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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Pongo on October 24, 2009, 12:24:09 AM
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Well logged on to the current version, flew some sorties and never made too much of an bellybutton of my self.
Was climbing to alt admiring the hellcat and realized its been 10 years since I started in the beta.
Tones of planes, tones of players, Lots of vehicles. Soon to be WW1 arena.
How time flys. I probably played 4 years of that 10 years. lol
WTG HT and Pyro!
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:salute
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WTG pongo, 10 years eh? :old:
That comes out to $1,800. A good investment I'd say :aok
:banana: :banana: :banana:
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WTG pongo, 10 years eh? :old:
That comes out to $1,800. A good investment I'd say :aok
:banana: :banana: :banana:
lol wrong use to be really expensive
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I been 5 years. Looking at the 20 years if i make it.
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How you doing, Pongo?
Been a long time.
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Oct 5th, 1999. :O
Well, that's 10 years I'm never getting back. Cya in the arenas.
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WTG pongo! :neener:
august 3rd :D
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I may not have quite as long under the belt, but consider my age; it's almost 1/3 of my life... :p
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"That comes out to $1,800"
More unless you took into account the initial price per/mo that AH was after beta
which was much higher.
Cripes it has been 10 yrs. OMG. It feels like yesterday I was flying the crates in
Red Baron and then finding & trying AW (4W?) out on a juiced up IBM (AT?) in
offline mode. Putting the B17 into autopilot and jumping around the guns to
shoot the offline drones flying by. lol.
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It used to be $29.99 a month.
Helm ...out
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Well all depends on how you look at it.
In my case, its been 10 years well spent. :)
The respected enemy's, teammates, strangers turned to friends, friends turned to brothers.
Yeah well worth it IMO.
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That 1800.00 invested in most any equity fund would have netted you about 1670.00 over that same 10 years (because the last 3 years have been so awesome to us all).......as Im sure you are aware, we desire to have more money than what we invested right? excellent choice on the 1800.00...wish I had mine back from Fidelity/
V/r
Changeup
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I've only been here for 8 years, but did have 4 years in AW before that. Haven't taken any time off during all that either..... just a glutton for punishment I guess :x
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Ya, I took allot of it off and havent been fully addicted in about 7 years I would say.
Amazing the thrill of a fur ball in the arena though.
Ya, it was free for beta, then 30 bucks, I was a trainer for a short while, then flew for a while at the 30 price before they dropped it down.
1800, even if I had paid that much is less then a great DSLR lens. Less then a good canoe, less then a great TV. 1800 is half of what it costs me to go down to the states for an NFL game.
The cost is nothing. Its the time.
Looking at where AH has gone and not gone, it is clear to me know that these guys had a very refined and powerful view of what was important in the game. Trying to explain to others what a powerful "team" and comraderie feeling you get with a good squad of guys who fly together every night is impossible. So everything that was implemented that built that was golden, other things are optional.
It is also clear that the hardest thing for HT and Pyro to wrestle with is the game of the game. It was terribly painful just to get the perk and eny systems into the game. The knights basically showed up for two months in nothing but hundreds of Hog Cs before the requests for something to ballance it went from "thats whining" to thats self evident. Little things, like you dont get kill messages until you land them. It wasnt that way at first, but did it ever improve the game when it got in.
Makeing the bombing so much more challenging, seems like a technical thing, but it is very much a game thing.
I still thing Sorti rates would be a great enhancement to the game, and would seem self evident after the fact.
That first sorti, in a spit IX that seemed to me to be shaking apart. Doesnt seem like yesterday, its seems like a long time ago.
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Yeah, it's hard to believe and I remember it like yesterday coming to the beta from AH3. It's been a long ride, well done HTC!
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Its funny how little I knew about WW2 air combat when I started this game, even playing other games for a long time.
I could identify the different planes like a champ, but all the real complexities of how the planes and weapons were different from each other, I learned here or because of what I learned here.
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April 2001 here, and never regretted a single moment or dollar spent!
<S> HTC and Noble enemies and friends!
Steely
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Good to see you Pongo. It has been a long time. :)
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Bunch of :old: in this thread! :cheers:
Frodo
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Karnak! Dadog! good to see you guys still around.
I think after one night I am starting to get my CH gear and track IR set up properly.
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gotta post to see my date here :)
Started in alpha :) as a consequence of submitting proposition for field layouts :devil not that they were any use...
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gotta post to see my date here :)
Started in alpha :) as a consequence of submitting proposition for field layouts :devil not that they were any use...
:salute fd ski, long time. Are you playing AH these days?
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LOL
can anyone beat August 99?
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LOL
can anyone beat August 99?
Daddog's says Jul, 1999.
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Got me by a month Pongo ! Great to see your back. I came to AH beta as a bomber pilot in the 91st bomber group. Me and guys i cant remember exept one guy call sign sunchaser were using the arena to tune up for the anticipated online play of a game called b 17 2. Well b17 2 became a complete bust and I really took to flying fighters. I cut my teeth on the spit 9 like everyone else an8d was hooked into the game.
The 91st faded away guys gravitated to IL2 while I stayed for the most part. most of 2000 I remained in the 91st, I then formed the 78th FG for a while all the until like Feb of 01. I then hooked up with a bunch of chaps in the 56th FG maybe you remember them. Most of the guys have gone names like Sancho Frenchy and Ammo. I hope they make it back I still keep in touch with ammo via facebook. Nomde has been CO for the last 6 years i think.
Real life (making and raising kids, work stuff) and just game burnout would keep me off for months at a time.
The longest I have been gone was like an 8 month stretch but still kept paying the gas for Dale's RV8.
I too remember paying the 29.95 a month. For the most part this is my little escape from reality.
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I started in tour 12 under another ID.....been here ever since....
Time does fly.
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:salute fd ski, long time. Are you playing AH these days?
once every so often, i get in about 3-4 missions per week :) Mostly late evening euro hours.
Then again, today my TrackIR5 arrived so my flight time may increase :D
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Ditto here. Since beta.
Wow - a decade flying AH...
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I started in tour 12 under another ID.....been here ever since....
Time does fly.
I started AcesHigh a week or two before AW died so I guess I "technically" started in beta during tour 11.
I really HATED AcesHigh when I first tried it and quit flying a few months.
Picked it up again later in 2002, ran across some of my squaddies from AirWarrior, and have flown ever since.
Time does indeed fly by.
HiTech, does it FEEL like 10 years to you?
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HiTech, does it FEEL like 10 years to you?
Suppose that depends on how many of those bribes he's gotten over the years... :D
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"can anyone beat August 99?"
Not me. My original login ID was Sept 99 but lost the info for that.
I think only alpha testers have August dates...
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Then again, today my TrackIR5 arrived so my flight time may increase :D
:aok
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Wow a lot of old familiar names in thread. I bet if you ask HT it's probably feels like a lot more than 10 years on some days. :D
Oh and welcome back Pongo. :)
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Wow, lots of 99er's in this thread. Thanks for helping to get this thing off the ground. I don't think most people ever had an inkling of how difficult a start-up this was. I don't know how we survived it.
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<S> Pongo its been a long time
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Wow, lots of 99er's in this thread. Thanks for helping to get this thing off the ground. I don't think most people ever had an inkling of how difficult a start-up this was. I don't know how we survived it.
Heh Pyro some of us remember even prior to this startup :salute
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"can anyone beat August 99?"
Not me. My original login ID was Sept 99 but lost the info for that.
I think only alpha testers have August dates...
September 99 for myself as well but I lost that account in a BB meltdown back in 2001.
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Wow, lots of 99er's in this thread. Thanks for helping to get this thing off the ground. I don't think most people ever had an inkling of how difficult a start-up this was. I don't know how we survived it.
I can only imagine, if you guys started in 1999 and the first Tour (v1.0) was in 2000 that's an entire year without collecting any revenue from the game and just trying to grow the future customer base through the open beta.
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well I started playing in 2000 but didn't even know about a BB until 2001, shows how much of a newbieeeeeee I was, never even heard of AW until it closed and the guys started comming up over here.
SALUTE ACES HIGH STAFF
WHAT A WONDERFULL RIDE IT HAS BEEN ! ! ! !
AB8AAC/dmdchief/dmdtrucker/damned old chief
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Pyro,
Having done a few go lives myself I was amazed at the time, and still am amazed.
You guys must have had a really really strong sense of the fundamentals of what you wanted to have made it at all.
I remember saying get rid of the knights because the sides were always 25 bish, 30 rooks and 4 of us knights..but you guys seemed pretty sure that more knights would show up some day. lol
FX1, Soulyss <S>!
It is fun to be back, and the most important rule of AH still seems to work. All you have to do is find someone worse then you to salvage the night. Golf and fly fishing are allot less forgiving.
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It is fun to be back, and the most important rule of AH still seems to work. All you have to do is find someone worse then you to salvage the night. Golf and fly fishing are allot less forgiving.
Watch it Pongo I resemble that remark :joystick: :airplane: :rofl
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It's interesting how the player base has and hasn't changed. I remember that a lot of the players came from disgruntled WarBirds and from the old Air Warrior 3 fiasco. I tried AW3 at the same time beta 1 for Aces High came out. I was flying War Birds with our media account but wasn't really impressed. I tried AW2 - that was a hoot but man Air Warrior was expensive.
Pyro: I think the player base has definately gotten younger, but I'm wondering as this product matures and develops further, what other enhancements can be made to keep the older farts still flying or return?
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"I think the player base has definately gotten younger...."
I used to think that but now I'm actually beginning to believe it's "US" who've gotten
older! heheheh
"...what other enhancements can be made to keep the older farts still flying or return?"
WWI planes! :) Couldn't resist! :) Wish there was some kind of virtual Viagra that
would let's us stay up all night, whip our joysticks all about and permit us to shoot each
other down over and over and over again?
(fine. shoot me for that one)
Just remembered the first time I saw AH was when Hitech loaded up an alpha? of AH on
a pc at the AirWarrior '99 convention in Dallas. with SB, NB,LW and Jonathan Baron as well
as a few others looking over his shoulder I though to myself this guys got balls for doing
that here - considering he was a creator of WB's and there was a competative antagonism
running between the player bases.
However with the complete lack of any updates coming for AW and relatively nothing
substantial about where they were with AW:Vietnam I immediately looked into AH when I
got back home and found out about the beta. Was 150% hooked right off the bat.
AH was way YEARS ahead of AW and a lot better than WB.
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Pyro: I think the player base has definately gotten younger, but I'm wondering as this product matures and develops further, what other enhancements can be made to keep the older farts still flying or return?
Possibly award prizes to those over 50. Award ideas....
Free Teeth
Free Glasses
Free seat cushion
Free Keyboard with BIG numbers and letters
Free hair restoration
Limitless actually. :D
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Hblair got me started on this game in beta tour 2... came over from warbirds. :)
i noticed the flight dynamics got a lot more realistic after HT started flying that rv6...
I think buying that plane might have been the best research and development purchase he ever made.
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Hblair got me started on this game in beta tour 2... came over from warbirds. :)
i noticed the flight dynamics got a lot more realistic after HT started flying that rv6...
I think buying that plane might have been the best research and development purchase he ever made.
Does that make it a business expense and therefor tax deductible? :D
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lost first bbs acct in the big bbs meltdown in 01.
Think it was late sept, oct though when I first started flying in beta.
I know we didn't have a bomber yet, because I remember when the b17 came in, pretty bare bones, no bombsight, etc.
I missed the first tour of pay for play as Daddog was asking me to hold as he was in consult with HTC to bring the whole squad over from warbirds. (got us a sweetened deal too!)
Tour 7 I started as a trainer, and except for a few months off to prevent total burnout I've been here ever since and always under the same name.
There are a few that can match that record, but not many. :)
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Well logged on to the current version, flew some sorties and never made too much of an bellybutton of my self.
Was climbing to alt admiring the hellcat and realized its been 10 years since I started in the beta.
Tones of planes, tones of players, Lots of vehicles. Soon to be WW1 arena.
How time flys. I probably played 4 years of that 10 years. lol
WTG HT and Pyro!
<S> all the guys with 10+ years I'm looking for a coach :) I can't think of a better place to spend $15 dollars a month it's fun it's legal and you stay out of trouble. I'm a newbie at only 8 months in but over 10,000 plus sorties I can't get enough of it. Thanks Aces High for your hard work producing a great game. :salute
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"can anyone beat August 99?"
Not me. My original login ID was Sept 99 but lost the info for that.
I think only alpha testers have August dates...
Over 10 years and two wives, countless hardware updates, and have seen many friends and players come and go. I enjoy AH as much now as I did back in 'ol '99 :banana:
:cheers: to HiTech Creations for their continued developement and support of a great form of entertainment and hobby. :salute to the AH community, old farts :old: and new squeakers :neener: alike.
It's been a great ride so far and hope to stay with it for as long as it goes :airplane: :joystick:
Rob
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Over 10 years and two wives, countless hardware updates, and have seen many friends and players come and go. I enjoy AH as much now as I did back in 'ol '99 :banana:
:cheers: to HiTech Creations for their continued developement and support of a great form of entertainment and hobby. :salute to the AH community, old farts :old: and new squeakers :neener: alike.
It's been a great ride so far and hope to stay with it for as long as it goes :airplane: :joystick:
Rob
Corrs has been rubbing off on you
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Another old fart here, I think I started flying in September of 99, it was the second month of beta whenever that was.
Seeing a lot of old call-signs in here :airplane:
shamus
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Well logged on to the current version, flew some sorties and never made too much of an bellybutton of my self.
Was climbing to alt admiring the hellcat and realized its been 10 years since I started in the beta.
Tones of planes, tones of players, Lots of vehicles. Soon to be WW1 arena.
How time flys. I probably played 4 years of that 10 years. lol
WTG HT and Pyro!
WOW ! That's a long time. I guess it would have been right 10 for me too but I took a break.
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hblair talked me into coming over in March or April of 1999. Been here ever since, except for a stretch from 2004 til early 2007 when I just didn't have the finances or the machine to play.
Good to see you back, Pongo. Holler at me in game, we'll wing up, just for old times's sake. Good to see another old Assassin back in the virtual skies. :joystick:
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Eddie, good to see ya and I will see you up!
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eddiek, hblair and citabiria.... i remember JG77 disappearning all of the sudden back in those days :D
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what's that strange smell ... dust and old geezers ?
I fell antique too :D
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I certainly have noticed that my eyesight isnt what it was, time to get reading glasses to play or something.
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And to think....Silat was already collecting Social Security when this all started. :old:
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It has been 10 years. I started out back in 99 as well.. Brady got me in to this game. Hey Boxboy :P
Trying to get back into the swing of this.. Good to see old farts are still around :P
Back then was AGJV44, and can't recall what my old callsign was. Sturm something..
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Wow! Whats up you Pongo.
What an old timer thread. :)
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Hey Grun!
Not much, slaving away, how about you? Made it into the great white north yet?
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I'm pretty good, cant complain. Might have to buy a cheap new PC and try AH again - its been years.
I haven't been to Canada since 2003 I think - you still in Victoria?
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rRg, still in Vic, older son is now in first year university. Your still in the bay area?
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Yep, live and work right in San Francisco. Moved into the city a couple years ago.
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LOL
can anyone beat August 99?
Not in AH, Pongo - but I started flying online combat flight sims back in late '97, 2-D Warbirds and Dawn of Aces. Ah, the days of 'warp factor 5' dial-up connex and the disappearance of wingmen 'taken by aliens' are gone forever - thank goodness. Switched to AH when iEN finally porked WB/DoA with their WB2006/Flyboys update and discovered a better way to spend my hard-earned. Right now, I'm fiscally embarrassed and not too well, so I've suspended my account - but, like MacArthur, I shall return.
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Yup, I had an SVGA airwarrior subscription for a month or so, and had to long distance for the dialup. Must have been in 1993? Something like that.
There was no way I could afford to play it. Just the connect costs where crazy.
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:salute