dear HTC.

[USRanger]

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Needs painted like a 190.

[Heater]

Short version.

1. 1974 coded my first game on a  dec , I believe PDP 4. 4k machine attached to a teletype.
2. 1982  Degree in Comp Sci and Math.
3. Became an EE designing electrical control systems for automation/robots/ conveyors/ any automated machine.
4. Started playing Air War some where around 1990.
5. Wrote some utilities for AW in way of an art editor and terrain editor.
6. Started playing with flight sim programing wrote a simulator for windows 3.1 that could be networked with modems to multiple people.
7. In 1994 ,partnered with two other players of AW, they supplied money, I supplied the coding to create Warbirds I was ceo of ICI.
8. 4 years later we merged ICI with Wild Bill's company IEN. At this time I lost control of WB and I was in charge of all online games.
9. 1 year later Wild Bill was doing many things that I knew would be the ultimite be the death of WB  and the company so I bailed.
    Pyro bailed the same day. After about 3 days of not working, became board and started on the clip board interface, an idea I wanted to try as a user interface.
10. Pyro and I started talking and decided to start a new company and create Aces High.
11. I hide in my apartment and write Aces High over the next 5 months.
12. For many years I compete with my previous self (felt like I had lost a child) to create a better game.
13. Tyrannis  asked this question of how AH came to be.

HiTech

You forgot the part about sitting in the hotel room in Dayton (AW Con) drinking scotch and trying to fly Chuck Yeager's combat sim....with the keyboard saying I can write this code
So this would be point 4.5  Ya PUTZ!

[Guppy35]

Ba Ba Blacksheep, Dad's a wwii submariner, RC flying since I was 10.

HiTech

Now we know why the Corsair is so overmod.......er....nevermind:)

[TEShaw]

I totally admire HTC, etc.

Just brilliant coding since 'Confirmed Kill'.

He speaks this other language, which is barely related to English!

But when he types, even with 'spell-checker', it's as though he has aphasia.

[Plawranc]

As a teenager it is normal to pay 100$ up front for a game and then get bored in two weeks. And for me being a stingy guy its even worse when I have to pay a fee to play.

BUT, Aces High has never gotten boring over 3 years and I find it WORTH WHILE to pay monthly to play. If Hitech can accomplish this with his small team. Imagine what he can achieve in the next year or two. I have a hunch that more players will come in these days.

  to the guys who keep our stomachs bigger than they should be 

[BulletVI]

I just wonder if we are paying enougth tho. Think on it there has been a ression for atleast 2 years now and game prices are going up aswell as computer bits and bobs like severs an stuff. Also maintenence costs aswell.

Now for the last 6 months i have been waiting to see if HT has to raise the monthly cost to us by around $2 to keep up with rising costs. And to keep the game as brilliant as it is ( some flaws but HT will admit nothing is perfect like crashing servers ). Dont get me wrong the game's great keeps me from the cells on a Friday or Saturday night.

But how long can HT keep it at $15 a month ??? Now i for one would pay an extra $5 a month just to keep playing. But hey if it comes it will come if not Keep up The GOOD WORK Aces High Team 

[gpwurzel]

Slaps Bullet (shush you  )

Keep up the good work HTC (ignore Bullet, he's mad as a box of badgers) 

Wurzel

[uptown]

Send my bill to Bullet if he wants to pay more. 

[Dichotomy]

mine too.. with the TX taxes thrown in 

[steely07]

I'd often wondered about this too, thanks HT!

[BulletVI]

Slaps Bullet (shush you  )

Keep up the good work HTC (ignore Bullet, he's mad as a box of badgers) 

Wurzel

I suppose an extra $5 is a bit much maybe $2 then  

[Tyrannis]

thnxs for the responces HT.


also, when you first started making the game, how did you go about choosing which planes to put in?

did you decide by your own personal favorites or things like what planes were most commonly known to the public?

[Boxboy]

My God Dale has it been over 20 years 

[Becinhu]

I call shenanigans.

With Dale's spelling there is no way he can write code for a game. Dale was actually abducted by aliens in 1999 where he received multiple "probings".  AH is being controlled from somewhere in the Crab Nebula by superior beings.  They have become confident in there design as proven by the spaceships from this years "Con Mission".  World domination will come in the near future as the "sheep" control RC space fighters to gain air superiority over this planet.  Realization will come when the mass media shows footage of Earth's air superiority fighters getting "picked" and "roped" by "overmodeled" spaceships.

[USRanger]

With Dale's spelling there is no way he can write code for a game.

Why do you think we have patches?