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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: SuBWaYCH on September 21, 2008, 04:21:52 PM
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For what reason do you fly Aces High? Is it for flying with squadies and having a good time? Is it a place to come home from work and relax?
I play Aces High for flying with squadies from both of my squadrons (364th and JG11) and for the Special Events.
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I play for fun. I have an 18 month old little girl, so when I get time to play, it's for fun...
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I play because my wife bought me this cool japanese wwii pilot outfit. Soooo before i log on, i put on my "uniform" grab my japanese flag in one hand a glass of saki in the other. I then start screaming all the japanese i know very loudly in quite the menacing tone. At this point the kids start getting scared, which in my mind means im "ready". I then start my flight, most the time i just get hoed by some niki, in a very
nasty manner i might add, resulting in me throwing the cat across the room, really hard. So take note: when you ho, a cat gets hurt.
so, i just fly for fun and because i hate that cat.
(whats left of) ---->zuii
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Men evolved to hunt large dangerous game and fight the other tribe. Most of what we do nowadays for a living is rather boring and not satisfying on a primal level. One can derive a measure of the primal thrill of chase, kill, conquest from a game like AH, especially because it is simultaneously so intense, complex, random, and strategic. AH is available 24/7/365 and in all weathers, and thus is more convenient than hunting animals. (Although I always enjoyed the hunt and certainly the eating of delectable flesh, I have always been conflicted, taking no pleasure from the death of a dumb beast who never did me harm. The virtual "death" of a victim in AH though.... :D :aok :devil :cool:)
AH is also more convenient and sensible than picking fights in bars to get your primal jollies. One might also say in this way gaming is comparable to porn/masturbation. Not a knock, I'm not about to condemn behavior virtually every male primate engages in. :rofl
After all, in the modern world we can't all be big-game hunters, professional pugilists, fighter pilots, or SpecOps.
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i love mojitos.
mojito zuii
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History, squaddies, fun.
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For me, its to let off steam after a bad day at work, meet up with my squaddies (who I love to fly with), and the friends I've made playing this game.
Cant be the value for the price, never mind the fact its as addictive as anything,
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Wurzel (Oh yeah, I even occasionally shoot someone down :D)
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Hello Subway,
I spend time in this addiction for stress relief & hanging with my good friends on squad vox. Not to mention that I have always had an interest in WWII history. Please do not tell my wife, as I told her that I really am a pilot trying to save the world! :rofl
Way
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Il2 isn't working and Fighter Ace has a problem on my computer, so I have to play AHII. :D
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It's AHII, it's just l337. Simple as that, awesomest flight sim ever! :)
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I am working towards my pilots license,and this is the cheapest way to get "FLIGHT"time..
:noid :noid :noid Falcon23
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BECAUSE I CAN :D
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I used to play for the enjoyment of learning new planes and tactics then sharing the information with my squad mates. Being able to help one of them become better than they started out always made me happy. Over the last 14 months I also took a special interest in helping them become better at what they do, take bases.
Unfortunately I am now squadless and have been flying in MW mostly. I usually fly for whatever country looks like it could use the most help and spend my time kind of alone looking for bombers, M3's and hordes to bust up. So far, that has been a lot of fun. Some of the guys get slightly upset about it but have explained my reasoning for it fairly well.
I think I named my 1 manned squad "The Low number side" or something to that effect.
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Little bit of everything---hangin out with squaddies when they are on, country-mates when they are not, (though flying alone is a different kind of fun), the WW2 thing, (I have zero interest in flying jets/guided missiles, etc, LOVE flyin jug, for better or worse), but MOSTLY I love breaking joysticks, mice and keyboards in fits of rage :aok
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I play for fun.
Nothing like bombing a few Wirbles into pixelated oblivion :devil.
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I play for fun. I enjoy my squad's company. I'm always interested in little tidbits of history behind these aircraft/vehicles. I enjoy seeing others have fun flying with or against me. I don't care if I'm next to the worst fighter pilot in the game. That is beside the point.
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I enjoy this game alot with no wife and grown kids I got time to play , and its got a great set of people who play also . I'm not one of the hotshots but its fun and theres alot of bang for the buck it keeps a guy outta trouble , and my squaddies are some of the finest folks I've had the pleasure to meet with out them it would just be a game .
Nutte
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I play because my wife bought me this cool japanese wwii pilot outfit. Soooo before i log on, i put on my "uniform" grab my japanese flag in one hand a glass of saki in the other. I then start screaming all the japanese i know very loudly in quite the menacing tone. At this point the kids start getting scared, which in my mind means im "ready". I then start my flight, most the time i just get hoed by some niki, in a very
nasty manner i might add, resulting in me throwing the cat across the room, really hard. So take note: when you ho, a cat gets hurt.
so, i just fly for fun and because i hate that cat.
(whats left of) ---->zuii
:rofl
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Personally, I really enjoy FSO and flying with my squad, They are a fantastic bunch :rock. I really don't fly in MA much as I hate flying alone, but if a squaddie or two in in the arena, I'm in! I also tend to spend too much time in the TA, but then I really need the 1v1 practice and there is usually some one who will help ya out whenever ya need it in there. Plus ( or maybe minus :lol) I do like to help out someone when I can and know an answer to a ? in the TA, it is somewhat rewarding. A giving back, to those who were generous enough to help me so to speak.
<S>
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I really enjoy flying with my squadies, doing fighter sweeps, letting them die, killshooting them, DOH who said that?!
Taking bases and actually figting for them is what my squad does. No NOE's, we climb to 7K to make ourselves known.
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I fly purely for fun.
Mostly for the laughs. I have some great squaddies that I fly with you have about the same idea of fun as I do which helps greatly. We all pretty much fly for the laughs and the joking around.
We don't do much of the base capture/ win the war operations but instead spend time doing our special kind of ops, which usually results in a quick trip back into the tour. :lol
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I love aviation and WWII history. Fun for those reasons alone but then there's an appreciation for what the actual pilots DID day in and day out that sometimes hit s me. A rolling scissors for us is a walk in the park. In R/L someone was maybe 2 sec from death and the permanent variety. (less if he was flying a realistically modeled F6F :lol) I'm also a stats junky. AH and the aircraft in it generate plenty of neat stats to look at. Combine the above with an excellent "competition/hunter/killer" fix and you have first-class cartoon fun! :rock
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When I was a very young kid and giving my mother fits, she used to drive me over to the local airport to watch the planes take off. The rest is history :D
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It keeps me out of the Bars and Wh**ehouses.
My wife really appreciates that.
:salute HTC for being an important part of a happy marriage.
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Of course it is flying with my new squadmates. The Black Aces. It is also sooo many other things. The WWII aviation aspect of it i love! Flying the planes that all my hero's flew is something very cool.
But i think the best partof the game is the ever changing tactics. Let faces folks, we are flying and fighting against other REAL pilots. not some computer generated, AI lacking pilot who will level out in the middle of a furball. It is the thrill of the hunt and the narrow escape as you get a check 6 call and then get that guy or gal off your tail or watching your squadmates level a city (It was a nice run there, bomber guys!). The value for the money isnt that bad either. All in all a great way to kill some time!
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I fly in AcesHigh simply Bcuz I have a Dr.'s Rx to do so....
:noid :noid :noid
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I just love old airplanes. I'm a crap pilot - but I just love those planes.
You hear of the politicians, the generals, and you even hear stories of the heroes who fought the enemy face-to-face - but the engineers were at war too. They were designing and building better planes/weapons to help their guys in the field. I don't think many designers/engineers got medals - but they should get some sort recognition.
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Internet crack.
:O
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I just love old airplanes. I'm a crap pilot - but I just love those planes.
You hear of the politicians, the generals, and you even hear stories of the heroes who fought the enemy face-to-face - but the engineers were at war too. They were designing and building better planes/weapons to help their guys in the field. I don't think many designers/engineers got medals - but they should get some sort recognition.
Interesting.. I've thought the same.
It took a lot of manpower and ingenuity to win that war. It was a helluva generation!
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For what reason do you fly Aces High? Is it for flying with squadies and having a good time? Is it a place to come home from work and relax?
I play Aces High for flying with squadies from both of my squadrons (364th and JG11) and for the Special Events.
History! " although this is far from it " and it is a nice distraction from the chaos of most days! Oh and channel 200, cause it makes me laugh :aok
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For what reason do you fly Aces High? Is it for flying with squadies and having a good time?
From age 4 (when my father bought me Revell's B-25C "Flying Dragon" kit) I've studied about WWII airplanes. It was a short hop from there to studying WWII fighter combat, and in my Walter Mitty mind I've always wished I could have flown fighters in that conflict. All the flight sims I've played served as the closest thing I could get to the time machine that would be necessary to really fulfill the dream. AH2 is the best one yet.
So: As a more direct answer to your question, I fly for two reasons only, the air combat and the history, in that order. I've got no interest in the simplistic strategy of the game (taking towns and air bases with 12 troops? C'mon....) or with any particular squad (the only one I've ever been in has a very loose organization - and we're fundamentally all one big squad anyway).
- oldman
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well for a while now its been only because i want to talk to squaddies....................
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If it was not for the gents in our Squad i would have quit by now.... Game is becoming less and less addictive. Actually pretty aggravating at times...
Personal take is the nonsense that runs amuck in the DA has been spilling over to the MA......becoming the norm.
It becoming harder and harder to ignor the griefers and more than 3 guys on one con......
Mabye my refrences have changed or my opinion on what I want from the time i spend in game... but its a differant game from when I started 3 years ago....
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I play Aces High for flying with squadies from both of my squadrons VF-31 & VF-6 and for the Special Events.
I basically inserted my squads in your line of txt there SuBWaYCH :D
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Because the wife set net nanny to block porn. :cry
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what better way can you think of, to making people explode and die burning, and not go to prison?
plus the thrill of pitting your self against as many red guys as ya can. :t
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I've always loved military aircraft since childhood. My first model was a B26 btw lol. The main reason I play tho is cause they won't let me strap 4 hispanos with 600 rds plus or minus onto my Subaru to deal with Philadelphia's lovely I76 corridor traffic.
I just pretend that red guy is that stupid *itch on the cell phone that merged into my lane doing 45 while I'm doing 75....and give him a nice 3 second burst of 20mm
As for the squaddies, the pigs on the wing channel is funkin hilarious. Might singing a drunk version of " I kissed a girl " and Bustr talking people into holding his stick make for some good augers.
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I do so I can distress and get away from the world for a while.more to come after school...dint have time to finish this right noww
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For fun, but also for its diversity. No other game has large arenas like Aces High. Sure some first person shooters do, but not flight sims. It's very unique in its design and gameplay, and I think that's what keeps me around.
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AH is the next best thing to crack....and it WAAAAAAAAAY beats sex with the *shudder* wife!
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I fly to insult Racdogg on a nightly basis. Should there be another reason? :noid
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I fly with becinhu and rac because its fun and they are the only people that can tolerate me. The game is also fun too.
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Just to have a good ol time.
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Internet crack.
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:rock :rock :rock :O
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I play because my wife bought me this cool japanese wwii pilot outfit. Soooo before i log on, i put on my "uniform" grab my japanese flag in one hand a glass of saki in the other. I then start screaming all the japanese i know very loudly in quite the menacing tone. At this point the kids start getting scared, which in my mind means im "ready". I then start my flight, most the time i just get hoed by some niki, in a very
nasty manner i might add, resulting in me throwing the cat across the room, really hard. So take note: when you ho, a cat gets hurt.
so, i just fly for fun and because i hate that cat.
(whats left of) ---->zuii
I wish my wife was that cool. She hates the idea of me even playing. :rolleyes:
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:noid The voices tell me too... Must listen to the voices... :noid
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:noid The voices tell me too... Must listen to the voices... :noid
Everytime I see your handle... :rofl
Thirty years ago my sensei told me 'there is no judochop there is no karate chop there is only CHOP!' :D
I fly for the laughs and there are a lot of laughs in Aces High.
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As mine always said, we don't chop.. we atemi..
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I've been flying AW and AH since 2/96 on a regular basis and it's all about the guys in the squads that I have flown with. I'm not good at anything in the game but just enjoy the company of folks that I've known for 10-12 years. It's a great stress relief as I work 12-18 hour shifts and rarely have days off consecutively and my wifey is a wonderful woman who understands my need for this therapy and doesn't jump into that dreaded "Wifey manned AcK". I've only met a few of my online friends in person but I'm closer to some of my squaddies than I am my own real life half-brothers and sisters. To me, It's more about the the pleasure of flying with a bunch of friends than killing others or porking stuff. In early 1999 or so, I suffered a major skull fracture and had to learn to walk again and my squaddies helped me get flying again, I still don't have the coordination or reflexes to fly like I did then but they kept me going and trying and working. I can fly (not worth squat) but I can fly and enjoy the game and I owe it mostly to my fellow squaddies and online friends in AirWarrior and Aces High. I just feel fortunate to be able to be here with you all and enjoy it!
All the Best...
Jay
AwDoc1
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Spitfires !
I want to fly and scrap with my Spit9 !
Don't give a darn about countries :o
Don't give a darn about base captures :o
Don't give a darn about scores :o
Do give a darn about "fair" fights, WIN or LOSE :aok
Just want to be a good Spitfire pilot and give a good sweat to the ones above me :salute
OPP7755
Phil
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First it was killing, then it became friends, then finally killing friends.
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Mech, I'm liking the way you think Sir :salute
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Wurzel
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as little as possible? :D
:salute
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Wha :D ;) :D
Back in yet?
Wurzel
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i get to play on a borrowed laptop from time to time, stops the shivvers and cold turkey cramps
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Sheesh, stop messing about, get a desktop, get back in bud - be among the thousands who kill me every day :D
Hopefully see ya soon,
Wurzel
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I play because it goes good with a frozen margarita.
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For what reason do you fly Aces High? Is it for flying with squadies and having a good time? Is it a place to come home from work and relax?
I play Aces High for flying with squadies from both of my squadrons (364th and JG11) and for the Special Events.
Passion.