Author Topic: Hi-Tech questions (Read 2840 times)

LEADPIG · « **Reply #45 on:** November 30, 2007, 04:08:29 AM »

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Originally posted by moot

Are you asking them to give updates on CT, but not to give updates on CT if it isn't nearly done (two weeks' worth of work remaining, no pun)?
That can't work.

And there's nothing questionable about having a sense of humor. HT isn't mocking or teasing you, there's nothing dishonest about his reply.. if anyone's got an attitude, it's you, waving around the 15$ a month like it means you own a share of HTC and have a chair on the design commitee...

Posts like this this should not be made unless this is a complete mistake.

"....Combat Tour is currently in closed testing and release is planned for the first half of 2006....."
- January 12, 2006 HTC Home Page

But seeing as they have been made before and in repeated fashion it makes you wonder.

In business Moot the customer is respected. Because it matters not the ammount of money. But fore the fact that without it's customers a business would not exist. And they all add to the piece of the pie that makes a business profitable and that should be respected. Honest inquiries about an organization should be looked at and handled with tact and professionalism.

moot · « **Reply #46 on:** November 30, 2007, 04:17:27 AM »

You are respected LEADPIG, you just don't have enough humor in you to take a joke in stride. HT doesn't just twiddle his thumbs all day cashing in 15$ payments while taunting his customers. But he will call a cat a cat, and a short quip is the most efficient way to answer both your request for info and adress the disconnect between your conception of HT's work and what it really is.

That homepage 2006 ETA is just print on some webpage.. BFD. You take yourself way too seriously. Look at Bigelow Aerospace's webpage. They aren't just toying around on the internet, they're at the leading edge of space development, and they've got almost identical outdated bits of info on their website.
And Bigelow knows how to run a business at least as well as HT, and surely better than you.

LEADPIG · « **Reply #47 on:** November 30, 2007, 04:34:07 AM »

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Originally posted by moot
You are respected LEADPIG, you just don't have enough humor in you to take a joke in stride. HT doesn't just twiddle his thumbs all day cashing in 15$ payments while taunting his customers. But he will call a cat a cat, and a short quip is the most efficient way to answer both your request for info and adress the disconnect between your conception of HT's work and what it really is.

That homepage 2006 ETA is just print on some webpage.. BFD. You take yourself way too seriously. Look at Bigelow Aerospace's webpage. They aren't just toying around on the internet, they're at the leading edge of space development, and they've got almost identical outdated bits of info on their website.
And Bigelow knows how to run a business at least as well as HT, and surely better than you.

Oh i'm surely not saying that Moot. I mentioned in the earlier post. That Ht is doing a wonderful job and the ammount of things they have done are well enjoyed and appreciated and took a hell of a lot of work. An amount of work i don't understand and don't pretend to. But thats not even my point.

I also mentioned a few things that i wish would be looked into. Not today, not tommorrow, but in the future as an aside. They're just suggestions thats all. We all have the option of taking our business elsewhere if not satisfied. But that very reason is why you don't respond in such childish, unprofessional ways to people who pay your bills.

But i have no problem with this game as i have said. Aces High is a wonderful creation and surely the people who have invented it have done a marvelous job. I have told other people about the game because of this and have probably increased their fanbase as a result. And thats the thanks i get and the response i get. But that's not what i expect of a business owner to his customer, i don't care how small the contribution may be. Respond professionally with a simple yes or no answer and move on, that's all i ask.

As far as a sense of humor, i laugh when somethings funny, but i'm not laughing. Other than that ..... it's whatever.

kilz · « **Reply #48 on:** November 30, 2007, 04:55:40 AM »

LEDPIG bro let dead dogs be

crockett · « **Reply #49 on:** November 30, 2007, 06:58:55 AM »

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Originally posted by Masherbrum
A WWI version would be superior to the Korean War Era. Just think on how little "running" would be taking place.

I'd love ww1 fighters. Hell even ww2 had bi wing aircraft. Would love to have some of those.

Chalenge · « **Reply #50 on:** November 30, 2007, 07:21:12 AM »

The service ceiling of the B29 was 31,850 feet not 40,000 and very few of the actual airplanes ever got that high. The B29 was prone to engine fires and many aircraft were lost before they ever got to combat but even those that did get to combat had power problems that limited their ceiling so most never got to ceiling. On the day Enola Gay dropped the famous bomb it was at 26,000 feet.

I have flown other virtual examples and I dont care for the plane because of it. It has a AOA restrictor plate that is intended to keep the pilot from rotating at too high an AOA and breaking the tail off or killing the ball turret gunner and tail gunner. Even at the worlds longest runway (Edwards) there are pilots in AHII that couldnt get the plane off the ground. The B29 needs a lot of runway to build up speed to rotate and then it has just a shallow angle of climb which means disaster on the maps we have because of the way the fields are placed. Now of course HT could solve all those problems and still have the plane in the game and he has said he doesnt believe in random events causing problems so I guess you can keep hoping the B29 will be in the game one day.

Wizer · « **Reply #51 on:** November 30, 2007, 08:09:03 AM »

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Originally posted by NHawk
We never had rain or thunderstorms, but they would be nice.

We did have rain (once upon a time)

The Fugitive · « **Reply #52 on:** November 30, 2007, 09:50:13 AM »

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Originally posted by LEADPIG
..............If this game had nukes it would be more realistic as you say. They actually had those you know.

Yes they did have them, all two of them. There will never be a nuke in the game. The idea of the game is to simulate air combat. Everything else was added to help in that. Buffs are here, mostly for something else to shoot at, GVs are here just as targets for bombs, towns and field are here just so bombers have something to bomb so the fighters have something to shoot at, or defend again bringing more air combat.

A nuke will not generate more air combat. with each drop you'll wipe out sectors of the map making fields unusable days to simulate the "years" an area would be dead. The only thing it would promote would be more "win the war" attitudes. and we have more than enough of those.

This quote you pulled up

"....Combat Tour is currently in closed testing and release is planned for the first half of 2006....."
- January 12, 2006 HTC Home Page"

...is most likely the reason they give very little information out. Too many time they have set a "date" and had to miss it due to problems popping up that they didn't forsee. Maybe the week or two they took off to handle the H2H problems, maybe the time they took to set-up, and then swap to bigger and better servers, maybe the pizza party ran long. Dead lines are tricky, and with a project as big as CT it just adds to the problems.

Then each time one passes by, they get the "peanut gallery" posting here and spreading crap in the areas about how poor HTC relationship with the community, how they can't get anything done on time, how they screwed the pooch !!

To me this is a great game, and I have fun everytime I play. Anything they add on is bonus stuff to me. I think we have a great and varied plane set, the ground vehicle set is fun with a number of variations, the graphics are good ( I can tell a plane from a gv, and a GV from a tree) The sun comes up and goes down, the shadows move, What more do you need?

Like I said, I'm happy with what we got. Any thing they add, when ever they decide to add it, is like an extra piece of cake.

5PointOh · « **Reply #53 on:** November 30, 2007, 11:06:56 AM »

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Originally posted by The Fugitive
Then each time one passes by, they get the "peanut gallery" posting here and spreading crap in the areas about how poor HTC relationship with the community, how they can't get anything done on time, how they screwed the pooch !!

This is the part of the that bothers me, so many times I have heard people saying things about HTC and how they arent here for the customer. Well I think that is bull. Such a small office and yet they do so much. Everytime I have ever emailed Skuzzy, its only a day later at the most he replies. I've talked to Pyro, and his responses have been very quick and courteous. I've played other flight games, and none compare to AHII, and the support from the parent company. If you want to put it to the test, call Microsoft and tell them you'd like to see the B-25 added to the next Combat Flight Simulator. I <~~> you HTC, you have brought a lot of fun and entertainment to my nights.~~

goober69 · « **Reply #54 on:** November 30, 2007, 11:11:33 AM »

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Originally posted by The Fugitive
Yes they did have them, all two of them. There will never be a nuke in the game. The idea of the game is to simulate air combat. Everything else was added to help in that. Buffs are here, mostly for something else to shoot at, GVs are here just as targets for bombs, towns and field are here just so bombers have something to bomb so the fighters have something to shoot at, or defend again bringing more air combat.

A nuke will not generate more air combat. with each drop you'll wipe out sectors of the map making fields unusable days to simulate the "years" an area would be dead. The only thing it would promote would be more "win the war" attitudes. and we have more than enough of those.

This quote you pulled up

"....Combat Tour is currently in closed testing and release is planned for the first half of 2006....."
- January 12, 2006 HTC Home Page"

...is most likely the reason they give very little information out. Too many time they have set a "date" and had to miss it due to problems popping up that they didn't forsee. Maybe the week or two they took off to handle the H2H problems, maybe the time they took to set-up, and then swap to bigger and better servers, maybe the pizza party ran long. Dead lines are tricky, and with a project as big as CT it just adds to the problems.

Then each time one passes by, they get the "peanut gallery" posting here and spreading crap in the areas about how poor HTC relationship with the community, how they can't get anything done on time, how they screwed the pooch !!

To me this is a great game, and I have fun everytime I play. Anything they add on is bonus stuff to me. I think we have a great and varied plane set, the ground vehicle set is fun with a number of variations, the graphics are good ( I can tell a plane from a gv, and a GV from a tree) The sun comes up and goes down, the shadows move, What more do you need?

Like I said, I'm happy with what we got. Any thing they add, when ever they decide to add it, is like an extra piece of cake.

exaclty....
why even have a wishlist thread a general discussion thread or any bbs at all if Hitech Pyro and skuzzy don't LOVE their customers?
they must love us you know kind of like god we dont see much of him but hes there. lol
i don't think any of them have time right now to worry about other features and yes that was a joke, not meant to piss you off. i pay my 15$ a month and i am very happy with the way the game is now.
Hitech and crew have ALWAYS treated me with respect and a good sense of humor.
yes it would be nice to add all the little things that would make it a better game, but i don't see the point in discussing this further until CT is DONE.
I am very sure those guys deserve a vacation.
what with putting up with constant whining from people (not specificaly you) about we need this we need that. im sure they read our ideas and take them under advisement, but i see no reason to get mad at them over a simple joke.
and yes two weeks is probably gonna be 2 years or more, thats the way the gaming cookie crumbles.
id rather have a excelent product that took 20 years than a piece of crap that was spit out in 2 years.
all the greatest things take time.

just my humble htc butt kissing opinion take it as you like it.

Helm · « **Reply #55 on:** November 30, 2007, 11:16:52 AM »

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Originally posted by hubsonfire
I don't think they really want to sit at their desks and watch it snow for 2 hours instead of play. [/B]

I think it would be cool as heck....I would find a Mig-3 and try to get up!!

Bring on weather!!

rabbidrabbit · « **Reply #56 on:** November 30, 2007, 11:17:29 AM »

I think almost anyone would say they do a good job with personal support of the customer. Leadpigs point is about HT's interpersonal skills instead of the customer support overall. I'm not saying hes a bad guy, actually quite the contrary. Some people are better off dealing with constructive criticism than others.

Helm · « **Reply #57 on:** November 30, 2007, 11:23:46 AM »

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Originally posted by Wingnutt
IMO..

get some dark clouds, thunderheads, .. some sort of ACTIVE weather would add an entire new layer of immersion and dare I say EXCITEMENT to the game.. Imagine having a digfight in the middle of a thunderstorm, with wild updrafts adding and then stealing shots from you, a visibility of .. next to nothing.. like fighting a ghost.. trying to bomb a target only to have it obscured by cloud cover.. do you dive below the clouds and risk interception, or hit a secondary? decisions, choices, problems, solutions, FUN!!!

AMEN!!! .......weather patterns would drive the game not hurt it!

Yeager · « **Reply #58 on:** November 30, 2007, 12:05:25 PM »

I just want to say this: I love the B-29 and think it would have a great place in this game, and it should be added whenever HTC gets the chance. But the day I get killed in-game by an atomic bomb is the day I close my account and never return to the game. There is absolutely no purpose for one player being able to kill off an entire sector in the arena with one bomb, and it is truly assanine to even suggest being able to do so.

NO ATOMICs IN ACES HIGH, EVAH, but please add the Superfort

See, the sad thing is, you guys asking for an idiotic and retarded atomic bomb are truly killing the chances this game will ever see a B-29.

BaldEagl · « **Reply #59 on:** November 30, 2007, 12:14:37 PM »

HiTech,

Whenever you're ready to quit this, retire, whatever... release the B-29 and the nook... then, whoever drops the first one ends the game!

Give them what they want one last time

Remember, be careful what you wish for... you might just get it.