remember the C-hog being in the Beta...am I wrong?
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Post by: LLv34_Camouflage on January 06, 2004, 05:23:19 PM: Day 1. :)

Camo
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Post by: BD on January 06, 2004, 06:22:58 PM: Ahhyup.

Remember seeing maybe one dot on the radar.

Not currently flying, but I may come back for AH2.
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Post by: Saintaw on January 07, 2004, 03:48:44 AM: Wuz here too, I still blame Heater for this!
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Post by: mudder on January 07, 2004, 05:32:30 AM: The sim has improved greatly since beta. I sure as heck haven't
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Post by: Replicant on January 07, 2004, 06:22:39 AM: I can't remember which Beta version I first tried, 0.38? I only flew Beta offline since I wanted to try and actually get used to the game before going online. I think it helped since the only thing I was stuck on was how to work the radio! I've been online non-stop since Tour 1.

I do remember your name though Janneh, what squad were you in back then?

I used to have all the Beta versions saved but they're all lost now apart from this one:-

Download AH 0.49 - 5.6mb (http://www.btinternet.com/~nexx/AH/AH049.EXE)
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Post by: Ghosth on January 07, 2004, 08:11:53 AM: Showed up about 10 days after the open beta started. Flew off & on till they added more planes, & the b17.

I've flown every tour since then except for the first month of pay for play.

I'd have to say 1.02 was my fav release of all time. Stayed up all night with a squadmate shooting down planes with Panzers. It rocked eh teeerex? :)
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Post by: CavemanJ on January 07, 2004, 02:40:07 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Staga
Open Beta

Edit: I'm not sure if this pic was taken in beta or soon after that. We were having only couple fields left at SE corner of the map but we were able to gather few decent pilots and pushed the enemy away from our corner :)

Dudedog, CavemanJ, Zigrat and me in heavy Corsairs heading to enemy base:
(http://www.kolumbus.fi/staga/pic4.jpg)

That was taken after the game went pay to play.

During beta I was 214CaveJ and I signed on I think the 2nd or 3rd day of open beta. Was a buff driver back then, flew the -17 pretty much most of the time... I remember when we finally got guns on it! Lord what a surprise I gave the fighter jocks then :lol

The F4U-1C was introduced the day the game went pay to play IIRC.

Sometimes I miss those days... The map was alot of fun... did alot of NOE B-26 runs to take the center bases in other areas and then launching immedately to pork the strat of that country and basically reduce them to flying only base defense :lol
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Post by: bigUC on January 07, 2004, 05:21:19 PM: Started out in tour 1 i think, was when the 109 was "impossible" to land and the sky was swarming with pee-51's. It was my first taste of online flightsims. Can't remember my first handle anymore (something with "duck..."), but used "shotdown" in one of the first post-beta tours. I prolly should have stuck with that ;)
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Post by: xanax on January 08, 2004, 08:40:09 PM: Alpha tester checking in here. I still owe some guy named FireFox a shoot down for vulching me on the tarmac during my first take off. Only other alpha guys I remember were NB and Zork.

I'll be back......:aok
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Post by: Booky on January 09, 2004, 05:07:29 AM: I was there with the big mountain.
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Post by: skernsk on January 09, 2004, 06:52:08 AM: Started a few months into beta ....
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Post by: Pepe on January 09, 2004, 08:15:33 AM: One more for the lot....that were Pepe days :D

Cheers,
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Post by: seabat on January 09, 2004, 09:11:38 AM: I got killed 7 times in two weeks. Does that count?
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Post by: Shane on January 09, 2004, 10:08:08 AM: wasn't a beta flyer, but i did stay in a holiday inn express last night.
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Post by: lord dolf vader on January 09, 2004, 11:00:25 AM: when did we make the wrecking crew caveman?

this is -towd-
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Post by: newt on January 10, 2004, 06:25:14 PM: been here since Confirmed Kill days
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Post by: Booky on January 10, 2004, 09:25:05 PM: Well damn, Rascal posted here, he is alive still after all:eek:
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Post by: Toad on January 11, 2004, 02:17:08 AM: Yep. Still remember it as the most fun time in AH so far.

Those were the days my friends, we thought they'd never end.....

but they did.

and now we're sliding into a WW2OL type game.

Makes me kinda sad.
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Post by: Soulyss on January 11, 2004, 02:26:20 AM: Beta Tour 1

I still remember telling Mathman that he needed to check out this new online flight sim I'd found. :)
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Post by: DmdBT on January 11, 2004, 09:21:36 AM: Beta flyer here, and ever since. Not a month has gone by where I didn't have an account (main or shades) with HTC. Played AW on GEnie and AOL, went through several WB's versions, then found my home in AH.

Big T
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Post by: Swager on January 11, 2004, 06:34:22 PM: October 1999, open beta 1.

Call name Swager.
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Post by: tshred on January 11, 2004, 07:41:14 PM: Day 1 open beta. Was a knit back then because the rooks had the numbers and ruled the skies. Now I'm a rook. Ahh, the irony.

ts
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Post by: PropNut on January 12, 2004, 10:42:13 PM: Yeah Been here since 2nd or 3rd day beta I remember the B17 getting its guns enabled as Caveman mentioned lots of fun times seeing changes about every week or so :aok Jeeezzz im still a junior member...ive been busy 23 posts lol
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Post by: DoctorYO on January 14, 2004, 12:29:44 PM: Best part of beta and early AH was that map ogre produced was a real winner and should be brought back..

bases near mt ranges that made running away futile.. you had to fight your way back to base and vice versa..

I remember first kill, think it was moss (not too shure) pulling a immelman in a furball (i was g10 ) After that i knew this sim was a winner.. (compared to wild jill and brand W)

I remember when there was real hatred of the other countries and Bish Knit rivalry was rampant.. Torque and gang in the dreaded chogs(unperked back then) vs us JG27....... luftwaffermobiles..(post beta of course)

ah the simple life back then...

dedicated pilots unlike todays suicide carrier lancasters..

2 cents

DoctorYo
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Post by: sourkraut on January 14, 2004, 06:41:24 PM: I checked score page to see if it was beta 1 tour or 2 - the pages don't seem to work. Flew as sourkrau back then. I have version 0.38 on a CD....

Started flying with Swager and Weazel - somehow they convinced me that I should learn to fly with the 190(A5?). lol - think it took a day or two to get off the runway.

~~Sour~~
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Post by: Bullethead on January 14, 2004, 08:06:30 PM: I was there
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Post by: Mox on January 14, 2004, 08:57:12 PM: Day 1 Open beta.

Mox
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Post by: Halo on January 14, 2004, 11:39:18 PM: Musta been beta ... nothing but a strange F-4U with CANNON and a strange Russian fighter and eventually a strange Italian fighter ... nothing to shoot at, don't think the guns even worked ....
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Post by: Packrat on January 14, 2004, 11:52:10 PM: I was here day one as Packrat,still Packrat
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Post by: Toad on January 15, 2004, 12:21:32 AM: http://www.hitechcreations.com/cgi-bin/105score/105stats.pl

The kill stats in expanded format worked for me for the Beta tours. Fun looking back; it was the best of times.
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Post by: BD on January 15, 2004, 09:28:57 AM: Thanks Toad! Didn't realize I had 4 kills & 8 deaths in Beta Tour 1.

Ahhhh, the memories.

I loved flying against the kitchen utensil squad (or whatever their name was)
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Post by: Feenyx on January 15, 2004, 12:23:21 PM: Been here on and off since Beta 1.

My strongest memory is how on that tiny little beta map, it used to be essentially a war between Bish and Rooks. Knitland was almost completely empty; squads would sometimes go knit for a short time when they decided they wanted to take on the whole world. :cool:
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Post by: Wilbus on January 15, 2004, 12:37:14 PM: Day 1 Open Beta.
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Post by: Wilbus on January 15, 2004, 12:42:34 PM: EEEEEK, such a dweeb I was back then.
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Post by: Sunchaser on January 15, 2004, 04:45:53 PM: Beta Tour One but I went AWOL when IL2 got released.

I may hold the record for most deaths in a B17 or C47 in AH history, I got shot....and shot....and shot by everyone in the arena at one time or another.

Looking forward to AHII if there is any room for B17s or Gooney Birds.

Hey CavemanJ, how ya been?
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Post by: CavemanJ on January 17, 2004, 05:15:20 PM: Quote
Originally posted by lord dolf vader
when did we make the wrecking crew caveman?

this is -towd-

Oh lord towd... it was after beta ended I think... I can't tell ya for sure. Damn I miss those days... lotta firsts back then. Like when the mission planner came out and we'd steam roll across the map =p

Hey Sun, how goes it bud? When you comin back to drive 17s again?
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Post by: eskimo2 on January 17, 2004, 07:46:06 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Sunchaser
Beta Tour One but I went AWOL when IL2 got released.

I may hold the record for most deaths in a B17 or C47 in AH history, I got shot....and shot....and shot by everyone in the arena at one time or another.

Looking forward to AHII if there is any room for B17s or Gooney Birds.

Hey CavemanJ, how ya been?

`
Man, you must have averaged about 12 hours a day in those birds back then.

Hiya Sunchaser!

eskimo
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Post by: Lizard3 on January 17, 2004, 07:57:00 PM: Since the day beta ended. I thought...WOW 2 weeks FREE!
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Post by: will on January 18, 2004, 06:16:25 AM: I was there when open beta started.

Wil
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Post by: Gwjr2 on January 18, 2004, 09:28:07 PM: UM quick question here arent we stsill flying open Beta :lol
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Post by: Flit on January 19, 2004, 01:31:05 PM: Noticed I got 4 kills in tour 1,so that must be it
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Post by: Wolfala on January 20, 2004, 01:44:24 PM: Tour 2,

And still dying like a complete putz.

~~Wolfala~~
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Post by: Sabre on January 20, 2004, 04:39:17 PM: Open Beta, not day one, but pretty close.