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Offline Wiley

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Re: Influx of new players
« Reply #30 on: January 20, 2012, 03:27:28 PM »
Quote from: Melvin on January 20, 2012, 03:23:53 PM
CC, found it.

You know, I've been beating my head against the brick wall we know as Aces High for ~2 years and never knew that was there.

Perhaps HTC should make one of the text channels "help" by default.


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Been a good long while since I had a completely fresh install, but I thought that was the case when one started from an absolutely new install?  I clearly remember detuning it at some point.

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Re: Influx of new players
« Reply #31 on: January 20, 2012, 04:11:30 PM »
If a player has never fallen for the alt f4 initiation as a noob, they will never be true AcesHigh players  ;)
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Re: Influx of new players
« Reply #32 on: January 20, 2012, 04:14:10 PM »
Quote from: LCADolby on January 20, 2012, 04:11:30 PM
If a player has never fallen for the alt f4 initiation as a noob, they will never be true AcesHigh players  ;)

There are lots of us who never fell for it.  Heck, nobody ever tried it on me.  But I did a lot of reading about the game before I ever logged into an online server and didn't ask very many questions on the open channels.
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Re: Influx of new players
« Reply #33 on: January 20, 2012, 04:18:44 PM »
Quote from: PFactorDave on January 20, 2012, 04:14:10 PM
Heck, nobody ever tried it on me. 


Me, either.  I'd probably fall for it today if anyone tried it on me. 

Never figured out how anyone got pleasure out of doing something like that.

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Re: Influx of new players
« Reply #34 on: January 20, 2012, 04:22:35 PM »
Quote from: Shane on January 20, 2012, 10:42:12 AM
I call dibs on mentoring the better quality ones!!!    :noid

Rotflmao!!!!!

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Re: Influx of new players
« Reply #35 on: January 20, 2012, 05:19:15 PM »
Quote from: Changeup on January 20, 2012, 04:22:35 PM
Rotflmao!!!!!

Only if you include it in your sig!


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Re: Influx of new players
« Reply #36 on: January 20, 2012, 05:42:55 PM »
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Re: Influx of new players
« Reply #37 on: January 20, 2012, 05:53:37 PM »
This is my first online game ever. I love flight, played on a nationally ranked intercollegiate atheletic team, spent years in the military, etc. This whole idea of hazing people is just foreign to me. It's about teamwork and comraderie. Alt-F4 is cute and all but I put it right up there with HOing, etc.

Everyone pays their own $14.95/mo so entitled to have their own fun. I can't imagine hazing newbies is going to build our ranks.

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Re: Influx of new players
« Reply #38 on: January 20, 2012, 06:04:58 PM »
Oh I have no doubt that the new players will just LOVE being horded first thing! Keep it up Noobs, and Im sure you chase away all the new players to.....

-Signed the guy that hasn't played all month cause hes tired of being horded.....   :aok
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Re: Influx of new players
« Reply #39 on: January 20, 2012, 06:11:20 PM »
Quote from: killert5 on January 20, 2012, 06:04:58 PM
Oh I have no doubt that the new players will just LOVE being horded first thing! Keep it up Noobs, and Im sure you chase away all the new players to.....

-Signed the guy that hasn't played all month cause hes tired of being horded.....   :aok

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Re: Influx of new players
« Reply #40 on: January 20, 2012, 06:17:14 PM »
Quote from: mthrockmor on January 20, 2012, 05:53:37 PM
This is my first online game ever. I love flight, played on a nationally ranked intercollegiate atheletic team, spent years in the military, etc. This whole idea of hazing people is just foreign to me. It's about teamwork and comraderie. Alt-F4 is cute and all but I put it right up there with HOing, etc.

Everyone pays their own $14.95/mo so entitled to have their own fun. I can't imagine hazing newbies is going to build our ranks.

Boo


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Guys like us just shrug our shoulders and wonder what the hell happened to a whole generation of grown men.



EDIT: When I say "whole generation", I should have said "vast majority". Some cats can keep it together.
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Re: Influx of new players
« Reply #41 on: January 20, 2012, 07:02:20 PM »
oooboy :old: :joystick: :banana: :devil :angel: :x :airplane:an no i am not Midway :neener:
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Re: Influx of new players
« Reply #42 on: January 21, 2012, 08:04:19 AM »
Smiles, everyone....Smiles!
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Re: Influx of new players
« Reply #43 on: January 21, 2012, 08:38:24 AM »
The Alt-f4 gag is a rite of passage.  It applies to other games as well.

   The retention of new players is hugely important.  If the revenue stream gets too low.  The game closes.   I have been involved with a few games that died due to fading customer support.  A good example was: EA's Motor City Online.  The game seemed healthy to me, yet EA was not hitting the numbers they were shooting for.  So bingo....the doors close.  We got no warning...no impassioned plea from EA to get more people playing? .....just Bingo ....it's over.  That could happen to aces high....so don't be naive.  

    I still miss Motor City Online, everyday.  It was a huge part of my life.

    So the next time somebody asks how do I drop the flaps?.  You might consider what life would be like with out Aces High?  Remember all the people who took the time to help you when you needed help? Even if you are some hotshot pilot, who even read the manual. I'll bet you asked somebody a question, in the game or on this BBS.   They didn't have too help you, but they did.  All I ask is that you "pass it on".  

by the way ....I still have not read the manual.... :lol


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Re: Influx of new players
« Reply #44 on: January 21, 2012, 09:18:51 AM »
Quote from: Helm on January 21, 2012, 08:38:24 AM
The Alt-f4 gag is a rite of passage.  It applies to other games as well.

   The retention of new players is hugely important.  If the revenue stream gets too low.  The game closes.   I have been involved with a few games that died due to fading customer support.  A good example was: EA's Motor City Online.  The game seemed healthy to me, yet EA was not hitting the numbers they were shooting for.  So bingo....the doors close.  We got no warning...no impassioned plea from EA to get more people playing? .....just Bingo ....it's over.  That could happen to aces high....so don't be naive.  

    I still miss Motor City Online, everyday.  It was a huge part of my life.

    So the next time somebody asks how do I drop the flaps?.  You might consider what life would be like with out Aces High?  Remember all the people who took the time to help you when you needed help? Even if you are some hotshot pilot, who even read the manual. I'll bet you asked somebody a question, in the game or on this BBS.   They didn't have too help you, but they did.  All I ask is that you "pass it on".  

by the way ....I still have not read the manual.... :lol


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There's a manual??? man i wish i knew that years ago  :cry

But seriously everything you said was right, if we wanna keep playing we gotta encourage growth which means not flaming the newbies looking for genuine help... as for the know it all "I'm the best, Everyone else sucks, and I don't need your help newbies, then flame away... burn em to cinders!
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