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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Black Sheep on December 25, 2004, 03:07:12 AM
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For starters, my love for all things aviation, past and present, but primarily for the aircraft and events that changed the world during the Second World War. I was introduced to flying through my grandparents, who both served in the American army during the war. My other set of grandparents lived in Germany, and that grandfather worked as an architect/engineer designing armor plating for everything from aircraft to naval vessels. I grew up around civil aviation and flew whenever, wherever, with whoever I could. I first started virtual flying with Disney's Stunt Island :) (1992?), then messed around with A-10 Cuba for a while. Never found a decent WW2 sim until I happened upon Warbirds(Mac) back in 1998. Didn't get to AH until 2000 (Tour 6 or 7?) and have been here for the most part ever since. I've also stayed with the same squad since then and have enjoyed almost :) every minute of it. I have learned a limitless amount of aviation knowledge through these boards, and have made countless friends along the way in the MA. (Hey, that rhymed) :)
I thought I'd share my thoughts as I finish stuffing the stockings and wrapping the presents. It's Christmas morning after all, and I'm frickin tired. So, a big and Merry Christmas goes out to HTC for a great, highly addictive sim and to the AH community, well for being a community.
Feel free to wax poetic about how you got where you are (in here) :D
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The commercial. :)
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downloads section at http://www.downloads.com :)
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While my country has no history of Aviation until 1948, something always intrigued me about specifically WW2 planes.
So I started playing from Fighter Ace1, 1.5, 2, 2.5.. and then someone recommended Aces High.
Been hooked ever since.
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hey my country has no history of aviation untill 1948 too, er actually, it dont have any history at all untill 1948 :D
how did i got in too that, i allweys loved planes and Aviation, and when i found out about this game... didnt took long
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Commercial and me always liking avation.
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A woman friend of mine met Wild Bill on cruise on the summer of 1998. Apparently he had recently? purchased Warbirds and he was giving away WarBird CDs to everyone he met. She hung onto it and gave it to me when she got back, where it sat in a desk drawer until December, when I was home from work for a week with pneumonia. I dug it out and decided to install it and give it a try. I couldn't believe how cool it was to fly against other people online, and I also remember staying up all night long playing, even though I had pnuemonia. And one trip home from the doctor's office I swung by CompUSA after visiting a pharmacy and ran into Thrustmaster's flight control gift pack - Top Gun joystick, Attack throttle, and Elite rudder pedals. I still use those same rudder pedals, though I've had them apart several times for repairs. Anyway I was just in time for the WarBirds 2.6 fiasco, forced move to North Carolina and subsequent meltdown. After AH got established I tried it and decided the flat rate was worth leaving Warbirds for. Been in and out of AH a few times since June 2000, but pretty much consider myself here for the long haul.
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
My first flight sim was F-16 fighting falcon I bought that in like 1987. Played it on a 8088 machine pumping along at 4.47mhz,
Then I played battlefield something or other by lucasarts a WW2 sim
Red Baron, Aces of the Pacific, Battle of Britain, hehehe , A buddy of mine used to get so pissed when I would tell him waht you could do in a bf110, he would scream you can't do that in a 110, anyway
b-2 bomber (micrprose), tornado, Falcon 3.0
I Think I saw warbirds r something like it (t was a long time ago0
Online time was soooo huge back then I did not look at it long
heh I knew folks that were Maxing 2 credit cards to play games on line
SO all that flight time and I still suck heheh Well Practice makes perfect.
So I am looking at the computer for a game one day and I see a link to a game called Jumpgate. A space game. Istarted flying around there ran into some guys we formed a squad. played together for 3 years, they told me about this I tried it out. Now my wife is looking up the adress for the offices of Hi tech so she can go there with a stick to beat them for addicting me!!!
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review at simHQ and the two weeks free trial.
Bozon
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Was surfing porn and accidently got to this site:cool:
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I started with B-17 Bomber on Intellivision.
I got a Commadore 64 in 1985 and played F-15 Strike Eagle and Mig Alley Ace until I got a real PC.
B-17 Flying Fortress came next in 1992 or so.
First online air combat was Red Baron 3D. Anybody remember a SPAD VII pilot named Poulet LeGrande? Yup, that was me.
Not finding any WW1 air sims to replace Red Baron I stumbled onto AH. WW2 wasn't my greatest interest but it's better than nothing. It's a great game with plenty of support and will be around for many years to come.
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I never had any interest in flight sims whatsoever.... but my husband (Zeb) has always loved them and was always looking out for new ones. He discovered Air Warrior and played for quite a few years off and on.... it was expensive to play online, though, and I was always worrying about how much it was costing! :)
Eventually he started playing through Gamestorm and I got interested when he told me he was possibly joining a squad - I realised then there was more to AW than I had originally thought, and I watched him that night. He explained everything to me as he logged online and entered the Officers Club and went from there to HQ and on to a field. Sure enough he was invited to the Krait Squadron and I was absolutely hooked! I watched him most nights for the next 6 months before we decided it might be a good idea for me to start my own account.
I wasn't sure at first, as I could barely drive a car in RL and never thought I could fly a plane. However, I decided to give it a try even it was just a case of driving vehicles or gunning bombers. This was OK for a while, but I soon found that spending long periods on the ground during squad nights waiting for someone to take a bomber up was not much fun. It was then I started flying for the first time.....
I started flying fighters but of course never lasted very long.... it was then I decided to give bombers a try.... :D
Unfortunately, AW got the chop by EA.com, but by then my squad had moved to Aces High anyway and I've been here ever since. ;)
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Originally posted by Flyboy
hey my country has no history of aviation untill 1948 too, er actually, it dont have any history at all untill 1948 :D
Yea it did. It just took a 2,000 year vacation LMAO
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Originally posted by Flyboy
actually, it dont have any history at all untill 1948 :D
:confused: very strange, that you would write that.
actually, your country (as a Nation) has one of the longest, oldest written history, of all, in the world. it is even older than the Chinese written history.
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A. its a joke (a lousy one i guess)
B. technicly israel didnt exist untill 1948 (not talking on biblical times)
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back in mid/late 1990's, was bored on AOL and clicked on the Games Channel. found & installed Air Warrior. flew it, and AW2 & AW3 until it was obvious that the game & Gamestorm were about to die.
...switched to AH when open beta came out along with the rest of the crowd.
wow...I actually have something to thank AOHell for. :eek: :D Thanks, AOL!
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Originally posted by Flyboy
A. its a joke (a lousy one i guess)
B. technicly israel didnt exist untill 1948 (not talking on biblical times)
A. ok :)
B. well, that would depend on what viewpoint, one looks at it from.
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I've always loved Military Aviation, but it was mostly Jets for the longest time.
Then Janes released WW2F, and I was donwloading some skins for the game when I saw a link for Aces High.
Clicked on it, and been here ever since.
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Originally posted by WilldCrd
Was surfing porn and accidently got to this site:cool:
ROFL!
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was seeing the commercial on Wings channel. What I was doing watching Wings Channel has everything to do with my lifelong interest in military aviation. I started buying books, building models and dreaming at about age 5. 45 years ago, and I still buy books, build models and dream. And play AH, where I get to fly, see, and engage WW2 planes, and interact with a community of genuinely great people (well, most of you anyway).
Merry Christmas, dweebs, lamers, and experten!
shubie
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Got our first computer with the 'internet' and AOL way back when. It was a Dell somethin or another with a whole 10ishMB hard drive.
Downloaded Air Warrior free with AOL and have been playing Air Warrior or Aces High ever since.
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I was drawn by the sheep .
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Mee too. Lifelong love of military aviation yada yada yada yada.
Tried offline fight sims, but never got past bfm to acm, and with no one to teach became very easy to "game" the sims to the linit of my "skill". Then I'd hit the wall, and never get better -- so I'd move on to something else.
High cost kept me away from earlier online games. My brother hooked me in February last year, and I've hung out in AH ever since. Someday imight learn how to fly well enough to even have some fun (LOL, mostly).
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umm...it is a long drawn out tale of mystery and suspense. you see, it all started back in the old days when men were men and women were green things that hung from the...zzzzz
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EA got me here.
Cheers,
asw
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I would be sitting in the smokin' section at work (America Online) and kept seeing these guys enthusiasticly talking and wagin' their hands, and found out (small ish smokin' section) that they were talking about a WW2 flight sim game called AirWarrior. Turns out that being an empoyee I got to play all the AOL Premium games for free (vs. 2.99/hour IIRC) so after many nights listening to these guys go on and on and on about their fights from the prev. night, myself and a friend went home and d/l AW and logged on.
The other pilot was the mighty Blaze and I ended up (was an error) with Lute (I was going for something else, and AOL spit it out, so I said heck w/ it and wanted to hurry up and fly and it kinda stuck) and we started flying. Ugh.... this was tougher than I thought.
After our 1st tour on AW, and having hit 100,000 points (the requirment for membership) he and I joined the WidowMakers as +WM80 (him) and +WM81 (me), probably the best wingman combo that the virtual skies has seen. (no foolin' we would look at 4-6 pilot otw to attack us and pity them)
Flew AW for a couple years, and EA came in and ruined my fun. Took a short break, tried AH, didn't like it. Took a longer break, felt the urge again, tried it again, liked it a bit more, and that was a little over 2yrs ago.
Found some fellow WM's flying, and rejoined. Best thing I coulda done.
HT for the many hours of addictive fun.
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Boredom on a rainy day about 3 years ago. Searching around on cnet.com for latest downloads of cool stuff and happened across this game called Aces High. I heard about this game a year or more earlier when it was still in beta. I can't quite remember how.
My education based on computers always kept me up to date with most things so it was probably word of mouth. But cnet.com is where I found my first dosage of what I would come to know as "The Ultimate on line Drug".
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Started with Atari and this
(http://www.atariage.com/2600/screenshots/s_Combat_4.png)
Then this
(http://www.atariage.com/2600/screenshots/s_Defender_1.png)
Then I got a Commodore 64 and moved onto this
.(http://www.web-discovery.net/images/GunshipIngame.gif )
And this
(http://www.web-discovery.net/images/pst.jpg)
Al the while using my state of the art controler which looked
like this
(http://i19.ebayimg.com/02/i/02/f9/6b/31_1.JPG)
Then I got an Amiga and started playing this
Their finest hour (http://www.back2roots.org/View/Their%20finest%20hour%20Box%20back%2C1/)
Continued...
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And this
(http://www.cinemaware.com/images/screenshot_wings_3.gif)
and this
(http://www.catharton.com/electronica/sinclairspectrum/gameimages/1516.gif)
Then got my first IBM compatable and started playing things like
This
(http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/original/1025557499-00.gif)
And this
(http://www.ibiblio.org/GameBytes/issue21/flooks/navy4.gif)
then finally this
(http://www.itga.com.au/~gnb/AW/SCRN-3.gif)
Followed by this
(http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/games/coverg/57/628757.jpg)
Until I came here
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I've always been a fan of ww2 air combat, played boxed sims for a while, yadda yadda yadda. Then I saw the commercial for AH on discovery wings and I thought "people actually pay for crappy graphics like that?" and I swore I'd never bother with it. a few months later I was bored so I downloaded and did the free trial. Haven't gotten the hook out of my gills since.
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(http://www.ibiblio.org/GameBytes/issue21/flooks/navy4.gif)
SWEET.
This was my first modern combat sim. USNF Gold (with MF included). Played that for years.
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I still have USNF '97 on my old PC. I do believe that was my first flight sim. Got it in a pack of 6 for $20. I believe that all of those games together was worth about 5 though. :)
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always loved WWII planes ...
then ran into AirWarrior on Compu$erve. was hooked ...
played AW with Compuserve and Gamestorm until EA dumped it ... came here to play AH but never really liked it.
am thinking of coming back next year tho ... not for the arenas, but I really miss the scenarios.
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When I was updating my ancient machine to a less ancient one I ran into someone who was doing the same. We got to talking, turns out he was a controller for one of the first Navy 'awacs'.
He ended up showing me AW at his house and I've been hooked on the flight sim and the period ever since.
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2 things:
1:love of all aviation, especially WW1/ww2.
2: free download from dodgy demo site of AH1.
funniest thing was i flew around offline for 2 hours trying to find planes to kill first. if you remember, the AH1 drones were friendly. :lol
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Ive always loved airplanes in all shapes and forms.
When I was a kid my favo books where airplane fact books. I built alot of models, even though they always ended up lookin like crap I loved to build em.
When I got my first computer I started playing anything I could fly in. Ofcourse I played other games but was lookin for flight sims all the time.
I then somehow got away from flight sims for quite a few years. I guess this mostly was due to the mainstreamin of the gamin industry and there beeing fewer and fewer flight sims made. Also I was disapointed in quite alot of flight sims I had bought as they where too shallow.
Well I then found AH in like 2001 or 2002 and tried it out. I loved to fly again. I had been flying and was still flying, but space ships with Aubrey in Jumpgate. But I just couldnt deal with the "all nations have all planes" setup of AH. So I went back and flew Jumpgate.
I came back a year later to try AH again. Still loved the flying but still couldnt stand the all nations have all planes deal. My mind couldnt cope with seeing 109s winged with P51s killing P38s and 190s.
Then as Jumpgate started dieing I just had to fly. I had to fly my favo era planes. I had to fly WW2 planes. So I came back here and this time I really forced my self to ignore what I didnt like on my previous two trials. I did try FA and WB as well to compare the games. But AH is just the best flight experience out there so I gave it a shot with a much more open mind this time out and now Im hooked.
So after a quite bumpy start Im now here and with lot of old gameing friends which is just awsome and Im enjoying it alot.
Tex
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I actually had a weekend off work for the first time in years but my wife had to work so I decided to trawl the net. Anyways, bored to death with errr porn I checked out AOL's front page link to games. Thought i might find a pin ball or Astroids type thing.
There was a link to a game called Fighter Ops. Four colours (sides) with 4 bases each. After checking out the sceenies I DL'ed it and 5 years later I'm here after following FO to FO warbirds. FO expanded got cheaper got better with nearly 500 players at the weekend. Then the powers to be made WB 2. Half the guys went WB2 half the guys like me hadn't the PC power to run WB2.
Needless to say FO went tits up when it was announced there would be no more upgrades for it. I moved to AH in November of 2003. AH got cheaper still. Was Stevex in FO warlox in AH 2003 and then LYNX after I upgraded my PC and sorted out my financial woes.
I believe WB isn't doing so well now. When you check out the who's playing link you don't see more than 60 players.
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In '97 I hooked up with "Fantasy Flight", a group led by Whitey Wannamacher flying RL WW2 planes to airshows. While flying about in AAF uniforms having fun he recruited several of us and some other locals to join him on-line in Warbirds as the "Buccaneers". I flew as GronK. In pre-vox days we all got second phone lines and had real time com on squad nights. We came to AH in early beta. Whitey passed on a few years ago and without his enthusiastic leadership the squad gradually lost interest and left the game. I quit for a couple of years and recently came back as Snork. I was getting almost up to speed in AH1 when 2 came out. I'm struggling with the learning curve again with a marginal machine. Out of all the Buccaneers the only ones I see online now are Eskimo and Sabre.
Snork (GronK)
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I wandered into SIMCADE at the mall in Denton,Tx in the spring of '01. A guy named "DaCuda" would hook me up with hour plus sim time for the price of 20 minutes. Been hooked since.
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My father was a ground mechanic .
So when i was about 1/2 years my dad already took me for a ride in a cessna.
Planes brainwashed my head since than.
My first ever simulation was on a sinclair.
Than there was a big period not able to buy a puter and when i did make some money (i was about 19 years) i bought a c64. I flew everything that was available at that time.
I got a great kick trying to chase wire framed planes. With no FM so it was impossible to stay behind it.
Than there was the Amiga.
F18 hornet that sim was smooth and u could fly under the bridge in san fransisco.
Offcourse there was sublogic flight simulator that got me through alot of basics :)
The Battle of Brittain was another great sim a half 3d world with sprites.
But it gave bigger formations of planes
and wasn't seen yet like that.
my Amiga went broke at some time and there was a whole period of non computing until the first pentiums came out.
ATF, Apache longbow,F18 ,F18 korea,
And than finaly there was a good ww2 sim.
European Air War and there was internet 2. So my first online fights where in this sim. I also began doing laddering with it to hone my ACM skills.
This all in the dweeby spit.
I joined a virtual squad EAF and some friends pointed me to AH and i came in my trial period it was 1.02 or so.
After that i got in love with the P38 i decided that was the plane to fly until i got my creditcard and could conscript i flew and practised in H2H.
Than i got my creditcard and stepped in 1.03 and payed even 30 dollar and that costed me alot more guilder than it cost me in euros now :)
There is also Falcon and flanker and lomac but to many buttons.
It makes me understand that it is somewhat more demandin on a pilot these days as u got to be smart with ur plane systems and fast thinkin with it..
other kind of stuff than it was in WO2
the whole ww2 period dough is much more interesting and attractive.
So that's sticks me forever with this kind of sim.
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Originally posted by streetstang
Boredom on a rainy day about 3 years ago. Searching around on cnet.com for latest downloads of cool stuff and happened across this game called Aces High. I heard about this game a year or more earlier when it was still in beta. I can't quite remember how.
My education based on computers always kept me up to date with most things so it was probably word of mouth. But cnet.com is where I found my first dosage of what I would come to know as "The Ultimate on line Drug".
Same way I found Aces High except I was specifically looking for a flight sim.
The 2 week free trial helped me get hooked, but the damn nicotine in this game kept me here.
:aok
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I got here after playing Jane's WW2 Fighters for about a year, and discovering that I wanted to fly against people, not AI.