Scenarios, my friend, scenarios. 
I’ve always been an arena pilot, and occasional scenario back in the day. I still like the arena stuff, if its not a pain to find a fight.
A memory just popped.
Back in AW, after being in several, I saw what a group production it was. But if you couldn’t people to help it may not happen, which was a bad thing for the game. I was already a GS by then, and designing the new damage model snd had my hands in the settings.
Once I saw how scenarios were pulled of as a group, I decided to design a way one person could run one. EVERYONE said I was nuts and delusional. “How dare someone think they could do it alone !” Kelly Myer said do it anyway. MOST SAID i made it too Turn-key, too many scenarios, too many failures. I did crash the scenario area many times figuring it out. Ha!
It was a Bob scenario, I also put in my new damage model, first time in the masses, now twice the pressure. Well, I pulled it off, a few glitches, didn’t go great, didn’t go bad. A lot were shocked, and liked the new damage model. It proved a few tweaks and 1-2 peeps could do it. It was draining though where setting scrips had to be load at the exact right time.
Scenarios became more common and the damage model got put in the main arena.
Hindsight, man, I really over-heated my brain in that period of time. It was like some form of self abuse. LOL!
In the day, …”arenas were just practice for scenarios.”
It wasn’t long after we got the Millennium update that it was the last one. Then the “suits” decided to sell to EA.com. We went with out of self mutilation and as predicted they flushed all our work down the toilet.
Came to AH and realized, even tho this staff was from War Birds , it evolved into AW on steroids with the graphics.
Left to raise a family, work tripled, came back years later a few times someone stole my name, came back, got my name back, and thats that.
I’m just now coming back up to par in flying to actually start landing kills.
It feels like deja vu in the gut with little to no presence. I hope I’m wrong.
I hope he lets it run long enough so we can do something with it, maybe even draw new players. They gave us the tools to do so. Its a good product, couple fixes and let run.
