How did you end up playing aces high

[Ack-Ack]

Started playing AWDOS then AW4W, AW3 and WB in the mid-90s and made the move to AH shortely before the Exodus of AW.

ack-ack

[Tupac]

I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.

[Mongoose]

  Years ago, when I was playing around with computers as a hobby (now days I play around with computers professionally), I was at a computer show, and there was a demonstration of a WWII online flight sim (don't remember which one).  

  A few years later, when I had a better job, decided to check it out.  Found Warbirds.  Played for a while, and loved it.  For various reasons, I had to leave for a while.    When I tried to go back, there were some tech issues, I couldn't get my account to work, and I couldn't get an answer from them.  So I decided to try a different sim.  

  So here I am at Aces High.  I am very happy here, even though I still can't shoot straight.  

[curry1]

I saw a commercial on the military channel I believe.  Tried it and got a subscription.

[mthrockmor]

Hotel California: You can check out, you just can't leave! And Zoney is right about Pand...addict! Though Pand is right on the money about US Navy Fighters.

Abouth three years ago. Military channel, saw the commercial a dozen times and thought what the crap. Two eeks later and presto. Not quite a year later some German guy by the name of Dyhran invited me into Loose Deuce, which is when I became truly addicted.

Boo

[The Fugitive]

Pulled a CD of Air Warrior out of a "dollar bin" at some game store. Found it had a H2H setup and flew against anyone I could con into installing it on their computer. Then AOL got it and I logged in there. Played it until EA killed it. In the last few months of AW me and "TRIX" (a great hog driver) started looking for places to fly. Tried FA, WarBirds and Aces. Was going to join Aces even though it was $30, but HTC lowered the price to $15 and made it even easier. I've been here since tour 21

[rpm]

Air Warrior folded. 

This.

[Bruv119]

First tried AH1 circa 2002,  when FA upgraded from 2.5 to 3.0,   My PC was old and couldn't run the newer version,  All I remember was flying a niki around HO ing people     I thought the graphics sucked bad and left after a week to buy a better computer to run FA 3.0. 

Spent a further 3 years there happily killing everyone until the numbers dwindled and lack of game development was killing it off.  May 2005 was my first tour in AH2 and I guess the one thing that AH did have was numbers of people online especially during euro time zones.   I think even this has suffered over the last few years but still enough to get a few kills. 

The one thing that started the addiction though was going to Duxford when I was 15 and impressionable.  I wanted to fly Spitfires and Hurricanes and kill the hun. 

[Ripsnort]

Air Warrior>>Warbirds>>Aces High.

[mechanic]

By being poor and searching for 'free flight sims'. D/l the two week free trial of AH1 in 2003 and was instantly hooked, been a subscriber every month since. There is something deeply ironic about that outcome from my original search criteria

[icepac]

Air Warrior>>Warbirds>>Aces High.

Ripsnort was there in the beginning.

[rpm]

Ripsnort was there in the beginning.

Yep. I shot him down. 

[Rash]

Started AW about 93 and stopped about 97.  kept looking back for about 10 years, walla.


Rash

[Grayeagle]

Pand's list = good at flight sims -evil grin-

S'funny how most of us will list all the sims we played.
I had a page on the GEnie BBS back in the day for all the dweebs *like me* that stumbled in and didn't know where to start.

So I told 'em ..get it off your chest, make a list of all the sims.
Then ..forget about all of that .. this aint no flight sim.

Welcome to Air Warrior

People will sneak up behind you and shoot you in the back...and laugh about doing it!

They will vulch you just as often as you let them.. etc .. etc.

I came here when AW died.
I learned about AW from G-man (Rolf Penzel) ..
..who told me about it when I was learning to fly ..
..we were both in USAF ECM long ago and stayed friends long afterward.
I bugged him unmercifully gettin my Amiga 500 setup (late 1988)
..useda run about ~1500 dollars a month flyin DOS Air Warrior (6/hr + 2/hr surcharge because I lived out in the sticks of Victorville, CA)

Later ..during a CAD Engineering degree program,
..got hired out of the program two weeks before Associate Degree finals
(they gave me a Diploma anyway due to me bein on Dean's List with Honors, 4.0 GPA)
..to be Lead Artist for Air Warrior.
I was in deep clover

Useda fly with Hi-Tech as part of the Wart Hogs in AW, later we were in FUBAR together with some great people.
Good times. Invited to be a lifetime member of the Damned by G-Man ..have been ever since.

Didn't much care for Aces High when I first tried it .. nose bounce just did not jive with how the Mustang actually flew.
Sure ..you can yank the stick back and let go and get a similar altho reduced bounce .. but .. steady pressure to aim is used..the Stang tracks like it's on rails.
It has to for the guns to be able to shoot anything at all.
Yes .. I was jaded .. I had flown the real one and had two years of college level Aerodynamics under my belt.
I called BS a lot. -grin-
Because I knew better.

However .. Aces High evolved. There is no better out there now.
I haven't flown in awhile .. but .. I will.
Prolly be up in the Spring ..buggin Skuzzy to get my old handle back an such

-Frank aka GE