Author Topic: Read News....Your thoughts? (Read 2377 times)

Mitsu · « **Reply #30 on:** December 02, 2002, 03:52:12 PM »

Please add a plane prize instead of a cash prize!

Horn · « **Reply #31 on:** December 02, 2002, 03:55:32 PM »

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Originally posted by MrLars
IMO, this isn't the direction HTC should be going in.

Prizes for Scenario or SE's OK but to monitarily award score whoring in the MA will be just another step closer to the arcade play that I got into this type of game to get away from.

Absolutely agreed.

dh

Karnak · « **Reply #32 on:** December 02, 2002, 04:08:46 PM »

Its weird.

Its simple, so they aren't sinking development time into it or anything.

I'm not in question as a competitor.

Thus it is really quite irrelevant to me.

Hope it does whatever HTC wants it to do for them.

Vulcan · « **Reply #33 on:** December 02, 2002, 04:18:54 PM »

If it brings new players in good on HTC!

Stop thinking in terms of your own wallets.

Ahhh nothing is as tender as newbie meat

Steve · « **Reply #34 on:** December 02, 2002, 04:19:25 PM »

I don't get it. Why all the hubub? We're talking about lunch money here. Let the guy market his product however he sees fit. If ya don't like it, cancel your subscription.. with all the squeakin that everyone does, you'd think they were being forced to play this game. Geez.

Sachs · « **Reply #35 on:** December 02, 2002, 04:24:54 PM »

Why couldn't they start this on Tour 34? Tour 35 I won't be on as much as I was able to sneak more hours from GF then I was allowed. Should be a fun incentive. You can deposit the cash into my account, if you need the routing numbers I will be much obliged to give them to you HTC.

Tarmac · « **Reply #36 on:** December 02, 2002, 04:58:34 PM »

I like Mitsu's idea of giving the winner some input into game development. Maybe modelling their favorite plane. Or giving the winner some say in a new aspect of gameplay, however small. Heck, with the terrain editor you could skin the winner's favorite historical plane into new terrains, or skin the winner some custom nose art that everyone flies and sees on that terrain.

Something that benefits the whole community, not just the elite players and scorepotatos.

Raubvogel · « **Reply #37 on:** December 02, 2002, 04:59:38 PM »

The results of this contest are as in doubt as an Iraqi election....

Wlfgng · « **Reply #38 on:** December 02, 2002, 05:05:21 PM »

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I don't get it. Why all the hubub?

um.. well.. maybe because this is called:

Aces High General DISCUSSION ???

palef · « **Reply #39 on:** December 02, 2002, 05:08:41 PM »

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Originally posted by Vulcan
If it brings new players in good on HTC!

Stop thinking in terms of your own wallets.

Ahhh nothing is as tender as newbie meat

What he said

palef

palef · « **Reply #40 on:** December 02, 2002, 05:09:21 PM »

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Originally posted by Steve
I don't get it. Why all the hubub? We're talking about lunch money here. Let the guy market his product however he sees fit. If ya don't like it, cancel your subscription.. with all the squeakin that everyone does, you'd think they were being forced to play this game. Geez.

What he said, also.

palef

thrila · « **Reply #41 on:** December 02, 2002, 05:20:25 PM »

I think i would be pleased if it wasn't for the ease of which people can manipulate the scoring system to rank high.

Bullethead · « **Reply #42 on:** December 02, 2002, 05:33:28 PM »

My thoughts:

Looking at the top 15 pilots for November, you can draw the following conclusions:

This contest is for people who have no life. 500-700+ sorties, 100-150 hours or more per TD...
Because you can only gain points but never lose them, if you fly enough you, too, can be in the top 15.
The purpose of this contest is to reward those who do basically nothing but fly AH. The thing at the end is to see which one of this red-eyed, no-life crowd can fly better than the others in that group.

I'm in 2 minds about this. OT1H, this can be seen as HTC rewarding its most devoted fans. Fine. OTOH, it does nothing to prove who's the best overall pilot, which the name of the contest seems to imply is its purpose.

If it was up to me to design a contest to determine the best overall pilot, I would open the competition to include those people who actually have lives. So I'd look set it up to track people with at least 60 sorties, 20 each in fighters, buffs, and vehicles/boats. Then base the winners on combined total scores. As it stands now, the ranking system rewards persistance more than it rewards overcoming resistance.

Kanth · « **Reply #43 on:** December 02, 2002, 05:38:55 PM »

Exactly, I normally detune channel 1 but I can't wait to see people snapping left and right over a few bucks.

does my heart good.

Let the games begin!!!!

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Originally posted by Animal
And the score potatos will become even more psychotic when they are shot down.

I cant wait for the constant breakdowns that will happen in channel 1!

Pongo · « **Reply #44 on:** December 02, 2002, 05:46:04 PM »

This is like offering a cash prize for the Darwin award.