Author Topic: How did you get started in Aces High? (Read 9765 times)

Jish102 · « **Reply #120 on:** May 16, 2005, 06:18:46 PM »

Brother and father both played before me... looked fun so tried it out... and here I am:)

Halo · « **Reply #121 on:** May 16, 2005, 06:41:10 PM »

Evolved from the very beginning of Air Warrior to WarBirds and then to the best yet, Aces High.

Edbert1 · « **Reply #122 on:** May 16, 2005, 06:54:17 PM »

Not long after Dale and Doug sold their other sim to a psychotic megalomaniac who hired some losers for project managers and fired most of the players who worked on the game at the time, this new sim named AH was released into open beta. It was kind of weak, only one map and about 5 planes but it rocked and was run by people who cared about their players. I signed on and cancelled my Warbirds account, have never regretted it or looked back.

Clip121 · « **Reply #123 on:** May 16, 2005, 07:09:10 PM »

See lots of guys I remember from AW days! This thread brings back a flood of memories, all good! Want to say hi to NUTTZ, my buddy and wingman for many years in AW! Have been trying to track him down for ages! Howdy to +tiff as well, had a blast flying with the Nomads in AW. Good to see he's still around!

Clip

-CL- in AW

Fury · « **Reply #124 on:** May 16, 2005, 07:14:50 PM »

Started in Fighter Ace right after it went live ($20/month for 1.0! lol). Few years later, heard about 'Warbirds' on the FA bbs....tried it out, flew in a New Guinea scenario, recall a volcano plunge to send off some guys who left, then went back to FA to be an evil sysop and fly FA 1.5. FA was great fun, FA 1.5 was a step in the right direction, but I was looking for something more than it could give. So, when I heard about AH on the FA bbs, I signed up within days of the open beta. Aside from a break of about 8 months during a financial crunch, paid every month since whether I fly or not.

keyapaha · « **Reply #125 on:** May 16, 2005, 07:21:36 PM »

I just happened to luck up and find this game via a web search for wwii aces,been flyin ever since.

Slash27 · « **Reply #126 on:** May 16, 2005, 07:24:20 PM »

Good to see ya Key <>

RedTop · « **Reply #127 on:** May 16, 2005, 10:17:49 PM »

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Originally posted by Fury
Started in Fighter Ace right after it went live ($20/month for 1.0! lol). Few years later, heard about 'Warbirds' on the FA bbs....tried it out, flew in a New Guinea scenario, recall a volcano plunge to send off some guys who left, then went back to FA to be an evil sysop and fly FA 1.5. FA was great fun, FA 1.5 was a step in the right direction, but I was looking for something more than it could give. So, when I heard about AH on the FA bbs, I signed up within days of the open beta. Aside from a break of about 8 months during a financial crunch, paid every month since whether I fly or not.

In 1.5...you were a sysop? what was your callsign...may have been flying there same time.

dedalos · « **Reply #128 on:** May 17, 2005, 08:24:48 AM »

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Originally posted by Fury

Hey Fury, say hello to the big guy at Mr Kozak's for me

SkyWolf · « **Reply #129 on:** May 17, 2005, 09:22:22 AM »

Sierra Network Red Baron ---> Met Twist ...Genie AW ---->took a break because I sucked---> AOL AW----> quit because AOL sucks -----> Warbirds ---->quit because WB sucks ----> came back looking for AW...was gone ---> Found WB again ---> still sucked -->WWII Online---> Quit because WWII online sucks ----> found AH --->Now I suck but the game doesn't.

Woof

Fury · « **Reply #130 on:** May 17, 2005, 09:54:38 AM »

I flew in FA as eleigh, 99_Fury_ft, __VMF214__Ash, and for one glorious night as Fury_DD when the Devil Dogs of AH invaded a room. As a sysop I was +eleigh and +eleigh@FA....I think my stint was from '97 to 2000.

Kozak's downtown? Gawd I love their Gyros. Next time I get there I'll say hi.

dedalos · « **Reply #131 on:** May 17, 2005, 10:16:39 AM »

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Originally posted by Fury
I flew in FA as eleigh, 99_Fury_ft, __VMF214__Ash, and for one glorious night as Fury_DD when the Devil Dogs of AH invaded a room. As a sysop I was +eleigh and +eleigh@FA....I think my stint was from '97 to 2000.

Kozak's downtown? Gawd I love their Gyros. Next time I get there I'll say hi.

For some reason, it tastes better at 3:00AM, lol. Tell Ted his cousin said hi

Don · « **Reply #132 on:** May 17, 2005, 10:30:03 AM »

>>I have a few Gamestorm items most of which I won at one of our UK Conventions. I have a t-shirt<<

So do I

I won it in a contest sponsored by the AW scenario CM group; I came up with the name for a massive AW scenario at the time. I still have the T-Shirt, but rarely wear it anymore.

I got started with AW, first the dos box version, then a few months later with AW4W. Joined a squad (ably assisted by Shebop) the Cactus Airforce (an FR squad). Joined delphi and never looked back. I had a WW2 addiction well before I discovered online flight sims. Had to pay to play over at Delphi (2 bucks or so per hour); ran up some hefty bills and had to cut way back. AW had a very nice offline feature so, I satisfied myself with that in order to cut costs. Learned FR and dabbled with RR but, was convinced by squadmates to stop RR; it encouraged bad habits, the learning curve was too steep to get better at FR.

The AW folks sold out to gamestorm and then EA; with each the game got worse. I heard about WB and tried it out but, didn't care for it much but, it had potential. I heard about AH and joined up as an open beta tester. I had a lot of trouble with landings and takeoffs

but, I liked it, and could see it was much better than AW became. There was a learning curve but was easier because of my experience in AW; I knew the difference between E fighting, TnB and BnZ

All the while I have been with my squad, and we eventually made the move to AH.

While at AW though they used to have these online acm lectures sponsored by Delphi. Various senior pilots in the game would discuss acm and flight characteristics; I even had the pleasure of attending a couple held by Shaw, the well known fighter expert.
These lectures were excellent, and provided a lot of theoretical information I lacked. It was kinda like a flight school class.
Hehe many of the discussions here on this BBs are not new to me; I have heard most of them before

AH is a great game, and can trace itself back to AW. I am glad that Hi-tech had his start there, and broke off to begin another sim

he saw how AW could be better and did something about it ~~to you HT ...yer the man Dawg!!~~

paulieb · « **Reply #133 on:** May 17, 2005, 01:17:56 PM »

My first flight sim was F15 Strike Eagle for the Commodore 64. Many years later, I got my first PC and found Jane's WW2 Fighters. Very cool for its day, but the multiplayer stunk big time. One day while on one of the Jane's message boards (don't remember which one) I got wind of Combat Flight Simulator 2 from micro$oft. Still got it... it's a coaster on my coffee table.

I was online looking for tips for that sim when I found a link to HT's site. Oddly enough, the moment I got to flyaceshigh.com the commercial ran on Discovery Wings. (I had a TV in my 'puter room). I forget which patch number it was up to, but it was still AH1. Flew my two week trial, and got HOOKED. I think at one point I was flying almost 10 hours a day. My trial expired, and I didn't have a credit card, so I hung around the H2H arenas for awhile.

Then my girlfriend gets a credit card, and knew that I was looking for a way to get online with AH, so she subscribes for me. Cool!! Uh-oh... we split up three months later.

so with no means to pay my account, it gets deleted. Which really sucked, 'cuz I had a ton of perks.

Flash forward about 6 months, and TA-DAAAA!!!! I have a credit card!! Online I go!! After a few flights and a bit of conversation, JOC finds out I'm Canadian and invites me to join the 242 RCAF Sqdn. That was fine, except all the other members were in the UK, so were hardly ever on when I was. After a few months, I withdrew from the squad.

Then one day, Jeffer invites me to check out the squad he's flying with, the 444th Air Mafia. I fly a few squad nights with them, get invited, and the rest, as they say, is history. In the game, there are 2 squads that are part of the 444th - the Mafia Wizeguys and the Mafia Enforcers, and allow me to say, WE KICK BUTT!!

Apparently, now Jeffer is Morpheus and switched countries. I'm pretty sure at least some of us Mafia look for him so we can shoot him down just once.... lol

RedTop · « **Reply #134 on:** May 17, 2005, 05:56:34 PM »

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Originally posted by Fury
I flew in FA as eleigh, 99_Fury_ft, __VMF214__Ash, and for one glorious night as Fury_DD when the Devil Dogs of AH invaded a room. As a sysop I was +eleigh and +eleigh@FA....I think my stint was from '97 to 2000.

Kozak's downtown? Gawd I love their Gyros. Next time I get there I'll say hi.

TFBC_TREY VF14_JACKAL

I remember ya. Good to see ya.

I remember many a night fighting the VMF guys.