Being slowly weedled out

[nrshida]

Well there it is. Stayed up until 2:39 a.m. and had great fights with Copperhead, Spitty76, 0200, KB, Erich and Krupnski. Best fights I've had in months. Trouble is, I just can't justify staying up. Looks like Lusche & I in the same boat. 

[icepac]

Many "left" because they need to upgrade computers.

They will slowly trickle back in.

I left because HTC has removed the ability to use stealth.

[zack1234]

Are you com8ng back?

[100Coogn]

Are you com8ng back?

He may be very stealthy, so you wouldn't know...
I'm back.
I'll be between 20k-30k. 
Feel free to bring party favors..

Coogan

[Chilli]

The numbers don't concern me as much anymore, anytime that I can log in on a weekend and find nearly 150 players online in the main arena.   

I too, am mostly saddled with the off peak server times during the week, but I think a main arena vastly unpopulated is compounded by

• the 3 chess piece "win the war" /
• "fly anywhere and do anything" /
• "top gun score maintenance"
• and would draw outrage if it were abandoned
• (so not gonna be the one to suggest that).

       

The answer that seems to come to me most often (more often after time away), is that I log in to visit with some close old friends and hopefully encounter some new ones. 

• If there is a group on country coordinating together ( I repeat if),
• it might push me towards another style of play.
• Often, that style of play concentrates action away from player versus player confrontation
• and may even exclude one whole chess piece's involvement entirely.

Sitting and waiting for others to join the Match Play Arena, is fine if you are actively doing something else, and just waiting for a cue that there is someone available to "versus". 

• I think it better if none already populate the arena, to actively invite a combatant from another arena
• vox channels, preferred rules, planes, fuel, etc can be decided
• also, determining skill level in advance (# of months subscribed, etc),
• could help retain interest of newcomer
• rather than discouraging quick defeats  even for a poorly equipped old veteran lik me
• either way (invite or sit and wait) MPA is a very, very cool additional way to get your scrapping in 

 

[DubiousKB]

Thanks for the  in Match play... I tried to be "good".... But alas, my skillz lack the smooth hands of a surgeon.

Match play is interesting, but why doesn't anyone want to try 2v2 or beyond? It seems only 1v1s and one would be lucky to not get stuck with the same  butt-whopping-eerrr, lesson over and over. 

I tried approaching the fights differently, as you can tell i'm not a Ki84 pilot, but when I'm in 1v1's like the Match Arena, I always want to try an "even" playing field to truly test my skill. Frustration sets in early and often for me, especially when up against a pilot which I know should wipe the sky with me.

Nr, if you want to keep people in there against you on 1v1, try giving them some advice. I would have appreciated your insight along with getting shot down consistently. If the Match Arena is just there to club the other guy, are you really surprised when the seals don't show up? 

[Blinky]

Thanks for the  in Match play... I tried to be "good".... But alas, my skillz lack the smooth hands of a surgeon.

Match play is interesting, but why doesn't anyone want to try 2v2 or beyond? It seems only 1v1s and one would be lucky to not get stuck with the same  butt-whopping-eerrr, lesson over and over. 

I tried approaching the fights differently, as you can tell i'm not a Ki84 pilot, but when I'm in 1v1's like the Match Arena, I always want to try an "even" playing field to truly test my skill. Frustration sets in early and often for me, especially when up against a pilot which I know should wipe the sky with me.

Nr, if you want to keep people in there against you on 1v1, try giving them some advice. I would have appreciated your insight along with getting shot down consistently. If the Match Arena is just there to club the other guy, are you really surprised when the seals don't show up? 

This is precisely how I've learned everything I know today. I learned fast that the TA just couldn't do it for me - I've spent hundreds of hours getting shot down over and over again with no input more than "your pointing your nose down too much" or "you're trying to pull to much lead" by Glzzhuh, Skyyr, Anarchy, Violator, Joach1m, Krupnski, Blade, (whom gives 0 input lol) and many more. Eventually it will start to click once you see what you're about to do, you've done before, and it didn't work. I couldn't beat his Ki84 in the few I went, simply because I had no idea the 84's E retention was so well, and I knew I had to do something else, but I was trying to help out my noob friend at the same time.

In short; record, revise, re-up, relax, restrain. That's the 5 R's of Aces High.

[Krusty]

My 5 R's

Running out of ammo
Running out of gas
Running wee wee wee home
Rolling to a stop on the runway
REALLY wanting to do it again.


 

[Blinky]

My 5 R's

Running out of ammo
Running out of gas
Running wee wee wee home
Rolling to a stop on the runway
REALLY wanting to do it again.


 

LOL Well said!

[Slate]

   Has anyone ever heard of flex seal? 

[nrshida]

In short; record, revise, re-up, relax, restrain. That's the 5 R's of Aces High.

Emotional restraint?

You do realise you can't post on the forum anymore because your post count is presently exactly 109 

Nr, if you want to keep people in there against you on 1v1, try giving them some advice. I would have appreciated your insight along with getting shot down consistently.

You left after three matches without saying a word and only a System salute.

If the Match Arena is just there to club the other guy, are you really surprised when the seals don't show up? 

You raise a poignant question. No I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised when the MA vets don't show up either.

It won't make any difference imho. I've tried all those things and more in abundance and to no avail. The prevailing / remaining culture is quite simple and elemental and finally clear. Players pay their $15 for a months worth of win and if they can't get it sharpish they'll move elsewhere, perhaps to the MA or a multi-squad event or another game.

So I have decided to dedicate the remaining days of AH flying my favourite plane as hard as I can in MPA, with all the hard-earned and self-taught knowledge and technique I gathered in my time here. Rather be a hard data point representing the old days where you did things simply because they were hard and challenging.

Like a small fish, trapped in a slowly evaporating pond of what was once a large, diverse and magnificent lake. In a way the game is leaving me rather than the other way around. It's a bit sad but I guess my little puddle is just a bit closer to the sun than US primetime.

[DmonSlyr]

Emotional restraint?

You do realise you can't post on the forum anymore because your post count is presently exactly 109 


You left after three matches without saying a word and only a System salute.


You raise a poignant question. No I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised when the MA vets don't show up either.

It won't make any difference imho. I've tried all those things and more in abundance and to no avail. The prevailing / remaining culture is quite simple and elemental and finally clear. Players pay their $15 for a months worth of win and if they can't get it sharpish they'll move elsewhere, perhaps to the MA or a multi-squad event or another game.

So I have decided to dedicate the remaining days of AH flying my favourite plane as hard as I can in MPA, with all the hard-earned and self-taught knowledge and technique I gathered in my time here. Rather be a hard data point representing the old days where you did things simply because they were hard and challenging.

Like a small fish, trapped in a slowly evaporating pond of what was once a large, diverse and magnificent lake. In a way the game is leaving me rather than the other way around. It's a bit sad but I guess my little puddle is just a bit closer to the sun than US primetime.

If you build a small custom FFA arena with 2-4 bases, they will come. 1 side (all green), airspawns, quick action and quick aircombat. If you just get 3-4 players or friends in there it will start getting more popular.

[Lusche]

If you build a small custom FFA arena with 2-4 bases, they will come. 1 side (all green), airspawns, quick action and quick aircombat. If you just get 3-4 players or friends in there it will start getting more popular.

How would he even get 3-4 players in there during euro times? No chance that this will work beyond once or twice.

[DmonSlyr]

How would he even get 3-4 players in there during euro times? No chance that this will work beyond once or twice.

Well... I'm just assuming that he and others want some quicker fights in a more densely populated area. The best way to do that is to open a FFA arena like I said.

Oooorrrr option #2 is for Hitech to get someone one to change the MA after 3AM eastern to 3PM eastern to a smaller map where action is more dense. This would go a long way in making action and thus game play more exciting during off hours. That might be too much work, but I don't know how else to achieve excitement. The maps are simply too big for euro time is what I'm trying to say.

[Ramesis]

Well just as with the Lusitania, the ship is going down due a uboat of snowflakes