I had become disatisfied with AH before, and always came back because of all the planes I could fly whenever I wanted.
Sure there were other games out that were prettier, but all had an AI to fly against, or had some other annoying limitation. Then there is the comradarie generated by the chat on ch1 and vox. ch1 went away, and local vox goes out more often than not anymore.
When these options were eliminated it ceased to be one of a kind, and became a very poor imitation of other more superioir products.
I feel the best advice for HTC here, would be to keep doing whats been working for several years, keep doing his own thing. Its apparent;y worked. But when you start trying to copy others, or break outside that initial mold, you just become a pale imitation not worth a nickle every month. I was attracted by the nature AH of being a one of a kind combat SIM, not a combat GAME. For a GAME I will pay for things such as WWII Online. for a SIM with a ful stable of craft I will fly Aces High. -- but it doesn't seem to be a SIM anymore. Just a really poor GAME compared to other Games.
But thats just my opinion. I flew WWII Online last night. Depite possibly innacurate flight modeling, it's some of the most realistic behaviour I have seen outside of flightsim 2004.
It's been fun gents. HTC would have to pull off a miracle for me to have an interest in coming back. In the meantime, I have taken my bag of marbles over to WWII Online.
Skuzzy, I will call in a couple of days to settle up my TBlayde account.
{Salute}
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