Rise of Flight

[chewie86]

Gavagai, the BS is that those who have more money can have more planes and then up better planes they have purchased. IMHO is something like oligarchy.

If you have to pay to fly it, then you should be paying to add it PERIOD. None of this free for AI pay to fly BS. Even the "official" add-ons for the CFS series you had to pay to even GET the aircraft. And for that matter, you shouldn't be able to fly in a server environment with people who haven't paid for that plane, too. In the $15/month Aces High, everyone has access to EVERY plane. And before you get smart and talk about perked rides, EVERYONE HAS ACCESS to them.

The other is a primarily offline simulator with multiplayer capability. My beef with their DLC is not so much that you're paying to add the planes to the game. It's that they're already IN the game. The updates add these new planes to the game and you can run into them flown by AI pilots. What you're paying for is to make content already present USABLE by the player.

^^^ Gavagai, read these ones better.

[DrDea]

 What you have is an unbalanced state in the game.Those that will pay for the optional planes can gain an advantage on those that dont. Regardless of that very valid point,Im not buying into a game that requires an intardnet connection everytime I want to fire it up. If I lose my intardnet,I also lose my ability to play the game. When your talking price to play,you have to add in the intardnet price.And THATS just to play offline SP. Screw that noise.

[Anaxogoras]

What you have is an unbalanced state in the game.Those that will pay for the optional planes can gain an advantage on those that dont.

Right now in RoF, the best aircraft are the S.13 (comes with the game), SE5, Camel, and Dr1.  So, yeah, buying 3 extra aircraft might be necessary if you're afraid of that.

You do see the irony in 'fear of aircraft providing an advantage' in the Aces High forum, right?

[DrDea]

Right now in RoF, the best aircraft are the S.13 (comes with the game), SE5, Camel, and Dr1.  So, yeah, buying 3 extra aircraft might be necessary if you're afraid of that.

You do see the irony in 'fear of aircraft providing an advantage' in the Aces High forum, right?

While I think that practice is BS at best,my main concern is a company making me go through a security check every time I boot up the game. I mean wasnt that the huge beef with Vista? Invasion of privacy? Everytime you did something you had to jump through hoops. Im not going to support a company that uses these practices.I didnt support Vista and Im not going to do so with my entertainment.
 Seriously,enjoy the game and have fun with it. Its not my bag.

[Shuffler]

I think it is funny that a game requires you to be online to play but has issues with hosting.

While the little vids and screenshots are nice, I'll pass till it gets out of diapers on setup.

[Anaxogoras]

While I think that practice is BS at best,my main concern is a company making me go through a security check every time I boot up the game. I mean wasnt that the huge beef with Vista? Invasion of privacy? Everytime you did something you had to jump through hoops. Im not going to support a company that uses these practices.I didnt support Vista and Im not going to do so with my entertainment.
 Seriously,enjoy the game and have fun with it. Its not my bag.

The reason for that is to prevent people from hacking and modding the game like Il-2.

[allaire]

Sorry it is to prevent piracy and only piracy.  Love that draconian of a DRM method.  Mind you it's not nearly as bad as Spore's or StarForce.

[DrDea]

The reason for that is to prevent people from hacking and modding the game like Il-2.

I seriously doubt that would stop hacking. As far as modding the game, COD saw plenty of user MOD's that gave the game free content for the devs.They didnt have to use it and I saw that as a much needed update. Hell look how much time people save HT time in here doing plane skins. Its win win.

[Anaxogoras]

RoF wins the simhq sim of the year award for 2009: http://www.simhq.com/_commentary/all_098a.html

[fyvsix]

if you guys see J2_VonKost playing online, gimme a shout!

[Ack-Ack]

I'm AKAK (you really aren't surprised are you?) in RoF, usually try to play a couple of hours on weekends if I can find a good server to play on. 


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[Shuffler]

RoF wins the simhq sim of the year award for 2009: http://www.simhq.com/_commentary/all_098a.html

  They must be hard up. Obvious from posts seen online that this is closer to beta than anything ready for the public.

[Treize69]

They must be hard up. Obvious from posts seen online that this is closer to beta than anything ready for the public.

Love people who slam something they admit they've never tried.

[Shuffler]

Love people who slam something they admit they've never tried.

I like seeing you guinea pigs be the experiment.

I don't care for a game that is work to even get it running. In my book that fails on so many levels. When it is ready for release I may try it. You know once the basics are setup like views and learning how to do DRM where it is not inhibitive.

[Ack-Ack]

I like seeing you guinea pigs be the experiment.

I don't care for a game that is work to even get it running. In my book that fails on so many levels. When it is ready for release I may try it. You know once the basics are setup like views and learning how to do DRM where it is not inhibitive.

Install the game, set your views and you're off in the skies battling the Hun over Flanders.  You don't need an advanced degree in physics to install and set up the game and get it to work.  The recent patches fixed a lot, if not most, of the problems at game launch and it's a fantastic game. 

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