Why did you subscribe to AH?

[Simaril]

Originally posted by Dichotomy
*confused look*

you mean other squads don't charge for membership?

Sure they do, Dicho....really...they all charge MORE than what you're paying....yeah, honest......

Just dont let anybody know what we let you in for, they'd kill us for giving you that good of a deal...yeah, thats the ticket....

[Dichotomy]

[Kuhn]

Originally posted by LEADPIG
I'm with Batfink on this one!!!!

Me too

[Stampf]

Dec, 2005

Sitting in office doing idle Luftwaffe searches.  Stumbled across JG44 website.

Hmmmm,whats this.....?

A virtual squad?  A link to the sim?  I'll check it out.

Hooked immedietly.  Cut teeth with VF 15 Satan's Playmates before grabbing the only other LW fan in the group and starting our own gig.  Never had more fun playing a game.  My squad, my friends and the teamwork and comraderie within our group keeps me here more than anything.

Immersion is in the hands of the pilots.  We all play for different reasons, and all have our gripes about this and that.  Find a group you really love to fly with and nothing else really matters, to me that is. No tighter groups existed than those of fighter squadrons.  Keep the focus on the team, the squad, and not ourselves.  That's what works for us.  Love this game!

WTG HT!:aok

[Domin]

Originally posted by Max
This question is directed to those of you who've subscribed to Aces High in the last 3 - 6 months. It seems there's been a huge influx of new players lately. I'm curious as to where to first learned about the game, why you subscribed and what your likes/dislikes may be.

Please...let's keep this on topic.

I had been playing world war 2 online for some time. Before they tried to play god (to hard to explain for those that have yet to play it) it was a good game. The ground game is very advanced.

However I only like to fly and with the map being huge in ww2ol I didn't like flying around for an hour only to not find any EA and have to rtb. AH2 really fits the bill for me. Also because you usually have multiple engagments per sortie in AH2, you learn and progress much faster.

The plane set is very small in ww2ol. I like not knowing what I'm going to meet in the air in AH2.. in ww2ol if your germany you will fight spit, hurri, hawk, d520, p38... but almost never at the same time being that you will be fighting over french or british occupied territory (each having their own planes). The allies will be fighting 109, 110, 190 hehe.  It takes them around 2 years to add another plane.

I love the fact that ah2 is so kind on the system requirements. In ww2ol to fly without any system lag.. you need 2 gigs of ram.

Last and most important.. AH2's community is awesome.

Aces High is the best Air Sim IMO.

[moneyguy]

a few years ago a guy came into where i was working and we started talking about airplanes. he told me about this game. so i checked it out and i was hooked.

[Auger]

I flew Warbirds way back when.  It was one of the better times I've had and I got to meet and fly with some great people.  That started to go south when Wild Bill took over, then really tanked when they moved the company to North Carolina and most of the talent left.  So I flew the beta of Aces High for a while, then Falcon 4.

Then I upgraded to Windows 2000 and my CH analog setup ceased to be programmable.  So it was several online level grind games with my father (Anarchy Online, Ultima Online, Anarchy Online:Shadowlands, Guild Wars) to keep me off the streets.  The flying bug was always around, but it bit hard at the end of last year.  Getting outsourced provided the funds for a new USB CH setup, removing the technical obstacle.

The Warbirds community appeared to be on its last breath, so I popped in to see if there was life in these forums.  Woohoo! Was there ever!  Still haven't run across any former squaddies (if any Royal Knights read this,  please PM me, it's been a while), but I did fall in with a good bunch of sticks.  It's still fun after 6 months, and if work didn't interfere so much I'd be flying 4+ hours a day.

People give Dale and crew a lot of crap, but their reputation had a lot to do with me coming back to AH.  They have put a lot into AH, and it's good to see it succeed.  He is fortunate in that he gets paid to do something that he would do as a hobby.  We should all be so lucky.

[Reynolds]

Originally posted by Max
Happy Birthday Reynolds!

Thanks! Im hoping to land two kills for my B-day in a 109E. I would have done it three times last night, but since im on my dads crappy comp, I always got discoed on the second kill. It sucked because just as the 20mms pierced the fuselage from d-200, and I new it was a kill, the comp crashed. And one was an F-4U1C too!!! Whaaaaahhhhh....

[B@tfinkV]

sounds like either you got a dodgy texture file? a currupt skin file? a currupt hitsprite file?

try reinstalling AH? maybe just your Dad's PC sucks?


happy birhday anyhow, may you have many more .

*raises glass*

[MotorOil1]

Tripped over the web site some 4 years ago now.  Just re-upped from a two year break (built a new house, had a couple kids).  

My pals and I were looking for a better flight sim at the time we found this.  Still remember the first few flights.  We were typical noobs, didn't read anything just figured out how to get on the runway and started the throttle.  Still remember I was taking off just as the out of control P51 of RunnGunn came tumbling down on the runway infront of me.  In my attempt to get out of his way I nosed my plane into the gound still on the pavement.  Eventually we upped B26s and bombed the runway of an enemy field.  

Was pretty surprised how easy it was to pick the game up again after such a long break.  I think I'll stick around for a bit.  That's why I subscribed.

[helbent]

I subscibed to meet Hot Chicks!

Naw, I was introduced to AW by my brother, and was addicted after a few kills.  I moved away to the caribbean and lived without cable or intrnet for some time.  Seeing the need for communication with the real world, I bought a MAC laptop.  Started playing warbirds among other sims, bounced around for awhile, here and there.  Decided that AH was where it was at and never left.

Coming from warbirds I never agreed with the energy model here, but whatever, im just trying to have me some fun fights.

[Sweet2th]

i started playing because it looked like a lot of fun.looks even better than the microsoft combat simulator.

[Magellan]

This question is directed to those of you who've subscribed to Aces High in the last 3 - 6 months.

As a former Mac only guy, I used to fly AW on GEnie, then AOL and when that avenue was closed, turned to Warbirds. But the community just wasn’t the same--more of a big city feel than small town I'd come to love. Eventually flying online was OBE so I quit flying.

Then back in June, some of the former MacAW group were discussing flying here which got me thinking about the fun we used to have so I just went out and subscribed the same day I d/l’d the front end.

So, I guess the long and the short of it is I just missed the camaraderie—oh, and the sheep here are docile and easily distracted.

[Max]

Great to cya back Mags. Who knows, perhaps Killer will wonder in some day

[Innominate]

I got a new monitor, and AH2 finally started supporting 1920x1200 res. (And my X45 'subscription' was about to run out forcing me to get an x52 for $80 off of $120)