Being a person who designs/helps design events for the community to fly in, I never take criticism as negative.
Those were just general comments not directed at your personally.
I think one big thing with the game is it isn't very "new player" intuitive.
I agree, I (do / did) fly the TA a lot and since Ghost left I have never seen a trainer except FLS for two minutes sitting on a runway. Perhaps he saw me and logged
There's an unsupported assertion on these boards that Millenials (if we are going to do some sloppy painting with a big brush) have the attention span of a goldfish and need instant gratification. It seems like that is not the case if you work with them or read the research if you go in for that sort of thing. They seem to like more obtuse mid-term-rewarding sort of activities and state-of-the-art education / instant access to masses of data makes them good at this. This is a good match for AH with its well-balanced flight model. I think the payment model is problematic / old-fashioned and the gameplay all at once difficult to break into and unrewarding at the same time. There seems to be no shortage of interest in WW2 and combat games in general and it's not uncommon to have multiple platforms available. Judging by the demand for high end joysticks right now there is a healthy percentage of people interested in flight out there somewhere.
such as changes to mouse play
A game like World of Tanks for example puts you in a training battle and teaches you how to shoot, drive, aim, switch ammo types, etc.
It would help lot to have similar things in AH. The AI in MPA was a healthy move but some AI training, persistent on-line activity areas, bombing ranges, aerial gunnery ranges, BFM courses what-have-you would be much better. Also controller Wizards and in game-help options ought to be standard.
As far as new content, I've asked for plenty of planes, others have as well.
Yup it has been heartbreaking to see no new aircraft in such a long time. I know it's a lot of work but feels like HiTech has forsaken us. Perhaps he saw opportunity to pull in ground-war crowds and make the game an all-encompassing wargame. Hence the GV editions, the 88-mm etc. Unfortunately it's now caught in the Kansei Engineering trap of in trying to please everyone you don't exactly please anyone and the remaining MA players are so resistant to change they complain and threaten to cancel their subscription if HTC so much as changes the colour of the flowers at their favourite spawn camp location. Look at the cash prize Tournament idea, those that would have never have flown that poo-pooed it PDQ, even though it would've been in a separate arena and would have indirectly helped AH had it have been successful. The big difference in culture there being inherently not a participation medal-based, equality of outcome sort of a thing. Might have even got sponsored by Redbull
Would love to but he is in a different timezone.
