Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: Tempest3 on October 19, 2009, 09:57:23 PM
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I would be willing for it to be a pay option, as in, I would pay up to $20 for a code that would unlock a LAN feature. I just think LAN would be awsome for those, (like me) who don't have the ability to pay $180 a year, but still want the chance to fly against other people (I have two AH2 capable computers in my house). Not that I don't really appreciate the ability to make and fly missions now!!!
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So you're looking for something that's basically free....
:neener:
wrongway
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I "did" say that I would pay a one-time fee, like you do when you buy most games, for the feature...
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I "did" say that I would pay a one-time fee, like you do when you buy most games, for the feature...
But Aces High 2 is free. How about $180, paid annually, recurring?
wrongway
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wrongway, why so disrespectful? His wish will probably never be granted, but he did ask in a coherent and polite way.
Tempest, there are other flight sims you can play on a LAN after a very small one time purchase price. Look around.
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I'd like H2H back so that I could allow my kids to compete without being exposed to adults acting younger than they do.
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I have most of the other flight sims - minus Il-2, but I just REALLY like Aces High's flight models and weapons. It was just something for the "wishlist". I didn't really intend on teeing someone off by suggesting that I can't and won't pay $180 a year to fly my favorite game.
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I have most of the other flight sims - minus Il-2, but I just REALLY like Aces High's flight models and weapons. It was just something for the "wishlist". I didn't really intend on teeing someone off by suggesting that I can't and won't pay $180 a year to fly my favorite game.
Of all the non-massively-multiplayer WW2 flight sims that you can play on a LAN, you're missing the best one.
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Of all the non-massively-multiplayer WW2 flight sims that you can play on a LAN, you're missing the best one.
Not if HTC would release a LAN version of Aces High 2...
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There's a reason they removed it. I don't think it will come back.
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My logic was as follows:
1: Aces High used to have a free 8 player online & 8 player LAN.
2: Hackers brought down the 8 player online repeatedly causing HTC to remove it for security reasons.
3: Cheapskates tried to use VPNs to replicate the 8 player online through the remaining LAN capability.
4: HTC said they had problems with hackers in the free online area because the hackers weren't having to pay anything to get there.
5: HTC takes off the 8 player LAN feature.
6: I recommend that the LAN be brought back as a "unlockable" that uses your account to tell if you've paid for the feature. This way only a "paying" member would have access to a LAN version.
7: Wow. Some people think that $20 is free! (jk)
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An instance where I could use a feature like this would be so that I could play this game with my dad... and teach him how to fly and fight against someone. (Currently he gets rather torn up in the offline missions I create.)
I could also just use it to have fun with friends that think they're the greatest pilots since Manfred Von Richthofen...
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And there's yet another reason why we don't talk about it. It has something to do with Skuzzy's lightning rod. :eek:
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Not if HTC would release a LAN version of Aces High 2...
You just said yourself that you don't have Il-2. You should at least try it for your purposes before you come here.
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wrongway, why so disrespectful? His wish will probably never be granted, but he did ask in a coherent and polite way.
Tempest, there are other flight sims you can play on a LAN after a very small one time purchase price. Look around.
No disrespect indended.
I think I just wanted him, and others with masked wishes, to ask for what they really want.
No monthly fee.
I just see it as another who wants something for nothing.
wrongway
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I don't understand your seeing it that way when he said he was willing to pay a one time fee for LAN play. By your argument, any boxed game that can be played over a LAN is free, which is absurd.
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Tempest1 has a point.
My logic was as follows:
1: Aces High used to have a free 8 player online & 8 player LAN.
2: Hackers brought down the 8 player online repeatedly causing HTC to remove it for security reasons.
3: Cheapskates tried to use VPNs to replicate the 8 player online through the remaining LAN capability.
4: HTC said they had problems with hackers in the free online area because the hackers weren't having to pay anything to get there.
5: HTC takes off the 8 player LAN feature.
6: I recommend that the LAN be brought back as a "unlockable" that uses your account to tell if you've paid for the feature. This way only a "paying" member would have access to a LAN version.
7: Wow. Some people think that $20 is free! (jk)
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Yea so you buy a $20 key get lan play and tards will start vpn...again.
Nope.
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I would like to see 8 player where squads can come and practice or mess around without other people. This would be part of your monthly fee of course.
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I understand that there wouldn't be a way to keep people from VPN'ing it again, but at least this time HTC would still get something out of it...
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I understand that there wouldn't be a way to keep people from VPN'ing it again, but at least this time HTC would still get something out of it...
Face it, it's never coming back. They did mention that they were going to open the 8 player rooms again, but that they would be hosted by HTC, and for paying players only.
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H2H is dead, and will never come back. Its simply too big a security hole for HTC.
Its gone, and its never coming back, EVER.
What will come back is user configurable arena's. They will be run on HTC's server, you'll go through HTC's password server to log in. That way they maintain control.
Hopefully they can be password protected. So if your planning a squad meeting only those with the password can get in.
There is no hard number on how many it will hold, but the general feel is quite a few more than H2H. Pretty sure you'd be able to have a 8 vs 8 duel, Possibly a 16 vs 16.
User would have all the controls he had in the old H2H. But, terrains would have to be approved by HTC in advance like the skins are now.
So the bare minimum required is going to be to have an active AH acct.
That way at least you have something to lose.
No one time fee's, no freeloaders, if you want to play sign up.