Author Topic: The Good Old Days (Read 3343 times)

ColKLink · « **Reply #45 on:** January 18, 2008, 06:45:57 AM »

I still haven't gotten over the branding of the sheep................

Ghosth · « **Reply #46 on:** January 18, 2008, 07:05:51 AM »

P51, 109, Spitfire, La5, these were the big 4 that you saw most often.

If you saw a pair of la5's you ducked cause it was probably AKCurly and AKNimitz and they'd rock your world.

B17 was the only bomber, and the first months it didn't even have a bombsight.

No GV's, they came out in 1.02 (stayed up all night shooting down planes with a panzers main gun, WOOT!)

Community was small, tight, self policing, everyone knew everyone.
There was some smack talking on channel 1, but mostly not. There was probably 250 people that flew regularly, with 80 - 125 on at any given time.

Most of us were still recovering from paying 2$ an hour at WB or AW.
Hitech's 30 $ a month flat fee, fly as much as you want was Paradise with 17 houri's massaging our feet and ego's. We were in heaven and we knew it.
And life was GOOD.

Now, we have smack talk wars, supercomputers, ego's littering the landscape from north to south, LOTS of planes to choose from, 15$ a month flat rate pricing. And you know what, life is STILL good.

Its STILL heaven, if we choose to make it so.

Its our Attitude that makes it good or bad.
It can be heaven, or it can be hell, its your choice.

Corrs · « **Reply #47 on:** January 18, 2008, 07:36:39 AM »

smaller maps
no early, mid, or late war. Just MA, TA, DA and SE.
VB's only had 1 VH
Mazz's alcohol supply wasn't running low
The flying circus had a CO that actualy flew more than once a year

And someone rolled a mission of near 20 goons and dropped all troops on 1 base causeing the game to go poof

Castedo · « **Reply #48 on:** January 18, 2008, 07:50:16 AM »

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Originally posted by moot
The Ta152 kicked ass.

It was perked.

Castedo · « **Reply #49 on:** January 18, 2008, 07:51:35 AM »

Tiger and JU87 were intruduced at the same time. Lots of whining about the siren (lack of it) when it first apeared

Castedo · « **Reply #50 on:** January 18, 2008, 07:52:15 AM »

never mind the spelling

Max · « **Reply #51 on:** January 18, 2008, 08:25:13 AM »

Originally posted by Max
In no particular order:

Night time came around every couple of hours and lasted 20 minutes. Milkrunners took advantage of night to launch buffs while others tweaked gamma to shoot em down.

There were no SpitVIII, Spit IV or Spit XVI, or La7, F4U1-A, Ki-84, 109-K4,
B-25, B-24J, P-38G, P-47N or Sherman M-4.

50 cals were much more concentrated and deadly.

Towns had about 1/3rd less bldgs.

Rants on ch 200 were few and far between.

Skyrock and Vanscrew didn't own anything other than a pair of socks.

Hitech used to fly, and chat a lot in BLUE.

Maps changed every Wednesday morning and Skuzzy answered thousands of silly questions.

Base acks fired higher but less deadly salvos.

Rooks all cherry picked from 35K...oh wait...that hasn't changed

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Originally posted by BiPoLaR
what hes trying to say is, AH was a lot better back then

I've been considering BiPolar's quip and whether or not to respond to it.

If given a chance to opt for AHI the way it was back THEN, vs AHII, the way it is NOW, I'd probably choose AHI. Why? Again, in no particular order,

Graphics were less complex...easier on my computer...better frame rate.

The solar cycle of night time was pretty cool.

The hard hitting 50 cals meant even a clueless dweeb like me could land a few kills.

The MA was the MA...usually 100 - 300 folks flying weekdays & weeknights. Naturally the population increased on weekend evenings, but that was fun too. Overall, there was much more of a "community" feel amongst the flying populous.

Granted, HTC began to grow the customer base and HAD to keep the game current with technology and (alas) add in the extra candy. The result was AHII.

More word of mouth, add the Military Channel commercial and BOOM...the dynamic of AHI was a thing of the past. Enter the UBER-SPITS and La7.

I dunno...compare Aces High to a baseball game and AHI was the small town baseball field where everyone knew each other and played by the rules. AHII is more atune to Yankee Stadium (playing the Red Sox

)

Nope, you can't go back and relive the "good old days" but they sure were fun.

Ack-Ack · « **Reply #52 on:** January 18, 2008, 12:58:23 PM »

"The Good Old Days" died the day HiTech came up with that really stupid contest a couple of years back.

ack-ack

Yeager · « **Reply #53 on:** January 18, 2008, 01:23:18 PM »

which contest?

moot · « **Reply #54 on:** January 18, 2008, 01:33:07 PM »

The score contest.

hubsonfire · « **Reply #55 on:** January 18, 2008, 01:43:45 PM »

http://forums.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=71485&highlight=contest

When rank became the only thing publicly recognized by HTC on a regular basis. The beginning of the end, as it were.

Spazzter · « **Reply #56 on:** January 18, 2008, 02:23:30 PM »

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Originally posted by 68Ripper
If you ran over a piece of wood from a destroyed bldg in your tank it would kill you.

oh and there were lot's more Sheep, sheep that you could actually kill.

besides the squid there were the occasional flying saucers.

I liked the one map with the beer and pizza near one of the HQ's.

~~Spazz~~

Slash27 · « **Reply #57 on:** January 18, 2008, 02:29:24 PM »

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Originally posted by Max
In no particular order:

Night time came around every couple of hours and lasted 20 minutes. Milkrunners took advantage of night to launch buffs while others tweaked gamma to shoot em down.

There were no SpitVIII, Spit IV or Spit XVI, or La7, F4U1-A, Ki-84, 109-K4,
B-25, B-24J, P-38G, P-47N or Sherman M-4.

50 cals were much more concentrated and deadly.

Towns had about 1/3rd less bldgs.

Rants on ch 200 were few and far between.

Skyrock and Vanscrew didn't own anything other than a pair of socks.

Hitech used to fly, and chat a lot in BLUE.

Maps changed every Wednesday morning and Skuzzy answered thousands of silly questions.

Base acks fired higher but less deadly salvos.

Rooks all cherry picked from 35K...oh wait...that hasn't changed

VHs were mesh camo tents

B-17 carbombs

Being 1 of 2 Rooks on at 2 A.M.

$29.95 subscription fees

humble · « **Reply #58 on:** January 18, 2008, 02:39:25 PM »

1) 1st it was free for along time. Anytime somebody whines guys like me remember that these guys didnt charge a dime until the felt they had it "right"...one reason so many guys are loyal.

2) to the best of my recollection Roy (skuzzy) wasnt even there (He was an outside vendor if I recall for a long time before he joined the company.

3) The original playerbase was largely vets from WB or AW. Even though it was free it wasnt "easy" and alot of guys payed there $10 or whatever to play AW vs getting hammered here.

4) The original FM was much more demanding and far less forgiving then the current easymode. As the game went "live" and drew more and more new blood HTC changed the fight model considerably in AH1 1.4 release (going from memory) to roughly the current one...

alot of other stuff more detail oriented....

Personally I wish we had the old flight model back but such is life.

Max · « **Reply #59 on:** January 18, 2008, 02:44:24 PM »

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Originally posted by humble

to the best of my recollection Roy (skuzzy) wasnt even there (He was an outside vendor if I recall for a long time before he joined the company.

Didn't he park a pizza/beer wagon outside the old Grapevine office?

grins,ducks and runs.....