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Offline TheManx

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Why I left!
« on: January 17, 2019, 12:20:02 AM »
Most people would never know who I was. I think I was in the game during its prime, but even I don't know because the prime may have been at some point after.

With the Steam release and peeps trying to understand why the game had less of a population than it should I felt I should portray the vision that made me leave the game many years ago. I don't even know if this is still the case, but when the game made my front screen impossible to see through because of an oil hit...I left.

I was a turnfighter (and one of the better ones) for a long time. I loved the game, I loved the hate you get for an opponent who was as good as yourself. But that one move of adding a visual impairment to a percentage of the players who played the game a "certain" way turned me away.

I loved my time in Aces High! They are a community that I will always associate with (every few years or so), and I hope you all bring the game to what it was! I just wanted to add my two cents to clarify, that the path you all choose now determines what makes the game fun!

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Re: Why I left!
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2019, 12:33:26 AM »
Interestingly enough, some of the planes in AH3 I've noticed do not shed oil all over the screen.

I guess you'll just have to play the game to find out which ones  :D

We need more "turners"

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Re: Why I left!
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2019, 12:35:54 AM »
I did enjoy being one of Ah's villains back in the day.
May need to dust my joystick off....if I can still find where I left it....

PS. Stop being nice to me...I did mention I was at one time the villain...

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Re: Why I left!
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2019, 12:38:58 AM »
Sounds similar to darkness in the MA.. you can literally watch the action dry up.

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Re: Why I left!
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2019, 12:43:22 AM »
?

The MA was where everything happened....

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Re: Why I left!
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2019, 12:46:19 AM »
What I referred to was with AH II (I think), where if you were in a turnfight with someone, and a 109 buzzed you and hit you once....all you would see was oil in your screen. You would end up losing the fight because you couldn't see what the hell was happening. That is the time a lot of us left to go to other games.

My point is not to defeat the game, but to let Hitech know why some of us left so that he is informed. Nothing more.

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Re: Why I left!
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2019, 12:52:29 AM »
And you are the Lazerr. I noticed we both joined the game in 2002 :).
Good to see you again. I was wondering if you were the same person I knew long ago.

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Re: Why I left!
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2019, 01:14:18 AM »
Interestingly enough, some of the planes in AH3 I've noticed do not shed oil all over the screen.

I guess you'll just have to play the game to find out which ones  :D

We need more "turners"

 :salute



Now that you've mentioned it, you are right....it is a lot easier to still see and dogfight after being damaged with an oil leak in AH3


Manx, I have several different kinds of sticks and throttles , if you need one

Be great to see you back flying in the game

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Re: Why I left!
« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2019, 01:22:53 AM »
And you are the Lazerr. I noticed we both joined the game in 2002 :).
Good to see you again. I was wondering if you were the same person I knew long ago.

Good to see ya, think i flew a few months in your squad.  Its totally worth $14.95 if you can play between the hours of 12pm and 12am CST.  Id come use you as bait.. err help keep you alive for awhile while you get back in the groove.   ;)

I remember you liking 38s, and possibly the typhoon?

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Re: Why I left!
« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2019, 01:53:11 AM »
Never had any issues with oil in the 38,110, Mossi. No idea why  :D

People buzzing through fights usually no longer cause oil leaks. They simply disassemble the complete plane.

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Re: Why I left!
« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2019, 01:54:03 AM »
Strange. I never had oil on my windshield.
Even when both my engines suffered oil hits  :D
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Re: Why I left!
« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2019, 05:42:55 AM »
If you have an engine in front of you...  that can be an issue. Many a real pilot came home covered in oil inside the cockpit.

Try turning in a 38.  :D
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Re: Why I left!
« Reply #12 on: January 17, 2019, 08:24:35 AM »
I know from personal experience what landing with oil on the wind screen is like. Before that I never new engine oil was a natural laxative.

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Re: Why I left!
« Reply #13 on: January 17, 2019, 09:22:57 AM »
Damaged engines and oil on the windscreen is like missing an elevator or aileron, I can still get a kill.  It's just harder.  That's the challenge.  Can I adapt? 

If not, I still get a new plane.  :joystick:

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Re: Why I left!
« Reply #14 on: January 17, 2019, 11:06:54 AM »
I know from personal experience what landing with oil on the wind screen is like. Before that I never new engine oil was a natural laxative.

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