Battered & bleeding WB FO Vet needs help!!!

[Taurus]

Hi Chaps

Excuse the sunglasses, but it's all the blackeyes I keep getting from iEN

I need some serious explanations as to what benefits I and my Squad would gain if we come to AH

Only SERIOUS responses please

[AKSWulfe]

Cheaper, more action (more numbers in the arena that is), quick updates, good features (missions, built-in comms, check6 key, things like that).... half the price of WBIII.
-SW

[Rude]

Talk is cheap my fellow sim junkie...two week FREE trail will say it all.

Cyas Up and welcome to Aces High:)

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Rude
Talk is cheap my fellow sim junkie...two week FREE trail will say it all.

Cyas Up and welcome to Aces High:)

What Rude said, and be sure to check out the HTH with 8 of your squaddies, its free 24/7/364...once you fly HTH with your squad, come online and try out the Main arena, then Combat Arena, and any Special events that AH is running (the Special Events is one of the few reasons I'm still active!)

[Wotan]

a main with 400 folks at peak

cheaper

we are working to build some community events like TOD of duty

The Combat Theater (kinda like wb HA) actually has folks flying in it) and custom terrains

It all depends really on what you want in general.


The biggest draw imho is the amount and variety of the main. The main is packed. Theres a new larger terrain in the works but still 400 folks is a lot and its fun.

[Skuzzy]

Support.

I have no idea what it is like over at WB, but support here is outstanding.  From what I can gather, the community at large pretty much thinks HTC support is the something pretty special.

Me, I am the ISP for all arenas but the Main Arena currently.  This is in progress of changing once I get the new pipes here.

I try to help with connection issues the best I can and provide support wherever needed.  And before one of the local knuckle heads say it,....if you do not like my support, or the answer to any of your questions, you can always just blow me out of the skies in AH. .

But, like the guys say, you and your squad can just give it a whirl to find out if it is indeed your cup of tea.

Hope to see you and your squad up

[Octavius]

Originally posted by Rude
Talk is cheap my fellow sim junkie...two week FREE trail will say it all.

Cyas Up and welcome to Aces High:)

3 weeks free!  (with that coupon thingy through the various ads)

[Turbot]

Originally posted by Taurus
Hi Chaps

Excuse the sunglasses, but it's all the blackeyes I keep getting from iEN

I need some serious explanations as to what benefits I and my Squad would gain if we come to AH

Only SERIOUS responses please

I left Warbirds and I never looked back since.  (Just be sure to turn off combat trim and the planes will fly the same/better than warbirds)

[Revvin]

Taurus give the two week trial a go, it will tell you more than any of us can. Things I like over Warbirds....well there is more order to the planeset, sure it might lean more towards mid late war (although more and more early war planes startign to be added) but the WBIII planeset is just so all over the place right now until they start getting more of the WB II planes over. In AH there is also built in voice comms so no more setting up Roger Wilco, telling everyone the IP, hoping that IP has not changed, in Aces High you do it all in the game using the AH Voice app HTC wrote. Just select channel 5 and type a number in as you would for a normal text channel and thats it!

There are more maps available that get rotated into the TOD. A lot more variety in the maps over say WBIII. In the game you have a mission editor so you can post up missions for your friends and all they need to do is select a spot in your mission and then the game does everything else, it gives you all the same fule and ordnance (which you select in the editor) and places you all on the same field and runway so no more confusion and half a dozen people constantly asking "which field?" "How much fuel?"

Take a look at the news forum, you may not be used to it with iEN but HTC actually tell you what they are working on and also post teaser screenshots of upcoming planes. Off the to pof my head so far in the next release we're getting a Boston III, F4F-4, FM-2, A-20 G, A6M2 and an P40E...why do we know because HTC show us.

On top of that add a great series of events like the TOD series which is much like the WB S3 series as well as large scale events and small fun events like 'Wild Wednesdays'

The community here despite what they try and tell you elsewhere is very friendly. Get your guys to give the two week trial a goI'm sure you'll like it.

[Ripsnort]

Revvin, you were here, then left, now your back again..just curious as to why you left the first time?

[Revvin]

Rip> I kept an account open in Aces High and Warbirds for about two years, the only times those subscriptions ever lapsed was if funds were tight, one such occurance is when I moved my girlfriend and two kids half way across the country and set up home (always a drain on funds) last year I added WW2OL to that list but let that go due to al lthe problems it had. I kept the Aces High account because it was fun, it was interesting and it was progressing I kept my Warbirds account open mainly out of habit and the deep down sentimental wish that it would again rise and become the best sim, for me that is not happening and to me there is no light at the end of the tunnel so I decided last week enough was enough and closed my account. I may go back someday and I'll try new releases but I'm not willing to pay for somethign that is not fun for me anymore.

I don't want to go into the rest of the reasons why I left, one this is not really the place to discuss that, two they are personal opinions so I don't need to debate them and end up with a flamer for no reason and third I've not got time to type them all

[Ripsnort]

Thks for the post Revvin.

[Skuzzy]

Just gotta say, Revvin, that response to Ripsnorts question shows a lot of class and panache.  Glad to have you onboard.

[Revvin]

Thankyou Skuzzy, thats quite a compliment coming from someone as well respected as yourself.

[Makofan]

I just made the switch from WB to AH myself.  I was a 2.77 pilot though...

Liked AH graphics, outstanding framerates (I am getting 20 fps in dogfights on a 64MB Celeron 233!)

Plane selection overall about the same, but some new things to try (LA-5, .202 etc)

I find the Main more chaotic than WBs; am finding it hard to fit in

I die a lot more here

I hate the fuel mods in the main; hard to get to 30k and stay awhile

I could never go back though ...

As a squad...
- You can fly squad night and not worry about upsetting the balance in the arena
- with the ground and naval game, you can come up with more varied missions (I love strafing PT boats)
- nice mission planner to help the squad
- built in voice really works well

Give it a try, I like the way HTC is constantly evolving it