I would have to say for some of the older players time not age wise. Coming up from wing commander and so on against guys like bizzi watup Sgt,rock bomber the,vampire ddubja when they where still chasing rank...and of course Strachan. Spawnkilling,wasnt frowned upon,really. You literally had games pretty much every game where you had three kills maybe 25 deaths. And they didn't care they kept putting you down over n over again. Only one mod and not nearly as much as activity on the forum. It was great if you could sneak in on,their side n,watch them kill eachother but,even then it,was just a matter of time before the beating began. It was an unholy feeling when you took off and saw three ir four of those guys coming at you, game had less people then,too so there was no running away. It,was hell doubling your kill death ratio and then some,but most of us got there. Lol still were some of the best games. And then being,able to shoot them down later on,was total bliss.
Those guys though are,what made me,stick around and,try to get better great group of guys the old aces.