Author Topic: How did you get started in Aces High? (Read 8614 times)

Regular · « **Reply #30 on:** August 23, 2004, 10:38:36 PM »

Cellmate told me all about it. I got out. Hooked.

Blooz · « **Reply #31 on:** August 23, 2004, 11:05:41 PM »

First online flight sim was Red Baron 3D. When things got to the point of logging on to see only a couple people on each day I gave it up. Looked around for another WW1 online flight sim but bumped into Aces High. I liked the website and the two week trial deal so I tried it and the rest is ..well, over three years later and I'm still here.

nopoop · « **Reply #32 on:** August 23, 2004, 11:17:21 PM »

I had the bug for WWII avaition since I was knee high to bucket of ****. Did a bit of RL flying when I was in college..

My first computer was an Amiga and I bought 1942 Gold..followed by Red Baron, Secrets of the Luftwaffe, Flight simulator etc. etc.

Used a cheap little joystick for all those but found I needed a "setup". Bought a TM flight control system in early 98. ( Finally retired it two months ago ) and with it came a CD for Warbirds.

Went online for the first time in July of 98. Was on for a few days and this guy comes on with blue text and says "Welcome nopoop, glad your here" My introduction to HT.

Spent 4 or 5 years over there battling with lazs on the boards. Did some sparing over the axis/alllied thing. The BK's were still there at the time.

Made a brief appearance at AH beta and registered on the boards. But it was beta and I wasn't a beta guy at the time.

Like most at WB it finally came the time to pull the plug. Came over here to find the passion that I had lost. Few days after coming over this guy comes on with the blue text and says "Welcome nopoop, I'm glad your here"

That felt good. I was home.

With a stint with a great bunch of guys the Mongrels I found myself in the same place as lazs, Codger and Apache each and every night. It was a natural progression that's gone full circle.

Anyone want a rabbit ??

GunnerCAF · « **Reply #33 on:** August 23, 2004, 11:28:59 PM »

I read about AW on Delphi on my C64 computer. When I made the leap to a 486 66 MHz PC, the first thing I did was dl it. I was taken in by the CAF, and have been playing AW, then AH ever since.

Masherbrum · « **Reply #34 on:** August 23, 2004, 11:32:14 PM »

Aside from hearing my grandpa constantly telling WWII stories from my earliest recollections, I have always been a fan of WWII. In 3rd grade, my classmates were reading about Curious George and I was checking out every WWII book I could get my hands on.

I had a Apple IIe growing up, and Wings of Fury (played it from 1986-on) would by my first "sim" if it could be classified as that. I wore out 4 joysticks playing that.

In the late summer of 2002. I was working at the General Motors Call Center, then a person there had a Hog on his desktop. I asked him if he was into WWII as well. he replied "Yes, I play this sim online called Aces High" I told him I had flown Microsoft CFS 2, and Jane's, and he said "that's watermelon compared to this". When it was time for me to punch out for the day he took a "smoke break" and told me all about it. I downloaded it, and was hooked when I rolled a 38 in the TA (I was thinking "damn this is good"). I got nailed twice by some idjit. Got pissed off enough and followed him back to his base, watched him land, and I "vulched him 3 times", watched him whine, and went to the MA. I started in NAZGUL, and am now in the Cactus Air Force.

Thanks BoxBoy28 for getting me hooked! <>

Karaya (formally known as Karaya2)

United · « **Reply #35 on:** August 23, 2004, 11:36:45 PM »

I've got the most intriguing (sp?) story of all.

A couple three years ago I had the day off and was bored with all of the AI sims, CFS2, FA, FS2000, IAF, got on Google and searched for Online Flight Sims. I saw Warbirds and figured I'd give it a try. Turns out that my PC was not up to par and I had to scratch that.
I went upstairs and flipped on Discovery:Wings. Sure enough, the first thing i see is a virtual Corsair landing on a CV. I say to myself, "Hey, that ain't real." Then off comes the AH commercial. I franticly search for a piece of paper so I can write down the coveted website, http://www.flyaceshigh.com.
I raced down the stairs, dialed in on my wonderful 56k modem, and waited the 3 minutes for the website to load up. After getting a little confused and overlooking the links at the bottom of the page, I get frustrated. I see the HTC link, click it, and find downloads. I download the game. It was a fast download, only took 20 minutes. I immediately race into my two week trial. Smart move, idiot. After getting blown out of the air for those 2 weeks, I decide that I'd subscribe later.
Now Im here, with an off-and-on subscription and I have no intentions of leaving anytime soon.

Wow, I only intended on that being a few lines...

_Schadenfreude_ · « **Reply #36 on:** August 23, 2004, 11:45:40 PM »

Started out about 6 years ago online with Red Baron as Schadenfreude, then moved to FA for a couple of years, even got the nod to join the FA Damned Squad - lasted a week, didn't have enough ego to put up with those boys - went from 2.5 to 3. whatever - got tired of the wonder woman cockpit view and the crayon room physics moved to AH a couple of years ago.

Arlo · « **Reply #37 on:** August 23, 2004, 11:51:56 PM »

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Originally posted by Captain Virgil Hilts
Found Air Warrior in a store sometime around 97-98 I think. Found it online soon after. Moved here when AW was murdered by the evil Electronic Arts slime. Could barely play for a while and was bucks down, so I had to quit, the computer just wouldn't take it, the crashes would literally trash all my data. I hung around and tried several times to make it stay working, to no avail. Finally my RL situation improved, and I built a decent rig.

^ His story ... my story ... bout identical. Except he's a dirty ape fanatic and I'm a VF-17 devotee.

Zazen13 · « **Reply #38 on:** August 23, 2004, 11:57:48 PM »

I first tried AH during the very early beta. I was not terribly impressed, seemed like alot of eye candy to the detriment of playability. In retrospect I was probably just jaded from 7+ years of AW. In any event, being a creature of habit I went back to AWFR until EA destroyed it. In disgust I took a year or two off before trying AH in earnest in September 2002. I have been here ever since, much to the chagrin of my enemies.

I have always been a WW2 history nut and especially air combat history. Playing the game to me is like living, at least in part, the lives of those brave souls who fought in the skies over Europe and the Pacific. I try to approach the game as they may have approached their combat sorties as a way of remembering and honoring them. I find this especially important today as those who actually fought during WW2 are passing away, forever removed from living memory. The history and our celebration of the 'golden age' of air combat is all that will remain.

Zazen

GScholz · « **Reply #39 on:** August 24, 2004, 12:17:40 AM »

Nice story 73

AH was my first internet flightsim experience. I have been playing offline flightsims since the early days of Commodore 64 and Amiga, and my all-time favourites are Yeager's Air Combat, EAW and now AH.

My AH introduction is not as interesting as JB73's though. I was playing some CS and DoD on the net and I bumped into an old friend of mine who told me about WWIIOL. Naturally I was very interested, and checked it out ... THEN as I was looking at the WWIIOL homepage I remembered a tiny article on a game called Aces High in a computer magazine I read long ago and decided to see what was out there before subscribing to WWIIOL. I found AH to be more interesting because of the more pure A2A gameplay and bigger planeset. Signed up for the 2 week trial and got hooked ... bad.

So you could say that I was hijacked on the doorsteps of WWIIOL by a tiny, tiny article in a magazine that sparked my interest.

Edit: Oh and this was in the spring/summer of 2002.

Misfit · « **Reply #40 on:** August 24, 2004, 12:31:51 AM »

I've only been playing a month now

Atleast it feels that way some nights

gunnss · « **Reply #41 on:** August 24, 2004, 12:59:01 AM »

In 1977, I was in SLC, walked by a hobby shop, and saw some Gamers pushing wooden stands around with models on them, went in got involved and started making models <72nd scale still got em> the Game was M&M was really hooked thought to my self a computer could do this... got in to the Army got divorced, went to Germany, came back end of 91, , talking to the MnM crew heard about Fourms on Genie Net, and AW, finshed my Xfer to Ft Riley, logged on signed up, played a month......450.00...... <$12.00/ hr LD charge to nearest node, $8.00/hr for GeNie, $6.00/hr for AW..OUCH> cut back to an Hr a month, played on and off till I got out of the army in 96, by now AW has moved to AOL, and the hourely rate WENT AWAY....... 2 weeks later my wife turned off comp, threatened mayhem, I caught my breath.... eventually I ended up on the AW3 Beata test team, suffered till the end and AW Died. Was Xfered to ZAB ARTCC saw AH Signed up found my RR Squad from AW, also found my FR Squad but the had all joined the Dammed, but ran in to the Hammerheads first, continued to play. Still cant Shoot, have wrecked a GNPs worth of Sim AC, and fly as many Scenarios as I can.

Gunns

Saintaw · « **Reply #42 on:** August 24, 2004, 01:02:23 AM »

October 99 .... Heater, I still blame you for this...as does my ex wife!

Azrael · « **Reply #43 on:** August 24, 2004, 01:19:37 AM »

Sometimes long ago in the mailbox days i downloaded Warbirds 2D and was very impressed by it, buzzed the bridges in a B-17 in offline mode a bit. Had played a lot of flight sims on the Amiga, later on the PC. Made some camos for Jane's F-15 and stuff. Somewhere in that time range, Air Warrior had a 2 week free play and i tried it out. Found myself to be a bad fighter pilot, found a B-17 pilot called jimmi and decided to gun for him. 2 Weeks of pure fun.

Then sometime around 98 a european/german Warbirds server was opened, starting with a free beta. Got hooked kinda fast, stayed there and eventually became a Trainer (not that my fighting skill was any good, but i could explain stuff good i think) and a CM. Even started some programming to write a program that sent the CM dot commands to configure an arena so you could set it as you liked it offline and transfer all the .commands in a short time online, without typing all over and over again. Had a lot of fun there in a pure heavy bomber squad, the 487th BG.

The european Warbirds server folded, and transition to the US server didn't really work out for me, with the old squad gone. Around this time AH started beta, and i stayed there and some time into retail. Most memorable moment must've been when Hristo in his 109 dove vertically on my B-17 and blew my wing clean off.

Checked out games from other ex-Warbirds devs too - WW2OL, Terra, didn't feel really at home there though. Then sometimes in 01 a space 3D game called Jumpgate was in open beta, i tried it and it was fun. After the US beta ended, i settled in on the EU/german Jumpgate server, made some cash fast, then became OP/GM later. Left it a year ago because the constant *****ing got on my nerves.

Haven't looked into online games since then, esp. because my grandma had to move to a home and i had to spent quite some time and cash renovating (rather rebuilding from scratch) the basement she lived in and where i live now - about 70% finished, only that cash is at -10% now

Maybe someday I'll hang around in the arena and will be looking for a heavy bomber squad that flies in the european time zone...

Az

TBolt A-10 · « **Reply #44 on:** August 24, 2004, 03:03:27 AM »

one night, i was toolin' around in AOL land, hit the Games button, found the Air Warrior download. 3 hours later I was in a P-51 in AW1...amazed that all the other planes were piloted by other real-live people.

Been flying ever since with a few months off here and there.