loss of members

[FLOOB]

Dude's worried about losing his member. Why's everybody hating. Walk a mile in his shoes and all that.

[Slade]

Crazy thing I like to do when logging in => ACM.  I like to look for and shoot down red planes.  I'm silly that way.

If I find a particular squad has been clever and has strats down or performed similar stunts: I simply log off.

While I do all I can to help resupply and protect vital country assets - spending the bulk of my time in the game resupplying is not why I pay for this game.

I know some squads are particularly proud of producing this recurring scenario.  I simply cant believe though  that it is seen as conducive to player retention.

To put it in AH speak: customer expiration times are accelerated when this happens.

 

[Invictus84]

So what is the average Friday / Saturday Night population in the LW MA this days?

[Rich46yo]

So what is the average Friday / Saturday Night population in the LW MA this days?

I havnt seen 200 since Ive been back. I only came back cause Im on vacation and my work hours will force me to quit after a month. I'll come back after the update "whenever that is". Hopefully things will improve.

[Tilt]

I think the most concerning element in all this is that Beta is very playable right now and apparently FREE to any one with access to this forum.

From this I assume you do not even need an active account...........


Yet its empty..........

[oboe]

I think the most concerning element in all this is that Beta is very playable right now and apparently FREE to any one with access to this forum.

From this I assume you do not even need an active account...........


Yet its empty..........

True, Tilt.  I find it concerning also.   Seems like there should be many more in there while its free, and as you say - its very playable.

[Lusche]

I think the most concerning element in all this is that Beta is very playable right now and apparently FREE to any one with access to this forum.

From this I assume you do not even need an active account...........

You do have to have an accound, but not a paid one. Indeed it's entirely free to fly beta online

Yet its empty..........

Well, I once went in and actually found 6 other players online. All on one country, grabbing bases against 0 enemies and yelling "WTFG!" after each 'victory'   

[madrid311]

how many of us in the aces high community can play aces high 3 without an upgrade? I needed a new desktop upgrade to be able to play aces high 3 and it was time anyway. I couldn't even enjoy the graphics with my old desktop. i could still fly but no eye candy. So I saved my per diem and bought a new laptop for work and play 5 mo. ago as I was on location. it has a i 5 5200 nvidia geforce 940 m 2 gb dedicated vram card 8gb ddr3 l memory 1000gb hdd which I though was plenty based on what I could gleen from the forums and it made the aces high 2 game come alive in a way that I was amazed, at how much I was missing. when i got home i downloaded beta to my laptop only to find I cant play it as I guess i needed a better game card, duh. when I got my new desktop with the bells and whistles with a monster game card I am able to enjoy the game and the beta too. so what happens to the few of us left and the new soon to be interested players who need a special computer to enjoy the game. Im worried it will be even less populated. how come no one goes to the beta now as is except for a few. just wondering where this is all headed. I only started 3 years ago and I love this game. peace. GunFTR.

[guncrasher]

madrid I didnt need an upgrade to play ah3.  99% of the people dont need an upgrade.  point is we arent sure yet how to adjust the settings.


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[BowHTR]

I didn't need an upgrade either and i have a pretty low end card.

[Estes]

(snip) 99% of the people dont need an upgrade. 

I wouldn't throw around statistics without being able to back them up. The group on the board is a bad representation of the population of the AH crowd. Niche within a niche thing. Having said that, just from reading around on here I get the opposite impression.

[Ack-Ack]

how many of us in the aces high community can play aces high 3 without an upgrade? I needed a new desktop upgrade to be able to play aces high 3 and it was time anyway. I couldn't even enjoy the graphics with my old desktop. i could still fly but no eye candy. So I saved my per diem and bought a new laptop for work and play 5 mo. ago as I was on location. it has a i 5 5200 nvidia geforce 940 m 2 gb dedicated vram card 8gb ddr3 l memory 1000gb hdd which I though was plenty based on what I could gleen from the forums and it made the aces high 2 game come alive in a way that I was amazed, at how much I was missing. when i got home i downloaded beta to my laptop only to find I cant play it as I guess i needed a better game card, duh. when I got my new desktop with the bells and whistles with a monster game card I am able to enjoy the game and the beta too. so what happens to the few of us left and the new soon to be interested players who need a special computer to enjoy the game. Im worried it will be even less populated. how come no one goes to the beta now as is except for a few. just wondering where this is all headed. I only started 3 years ago and I love this game. peace. GunFTR.

You should be able to run the game wth the Nividia 940m but you'll have to lower most of the graphic options as the 940 will not run the game with all the bells and whistles. 

[puller]

I didn't need an upgrade either and i have a pretty low end card.

I have a NVidia HD6540 1GB on a '05 model hp computer that the power supply fan is locked up on and I have a desk fan blowing into the case and I can run the Beta...

The amount of gloom and doom on this board is becoming oppressive 

If you build it they will come...I heard that somewhere...

I can log on at any time of the day or night and come into a good fight...I probably can find fights because I go the base with the biggest enemy darbar...I also fly slow planes or if I fly a fast one I get it slow fast so I can turnfight which usually leads to my death...but planes are free so wth...

Before FSO last Friday there where over 200 people in the MA and 100 in the SEA waiting on FSO...

The game isn't gonna be fun if you don't want it to be...it's really about the attitude you have logging into it or while you are playing...

I get kinda pissed myself when I get picked by rocky or rapier when I'm fighting 4 or 5 others but you don't see me running to the boards crying about it....and I don't rage quit...

This thread is the biggest bunch of lameassery I have seen on this board in quite awhile...I think I said a couple of pages back that it is a novel idea if the cats who can't find a fight and post on here they can't find a fight should get together and fight each other...but hell that's asking too much...

I had fugi all bent out of shape saying I could find a fight with only 40 something people logged on...

I guess I'm an idiot...or a lameass myself...because if I come up on a base where I know someone is down there and they don't want to fight me...I'll shoot their gun out if they are in it...I'll deack the base, I'll come back and kill there wirble or whatever gv they decide to roll...I will kill them in any way I can in whatever they are in...I get my player vs. player fix anytime I log into this game...

And if I know there is a hoard of fighters somewhere doing something...either low or high...you can bet your bottom dollar that I'm on my way...and usually on my way to my death...but wth planes are free...

So please...lets keep the gloom and doom and despair up...keep trying to get in the heads of those that read this board and lurk and are not vocal about their displeasure that just need to read one post that expresses they way they feel that pushes them over the edge to quit...

Because I know that Hitech himself will have to turn the lights out on me before I go anywhere...and I've got a couple of squaddies that will be there with me too...hell I guess we will just fight each other...we have fun doing that too

[Estes]

Ive logged in to the beta a handful of times at different times, and flew around and what not, which was about all I could do with 3-10 players on. I didn't need to upgrade but I didn't suspect that I would need to. Can you run the new version on a mobile vid card, or a computer from 05/onboard video? Maybe, maybe not. But, big difference between running it and running it well.

[Invictus84]

I havnt seen 200 since Ive been back. I only came back cause Im on vacation and my work hours will force me to quit after a month. I'll come back after the update "whenever that is". Hopefully things will improve.

So are we talking 150ish?  If so, that seems like not many players for maps as large as those sported by AH.  The CLoD or BoS/BoM maps are smaller with the larger servers usually have between 50-90 people on peak hours, so the concentration of players is much higher per sq km than in AH.  Let's just say I usually don't have a problem finding a fight most days.

Still, I'll probably give AHIII a spin when it comes out. I hope it works out.