And now for something completely different

[hazmatt]

Again is not just graphics snd game play
DCS is dripping if bugs everywhere

Amazingly as old as WT is it still has painfully obvious bugs that you would think would be fixed. Two that I have recently seen (both in VR) are:
1:flaps on one of the F4u versions rotate in a way that they would drag on the ground in real life.
2: the cones on the afterburners actually move around the engine when you move your head in VR

[Yarbles]

I think 2010 AH could easily be back, it’s just a matter of advertising and getting a team together again to push updates. You can easily compete against something like war thunder with the simple prospect of no micro transactions to get those uber better planes, just no one knows about the game

That 

[Shuffler]

Some jave far more free time to fly. I stay pretty busy with other things these days.

[DmonSlyr]

Some jave far more free time to fly. I stay pretty busy with other things these days.

Always amazing to me to see players with over 100 hours, especially today. Most I ever did was like 80 one summer during high school vacation and even that felt like a lot...

[CptTrips]

Always amazing to me to see players with over 100 hours, especially today. Most I ever did was like 80 one summer during high school vacation and even that felt like a lot...

Is that time actually in the air or counting hours just logged in sitting in the tower while the  pilot eats dinner and watches a little TV?

[DmonSlyr]

Is that time actually in the air or counting hours just logged in sitting in the tower while the  pilot eats dinner and watches a little TV?

In the air or tank. Sitting in the tower doesn't count towards time, so yeah it's even longer if you factor in that.

[AKIron]

100 hours is a long time? Per tour? Per ?

[Lusche]

I think 2010 AH could easily be back, it’s just a matter of advertising and getting a team together again to push updates. You can easily compete against something like war thunder with the simple prospect of no micro transactions to get those uber better planes, just no one knows about the game

This is totally ignoring the fact that those who do know about AH and try this game out don't subscribe. The conversion rate is abysmally low. Advertisement costs money and is pointless if the generated subs do not recoup that money.

See the Steam launch - we had thousands of new players signing up for a trial, everybody of us was excited about that success (inluding HiTech) - and then they just went away.

So it's not "just advertise it!" - or do you think HTC would have ever stopped advertising if it still worked?

[Lusche]

100 hours is a long time? Per tour? Per ?

Each tour, only about 3% of the recorded pilots have 100 hours or more of 'time in sortie'.


For the record, my personal 'best' (or worst, depending on how you look at it) was 235 hours... and of course that did not include time in tower watching the map or planning the sorties (which would add at least 25 to 40 percent). When I was a regular, I was approximately spending 130 hours per tour "in sortie", of course you would again have to add planning time, time spent as a trainer in the TA, doing stats stuff and helping players on the BBS and such...