Cancelling my account

[LeadGen]

A quick note to say goodbye to all my friends, and foes..

Aces High II just isn't fun any more, the program clearly wasn't ready to be forced on people, and I just don't enjoy AHII like I did AHI. The icons suck, the trees suck, the frames rates are rediculous unless you reduce your vis range to so close you can't see the enemy firing on you ( GV and PTs). Whats with a 17 frame rate sitting in the tower?? Screen flickering, and yes I downloaded all the new video drivers..I have a very decent computer too not some Emachines piece of crap. Joystick calibration in AHII is a step back from AHI.. and I had hoped too that HT would do something about 2-account cheating bastages by now but they don't seem to care.

I wasn't much of a fighter pilot or a very good bomber but I did enjoy flying drunks around ( #1 rank for field captures with a goon last 4 tours ). In AHII its just not the same, and it's definitely not better, and no longer worth paying for.

I will definitely miss alot of you, especially my squad but also those of you I flew with the rest of the time. I probably won't miss getting shot down by Taki

Maybe I'll check back in 6 or 8 months and to see if HT ever gets it right.

Salute Rooks! ok nits and bish too..
LeadGen

[anton]

whenther or not it was ready for full release is a matter of opinion, but I assure you HTC is no where near done with making improvements to the game. Its only been out for maybe a week, Perhaps you just need to take a lil brake while they work out some issues. Or maybe take this opportunity to improve your fighter/bomber skillz which you stated need improvement.

I am sure HTC will soon address the base capture issue, you are not the only one un-impressed. I guess I'm just sayin you might wanna give it a lil more time before you make this decision, its still REAL early.

Im still tryin to get into the game with my dinosaur CPU, I havent gotten as far as you, & I haven't given up yet-:)

Anton

[MOIL]

OR,  reopen AH1 and let them finish AHII:eek:

Then when it's truly ready do a weekend {mainly because #'s are up then} test with the AH community, get the feedback, see what's up.
Then when Monday rolls around HTC can say A}we need to work out this or that
B}We nailed it, AHII now open for business

Just hate to see player after player leaving the game:(

[XtrmeJ]

Yep, it is totally lame. Sad to see those leave that have been playing for so long.

[MaddogWx]

LeadGen - Hope you have not left yet!  Give it some time - It grows on you like some kind of fungus - Really give it some time.

Always enjoy workin' with ya!

[RTDarksun]

I too have the same feelings as LeadGen. On the AHII subject, this final release was no better then the first beta, only difference was choices...AH was fine the way it was and I begged on many occasions to Skuzzy or HiTech..."Please leave AH open for $10 a month, and open AHII for $19 a month and give ppl the right to choose. This way HTC gets their money either way and long time vets dont feel like they need to buy a new pc to play it. Personally, my pc plays it fine and I have no problems with it, but this is like when Coke came out with the New Coke, sure maybe it was a great idea in the beginning, but nothing can replace the original. Improvments to AH would have been much more viable solution rather than releasing a new game.

I have flown with you many times Mr. LeadGen and many of you pilots know me from my ex/squad RT. It is extremely sad to see good and decent players leave because HTC had a baby that not everyone thought was that cute...

I have cancelled my membership/subscription as well, not because I am upset or my pc wont run AHII....but there was just a sad feeling of goodbye when I went to log into AH and it told me I needed to download the latest version(because I deleted AHII...just couldnt do it again. So to my fellow pilots, I am honoured to have flown with a great group of guys rooks, bish and knight! I hope you all enjoy the new version. In the meantime, I have found City of Heros and now am putting my 15 a month towards that = )

If anyone see's an RT member in the game let em know my decision and tell to keep flying high!!! Thanks for the fun!

RTDarksn / Darksun6

Darksun@cableone.net

[sling322]

AH1 is dead.  Its gone.  Get over it.

It was past time for HTC to upgrade the graphics engine and that is what they have done with AH2.  It would be stupid for them to leave AH1 open and devote time to maintaining it when all their time could be spent improving and developing AH2.  It would be a total waste of resources.  Remember, there are only 7 people in that office.  Its not like they have a large staff of programmers and artists working there.

Another thing....if you are having problems with screen flickers, frame rates, etc and you have a "very decent computer", maybe you need to check if its your machine causing the problems and not the software.  My computer isnt all that hot:  AMD2400, 512 PC133 RAM and an ATI 64meg DDR vid card, but I can crank out frame rates in the 30s pretty much all the time in the MA.  I know it could be higher if I put in DDR ram and a better vid card.  I will probably be called a smartass or something for making that suggestion like I was in another thread, but I am just getting tired of people complaining about the software and just chalking it up to HTC's fault.  With minimal effort and a little time spent in the beta, most people could probably have figured out what they needed to do to run it.  Its not like we didnt have plenty of warning that the game was changing....hell we were in beta for like 9 months werent we?

[Sikboy]

Originally posted by RTDarksun
 On the AHII subject, this final release was no better then the first beta, only difference was choices...

-Sik

[Flit]

What you guys don't realize is that AH2 at it's release is WAY better and WAY less buggy then AH1 was at it release
 The problem here is the the change in gameplay that comes with the improvements
 If your framerate sucks, first thing to do is turn the textures down to 256, it makes a huge difference at a smll cost in "eye candy"

[Flit]

Originally posted by MOIL
OR,  reopen AH1 and let them finish AHII:eek:

Then when it's truly ready do a weekend {mainly because #'s are up then} test with the AH community, get the feedback, see what's up.
Then when Monday rolls around HTC can say A}we need to work out this or that
B}We nailed it, AHII now open for business

Just hate to see player after player leaving the game:(

where were you during the Beta?

[Charon]

Matter of opinion I guess. Playing AH2 last night (for the first extended period) was the most fun I've had in AH for a long time. If the icons, etc are really a deal breaker then not much that can be said -- to each his own and have fun wherever you land .

But if performance is more the issue than it might be worth working with it some more if you have a reasonable system already. If it's not close to today's common gaming machine then unfortunately, progress marches on. I certainly sympathize. I've had to upgrade my system a quite few times since 1988 to play a new game (really the only thing that has forced me to upgrade -- certainly not the next edition of MS Word). The only difference today is that it's easier and cheaper than ever. You can get a new video card (top of the line) for what a 4 meg ram update used to cost.

Charon

[RTDarksun]

I have noticed that if I dont have 100+ posts by my name I am considered a noob. Alot of what you all are refuting has nothing to do with what I stated. Let me state it again...

I liked AH...
I dont like AHII...
My pc runs it fine...
I have played it since beta and anxiously awaited the final product...
I didnt mind paying 15 bucks a month for AH...
I do mind paying 19 bucks a month for a game I dont enjoy...

And once again, this is my opinion...and as you may be getting tired of hearing it, others may benefit from it.

I saw a post by someone I flew with, I agreed and stated that opinion in text...thats it, nothing mean or bad, just responding to a post.  If in 2-4 months HTC gets the game finished in a final product maybe I would rejoin, but for now, I cant see paying for something I do not enjoy. Maybe you enjoy it, maybe it is the best game out there, but I dont and...that's ok = )

[hitech]

I do mind paying 19 bucks a month for a game I dont enjoy

I do not understand this line? Do you think the price  changed?


HiTech

[Bodhi]

Wow, what a difference in opinion we have.  I personally thing that AH2 is a 1000 times better than AH1.  Sure there are a few bugs, and I need to upgrade the puter, but guess what, My puter is 2 and a 1/2 years old, and it needed doing anyways.  Every release the game is better, and it has become more challenging.  IMHO, AH2 is great, and will be awesome in time.

lol, bet ole "wild dickweed" is quaking in his boots over this one...

[Sikboy]

Originally posted by Bodhi

lol, bet ole "wild dickweed" is quaking in his boots over this one...

Eh, Wild Bildo is probably trying to figure out who to sue over this.

-Sik