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Offline stephen

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Popseed says goodbye...
« on: November 09, 2006, 03:43:20 PM »
Well its been an intresting 7 years, full of fun, learning and the like, but in lite of the recent changes I have come to the decision that I shant be renewing my account,
I feel that the changes where made in the hope of bringing this game to more people,but at the cost of absorbing game play, and breaking up any team cohesion that egsisted before.

Now this isnt to say i blame HT, or the designing team, at fault are a huge range of people including myself....we wouldnt even the teams, we wouldnt pay more money...but we will stand for this war being broken up, now when I join the room I fought so hard for this morning its now a diffrent arena.,,how sad....

I like ftrs, and bombers, flying and fighting, winning at great cost, and losing despite great effort.......but thats all gone replaced by a newb ftr pilots dream, and any aspect of map winning has long since been abandond,.... for all you nay-sayer's ill just say this, there will come a time when you no longer seek ftr on ftr combat exclusivly, when you may find it more fun to try and win a map with team work, and hard work, and time...but it will be as empty for you as it is for me now......

in closing I hope for aces hi's sake that the owner's can in the future find a way of not killing the game for the sake of a couple extra bucks......

sincerly Popseed.:(
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« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2006, 03:49:07 PM »
AFAIK, the changes were nothing to do with money but the long term health of the game

but, goodbye

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« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2006, 04:28:23 PM »
it's okay, don't worry about AH, it'll be here when you get back.  funny you mention the fighter thing.  i flew strat for a long time, made me bored and lost interest.  i admit i haven't played for seven years, maybe around 4 or so, but i can't imagine going back to the aspect of the game that bored me to death.  to each his own though.  curious, how to you make the leap from you and a whole bunch of the communtiy affecting gameplay in a way so that HT has to make changes, and then blame HT?

with every change there is a doomsdayer or 2, and i mean every change. fuel crisis, AH2 crisis, FM change crisis, numbers crisis, eny crisis, the list goes on and on.  maybe you are just burned out.  i don't see how trying to encourage a more healthy community, and creating more new accounts, and trying to make the game better is the "sake of a few extra bucks."  to me the game is better, i look forward to the times that i can log on and the game is much more alive than ever:)  i've met more people that i normally wouldn't, and atmosphere is generally more friendly.  you can still run your missions, i've seen several, and actually participated in one for kicks.  not going to try to convince you, just saying, there are other opinions of how the game has changed. lol, noob fighter pilots dream, wow.
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« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2006, 04:44:01 PM »
I still fail to see how base taking has been affected by the changes.  All it proves is that you needed that 50 plane la7 mission to ever take a base, is all.

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« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2006, 05:03:10 PM »
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I still fail to see how base taking has been affected by the changes.  All it proves is that you needed that 50 plane la7 mission to ever take a base, is all.

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Re: Popseed says goodbye...
« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2006, 05:05:09 PM »
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.... for all you nay-sayer's ill just say this, there will come a time when you no longer seek ftr on ftr combat exclusivly,


I've been furballing for 14+ years. What you fail to see is that furballing is not for the newbie, base taking is. Furballing is the heart and soul of AH and all previous online air combat games, "win the map" is a relatively new game style which IMO contradictory to your assertion, was created exactly for the reason that newbies didnt have to go through the long and difficult task of learning ACM. They could with little skill join a massive mission and take a base and get almost instant satisfaction from the game, as opposed to the long time it takes to become proficient in A-2-A.

I am NOT[/b] saying "win the map" is wrong in any way, just that it is the newbie style of play, not furballing.

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« Reply #6 on: November 09, 2006, 05:47:25 PM »
Goodbye.... woot now on to the arena... been working all day and thinking Aces High :aok


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« Reply #7 on: November 09, 2006, 05:53:14 PM »
Ah the evil noobs.....it's a shame that new people should discover and play this game and have fun. Absolutly ruining it....I've been playing for 5 months now and I have personally ruined the game for alot of people by flying my cartoon plane around having a good time. Let me just say I am deeply sorry for my actions from now on I'll just sit in the tower and watch so I don't step on anybodys toes.
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« Reply #8 on: November 09, 2006, 05:58:37 PM »
7 years is a noob?

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« Reply #9 on: November 09, 2006, 06:20:30 PM »
logged in orange around 5 oclock today, bish 32, rooks 16, knights 16,,yes the new setup has done wonderful things for making the game less of a numbers game and more fun LOL.your right,why stick around and take a map back when you can just hop over into a new arena.?....oh yeh and the other i found amusing as well, splitting into 3 arenas has also allowed you to meet people you wouldnt have otherwise...explain that for me huh>?

I used to have a squad, not huge just about perfect..you kinow what forget it...beating a dead horse..im dust in the wind anyway...off yto LOCK-On...
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« Reply #10 on: November 09, 2006, 06:58:36 PM »
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logged in orange around 5 oclock today, bish 32, rooks 16, knights 16,,yes the new setup has done wonderful things for making the game less of a numbers game and more fun LOL.your right,why stick around and take a map back when you can just hop over into a new arena.?....oh yeh and the other i found amusing as well, splitting into 3 arenas has also allowed you to meet people you wouldnt have otherwise...explain that for me huh>?


okay. i fly in a different arena and fight with a guy, not a whorde.  at the end of the fight i say gf.  maybe in the MA i wouldn't have had an opportunity to fight this person in such a way, thus i wouldn't meet him. pretty simple.
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« Reply #11 on: November 09, 2006, 06:59:05 PM »
bye

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« Reply #12 on: November 09, 2006, 08:24:57 PM »
well as far as realism is concernd,zzzzpt as far as war goes you never fought one guy hardly..its WAr..and thats what im complaining about...it aint war no more....:cry
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« Reply #13 on: November 09, 2006, 08:26:43 PM »
Hmmm, I always thought it was a game?
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« Reply #14 on: November 09, 2006, 08:42:02 PM »
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Hmmm, I always thought it was a game?

Plainly you have not seen the corpses lying around the streets after a mission.

I'm with others who have said:  leave goodbyes like this one to die lonely deaths in the darkness.

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