Good lord man, it takes me two weeks to make an airfield!

Yep, I used to spend hours just adding static units and vehicles, making sure there was moving vehicle activity
when the player took off, as well as when he returned to base.

'two weeks' was meant to be ironic

I used to get lost for hours in tank battles. Balancing the sides to that there was action the entire time, creating
tank battles in towns, etc. Things the player never noticed I'm sure. I'd never do that now, but I had fun at the time.

a little teaser of what i'm working on
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?6qozz7hq2zfva13

not finished by any means and i can only claim it works in official patch (not alpha)- the new takeoff routine can make some of the formation join ups go awry

That's the other fun thing, spending a bunch of time getting something right only for a patch to futz it up later on.