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Title: Open the valve
Post by: Gaboon on April 21, 2011, 06:05:32 PM
I haven't been able to play for some time due to my health which is improving. I have been keeping tabs of the game's progress and have seen a decline of sorts. I believe that if some of the arenas are dissolved and cap numbers are increased  one will see more players on-line at peak times. I mean really to have early and middle arena slots when the late arena slots have the same models to choose from is a waste when those early and middle arenas only have a few players in them. Granted one can fly only those planes without fear of better planes besting them but I have seen those same planes in late war arenas rule. In these times of hard economy when one pays 14.99 a month and can't get in the arena his squad is in or his friends one might get so discusted he may just cancel his account and never return. This is just my opinion but it could happen.
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: Jayhawk on April 21, 2011, 06:14:04 PM
Well I wish you the best with your health but, I've got a question.  How have you noticed a "decline of sorts" when you haven't been playing? 
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: GNucks on April 21, 2011, 06:17:05 PM
This is the fourth thread I've seen about declining numbers recently. Do we have enough now?
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: Jayhawk on April 21, 2011, 06:22:25 PM
This is the fourth thread I've seen about declining numbers recently. Do we have enough now?

I believe it's a product of spring.  As the weather warms and people go outside, the end draws near!!!
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: GNucks on April 21, 2011, 06:28:52 PM
Oh lawd, I just stuck my head out the window... there's freshly cut grass, birds in the trees, children riding their bicycles, and neighbors grilling burgers while sipping ice tea's...

I must join them!  :bolt:
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: Soulyss on April 21, 2011, 07:22:38 PM
If I'm reading the original post correctly, EW and MW population and maximum capacity have zero effect on arena caps in the LW arenas.
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: The Fugitive on April 21, 2011, 07:56:11 PM
Even if they closed all other arenas except the LW arenas it wouldn't change how any of it is set-up. It's setup the way it is for many reasons, none of which have anything to do with the other arenas
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: gyrene81 on April 22, 2011, 09:18:53 AM
In these times of hard economy when one pays 14.99 a month and can't get in the arena his squad is in or his friends one might get so discusted he may just cancel his account and never return. This is just my opinion but it could happen.
anyone that childish and immature needs more than what $14.99 can purchase.
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: Hoff on April 22, 2011, 12:32:12 PM
anyone that childish and immature needs more than what $14.99 can purchase.

 :uhoh :headscratch: :headscratch: :uhoh
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: Jayhawk on April 22, 2011, 12:35:33 PM
:uhoh :headscratch: :headscratch: :uhoh

Makes sense to me, not sure what you don't get.
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: Delirium on April 22, 2011, 12:42:27 PM
How have you noticed a "decline of sorts" when you haven't been playing? 

That is because the forums have said so.

Relax, play the game and let Hitech worry about subscribers. If you like the game, tell your friends about it as posting in here doesn't do anything.
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: infowars on April 22, 2011, 01:20:20 PM
With gas over $4.00 a gallon.  I can't afford to fly this fuel hogs.
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: VonMessa on April 22, 2011, 01:22:22 PM
That is because the forums have said so.

Relax, play the game and let Hitech worry about subscribers. If you like the game, tell your friends about it as posting in here doesn't do anything.

It does SOMETHING...

It makes me laugh  :aok
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: Hoff on April 22, 2011, 01:28:53 PM
I don't know about you, but if I was paying for a game so that I could play with my friends and the game had mechanics implemented that disallowed this, I'd either vocalize my distaste or stop giving the company money.

Claiming that the above is adolescent behavior is asinine.
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: lulu on April 22, 2011, 01:35:12 PM
No, no and no!

 :lol

Early arenas are with few players in because it's very borrowing  to get v-field for just one pilot with no
no good fighters as p51-d or f4u-d avaiables.

We need new targets smaller then v-field.


 :old:
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: Jayhawk on April 22, 2011, 01:37:21 PM
I don't know about you, but if I was paying for a game so that I could play with my friends and the game had mechanics implemented that disallowed this, I'd either vocalize my distaste or stop giving the company money.

Claiming that the above is adolescent behavior is asinine.

Sure, but HTC isn't blocking people from playing with their squads, it's just a whine about caps.  I can count the number of times on one hand I've been completely unable to fly with my squad within 10 minutes of logging on.  Most whines spew from a misunderstanding of how caps work and the inability to wait for more than 5 seconds.  His point was that if someone logs on, see the arena with their squaddies is full, logs off and unsubscribes is adolescent behavior.
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: ozrocker on April 22, 2011, 01:38:19 PM
Give it a month and a half, Schools out. TV ads will stock game with 2 weeker seals in abundance :aok
Agree lots of folks getting outside. Once bikini season here, lucky seeing me playing :devil




                                                                                       <S> Oz
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: gyrene81 on April 22, 2011, 01:39:24 PM
I don't know about you, but if I was paying for a game so that I could play with my friends and the game had mechanics implemented that disallowed this, I'd either vocalize my distaste or stop giving the company money.

Claiming that the above is adolescent behavior is asinine.
really? did you stop to think before you posted that? i mean really seriously think about it...what, besides adolescent mentality stops someone from making just a single change so they can play in the same sand box as their buddy?
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: guncrasher on April 22, 2011, 01:42:04 PM
cool another cat fight over who's more mature.  anybody got popcorn?  i used all of mine up on the other thread.

semp
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: Vudu15 on April 22, 2011, 01:43:08 PM
That is because the forums have said so.

Relax, play the game and let Hitech worry about subscribers. If you like the game, tell your friends about it as posting in here doesn't do anything.

Spot on. Some folks worry about things outside their control too much take it easy, get better then jump in and add to the madness that is Aces High.  :aok
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: gyrene81 on April 22, 2011, 01:46:46 PM
cool another cat fight over who's more mature.  anybody got popcorn?  i used all of mine up on the other thread.

semp
:rofl  :lol  dork   :neener:
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: RobMo68 on April 22, 2011, 01:59:27 PM
cool another cat fight over who's more mature.  anybody got popcorn?  i used all of mine up on the other thread.

semp

(http://media.bigoo.ws/content/gif/winnie_the_pooh/winnie_the_pooh_20.gif)

Here ya go Semp!
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: Guppy35 on April 22, 2011, 02:26:28 PM
Just how much to you think 14.99 buys?

Considering all the options this game provides, I'd say a lot.

I was a model builder prior to finding Airwarrior and the flight sim becoming my WW2 hands on fix for me.  That 14.99, even in 1996 when I started playing online flight sims would not have paid for even half the cost of a single model aircraft, in particular the good ones. That doesn't include the glue, paint, brushes, knives etc that are also involved in the building process.  In most cases, unless I find a book used, that 14.99 wouldn't pay for a single one of the WW2 history books that sit on the shelves around me.

Lets look at that 14.99 in practical terms.  That's just a bit more then a small pack of diapers for the little one.  That's about a weeks worth.  It covers a little less then two 24 packs of Diet Coke that sit in the fridge.  That's probably less then a weeks worth at our hose.  That 14.99 is less then half a tank of gas, which means with the driving I have to do, it would keep me going for 2-3 days if I'm lucky.

Bottom line is I think folks get awfully demanding for a measly 14.99 a month.

All things considered, with all the entertainment this game can provide, I kinda think it's a bit of a steal.
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: ozrocker on April 22, 2011, 02:27:51 PM
Well after all, TV is eliminating 3 daytime soaps. People still crave Drama. HT maybe needs a  "Snivel Forum".
We have so many Cap,  Eny,  Zomg spiez and Ho threads. :ahand It's just like a daily soap. Who needs TV.
Imagine any Military debrief with whines as we have.

Cap= Limited resources of personnel in Theather. All participants in WW2 went through it .

Eny= Would rather have old system of porking fuel to limit flight range.
Was more "WW2 like", even in WW2 as pilots and later modeled A/C
dwindled, many were thrown into anything flyable.
Sorta like Eny, I guess.  

Spies= Julia Child was one. Of course it's cheating. War is hell after all. Part of the game too.
I don't care for it, neither did Tojo, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Churchill or Roosevelt.
It was there, its here. Many people double/triple spied.

Ho= Happened all the time.

Seems like so many, especially younger folks, are forgetting  1)  It's a GAME.
                                                                                         2)  A GAME is manufactured, invented and played for what
                                                                                               class? Anyone? You there, Wurzel yes. Correct Sir.
                                                                                               FUN
If it creates more anger than fun for you(whomever), maybe AH ain't the one that's for you :cheers:  Oz

P.S. Sorry Wurzel M8 :neener:
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: Blooz on April 22, 2011, 02:56:43 PM
I don't know about you, but if I was paying for a game so that I could play with my friends and the game had mechanics implemented that disallowed this, I'd either vocalize my distaste or stop giving the company money.

Claiming that the above is adolescent behavior is asinine.

Here's what you don't understand. AH allows you to play with your friends just fine. It's just backwards they way you THINK it should work.

Instead of YOU joining THEM in order to play together, THEY join YOU and you all play together.

And I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, well! THEY shouldn't HAVE to join ME so we can play together or, even worse, THEY WON'T play with me if I ask them, then you must conclude that THEY aren't really YOUR friends after all.
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: Changeup on April 22, 2011, 03:12:59 PM
really? did you stop to think before you posted that? i mean really seriously think about it...what, besides adolescent mentality stops someone from making just a single change so they can play in the same sand box as their buddy?
For me it's just been baseball season....my sons team practices and games seem to be endless and then to come home around 10pm and club baby seals is less sporting than shaking baby birds out of saplings.   Besides, my daughter would want to adopt them. 
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: Max on April 22, 2011, 09:14:59 PM
This is the fourth thread I've seen about declining numbers recently. Do we have enough now?

Fear not my friend. Summer is coming..a new crop of air cadets is on the way  :)
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: AWwrgwy on April 22, 2011, 10:41:45 PM
It's another

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if
thread.


wrongway
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: ghi on April 22, 2011, 11:34:49 PM
Just how much to you think 14.99 buys?

Considering all the options this game provides, I'd say a lot.

I was a model builder prior to finding Airwarrior and the flight sim becoming my WW2 hands on fix for me.  That 14.99, even in 1996 when I started playing online flight sims would not have paid for even half the cost of a single model aircraft, in particular the good ones. That doesn't include the glue, paint, brushes, knives etc that are also involved in the building process.  In most cases, unless I find a book used, that 14.99 wouldn't pay for a single one of the WW2 history books that sit on the shelves around me.

Lets look at that 14.99 in practical terms.  That's just a bit more then a small pack of diapers for the little one.  That's about a weeks worth.  It covers a little less then two 24 packs of Diet Coke that sit in the fridge.  That's probably less then a weeks worth at our hose.  That 14.99 is less then half a tank of gas, which means with the driving I have to do, it would keep me going for 2-3 days if I'm lucky.

Bottom line is I think folks get awfully demanding for a measly 14.99 a month.

All things considered, with all the entertainment this game can provide, I kinda think it's a bit of a steal.
<- switching to Geico
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: DREDIOCK on April 22, 2011, 11:48:39 PM
Give it a month and a half, Schools out. TV ads will stock game with 2 weeker seals in abundance :aok
Agree lots of folks getting outside. Once bikini season here, lucky seeing me playing :devil




                                                                                       <S> Oz
Dude,
Trust me. Nobody wants to see you in a bikini. Just hang out inside and play...PLEASE
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: Ack-Ack on April 22, 2011, 11:56:31 PM
I don't know about you, but if I was paying for a game so that I could play with my friends and the game had mechanics implemented that disallowed this, I'd either vocalize my distaste or stop giving the company money.

Claiming that the above is adolescent behavior is asinine.

Aces High does not have a system that disallows you to fly with your friends or squadron mates.  I know you've only got a couple of weeks under you belt playing AH, so it's understandable that you don't understand how the game works yet.

ack-ack
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: Max on April 23, 2011, 06:48:01 AM
We need new targets smaller then v-field.

(http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/6016/cokemachine.jpg) (http://img59.imageshack.us/i/cokemachine.jpg/)

Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: ozrocker on April 23, 2011, 08:25:26 AM
<- switching to Geico
                                                                                                                     
  :rofl :rofl :rofl


                                                                                               <S> Oz
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: Slade on April 23, 2011, 10:22:12 AM
Please, no disrespect but we don't know the facts.  None of us (I don't think) have access to the database that shows how many paid users there are.  How many fly and when. 

We can see what we can when we are in the game but that is not a comprehensive view.

If there is a page that shows this (the facts) please post.

Thanks.


Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: ozrocker on April 25, 2011, 08:06:51 AM
Dude,
Trust me. Nobody wants to see you in a bikini. Just hang out inside and play...PLEASE
:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl


                                                                                          <S> Oz
Hey Driedock, this for you! (No Rick Roll)

http://youtu.be/Duv9De-DWGg
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: ozrocker on April 25, 2011, 08:11:50 AM
Please, no disrespect but we don't know the facts.  None of us (I don't think) have access to the database that shows how many paid users there are.  How many fly and when.  

We can see what we can when we are in the game but that is not a comprehensive view.

If there is a page that shows this (the facts) please post.

Thanks.



Me too Yes!  
I still see a strong player base. There are people here that I STILL have not gotten killed by.
I don't believe Lusche has access to make a pie chart for #'s of subscribers.
Like said already, not our spot to worry, just play!
                                                                                    <S> Oz
Title: Re: Open the valve
Post by: bj229r on April 25, 2011, 09:18:19 AM
I'm fairly confident that HT doesn't feel obligated to give us access to that info;