Fudging the Rules

[smokey23]

The wishlist is a good place to put youre ideas about things that can improve the game.I've posted a few myself.However everytime you do just be prepared to be beat over the head with the idea you had. All you have to do is have youreself a better argument for why it should be included than the one trying to bash it and argue why it shouldnt be included. Keep the faith brother

[rvflyer]

I have noticed that a lot of ideas (and most of mine) in the wishlist forum get said "no" to mostly because the would be too real or would cause some small "disruptions", "inconveniences", and "annoyances" to some players. Mostly it is things along the line of an increase in radio chatter, or the runway or for 5 minutes,


I won't play the game If I have to wait for some random time before upping again, this game wastes enough time without waiting.
What the point of small disruptions or inconveniences? Personally I think the majority of people are happy to play the way it is. It seems to always be the same crowd
that complains about the game. It is a WW2 scenario not a simulator.

[A8TOOL]

The 7 year unanswered wish list.....  a few of them anyway.

The F6 to go as fast as it's supposed too...

The Game clock to resemble any real American time (eastern, CNT, PAC, MNT)

The text buffer to remember what channels you use instead of erase them once you enter and exit the lobby

Zoom settings to remember like our standard set plane views already do

Proper dawn/dusk colors like in AH1 instead of this muddy overcast look. Sunsets used to be so nice in AH1.

Three uncapturable bases in TT & FT ( place the red square on them)

Squelch on/off choices for range

Rockets to fire first and bombs second when you cycle through your ord..no big deal but there it is.

Auto boot of tower sitters after 45 min to 1 hour

Hills and trees to be impenetrable by tank rounds when hiding behind them

To be able to land safely when firmly planted in the yellow arrow of tank spawns instead of getting capture, ditch or crash most of the time

Increase ammo hardness as it is a bunker ya know. Radar, troops and fuel are all out in the open and should only take 1 to 2 rockets to kill but not the ord.

Red outs when your burning to simulate heat. If I'm on fire I'm panicing and should not be able to continue fighting as normal.



Some of these are just CM issues. Just a click or two of the mouse and done but none answered     .

[crazyivan]

zoom settings . 

[The Fugitive]

The 7 year unanswered wish list.....  a few of them anyway.

The F6 to go as fast as it's supposed too... Prove it. HTC uses the data they have though a bunch of research they do. Just having some scrap of paper with a number on it isn't going to change their minds. Also, whats an extra 20-25 mph going to do for you?

The Game clock to resemble any real American time (eastern, CNT, PAC, MNT)wouldn't work for two reason I can think of... whos time zone are they going to use? this game is played all around the world, wouldn't want to offend the customers. Second if they did lock it to real time...using Dallas as the match that means the euro people would ALWAYS be fling in the dark.... sounds fun to me.

The text buffer to remember what channels you use instead of erase them once you enter and exit the lobbyDon't know what you mean here, I havn't changed my radio settings in years, 1 is 138, 2 is country, 3 is local, 4 is 200, and 5 is 138 vox.

Zoom settings to remember like our standard set plane views already doI don't use zoom much except in GVs, but this might be a good idea for those who do.

Proper dawn/dusk colors like in AH1 instead of this muddy overcast look. Sunsets used to be so nice in AH1. ya they were pretty, but I'm sure the guys with the low end computer really hated them.

Three uncapturable bases in TT & FT ( place the red square on them)Never going to happen, tho I wish it would. There is too much trouble between the win the war types and the people who just want instant fight and couldn't care less about the war.

Squelch on/off choices for rangethis is another one I doubt we will ever see. I'm thinking its about the same as the "perminate squelch" wish. HTC doesn't want people isolated....even if they are annoying little squeekers 

Rockets to fire first and bombs second when you cycle through your ord..no big deal but there it is.So little a deal that it gets forgotten each update I'll bet

Auto boot of tower sitters after 45 min to 1 hourWon't happen again, because it would alienate the customers

Hills and trees to be impenetrable by tank rounds when hiding behind themnever seen this happen, but I know that shells can be lobed OVER hills and such.

To be able to land safely when firmly planted in the yellow arrow of tank spawns instead of getting capture, ditch or crash most of the timenever land a GV in the field, I always die 

Increase ammo hardness as it is a bunker ya know. Radar, troops and fuel are all out in the open and should only take 1 to 2 rockets to kill but not the ord.playability issue, the game should be fun and challenging, not more difficult and frustrating

Red outs when your burning to simulate heat. If I'm on fire I'm panicing and should not be able to continue fighting as normal.This would be one of HTC favorites. What he would say is.... "What your really asking for is the plane that catches fire become no longer a treat and the kill be award to you who started the fire"  Technically if your plane is on fire you should take the initiative and bail immediately. Not that the other guy is going to do it so you loose a kill and possibly get killed waiting for his plane to explode.



Some of these are just CM issues. Just a click or two of the mouse and done but none answered     .

People who wish for things must remember that this GAME is a BUSINESS. Just because you wish for things isn't going to make it so.... or we would all be living on some tropical island with T1 lines directly into HTCs servers  HTC has to weight the request with playability, and fun factor. If it isn't going to add to the fun, or heaven forbid make it more like work...like engine management systems  they are not going to waste the man hours to add it.

Thats one of the reasons people trash a lot of suggestions. Most are not very well thought out and can be easily shot down even by just us bozo's who prowl the boards. Just because someone thinks "Wouldn't this be cool!" isn't going to make it so.

[hitech]

The 7 year unanswered wish list.....  a few of them anyway.

The F6 to go as fast as it's supposed too...

The Game clock to resemble any real American time (eastern, CNT, PAC, MNT)

The text buffer to remember what channels you use instead of erase them once you enter and exit the lobby

Zoom settings to remember like our standard set plane views already do

Proper dawn/dusk colors like in AH1 instead of this muddy overcast look. Sunsets used to be so nice in AH1.

Three uncapturable bases in TT & FT ( place the red square on them)

Squelch on/off choices for range

Rockets to fire first and bombs second when you cycle through your ord..no big deal but there it is.

Auto boot of tower sitters after 45 min to 1 hour

Hills and trees to be impenetrable by tank rounds when hiding behind them

To be able to land safely when firmly planted in the yellow arrow of tank spawns instead of getting capture, ditch or crash most of the time

Increase ammo hardness as it is a bunker ya know. Radar, troops and fuel are all out in the open and should only take 1 to 2 rockets to kill but not the ord.

Red outs when your burning to simulate heat. If I'm on fire I'm panicing and should not be able to continue fighting as normal.



Some of these are just CM issues. Just a click or two of the mouse and done but none answered     .

The 7 year unanswered wish list

What utter and compete BS, quite frankly I should kick you off this bbs for this post.

The real truth is you do not like the answer.

HiTech

[Spikes]

What utter and compete BS, quite frankly I should kick you off this bbs for this post.

The real truth is you do not like the answer.

HiTech

[moot]

Tool - I won't pretend anything with it, but take it at face value.. I posted this wishlist in a few different iterations and about a dozen items eventually made it to the game.
http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,202114.0.html

[RTHolmes]

What utter and compete BS, quite frankly I should kick you off this bbs for this post.

The real truth is you do not like the answer.

HiTech

Tool has a fair point - only a very small % of wishlist items get an "official" response. I'm not suggesting at all that you guys should waste time by having to answer every B29 + nook post but there are some quite sensible suggestions which remain "unanswered."

[BaldEagl]

The 7 year unanswered wish list.....  a few of them anyway.

The F6 to go as fast as it's supposed too...

The Game clock to resemble any real American time (eastern, CNT, PAC, MNT)  You really want it to be night for 6-9 hours at a time?  I don't.

The text buffer to remember what channels you use instead of erase them once you enter and exit the lobby  Mine have stayed set the way I set them for years.

Zoom settings to remember like our standard set plane views already do

Proper dawn/dusk colors like in AH1 instead of this muddy overcast look. Sunsets used to be so nice in AH1.

Three uncapturable bases in TT & FT ( place the red square on them)

Squelch on/off choices for range  I have no trouble squeching someone on range.

Rockets to fire first and bombs second when you cycle through your ord..no big deal but there it is.  Umm... start with rockets then cycle to bombs?

Auto boot of tower sitters after 45 min to 1 hour

Hills and trees to be impenetrable by tank rounds when hiding behind them  They are, and quite frankly do you really think a tree should be able to stop an armor piercing tank shell?

To be able to land safely when firmly planted in the yellow arrow of tank spawns instead of getting capture, ditch or crash most of the time  You only get a crash if you... crash.  You only get a capture if there's enemy's within 6K.

Increase ammo hardness as it is a bunker ya know. Radar, troops and fuel are all out in the open and should only take 1 to 2 rockets to kill but not the ord.

Red outs when your burning to simulate heat. If I'm on fire I'm panicing and should not be able to continue fighting as normal.  Red-outs are supposed to simulate blood rushing to your head.  I don't recall that happening to me last time I was hot.



Some of these are just CM issues. Just a click or two of the mouse and done but none answered     .

HT was right when he said in the past that what players ask for and what they really want sometimes aren't the same thing.


A lot of wish list items do become reality; the split hangers on VB's, the VB tank bunkers coming back, more troop barracks, more ord bunkers, more field ack and my favorite; the I-16 among others.  It seems to me that HT is very reasonable at implementing wish list items if they make sense.

[moot]

Just a few nitpicks-
"American time" sounds like he wants to have the game clocks display local real time.
Lobby channels - They do stay reset when you come out of the lobby.
Sunsets - I can't recall AH1 sunsets being anything special.  Dusk & dawn were always much worse than night because of the totally diluted contrast from orange glow and single light source system.  Hopefully with the new graphics, now that we have true shadows, they raise the ambient lighting.
Indestructible trees - You just have to learn the collidable shapes. They don't exactly match the visual textures.
Rockets first - It would make sense to have a universal convention.. Unless what we have's supposed to be historical.
Red outs - It's a legitimate recycling of a piece of code we already have (i.e. a new feature for "free"): heat, smoke, and pain from BBQing inside the cockpit would have consequences on the pilot that're equivalent in effect to his vision redding out.

[TEShaw]

This is great!

Plus, the original post is such a pile of gibberish; eventually, these monkeys will write "Hamlet."

Hang in there! You're halfway there! It's only been 500 years since the original; but monkeys have only had typewriters for 100 years. Keep pounding, dudes!

regards, teshaw

[Ratpack1]

What utter and compete BS, quite frankly I should kick you off this bbs for this post.

The real truth is you do not like the answer.

HiTech

That's Great!  How long before that populates sig lines all over town lol.

Tool, I can't believe your gripes include being too lazy to switch weapons and squeakin (did not type squeakin  )about it and also that the game clock isn't in real time as it relates to you or someone else. Who gives a frogs fat bellybutton what time it is in the game. Also you can land successful at a spawn as long as you are stopped and no enemy is within the allotted distance. Once again more lazy from you not wanting to take a few extra seconds to take a look around and stop your ride. A few other of those complaints also indicate you not taking a few extra minutes to check out how to actually do it. I pop in the lobby all the time and see whats doin with my squad and when I log on to an arena my channels are exactly as they were the day before and the day before that and so on.... Sounds to me most of those are less of an AH issue and more of a "you" issue.

My only gripe about AH is when I land 4 feet from a runway and get a ditch lol. Are there no ground crews with ropes at these bases 

[bj229r]

I'd be happy with Greenwich time, as that is what all time zones reference anyhow, as far as I know.....(would be problematic having it be 3AM with sun high in sky)

[Ratpack1]

I'm still amazed that time in the game is in any way a complaint. I think we officially have run out of stuff to complain about.

I'm even further astounded that someone gets upset because what they type in the wish list doesn't get in the game. It 's after all a "wish" list not a "so let it be written, so let it be done" list.

Some people have to much idle time. Try napping instead.