Burnt Out

[A_Clown]

Originally posted by Eagler
it was better in the day AH cost $30 a month

imagine what it will be like when it is $10 a month?

I am for half the subs paying twice as much

There has been several threads on this topic, some with excellent suggestions. I (formerly known as Anton) started one called "$30 AH premium account"  lots of pros/cons listed by the BBS community, and some good indication of just how long people have thought gameplay to be deteriorating.  

There always seems to be a small window of time, between when a game is old enough to be without major bugs, but young enough to have a respectful majority of players.  (Huey Lewis and the News "I want a new drug" plays in the background.) I too, miss the old days.

A_Clown

[A_Clown]

I think many people would love to know more about WHY things happen the way they do. That seems to often be left out from staff input, unfortunately.

[Zazen13]

Originally posted by A_Clown
I think many people would love to know more about WHY things happen the way they do. That seems to often be left out from staff input, unfortunately.

That's what I'm here for, happy to be of service.

Zazen

[Whisky58]

I'm saddened to read the experienced guys thinking of leaving/taking time out.  Taking your bat & ball home because the game's not going well is not the way forward.  Lead by example, communicate & support other team players.  
Would our forebears have deserted the skies over southern England or Pearl Harbour because they didn't like the atmosphere? No! (Cue fireworks, Close ups of intense, brave young airmen & bands playing Land of Hope & Glory/Star Spangled Banner)

[Urchin]

I took about 7-8 months off, came back and the game was fun for a week or so lol.  

I guess I'm at the point where I don't feel I'm going to get any better without switching to a EZ-mode plane and investing some serious time that I don't have, so I don't feel like playing the game.  

Been playing WoW and BF2, both of those are pretty fun for me still.

[MOIL]

Originally posted by Darkish
I know a few of you guys have been here - but have you come back.

The game is no longer the one you used to play, now full of kids fighting on 200 rather than in the sky.  The air full of cowards hoarding away boasting their apptitude and insulting anyone who dares give them a fight.

Is there a way back or have I lost this wonderfull game forever?
I guess I mean, have you had that moment sat infront of your PC and said to yourself, "Mate .... wtf are you doing!"


(Long time player, 1st time whiner)

Sounds like you need to attend the LTAR school of "Fun for All"
We are a delightful bunch that just recently switched to the Bishops for a much needed change of pace. It has been palm trees and drinks with little umbrellas in um ever since.
While the occasional storm blows though it doesn't seem to damper the high spirts in the LTAR camp. Stoke up the fire we got weenies and marshmellows for all.

OR

Maybe you just need a break from the arena:huh

[SkyWolf]

Originally posted by Zazen13
THe HUGE maps were designed for average MA populations twice what we actually have, that is the problem. HTC was anticipating a larger and more rapid return on the investment from redoing the graphics engine and its advertising campaign associated with AH2.

 the HUGE maps would probably been needed at this point to support the growth.

Zazen

On what do you base this?

Nevermind. finished reading the other posts.

[beet1e]

I've been watching, and waiting for this one to run its course. I think burnout happens to everyone, in some way, eventually. Either the game changes in a way we don't want it to change, or the people change. When the pricing plan is designed to rake in any old sc****k who can afford 50cents/day, then sc****ks is what we'll get. I've been on the sidelines for a year now, and quite frankly threads like this make me realise that I may never return. I don't want to have teen trash talk going on around me, or play a game that requires a reporting tool to alert HTC to text or verbal abuse.

BUT....

AH is not alone in having the gameplay ruined by tardz. One of the other games I play online is Chess - and if skuzz thinks he's got his work cut out filtering the trash talk here, he should see some of the crap on the chess BBS! I don't even go to the forums any more, it's so bad.

Any online game with any sort of a ranking system or scoreboard has its share of game-the-game gottawins and general tardz. Just as some people in AH had a shades account, and would rack up kills by vulching their shades account, Chess has shades accounts too, and guys who play with themselves getting 4-move checkmates to boost their rankings, or guys who cheat by using a chess engine like ChessMaster9000 to suggest moves.

Nomak! I never knew you online, but if you're getting started with Silent Hunter 3, get ready for a major slowing down of the pace. If you didn't like the AH1 pizza map, you won't like SH3. Those submarine missions went on for weeks. The game has x1024 time compression, and you'll need it. I enclose a gift - a SH3 saved mission in the Scapa Flow area. There's a nice Revenge battleship for you to practise on, and a destroyer a little to the right. It took me many attempts to get right up there undetected. No dive possible - depth below keel = 6 metres! Download it from here and unzip it to your SavedMissions folder.

[Tilt]

Burn out is an observable phenomenom.............. I am sure HTC's business model assumes its presence.

Its better to turn down usage to "idle" rather than got "full throttle" into burn out..........

Associates come and go in this virtual world as they do elsewhere and the fun factor they bring changes with them.


200 is by default switched off on my radio bar. If I want to go beyond the to congratulate a foe then I will switch it on temporarily. The immature rubbish (lacking any wit AFAICS) found there will cause me to switch it off again soon after.

Thank cod its no longer in yer face on ch1.