Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: Slade on August 16, 2022, 04:24:47 PM
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HiTech,
We know you are busy but please consider this. While we pay a monthly fee for the game, what would it take for you to add a new plane? Perhaps the Beaufighter or Ki-100.
If we started a GoFundMe.com, how much would a new plane require given your constraints?
Thanks for considering,
-X15-
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Excellent Idea Slade, I would contribute. :aok
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HiTech,
We know you are busy but please consider this. While we pay a monthly fee for the game, what would it take for you to add a new plane? Perhaps the Beaufighter or Ki-100.
If we started a GoFundMe.com, how much would a new plane require given your constraints?
Thanks for considering,
-X15-
I say A-26 Invader, but yeah, sounds like a great idea! I'd contribute! :cheers:
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I don't think you guys understand just how much would be need to be raised to make this work.
Last year I asked HiTech how much it would cost to add a Bf 110F. It would require only taking elements from the existing 110C and 110G 3D models and altering the files to factor in the new weights, and engine power figures. I even offered to make the default skin.
He gave me a rough dollar estimate for this fairly simple task and it was shockingly high.
Put it this way, if every player that participated in the last frame of FSO donated $100 each, (just to illustrate a small, yet definable subset of the player base) it would not cover half of the estimated cost for one modification of an existing plane.
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Lol the 110F piggy bank
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I don't think you guys understand just how much would be need to be raised to make this work.
Last year I asked HiTech how much it would cost to add a Bf 110F. It would require only taking elements from the existing 110C and 110G 3D models and altering the files to factor in the new weights, and engine power figures. I even offered to make the default skin.
He gave me a rough dollar estimate for this fairly simple task and it was shockingly high.
Put it this way, if every player that participated in the last frame of FSO donated $100 each, (just to illustrate a small, yet definable subset of the player base) it would not cover half of the estimated cost for one modification of an existing plane.
So we're talking maybe $40K to create a new plane?
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So we're talking maybe $40K to create a new plane?
For an all new 3D model, who knows? Considering that the 110F is just splicing together parts of existing models, I'd expect something like a Ki-100 or updated Tempest to cost well over $50K.
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For an all new 3D model, who knows? Considering that the 110F is just splicing together parts of existing models, I'd expect something like a Ki-100 or updated Tempest to cost well over $50K.
That is of course speculation until we see HiTech's response.
Keep in mind we are asking him to invest in his game in a manner that will attract and sustain new users. Also, making changes with a well-created and tested codeset, i.e. not having to reinvent the wheel.
HiTech, what say you sir?
-X15-
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I say A-26 Invader, but yeah, sounds like a great idea! I'd contribute! :cheers:
:rock
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This game has enough planes..
Have enough skins. We need MAPS.
Advertisement and small maps. A longer free period.
You really think a new plane is going to have people breaking down the door to play ???
Oooooooh Ooooooooh !!!!!
This game has a new A26 !!!!!! Lets sign up !!!
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What nopoop said...
Maybe a go fund me page to edit the map list 1st?
Eagler
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Maybe a go fund me page to edit the map list 1st?
Why not have a GoFundMe for both? ;-)
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Your neighbor walks up to your door and rings the bell. Hi Fred he said. Hi Luigi I replied. Fred continues: Well Luigi, you know my wife Dorothy right? Fred nods his noggin in the affirmative and Luigi continues.....
Well Dorothy and the members of her book club don't like the color of your house and set up a Go Fund me page to get money so you can repaint your house. Here's the paint we bought for you so you can start tomorrow.
Go back to working on the van fuze!!
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Unless something drastic changes, unfortunately the days of getting a new aircraft will probably never happen again
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I guess there’s time to master the ones we have. :aok :airplane: :joystick:
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I say A-26 Invader, but yeah, sounds like a great idea! I'd contribute! :cheers:
I've wanted the A26 forever. After seeing yours I want one even more
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I've wanted the A26 forever. After seeing yours I want one even more
Warren Hassler oversaw my independent studies program when I was a history major in college. https://www.psu.edu/news/liberal-arts/story/warren-w-hassler-professor-emeritus-american-history-dies/. One of his notable needs was an injection of a pint of good humor...maybe two. So far as I can tell, he never got them. But the one thing that lit him up was when he described flying the A-26 during WWII. "It was a hot ship." I can still hear him saying that.
Kenny didn't want it in the Pacific because the engines were placed so far forward that they blocked the pilot's view to the sides. So it had a short history there. I'm not sure it would have a longer history in AH.
- oldman
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I've wanted the A26 forever. After seeing yours I want one even more
:rock
Warren Hassler oversaw my independent studies program when I was a history major in college. https://www.psu.edu/news/liberal-arts/story/warren-w-hassler-professor-emeritus-american-history-dies/. One of his notable needs was an injection of a pint of good humor...maybe two. So far as I can tell, he never got them. But the one thing that lit him up was when he described flying the A-26 during WWII. "It was a hot ship." I can still hear him saying that.
Kenny didn't want it in the Pacific because the engines were placed so far forward that they blocked the pilot's view to the sides. So it had a short history there. I'm not sure it would have a longer history in AH.
- oldman
Which is funny, because I can tell you from real world experience that it has significantly better visibility than the A-20 Havoc. :huh
I'd love to see what happens with it in Aces High, the Invader I work on frequently has a hard time doing formation photo passes because the P-51 Mustangs literally can't keep up with us!! :x
There's something priceless about a Mustang pilot getting on the radio and asking you to please slow down. :cheers:
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For an all new 3D model, who knows? Considering that the 110F is just splicing together parts of existing models, I'd expect something like a Ki-100 or updated Tempest to cost well over $50K.
That’s $7 million or more in just the planes we have. That doesn’t sound right…not to mention GVs.
With no employees, not nearly as much overhead as before. A new plane would be man hours, right?
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That’s $7 million or more in just the planes we have. That doesn’t sound right…not to mention GVs.
With no employees, not nearly as much overhead as before. A new plane would be man hours, right?
I really have no idea. All I know is the price figure HiTech gave me for a much simpler job than making a whole new plane. That amount seems too big for just hiring out Waffle freelance to do the job. No way it's a 200-300 hour job. But it's also not big enough money to cover a year's salary.
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This game has enough planes..
Have enough skins. We need MAPS.
Advertisement and small maps. A longer free period.
You really think a new plane is going to have people breaking down the door to play ???
Oooooooh Ooooooooh !!!!!
This game has a new A26 !!!!!! Lets sign up !!!
This
and y'all wouldn't believe just the internet bill for Aces High to run.....
TC
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I really have no idea. All I know is the price figure HiTech gave me for a much simpler job than making a whole new plane. That amount seems too big for just hiring out Waffle freelance to do the job. No way it's a 200-300 hour job. But it's also not big enough money to cover a year's salary.
A practiced 3D artist could build the baseline model quickly but rigging the controls and linking the cockpit (to scale) would probably take longer. Add to that the fact Hitech mentioned that there is an "HTC method" to how they want things done (no clarification on what that is) and there will be rework. The weekly salary at entry level is $2,400.00 (add 25% for inflation) and that's entry level. That's JUST the 3D model. Rigging, texturing, and animating, are extra.
So maybe now you can appreciate what Waffle did for us all.
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Just jumping in this to say I would contribute but probably not to a plane. New game features or fixes and yes maps gets my cheddar. :rock
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Dont expect to see any new aircraft or gvs to the game since everyone in house that were involved in it either quit or "retired" from htc. Since ht is a 1 man show now, I personally see this game on some form of autopilot until it goes kaupt or the input revenue no longer is enough to keep it running