Lost Asset

[earl1937]

  It gives me a "sad", "sad" feeling to see players leaving the game who have contributed so much to this game! There is another on line sim game which is attracting players because of their graphics, but their aircraft "suck", when compared to Aces High! Some how, some way, someone has to get through to Hi Tech that the graphics system needs to be up graded to a more "realistic" feel when flying in this game.
There are a number of things which could be added to make the game a lot better and deter people from wanting to leave. Example: A Navy PBY4 aircraft assigned to each port, (5) each. The PBY4 would be stealth, would not show up on radar and would show no dar. These of course would be used to locate enemy CV groups and scout ahead on Naval aviation missions posted in the CV groups. They would not be able to be killed by anything except Japanese aircraft, although, I know, some were used in the Atlantic theater, but less keep it simple. This way they would not be "cannon fodder" for 262's and would be useful tools to players in the game.
Aircraft sitting around on ramps and hangars, ground vehicles moving about on bases, maybe even some ground personnel moving about to make it more realistic! More trains moving about on all the different maps to promote more Hvy fighter attacks on same.
Clouds! I know that they are working on this at AH, but if other sim games can have clouds without interfering with ones computer frame rate, then AH can do the same!
Bring back the Curtis C-46 Commando, which AH thought was a C-47 when I first came into the game, only have 3 assigned to any one base, but they would be able to carry 3 boxes of field supplies for base and strat resupply.
How about some "grass" aerodromes, such as those that were in Germany and France and other countries during the WW2 theater of operations. Would be kinda neat to see 10 ME-109's or something similar, taking off, line abreast, just like they did during the WW2 war!
Multi section bridges which can be destroyed and damage points awarded for such?
There is just a ton of things that can be done with this game and without question, would, because of the aircraft modeling, garner the majority of on line sim players.
And it would probably make Hi Tech a "billionaire"!!!! LOL

[zack1234]

There is nothing up with the game

Stop moaning and have fun

[Shifty]

There is nothing up with the game

Stop moaning and have fun

Indeed

Here Here

Tish tosh and all that rot!   

 

[Myg]

Its best not to be ignorant of your surroundings, but not put down by them either. Yes, alternatives will take players away from the fold, that is inevitable. I really like some of the ideas, like the grass fields and "stealth" pby's. I think storch's should be like that as well. It would certainly open up another front of playing.

[uptown]

What if HTC just wants a good, affordable product that's easy to manage with relatively low overhead?  Why do they have to become the Starbucks of flight sims? Maybe HTC doesn't want to cater to millions of customers.

If I were a business owner I'd want to keep it small, yet profitable enough to make a decent living.



BTW.....I'm all for the PBYs @ ports 

[asterix]

Example: A Navy PBY4 aircraft assigned to each port, (5) each. The PBY4 would be stealth, would not show up on radar and would show no dar. These of course would be used to locate enemy CV groups and scout ahead on Naval aviation missions posted in the CV groups. They would not be able to be killed by anything except Japanese aircraft, although, I know, some were used in the Atlantic theater, but less keep it simple.

You have got to be kidding on this one.  Right?

[KG45]

been playing flight sims and other games for 12+ years. game play was and is infinitely more important to me than graphics.

there is no MMPOLG that compares to AH in terms of playability, accessibility, scenarios, player participation and volunteerism (CMs), product support, and price.

[Zacherof]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but ist the pby4 a modified B24D with a single rudder?
Thus the privateer requires a runway to operate, as it lacks the required floats and boat hull of a flying boat.
Therefore I don't see it operating out of a port as it doest have a runway.

Slight difference between the b24 and pby4, the engines are placed vertically as oppose to horizontaly, it has a single massive rudder as oppose to the tail boom it had before, It has 2 top turrets, a different nose turret, different blister positions, and not sure if it had a ball turret.

 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_PB4Y-2_Privateer

http://www.timemoneyandblood.com/HTML/aircraft/americanAircraft/privateer.html

[Lusche]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but ist the pby4 a modified B24 with a single rudder?

No that was the PB4Y  The PBY4 would be a Catalina variant (PBY-4).

[Zacherof]

Oh................

All these designations for naval aircraft are not for the tired minded
my mistake guys. Thanks lusche 







P.s. I wouldn't mind have this bird

[Wiley]

It is really starting to irk me how many people think better graphics is something you just 'turn on'.  I wouldn't bother to count the number of posts stating they need to do a new graphics engine, or license cryengine, or move to DX11 or whatever.

If they did that, that's just swell.  Now, to take advantage of that they have to redo every. single. piece. of artwork and models in the game.  Trees, buildings, ground textures, vehicle artwork, vehicle models.  Every bit of it would need to be redone.  Artwork is the vast majority of the work in a 3D game, not backend programming.  Also, every single map would need to be redone if they wanted higher detail on the ground shapes.

But yep, it's just that simple.  Recreate the entire game world.  Should only take a couple weeks, right?

/rant

Wiley.

[gyrene81]

i think Earl found his grass stash from '65...and it may have been dusted with some pesticide.

[SirNuke]

It is really starting to irk me how many people think better graphics is something you just 'turn on'.  I wouldn't bother to count the number of posts stating they need to do a new graphics engine, or license cryengine, or move to DX11 or whatever.

If they did that, that's just swell.  Now, to take advantage of that they have to redo every. single. piece. of artwork and models in the game.  Trees, buildings, ground textures, vehicle artwork, vehicle models.  Every bit of it would need to be redone.  Artwork is the vast majority of the work in a 3D game, not backend programming.  Also, every single map would need to be redone if they wanted higher detail on the ground shapes.

But yep, it's just that simple.  Recreate the entire game world.  Should only take a couple weeks, right?

/rant

Wiley.

the AH2 engine is 9 years old, thank you for the rant

[gyrene81]

the AH2 engine is 9 years old, thank you for the rant

and yet, here it still stands when every other mmo flight sim has come and gone. says something about perception doesn't it...

the real question is, if you dislike it so much, why are you still here lurking in the forums?

[LCADolby]

AcesHigh is in desperate need for a more efficient graphics engine.