With all this talk about the younger generation not being interested in flight sims, specifically those with a steep learning curve; I thought I would throw a little good news in (and brag on my kids at the same time, lol)!
I have 3 sons (14, 13, and 8), who have been flying an Aces High offline for awhile now, probably close to a year. I decided to let my oldest sign up for the 2 week trial and try his hand in the big leagues, and he has done amazingly well. In about 6 hours played over the past few days, he has more than a dozen kills, a base capture, and was an active help supporting several other base captures. I'm pretty sure I didn't do that well in my first few days in the Main Arena back in 2001!
He is solidly hooked, and his younger brothers are raring to go once his 2 weeks are up to get their free trials in. I think my oldest is already trying to figure out how to swing that monthly bill to go active haha.
The biggest problem is we only have one computer that runs AH3 well at the moment, so he is on that one. I have been flying with him on my laptop, but it is barely capable of running the sim even with every single setting set to the very minimum (15-25 fps on average, and even slowing down from that when shooting or when near fleets or towns). We are building a house right now, and I'm hoping we can set up a little computer lab with 4 modern computers at some point. That's 3 new players eventually to join the AH world, so I figured that's a rare spot of good news for 2020!
Maybe by this time next year will have my own little mini-squad winging with me. Look out bish and rooks, they are already as loyal to the Knights as I have always been!
