World War I

[Stang]

Is fun as heck.  I can't believe more people don't play there.  Is it because there's no strat to bomb or ways for the weenies to hide?  Once you get in a fight you're either gonna kill or get killed, so I kinda get why they'd shy away from it.  Still, there's plenty of capable players who could be in there all the time who actually can fight.

I'd love to see this developed further (yes, even with weenie-mobiles).

 

[waystin2]

You post was incredibly motivating...

[gyrene81]

last time i was in there it was d-vii and dr1 toonville...clown planes. 

[Citabria]

I like the fights in ww1 a lot but its empty a lot of the time.

[CptTrips]

It would be nice, now that the B29 has been released, to throw some small bone to the WWI arena.

In the year its been released, HTC has shown it no love what-so-ever.  Not even to create a WWI bbs forum.

(And I don't count Ranger's upcoming terrain.  That was Player made.)

If the WWII arena had been this poorly supported in its infancy, it wouldn't have ever gotten off the ground.  Even with all its rough edges, what made people stick with it in the early days was HTC's obvious commitment to make it a success thru regular, incremental improvement.  

I've not (yet) seen any such commitment to the WWI arena.  Its support has not been up to the standards I have come to expect from HTC.

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Wab

[JUGgler]

WW1 is fun for sure but there is very litlle variety. I don't mean variety in planes I guess the correct word would be "variables" WW1 is always the same fight, plane performances are sooo similar that all variables are lost. For the purist it is fun but the shine wore off quickly for me. I think it is because the WW1 arena is too predictable!






JUGgler

[FLS]

last time i was in there it was d-vii and dr1 toonville...clown planes. 

Sounds like somebody got spanked. 

[Lusche]

Is fun as heck.  I can't believe more people don't play there.  Is it because there's no strat to bomb or ways for the weenies to hide? 

Was fun for two weeks. Then quickly burned out due to very limited gameplay / combat situations.
Today I would still fly a couple of hours per week... but arena population is often 0, and only occasionally 1-3 guys at my timezone. And I'm not interested in dueling.


If there was a WWI arena with some depth and variety comparable to the MA, I would prefer it over WWII any day of the week.

[FLS]

The aircraft are a lot of fun to fly. Bombs and targets might increase the population. I wonder if a 15k air start option would bring more variety to the dogfighting.

[gyrene81]

Sounds like somebody got spanked. 

nope...just haven't figured out how to keep from augering a camel...or ripping the wings off in a dive...  

[Yeager]

I went in there a few nights back and actually found 3 or 4 people actually playing the game (Often times there will be people logged into the arena and they are all AFK).  Of course the first enemy I came across was a DR1 (me D7) and as I tried to stay out of his gunsights I could help but marvel at what the DR1 does.  It spins sideways floats up rolls backwards and has this odd way of being resistant to hitting the ground.

So I grabbed a DR1 on my next sortie and came up against the same fellow in his DR1 and to tell the honest truth after going round with this guy for a few minutes (he was desperately doing everything in his power to throw me off his tail, to the point of desperation) I finally plugged him enough times and he augured in.  I landed it and logged off feeling like I had played some zero gravity spaceship game rather than a WW1 fighter game (I dont even call AH a combat simulator anymore, people today just aren't interested in simulations)!

[oakranger]

That arena just did not take off as it thought it would.  Not sure why, i had the impression from a lot of people on the BBS community wanted it.

[BnZs]

That arena just did not take off as it thought it would.  Not sure why, i had the impression from a lot of people on the BBS community wanted it.

Not sure why? Uh, try no support. Only four planes STILL, no new maps, possibly some serious flaws in modeling.

[CptTrips]

Was fun for two weeks. Then quickly burned out due to very limited gameplay / combat situations.
Today I would still fly a couple of hours per week... but arena population is often 0, and only occasionally 1-3 guys at my timezone. And I'm not interested in dueling.


If there was a WWI arena with some depth and variety comparable to the MA, I would prefer it over WWII any day of the week.

+1000

I can not tell you how excited I was to hear the HTC was releasing a WWI arena.  

I was expecting something as improved over their old DOA  as WWII AH was over their Warbirds.

I was very, very disappointed.  I still stuck around a while to see if there was going to be some roadmap announced on where they were going with it.  Nothing.  Nada.  Big, freakin goose egg.

I've been opening and closing shade accounts for months.  I want to support HTC, but I get so annoyed at the forfeited potential that I close it again in annoyance.

WWI will never justify the level of effort that WWII arenas do.  But they need to be supported SOME.  I can't believe they would intentionally choose failure.

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Wab

[Lusche]

That arena just did not take off as it thought it would.  Not sure why, i had the impression from a lot of people on the BBS community wanted it.

I guess many quickly burned out on the limited gameplay as I did. I was really looking forward to it after the poll, but found the actual implementation disappointing.