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Offline Paintbrush

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Question for the boards and AH....
« on: July 31, 2005, 04:58:35 AM »
Why the quest for so much realism?

While AH has done an awesome job at making the game more and more realistic , I do not understand why they do not try to appeal to a larger market by going with a more RR setting.

Why all the realism? Seems that AH would get a lot more customers if they could at least meet RR somewhere in between if not open a full RR arena.


While I'm sure that there will be some die hard FR fans who will disagree with me,  here are just few examples of things I like and dislike about AH as it is:

The scenery is awesome. But the sun glaring in my eyes when I'm facing it is irritating and unnecessary.  Sure it's supposed to be FR, but can we do without the glare? Please?

The planes are realistic and really neat to look at and fly.  But they are hard to take off (- auto take off), and even more hard to land. Why is this so important?

I love the game sounds and the way the planes handle. Heck, I just love to fly. But why the blackouts? They make the fights last longer and it takes much much more time to master the art of dog fighting. Sorry, I don't have the time.  If I join the Air Force, I'll look you up.

Bombing: It's neat to have two drones take off with you and fly in formation.  But the difficulty level of the art of bombing in AH is ridicules. Sorry, it's too time consuming to master. I spent quite some time on it online and offline. But again, I don't have enough time to continue trying. Again, why make it so difficult?

I could give more examples but I think you get the gist.

Again, I don't want to take anything away from the job that the AH team has done with this game. If you want FR, you got it here. No question. AH has done an absolutely brilliant job of making the game as lifelike as possible.  

But here's what doesn't make any sense to me.  I flew RR in AW1, 2 and 3 and I promise you that there were always 5 times more people playing RR than there was FR.

So what gives? Obviously, you could bring in a lot more players by opening a RR arena.  I know I would jump on it in a second, and I know a lot of others, who don't fly at all now, would as well.

So what's with the big push for FR?  It's not like AH is training pilots for the Air Force. So why not appeal to a larger market?
« Last Edit: July 31, 2005, 05:35:26 AM by Paintbrush »
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« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2005, 05:18:39 AM »
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« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2005, 05:29:02 AM »
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Bah thats ugly.





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« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2005, 05:52:51 AM »
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Bah thats ugly.
 
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Offline Darkish

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« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2005, 11:24:26 AM »
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« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2005, 11:33:22 AM »
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA




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« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2005, 11:53:33 AM »
Where can I get those setting Darkish?????   ;)
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« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2005, 12:26:08 PM »
Games are fun because they are challenging.   Games continue to be fun because they have depth.  

RR takes away both, its great for a hoot, but would not stand the test of time as the player base would for the most part be much more transient than it is today.  

If you offer someone a quick easy place to play, they learn bad habbits which are nearly impossible to correct when trying to migrate into the full fun arena.  New players will quickly gravitate to the BASIC arena and never venture into advanced for more than a few minutes as they will become very frustrated.

The ADVANCED arena will therefore slowly dwindle in numbers, and at some point the critical mass required to keep it entertaining will evaporate and the game will implode upon itself.

You end up with a transient Air-Quake game.  There is no reason to pay $15/month for AirQuake as there are numerous other venues for this type of twitch fest in todays world.  We have an EASY BUTTON in the way of the game setting that will help keep new players from over controling the aircraft, but nothing can replace practice.

I have been playing AH since 1999 when beta one came out, and there are exactly ZERO other computer games I actively play now that I did in 1999.  

Since AH started:

Ive gotten married,
Had a kid,
Bought a house,
Been promoted 5 times,
Done a complete upgrade/replacement of my computer 4 times,
Replaced my HOTAS 6 times

.....but Aces High remains.



Thats a statement that tells the whole story.  If it ain't broke, dont fix it.
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« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2005, 01:15:29 PM »
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This has got to be a troll. No one is this stupid.
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« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2005, 01:20:12 PM »
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:rofl  Just caught the gag on this one. Now I've got coffee on my desk. Nice. :aok
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Offline megadud

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« Reply #10 on: July 31, 2005, 01:45:38 PM »
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Originally posted by ALF
Since AH started:

Ive gotten married,
Had a kid,
Bought a house,
Been promoted 5 times,
Done a complete upgrade/replacement of my computer 4 times,
Replaced my HOTAS 6 times

.....but Aces High remains.



Thats a statement that tells the whole story.  If it ain't broke, dont fix it.


congradulations on all of that :aok

darkish that was funny. Hub that quote is funny, and paintbrush it doesn't take long to get good enough to get kills in this game. I like the realism thing except for trees and puffy ack. The sun is a bit bright as well but you can't have your cake and eat it too (i don't get that saying) Anyway this game is fine how it is.
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Offline Shane

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« Reply #11 on: July 31, 2005, 04:06:13 PM »
realism is a crutch for the mediocre.


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« Reply #12 on: July 31, 2005, 04:36:21 PM »
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Originally posted by Shane
realism is a crutch for the mediocre.


:aok


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Offline Pooface

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« Reply #13 on: July 31, 2005, 04:45:27 PM »
on the chance that your fishing i wont even reply to this, but if you arent i feel sorry for your carer :lol
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Offline wrag

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« Reply #14 on: July 31, 2005, 06:36:02 PM »
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congradulations on all of that :aok

darkish that was funny. Hub that quote is funny, and paintbrush it doesn't take long to get good enough to get kills in this game. I like the realism thing except for trees and puffy ack. The sun is a bit bright as well but you can't have your cake and eat it too (i don't get that saying) Anyway this game is fine how it is.



Cake?

Well hmmm.........

My understanding is .....

One can have the cake.  IE it sets there and looks pretty.  And you can drool etc.

Or one can eat it.  But then it's gone????

????? I think that's it?????  Maybe?
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