Some of you just need to get over it and suck it up. The game is changing. The game needs to change. There are more and more people playing this game and others like it. The games has to change and we will have to change with it. If this game doesnt change it will die slowly but surely. Someone will come along and make something that the masses want and Aces High will die just like the others before. Aces High was my first Online game of any kind and it will probably be the only one I ever play on a regular basis.
When I first started June 2001 it was a small group (usually about 150 to 175 at night) that played and most of those guys had history from other similar games in the past. There has always been an issue of side balance since I started playing. First it was the Rooks, and then the Bish, and then the Knights. But it was never as bad as this last year. Each side as had its turn in the bucket several times over. Search the board, go back to 2001, 2002 the whines are there. The answer then is the same answer today. Switch countries. Back then we all switched countries. It didnt happen alot but it happened. Some squads regulary rotated each month. And lets end this myth that one country is better than another country. Pure BS. There is no difference. Good sticks, bad sticks, noobs, horders, milkrunners, furballers, strat queens, whiners, generals, alt monkeys, every country as the same cast of characters.
As these games evolved there have always been basic rules for playing and then there were unspoken rules. As the player base grows new types of players are coming up. 4-5 years of people playing Castle Wolfenstein and MOH online, Warcraft and Command & Conqur have grown up and now play games like Aces High. They play to win and a lot of those games were side balanced.
Hitech is trying to find the answer. He's asked you all for input, suggestions even though he doesnt have to. It isnt going to happen overnight, and not everybody is going to be happy with whatever the solution turns out to be. Hitech makes a change and doesnt tell ya, you whine he should have told ya first. Hitech tells ya hes gonna make a change, you whine. Instead of crying about it think about how to make it work. Maybe in order for Aces High to survive Mega Squads have to be sacrificed. I belong to a small squad 7 guys 12 tops. I also fly with a lot of guys that aren't in my squad. One month I fly with them, another month I fly against them. So what. We talk, we have fun, we meet up at cons and have more fun. Its just a damn game. Instead of coming in here and trying to pick it apart why dont you try to help fix it.
