Author Topic: The good old days (Read 1288 times)

sullie363 · « **on:** June 26, 2007, 02:48:37 PM »

Just remembering the days when we'd have as many players on each side as are now in an entire arena.

Krusty · « **Reply #1 on:** June 26, 2007, 02:50:10 PM »

That just meant larger hordes and more milk runners as far from the enemy as they can hide while still milking things.

IMO it's not such a loss. There are other things to fix, but perhaps the arena limits are not one of them.

VansCrew1 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 26, 2007, 02:51:51 PM »

the good old days were bish would hord bases.

Guppy35 · « **Reply #3 on:** June 26, 2007, 02:52:16 PM »

67 more Bish then Rook

Yeah the good old days.......

storch · « **Reply #4 on:** June 26, 2007, 02:53:10 PM »

consider the source of the whine.

sullie363 · « **Reply #5 on:** June 26, 2007, 03:08:25 PM »

Oh for the love of all that is holy and right, the point was that were 700 players online. That scale of competition was fun, all I'm saying.

Masherbrum · « **Reply #6 on:** June 26, 2007, 03:10:00 PM »

The good old days vanished about 6 months prior to AH2.

Guppy35 · « **Reply #7 on:** June 26, 2007, 03:14:32 PM »

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Originally posted by sullie363
Oh for the love of all that is holy and right, the point was that were 700 players online. That scale of competition was fun, all I'm saying.

LOL you can only fight so many at 1 time Sullie, and being on the recieving end of those odds was hardly considered fun for many.

How many bases can you steamroll in one night anyway?

SlapShot · « **Reply #8 on:** June 26, 2007, 03:26:20 PM »

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Originally posted by Masherbrum
The good old days vanished about 6 months prior to AH2.

Amen brother !!!

And the "End of Days" decended upon AH on 12-02-2002 when they announced the "Contest".

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Husky01 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 26, 2007, 03:35:29 PM »

I don't care about the numbers. I don't care which side has the numbers. I don't care what plane you fly. I don't care what plane I fly. I don't care how dweeby you are. I dont care if you ho run ram vulch cherry pick etc. I dont care that the same people have the same crys on 200 every time they die. I don't care about the same armchair generals over country vox barking out orders. I don't care abut squeakers.

What I care about are the maps. At the moment Aces High has become extremely boring. Same Maps. Same fights. Same bases being taking. Same out come of every map. Same terrain. Same everything. The amount of maps that used to be in the rotation was awesome. You would be lucky to see the same map every 1 or 2 months. Now you see the same map 2 or 3 every week. Its boring, its repetitive, its starting not to be fun. Seems I've been flying mostly FSO Scenarios SnapShots Close escorts etc. Ive logged mabey 2 hours in the air in the MA in the past week........

Ok my rant is done carry on.

sullie363 · « **Reply #10 on:** June 26, 2007, 03:36:54 PM »

Well Guppy, how many bases do you have? Last night we put the Knits back in their corner. Not sure if it was a steamroll since they were putting up a fight. It was fun attacking a fully defended base with Bostons and P47D11s though. Not being sarcastic, it actually was a lot of fun. Basically just a big old furball at 15K.

Lusche · « **Reply #11 on:** June 26, 2007, 03:41:37 PM »

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Originally posted by Krusty
That just meant (...) and more milk runners as far from the enemy as they can hide while still milking things.

Nonsense.

The arena split made milkrunning FAR mor easy than ever before. On the single map there was a much higher probabilty that one of the 200-600 people will show up to ruin your day.
Now you can always find an almost empty arena with almost no risk of interception at all.

sullie363 · « **Reply #12 on:** June 26, 2007, 03:45:37 PM »

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Originally posted by Lusche
Nonsense.

The arena split made milkrunning FAR mor easy than ever before. On the single map there was a much higher probabilty that one of the 200-600 people will show up to ruin your day.
Now you can always find an almost empty arena with almost no risk of interception at all.

Very true, hell Early War last night didn't even have any Rooks in it. Could have taken every vbase they had, now that would have been a steamroll lol

Dowding · « **Reply #13 on:** June 26, 2007, 04:03:51 PM »

Up until two weeks ago, I hadn't played since Feb 2003 (pre AHII?). Here's my take.

There is something missing from the current set-up - the maps seem small and claustraphobic. Maybe nostalgia is creeping in, but I remember the huge bombing missions that would be posted (Ripsnort was one flyer who used to post them) and there seemed to be more cooperation.

The level of maturity on on Channel 200 seems to be much lower than my recollections of Channel 1 offer in comparison. This seems to be the case on Channel 2 also, but to a lesser extent. I've now switched off Channel 200 (which is the default setting - the reasons for which are quite obvious to me now).

For me personally, it's a shame the squads I remember have disappeared - but I guess time moves on and there are now new squads to take their place.

I've had mixed feelings about AHII as it stands currently. The new skin system, improved graphics etc are great. But I think the lack of maps is a real negative compared to the AH I remember. I would also like to see larger numbers in the arenas again - the numbers I remember were nothing like 700 IIRC, but still its better than the 200 I see now.

hubsonfire · « **Reply #14 on:** June 26, 2007, 04:18:22 PM »

Ah, the good old days of when there were more bish over a given field than there were players on either of the other teams.

Such glorious of levels of competition for a kill haven't been seen since.
Thank god for that.

Author Topic: The good old days (Read 1288 times)

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