How to increase the value of this game?

[pembquist]

That's... one of the more evil things I've heard in the last year.

Wiley.

Hey, I didn't make this world but I've got to live in it.

[Nefarious]

No more boats?

Yeah, that's a bummer.

[BFOOT1]

I think pilot customization would be cool. You could choose to add googles on or off, scarves, oxygen masks, change what they wear (tunics, flight jackets, suits) and in some cases change skins color.

[AAIK]

HT, I hope you don't mind me being to the point here, but isn't limiting yourself like saying no boats shooting yourself in the foot?

I am sure you have a direction for development/etc, but there are a lot of people with dreams in this game.

There is competition as well, like war thunder, who can fulfil those dreams and hopes of experiences.

Your word being the final one, being the important factor here.

[The Fugitive]

HT, I hope you don't mind me being to the point here, but isn't limiting yourself like saying no boats shooting yourself in the foot?

I am sure you have a direction for development/etc, but there are a lot of people with dreams in this game.

There is competition as well, like war thunder, who can fulfil those dreams and hopes of experiences.

Your word being the final one, being the important factor here.

While I understand what your saying, and it does make sense, you have to understand that HTC is a half dozen full time employees, with some subscribers that help out with a map now and then as well as skin work. War Thunder and those games have hundreds of employees working on them, and they still cant get it right   

What is added is most likely a small part of what Hitech and his crew would love to put out, but there are only so many hours in a day. He has said he would like to add submarines to the game some day, but dont look for them for a long while. They are a small company and Hitech likes it like that because he can control the product and put out what he thinks is best. Id guess he knows what he's doing as this small crew has been around with a nitch game for around a dozen years. Not many of the "big companies" are going to come close to that kind of staying power.

[Lusche]

you have to understand that HTC is a half dozen full time employees,

They filled up their ranks recently? 


 

[PR3D4TOR]

Free beer.

[CAV]

-Less events, more focus on the melee arena.

SMOKE WHAT!!!!

I think it needs to be the other way around!!! ... if I was King for a Day I would shut down the melee arena during events! 

Cav

[Owlblink]

with all due respect to HiTech, please try to see the reasoning and do not take this as passive aggressive, but throughout the years many of your replies come across short and full of contempt for your customers. A bit of partisipation, reasoning, and good old customer service professionalism goes a longway to finantial stability.

Not all said ideas are ideal but they come from a good place not deserving a "hell no" response to a customer simply trying to churn up iseas feedback. Explain why something cant or will not be done does us more good.

Other large scale games (which are competitors to this) DO have persistent destroyed objects like blown up tanks, knocked over trees, etc. the "tech" excuse or hardware excuse does not work. The money excuse does, but that changes with better customer service and being creative. Invest in younger coders that know how to do some of these things. Own the physical server yourself to allow for graphic packaging vs having to code for every little detail like this was the 90's.

Again, all with respect and no contempt, which is what customers should aslo be receiving since they pay the bills.

Thank you and well done on the slow but sure improvements to AHIII!

Zoneys with mine added.

[Lusche]

Invest in younger coders that know how to do some of these things.

[Zoney]

OwlBlink.

I pay 15 bucks a month to play the game as HiTech made it and runs it.  He owes me nothing for playing the game for years.  I do not expect HiTech to indulge me with responses of any kind on the boards.

You seem like a solid guy.  I just wanted to give you the vision I have about the contract I have with HiTech.  I pays my monies, I plays his game.

[ImADot]

Other large scale games (which are competitors to this) DO have persistent destroyed objects like blown up tanks, knocked over trees, etc. the "tech" excuse or hardware excuse does not work.

Do those other games have maps that are 262,144 square miles in size, where anyone can be anywhere on the map at any time? That's a hell of a lot of objects to try to keep track of current state.

[The Fugitive]

with all due respect to HiTech, please try to see the reasoning and do not take this as passive aggressive, but throughout the years many of your replies come across short and full of contempt for your customers. A bit of partisipation, reasoning, and good old customer service professionalism goes a longway to finantial stability.

Not all said ideas are ideal but they come from a good place not deserving a "hell no" response to a customer simply trying to churn up iseas feedback. Explain why something cant or will not be done does us more good.

Other large scale games (which are competitors to this) DO have persistent destroyed objects like blown up tanks, knocked over trees, etc. the "tech" excuse or hardware excuse does not work. The money excuse does, but that changes with better customer service and being creative. Invest in younger coders that know how to do some of these things. Own the physical server yourself to allow for graphic packaging vs having to code for every little detail like this was the 90's.

Again, all with respect and no contempt, which is what customers should aslo be receiving since they pay the bills.

Thank you and well done on the slow but sure improvements to AHIII!

The maps we play on are HUGE compared to all of those other games. HTC has a very good crew of programmers. Top of the line, but there are only a couple of them. Hitech started Warbirds and other people started filling up the payroll and he lost control of the game. He left and started AH. I doubt he wants to go the same route he did in Warbirds. That is why he keeps his team small. No dead weight, all top notch people, but again, only a few people.

[Oldman731]

with all due respect to HiTech, please try to see the reasoning and do not take this as passive aggressive, but throughout the years many of your replies come across short and full of contempt for your customers. A bit of partisipation, reasoning, and good old customer service professionalism goes a longway to finantial stability.

Not all said ideas are ideal but they come from a good place not deserving a "hell no" response to a customer simply trying to churn up iseas feedback. Explain why something cant or will not be done does us more good.

I agree with this.  Especially since Owlblink spells with all of Dale's attention to Webster's.  The OP's wishes were posted in good faith.

- oldman

[USCH]

No more boats?

What about the BattleShip we saw in Beta? (frown face... sad)