How is the game these days?

[popeye]

The radar doesnt update instantly, there is a delay. I'd have to login to find it, but I think its 10-15 seconds.

Currently, 5 seconds.

[Animl-AW]

I dont think it has. The arena was moving toward using the fast uber planes long before the radar change. The radar doesnt update instantly, there is a delay. I'd have to login to find it, but I think its 10-15 seconds. The radar doesnt give you an alt so you still have to find them, high or low? I look at it as how things were back in the day. We had squads, and most of them had many players on at the same time. Communication was good and reports were always coming in from other players giving location alt and type of planes, so the radar we have now isnt much different.

The game , as it has always been, is what you make it. You want to fly fighters, turn on the auto switch and it will put you on the low numbered side where you will most likely be under attack. You want to fly bombers, plenty of target to be had, flying off the map is even still allowed     Want to GV, many GV battles going on as well as base takes from the ground. Win the war, plenty still do that, check out Lusche's recent posts about the numbers of captures going up.

The numbers arent what they use to be which is the only real down fall of the game. Some of us are pushing youtube videos and posting them where ever we can to try and drive some more traffic to the game. Always looking for ways to get the word out and get a few more players.

When it comes down to it, numbers is the only valid problem. The rest is gameplay police, who end up discouraging playing it, its a habitual obsession.

Might be different if they wasted 30-50 hrs on a video to draw a few in just to have them talked out of playing by the ones complaining about numbers.

Every thread is an opportunity for repeat complaints, thinking the first 50 times didn’t work, maybe 51 will. Lets put it in a return or new player thread for attention.

[Lusche]

Wheres the perk planes? If you look at last tour stats.

There was an error in "total kills", so I replaced the picture with the correct version, where the Tempest appears on #12. You might have to clear your cache if it doesn't show up correctly yet, it didn't for me at first.

[Lusche]

it would be interesting how AWACS radar have changed planeset demographics  before and after the change

I'm thinking of making an animation of killshares over the years, but that might take a week or two.

However, I don't think we would see a distinct change which can be simply attributed to the AWACS dar alone. There are more factors impacting plane choice, the biggest one IMHO the change in the nature of battle/fights caused by lower population.

Also, the population change makes single players having a much bigger impact on those charts - a single player could barely make a dent in the stats of a popular plane back when the kill numbers were more than six times as high.

[DmonSlyr]

>personal preference<

Your style is personal preference, not mandatory.

Why are we talking about this crap in a return player thread?

Does anyone think at all?

Some here would have a hard time selling diamonds and gold, they’d talk about everything wrong with it, then wonder why the customer walked away.

Kinda makes some efforts fruitless.
<smh>

I'm just giving my honest opinion of gameplay. If you can't handle that, I'm sorry. I'd much rather have 50 Calderas back flying P40s, don't get me wrong. I'm just pointing out how challenging the game is while talking smack to all the vets scaring them away in their Uber late war monsters.

[LCADolby]

Technically, it's a lot fewer noobs and somewhat fewer elite pilots. A result of the pond drying up and few new players coming in.

A fair and accurate assessment.

[Animl-AW]

What I don’t get is in the numbers talked about players with one kill last tour was in the 700s
This tour in the 2000s. Ok? Something isn’t making sense to me.

We have new players on the roster nightly.

[DmonSlyr]

There was an error in "total kills", so I replaced the picture with the correct version, where the Tempest appears on #12. You might have to clear your cache if it doesn't show up correctly yet, it didn't for me at first.

How would the tempest get #12? Are you only looking at fighter rank kills or all kills except bombers and tanks? I mean the tempest is the best bomber hunter in the game and ruins many long sorties for those guys. All I'm saying is the Tempest, Spit16, and 190D are being used way too much by many of the better fighter sticks in the game and it really makes the gameplay harder than if people were incentivized to fly more challenging planes.

[Mister Fork]

caldera - I gotta say, flying Aces High in VR is a completely different experience - it turns your flying knowledge on it's head.

From an immersion perspective, the difference of flying with 2 screens and maybe a TrackIR, and flying with an Oculus Quest 2 headset is the difference between driving a 1988 Toyota Corolla 4 door hatchback and 1969 Pontiac GTO 4-speed RA4 JUDGE. 

Which is more fun to drive/fly?

[Lusche]

What I don’t get is in the numbers talked about players with one kill last tour was in the 700s
This tour in the 2000s.

Where are you getting this '2000s' from?

[Lusche]

How would the tempest get #12? Are you only looking at fighter rank kills or all kills except bombers and tanks?

Like I said: Total kills and deaths. Everything.
We have no sortie numbers (we used to have them for a time aeons ago), nor 'time in plane' (I would kill to have something like this!), so this is my crutch to get something similar to usage. Using something like kills (or even just fighter kills) only, would distort the picture even more, as popular planes like the P-38L or P-47N would be very underrepresented. This list was just trying to show the most 'popular' fighters and their actual performance in fighter vs fighter combat in the MA. It's not sorted by 'efficiency'.

[Animl-AW]

Where are you getting this '2000s' from?

Mine of your recent post, not going to look for it. I may have read it wrong. But there are new -4 new/return players nightly, just in the time I look.

[Lusche]

Mine of your recent post, not going to look for it. I may have read it wrong.

Definitely you did 

[Animl-AW]

Definitely you did 

Now I’ll have to find it.

[icepac]

Tempest sucks at high altitude.   

When I run into one with even a c202 at 30k, they dive away.