I can sort of see where he's coming from but only to an extent. I've been playing online flight simulators for about twelve years now (God I'm old!) but out of all of them, I'd say Aces High is the best realistic combat flight simulator out there and while I haven't taken to the cockpit on AH in about four years ever since getting a laptop, one of the first things I'm doing when I get my desktop computer in a month or so is signing back up to Aces High.
I originally came to Aces High after Air Warrior (R.I.P) and then a brief stint at CFS2 but the community was great. It consisted most of my pals from AW from Gamestorm, EA, and of course AOL, and the action was great and while there were subtle accusations against certain pilots for possibly cheating and/or hacking, it never really materialized, they were debunked my administrators. But as a new crop of pilots emerged, most of the younger generations, I could tell that the game was changing for the worse when I finally left after getting a new job and having to lose the desktop computer.
Now Aces High 2 is here and I can't wait to get back into the cockpit but the original poster doesn't hit on anything I didn't know already - the community has changed and there is now a clear distinction, now that AH has been around for awhile between the veterans and the noobs. Add in the fact that there are certain bugs out there, which I've seen firsthand since they're posted on YouTube (the one Me109 carpetbombing the field each time he flies over it is quite amusing but also unfortunate at the same time), and I can see why he might be fed up. With the money that is spent each month on the game, you want some value to that and cheaters don't make the game enjoyable but I have the utmost confidence in AH's Administrators to fix any bug and identify and ban any cheaters/hackers.
That is all.
