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Title: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Megalodon on October 24, 2011, 11:15:30 PM
I am campaigning for you to add more Country's to your cool game! Help me out! This is not a wishlist item. I would like to hear from all in the AH community as well.

I would like for you to add a representative plane from these Country's, fighter or bomber. Why? They simply deserve to be here. If you add new country's you increase the potential clientele. If you add another German, USA, British, Soviet, Japanese etc... you really don't increase your client base you just add another goodie for those of us here all ready. Why not add some new interest, new clientele and give us, the current clientele, some more goodies to play with?

I would like to fly all of these. wouldn't you?

1. The French <65 million people>
   A. MS-406
   B. D-520
   C. B-693

2. The Aussies <26 million people>
   A. CAC Boomerang
   B. DAP MK21 Beaufighter

3. The Romanians <15 million people>
   A. I.A.R. 80/81

4. The Polish <38 million people>
   A. PLZ.23 Karas
 
I think some of these approx.140 million folks would like to be included in your game!  Heck if you add the H75 as a Chinese plane <1.3 Billion people>

I can make a case for all of these planes at squadron strength and combat sorties some with kills and some just killed.
 
If you would like any help with any info on any of these planes, I would be glad to help out the best I can.

Please consider it!

Thank You,

Fin  :salute
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: AWwrgwy on October 24, 2011, 11:27:32 PM
The French, Aussies, and Poles all flew Spitfires.


wrongway
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Megalodon on October 24, 2011, 11:30:14 PM
The French, Aussies, and Poles all flew Spitfires.


wrongway


Yes they did that's not the point :)

If I was French would I join to fly a British plane probable not
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: BaldEagl on October 24, 2011, 11:42:09 PM
 :headscratch:  I'm American and mostly fly British and German planes.
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: dhyran on October 25, 2011, 01:00:51 AM
:headscratch:  I'm American and mostly fly British and German planes.

Second that, i am German and fly mostly US iron
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: zack1234 on October 25, 2011, 02:25:12 AM
R u German?
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: pervert on October 25, 2011, 05:59:16 AM
I would like the game in different languages ie the title screen and a file that the user can edit to change the menu options in game to their own language.
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: phatzo on October 25, 2011, 06:24:17 AM
I would like the game in different languages ie the title screen and a file that the user can edit to change the menu options in game to their own language.
I bet Gibberish won't be an option though.
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: pervert on October 25, 2011, 07:15:15 AM
I bet Gibberish won't be an option though.

In all seriousness though would you play a game were you couldn't read the basic menu or the title? English is my first and only language I wouldn't play a game that was in Russian no matter how good the game was. IL2 Sturmovik was in every language under the sun, my guess is HTC blauks at the considerable task of providing multi lingual support for this game, but the way the community seems to pop up around this game do you really need one?

I would love receiving tears in a language I couldn't understand!  :rofl Or watching political discussions in Russian on 200  :rock All you need is a forum for a nationality the Japanese who came over from Fighter Ace should really have their own forum here on the BBS as well.
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: thndregg on October 25, 2011, 07:30:20 AM
I would like the game in different languages ie the title screen and a file that the user can edit to change the menu options in game to their own language.

"I'm sorry. The universal translator has been confiscated."
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3431/5765180514_a52fdbd96a.jpg)
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: mthrockmor on October 25, 2011, 08:24:32 AM
A few months back there was a thread about how to handle 2-week pass players in an attempt to keep more of them in the fold. Sadly, about the only thing I have seen come out of this is when players drop the 'alt-f4' trick veteran players quickly correct them. No use hazing those not in the fold yet.

This idea has an interesting angle. I doubt High Tech has a massive marketing budget though we on this list could easily gorilla market this. Imagine if we did have the French D.520. Could we gorilla market via Facebook, etc to French gamers about flying this bird? With the Poles, they flew Hurris and Spits. Is there a gorilla campaign to be had recruiting for a historical Polish squadron or wing? Do we have the ability to recruit in Japan for Japanese flyers? Would there be an appeal for Flying Tigers among the people of Taiwan/Formosa? What about recruiting in South Africa or New Zealand for respective squads that flew with the RAF? I've thought about drumming up a volunteer group (not a new squad) among Tennessee's many volunteers. Maybe a surge among us red-neck, southern folk.

Who knows but there might be an angle here....

Or not.

There is a real desire among many of us to build this community in various ways. Is there something to be done?

Boo
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Raphael on October 25, 2011, 11:23:11 AM
pervert, did you see that blade made a japanese ahwiki all by himself?
if the menu would have languages options I'll be willing to help out with Brazillian Portuguese.
now for the aircraft... I WANTZ IAR AND D520
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Shuffler on October 25, 2011, 11:25:15 AM
I fly alien aircraft almost exclusively. You only have access to them from SAPP.
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: pervert on October 25, 2011, 11:41:24 AM
pervert, did you see that blade made a japanese ahwiki all by himself?
if the menu would have languages options I'll be willing to help out with Brazillian Portuguese.
now for the aircraft... I WANTZ IAR AND D520

Yup I cannot read it though!  :) I'm sure it was an exhaustive thing to do, really shows how much some love this game to put that much effort into helping his countrymen  :rock

D520 would be cool jets suck balls  :furious
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Shuffler on October 25, 2011, 11:54:38 AM
520 would be a fine add.
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Noir on October 25, 2011, 01:06:39 PM
supporting unicode for ingame chat would be a start, Its quite difficult to hold a french conversation without éèê. Japanese is a nightmare also, and don't get me started on russian :)
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: PuppetZ on October 25, 2011, 02:39:23 PM
Noir, I manage it very well. It's not real elegant but still... The thing is, why would I do that, given the vast majority of player wont understand me?

De toute façon, je veut gardé mon code secret  :devil

Pis j'n'ai un autre ben à moé itou  :D

I know it cut us off from potential people, but in a small community like this, I feel a standard have to be imposed for communications or else it could quickly become a jungle.
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Raphael on October 25, 2011, 05:08:09 PM
yes but some people that do not speak the language of the majority just leave the game for a while because they are completly lost. some don't even know there IS a forum or tutorials etc...
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: pervert on October 25, 2011, 06:33:22 PM
I know it cut us off from potential people, but in a small community like this, I feel a standard have to be imposed for communications or else it could quickly become a jungle.

So whats to stop a community that cannot speak english from popping up? I have no problem people having their own little jungle ours is quite big enough isn't it? A Russians money is just as good as an Americans  :) or any other nationality for that matter, whos to say they cannot have their own channel 200 for their language.

More subscribers for this game the more HTC can do more quickly, which can only be good for the players.
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Megalodon on October 25, 2011, 07:19:04 PM
More subscribers for this game the more HTC can do more quickly, which can only be good for the players.

Yes... 1 way to get more subs would be to ad new/other nations.


I do agree on the languages. I think an interpreter program would be best ... so a Japanese person can talk to a Russian person or a Frenchmen to an American and visversa. Similar to google translate. I type in English on my end and it comes out French on his end.

Before you have a need for this however you need the Frenchman and some French planes.

:salute




BTW Skuzzy I asked you nicely, I thought, to please leave this thread in the AH main forum as more folks attend and it is more of a discussion than a wish list item and I also directed the question directly to HT not the C portion. I would like his take on this if he says pound sand so be it. I won't bother anymore.

Thanx  :salute
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Megalodon on October 25, 2011, 10:02:33 PM
The French, Aussies, and Poles all flew Spitfires.


wrongway

the Poles also flew these and managed a few victories can you tell me the plane?

(http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/2231/f3nb0.gif)
(http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/6641/f5od1.gif)

So did the Fins
(http://i836.photobucket.com/albums/zz281/Megalodon2/finnishfighter.jpg)

 :aok
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Raphael on October 25, 2011, 10:54:03 PM
Quote
I do agree on the languages. I think an interpreter program would be best ... so a Japanese person can talk to a Russian person or a Frenchmen to an American and visversa. Similar to google translate. I type in English on my end and it comes out French on his end.

this never works out ok, the languages are so different that the final message most of the time simply does not make sense or even becomes something else, imagine even expretions and such. I think there could be a "200" for every single language and a main 200 where people that will join are people that do not mind seeing other languages in their text buffers so people would simply talk in thier own language or thosw who can speak other language would do so.

I know there are some guys that play this game and do not understand a word people say and only understand basics of what people type, I have NO IDEA how the person figures out all the stuff this game has with no comunication at all. even the forums. there could be a help forum to each language and people that do speak english could help out with some basic info even by translating the questions to someone who is a veteran in the game
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Shane on October 26, 2011, 12:46:32 AM
I am campaigning for you to add more Country's to your cool game! Help me out! This is not a wishlist item. I would like to hear from all in the AH community as well.

If you would like any help with any info on any of these planes, I would be glad to help out the best I can.


send them source documents... you know, the specs and performance data, not stuff just pulled from a book.  :aok
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Vudu15 on October 26, 2011, 12:49:56 AM
yes but some people that do not speak the language of the majority just leave the game for a while because they are completly lost. some don't even know there IS a forum or tutorials etc...

When I started playing I didnt know about the tutorials or the forums.

Options>controls>map keys......that was how I found what did what.
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: 10thmd on October 26, 2011, 01:14:32 AM




the Poles also flew these and managed a few victories can you tell me the plane?

(http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/2231/f3nb0.gif)
(http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/6641/f5od1.gif)

So did the Fins
(http://i836.photobucket.com/albums/zz281/Megalodon2/finnishfighter.jpg)

 :aok

Caudron C.714
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Raphael on October 26, 2011, 09:21:59 AM
When I started playing I didnt know about the tutorials or the forums.

Options>controls>map keys......that was how I found what did what.
exact same with me  :rofl
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Noir on October 26, 2011, 10:33:47 AM
Puppetz, your french is pretty bad :lol

For native french speakers, having a text conversation within AH is frustrating. Creating a french squad would be a hassle without the proper text characters, and over the years I've seen quite a few french pilots try the gamer, and most of them left. Why? probably because of their isolation, in aces high you have to know a bit of English, even if you find people from your country you can't send text to them in your home langage)

Adding unicode to the game would surely increase division in the community, but at the end I think it would be good for the game, increasing the subscriptions and add diversity in the gameplay!

I volonteer to provide french traduction to the game :aok
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Raphael on October 26, 2011, 11:17:38 AM
when you do not have english as your first language, the first words you learn are the bad words (at least in Brazil that is very common  :D)
but seriously, if the person is from Brasil, he only discovers the game because he already has some knowledge of flight simulation games. Aces high is not just that and also people get lost and simply do not know how to play it. what I mean is, the person knows the names (rudder, elevator, trim...) but has no idea at first where is the fight going on, where are the enemy bombers, is it possible to change your fuel loadout..,what is a tank spawn,Why can't I use a bomb on my a/c? ... and stuff...
The ones who stay are the ones who have basic english, the ones who find other people that speak the language OR those who simply mess with everything. imagine flying wanting a escort or some help of some kind like a damaged tank that does not even know that supplies can fix and stuff and you are not able to comunicate (even do not know what 200 channel is)
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Tank-Ace on October 26, 2011, 06:14:36 PM
American with relatives from all nations in game execpt Russia and Japan, and I only fly German. You can't beat the feel of Messerschmit iron, or the sound of a Daimler-Benz engine, or the roar of a Rheinmetall-Borsig cannon.


Infact, the bottom of my "things I want added" list is mostly US stuff.
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: skorpion on October 26, 2011, 06:48:14 PM
You can't beat the feel of Messerschmit iron, or the sound of a Daimler-Benz engine, or the roar of a Rheinmetall-Borsig cannon.
Yes you can, its called a B-17. :neener:
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Raphael on October 26, 2011, 10:45:23 PM
I also fly mostly german Iron and I do not like the jug as much (and it was the only plane Brazil used to every mission)

but by representing other countries you WILL certainly call attention of some other people. think about it, some of these planes aren't modeled anywhere and people would find where? aces high!

there is a bunch of patriotic people out there that would like to fly it's country's plane
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Tank-Ace on October 27, 2011, 12:31:24 AM
Ah, but in their infinite wisdom, the RLM saw fit to equip me with a powerfull 30mm cannon, so that I might destroy the enemys of Germany with but a single pass  :ahand.
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: 715 on October 27, 2011, 02:42:28 PM
I've been playing AH since it was Warbirds (and then Confirmed Kill- or do I have that reversed).  It seems to me we actually have fewer foreign players than in the past. I remember I used to be in a squad that had Russians; couldn't understand a word they said but it was kinda neat, sort of added immersion.  It doesn't seem that I hear as many foreign accents as I used to. (Well, Southern accents are foreign to me and there sure are a lot of those :) )
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: 2ADoc on October 27, 2011, 08:37:43 PM
That is cause you're a Yankee and the southern dialect is one of art and stature.  Right along with the Texan dialect, which we have a few depending on where in Texas you might have been born and reared. :D :cheers:
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Vudu15 on October 28, 2011, 12:09:42 PM
Dad and I would be a couple Texans adding southern immersion to your game from time to time. Your welcome.  :D

Vudu15 and Hand....
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Megalodon on November 06, 2011, 11:00:54 AM
Well HT? comments?
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: pervert on November 06, 2011, 12:56:12 PM
Yeah I'd like to hear his opinion on this as well actually.
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: hitech on November 06, 2011, 08:55:08 PM
Well HT? comments?

I like New Zealand lamb.

HiTech
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Tank-Ace on November 06, 2011, 09:24:24 PM
Lol, thats going in my Sig  :lol.
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Megalodon on November 06, 2011, 09:52:53 PM
I like New Zealand lamb.

HiTech

 :aok
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: DaHand on November 07, 2011, 12:26:28 AM
+1 for the QUEENS

Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Megalodon on November 07, 2011, 12:26:29 PM
I am campaigning for you to add more Country's to your cool game! Help me out! This is not a wishlist item. I would like to hear from all in the AH community as well.

I would like for you to add a representative plane from these Country's, fighter or bomber. Why? They simply deserve to be here. If you add new country's you increase the potential clientele. If you add another German, USA, British, Soviet, Japanese etc... you really don't increase your client base you just add another goodie for those of us here all ready. Why not add some new interest, new clientele and give us, the current clientele, some more goodies to play with?

I would like to fly all of these. wouldn't you?

1. The French <65 million people>
   A. MS-406
   B. D-520
   C. B-693

2. The Aussies <26 million people>
   A. CAC Boomerang
   B. DAP MK21 Beaufighter

3. The Romanians <15 million people>
   A. I.A.R. 80/81

4. The Polish <38 million people>
   A. PLZ.23 Karas
 
I think some of these approx.140 million folks would like to be included in your game!  Heck if you add the H75 as a Chinese plane <1.3 Billion people>

I can make a case for all of these planes at squadron strength and combat sorties some with kills and some just killed.
 
If you would like any help with any info on any of these planes, I would be glad to help out the best I can.

Please consider it!

Thank You,

Fin  :salute

I thought it was a well thought out short question? With concern for the games dwindling population. I was making a suggestion that might be good for HTC. I thought the you might answer in a way we would all appreaciate.


Answer:
I like New Zealand lamb.

HiTech

Thank You,






Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: pervert on November 07, 2011, 01:07:10 PM
I like New Zealand lamb.

HiTech

 :rolleyes:
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Tilt on November 07, 2011, 02:15:29 PM
News flash 

the sheep on your runway is a Kiwi. :airplane:
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: The Fugitive on November 07, 2011, 04:08:38 PM
I thought it was a well thought out short question? With concern for the games dwindling population. I was making a suggestion that might be good for HTC. I thought the you might answer in a way we would all appreaciate.


Answer:
Thank You,









How many people do you think will subscribe to the game if those planes are added?

Most of those planes have been asked for many times before, much like the B29, the P40N, the Betty and so on. And like those planes we have gotten, I'm sure we will get all of the other too, eventually.

You've been here long enough to know your not going to get a strait answer to any thing pertaining to the future of any content that the game may or may not get.

Like everyone else, wish for it, pray for it, hope for it, even send in a bottle or two of scotch for it, but you will not hear about it until a few weeks before it will bereleased, just like every other thing that has been added to the game over the years.
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Megalodon on November 07, 2011, 07:26:05 PM

How many people do you think will subscribe to the game if those planes are added?

Most of those planes have been asked for many times before, much like the B29, the P40N, the Betty and so on. And like those planes we have gotten, I'm sure we will get all of the other too, eventually.

You've been here long enough to know your not going to get a strait answer to any thing pertaining to the future of any content that the game may or may not get.

Like everyone else, wish for it, pray for it, hope for it, even send in a bottle or two of scotch for it, but you will not hear about it until a few weeks before it will bereleased, just like every other thing that has been added to the game over the years.
At this point in the economy it would be hard to say and you are asking me to speculate but I would hope for 1/25th to 1/10th of 1% of the country's population. Additionally I would be advertising in the country's that I cater to ie. Germany, Japan, Russia etc..


I think eventually may not come or is to long to wait for an excellent idea that makes the intended player base bigger and stronger.


I've been here long enough to know if you ask a good straight question you will get a good straight answer, ...eventually.


Like everyone else, I will, wish for it, pray for it, hope for it and additionally, I will send any information/help/support I can find to help with the release of these new country's planes.


Go read the OP's original text and you will find that this doesn't even belong in this forum and is a discussion on what would be a good way to increase the client base and get more customers for the good of HT and HTC. It asks the question to HT if adding new country's is a good idea and if so, would this be a good way to go about it.

There are a few other threads that have sprung up in the same vein since I posted.


Drone,
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: The Fugitive on November 07, 2011, 08:57:38 PM
At this point in the economy it would be hard to say and you are asking me to speculate but I would hope for 1/25th to 1/10th of 1% of the country's population. Additionally I would be advertising in the country's that I cater to ie. Germany, Japan, Russia etc..


I think eventually may not come or is to long to wait for an excellent idea that makes the intended player base bigger and stronger.


I've been here long enough to know if you ask a good straight question you will get a good straight answer, ...eventually.


Like everyone else, I will, wish for it, pray for it, hope for it and additionally, I will send any information/help/support I can find to help with the release of these new country's planes.


Go read the OP's original text and you will find that this doesn't even belong in this forum and is a discussion on what would be a good way to increase the client base and get more customers for the good of HT and HTC. It asks the question to HT if adding new country's is a good idea and if so, would this be a good way to go about it.

There are a few other threads that have sprung up in the same vein since I posted.



Drone,

Well just because there are a number of threads on the subject doesn't mean that they are good ideas  :devil

Personally I wouldn't think having a plane that represent my country would be a "selling point" to play the game. Advertizing, now that would make more sense. You can add the French planes you want, if people in France don't know the game exists no body is going to join.

My guess, is the OP wasn't looked at as a suggestion/idea to bring in more people, it was looked at more in the vein of a disguised wish ( and most likely why it was moved here). As we have heard before, "ask for what you really want", in this case, more new planes.
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Megalodon on November 11, 2011, 12:37:24 PM
Well just because there are a number of threads on the subject doesn't mean that they are good ideas  :devil

Personally I wouldn't think having a plane that represent my country would be a "selling point" to play the game. Advertising, now that would make more sense. You can add the French planes you want, if people in France don't know the game exists no body is going to join.

My guess, is the OP wasn't looked at as a suggestion/idea to bring in more people, it was looked at more in the vein of a disguised wish ( and most likely why it was moved here). As we have heard before, "ask for what you really want", in this case, more new planes.

It doesn't mean they are not excellent ideas either   :lol


Oh really? What if there were no US planes and you knew nothing about the game you just found and the language is Russian. Would you try to stumble through it? I most likely wouldn't fly this thing if there weren't USA planes and English! I mean its hard enough to learn as it is.. right?
Take a look here at rise of flight web site, at the click of the mouse it changes the language from Russian to English.
http://riseofflight.com/ru (http://riseofflight.com/ru)

and here on wings of prey, skip the intro and look at the top right corner on the page …click of the mouse no less then seven languages.

http://www.airwargame.com/fre/start/  (http://www.airwargame.com/fre/start/)
…  French even!

I am not espousing either of these games ...but I do think this would be a great idea for HT to implement.

.... So I guess that would apply to all Russian, German and Japanese planes in the game as well but we have plenty of those We even have a Finnish plane that's not Finnish. The French certainly deserve a spot in this game oui? The Australians do as well. Adding something from the Romanian area is also good and we know there are a lot of new rich Chinese.



I would say your right!
Maybe if we had younger more enthusiastic/sharper lads they could have a 2 for 1. 1 guy to watch the forums and 1 to manage the web sites, a new skins board, manage the player skins, and make a new multi language site.  What do you think?  Would that be a good idea?
…And no,, In this case it would be for new Country's to be represented, could be a gv, seaplane, tank even a sub. … etc
I mentioned planes because that's what I know about.  :aok
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Ruah on November 12, 2011, 06:10:28 PM
3 balances better then 4.
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Megalodon on November 28, 2011, 11:32:06 AM
Okay how bout a French tank

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Char_1935_S_Somua_1.jpg/800px-Char_1935_S_Somua_1.jpg)

this would go good with lyrics early war panzer and still would add a new country.
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Tank-Ace on November 28, 2011, 06:42:56 PM
*stuff*

yeah, cause thats not a punt  :lol.
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Megalodon on November 28, 2011, 08:27:09 PM
yeah, cause thats not a punt  :lol.

Nope.. just another idea to add new countrys... I'm not a tanker but I'm going to brush up just for four you  :cheers:

what tank was that?,
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Ack-Ack on November 28, 2011, 08:38:15 PM


I do agree on the languages. I think an interpreter program would be best ... so a Japanese person can talk to a Russian person or a Frenchmen to an American and visversa. Similar to google translate. I type in English on my end and it comes out French on his end.

Having an auto-translator in game like that takes a lot of development time and resources and I imagine would be difficult for a company with limited resources like HTC to actually do.  The online games we have feature an auto-translator so our French, German, Japanese and English players can communicate with each other but from what I hear from our devs, it's a pain in the bellybutton to implement.

I think at this point, it would probably be quicker if the community takes on this project itself, just like Blade did for his fellow JP players.


ack-ack
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Tank-Ace on November 28, 2011, 10:39:07 PM
IDK if its even nessecary AKAK. We have very few players that don't share at least 1 of the main languages in AH.
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: BaldEagl on November 29, 2011, 12:03:06 AM
If you add new country's you increase the potential clientele. If you add another German, USA, British, Soviet, Japanese etc... you really don't increase your client base you just add another goodie for those of us here all ready.

I have to wonder where all the Soviet players are?  We really didn't have any Japanese either until FA closed down and Russian, Japanese and Italian planes have been here a long time.

By your calculations how big are those countries and how many players should have flooded into the game?

I realize now you've added language to your wish but it wasn't there to begin with.  I think your logic is flawed.
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Noir on November 29, 2011, 04:26:42 AM
ingame translator is a pipe dream, but what about unicode characters support?

 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: coombz on November 29, 2011, 06:39:35 AM
IDK if its even nessecary AKAK. We have very few players that don't share at least 1 of the main languages in AH.

as English is clearly your second language, I've been wondering how accessible you found the documentation for AH when you began to play, and the ingame menus etc? Good or bad?

Do you agree with Megalodon that if it was easier for other non-English native speakers we could increase the player base?
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Megalodon on November 29, 2011, 04:23:36 PM
Having an  in game like that takes a lot of development time and resources and I imagine would be difficult for a company with limited resources like HTC to actually do.  The on line games we have feature an  so our French, German, Japanese and English players can communicate with each other but from what I hear from our Dev's, it's a pain in the bellybutton to implement.

I think at this point, it would probably be quicker if the community takes on this project itself, just like Blade did for his fellow JP players.


alack

You maybe right about the in game translator as I am not sure what all it would involve..... But having HTC's web pages with translated text option would be excellent to explain to foreign language speakers.

Having a small highlighted clickable icons at the top of the page to change the languages of the pages..|EN  FR JA RU IT GE CH SP PL| etc...will it cost a little to make these pages...yes ...or maybe someone will donate their time making official translated pages for HTC either hosted by or pointed too. For instance you could do SP.


I disagree ......... I think HT should add nations, vehicles, planes or vessels, that had a stake in the war that are not represented 1st before adding anymore trinkets from country's all ready in the game. Aus, Fra being two major nations and Rom, Poland etc... and make it easier, by way of web pages, for potential costumers to under stand how to work/play/strategy of/the game.






Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Megalodon on November 29, 2011, 04:33:21 PM
I have to wonder where all the Soviet players are?  We really didn't have any Japanese either until FA closed down and Russian, Japanese and Italian planes have been here a long time.

By your calculations how big are those countries and how many players should have flooded into the game?

I realize now you've added language to your wish but it wasn't there to begin with.  I think your logic is flawed.

Wonder all you like. Yes we had them in AW as well that doesn't mean we should not include other nations and support for them that they can read.

Its a conversation and shouldn't be in the wishlist thread. I didn't  put it here  :aok
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Plawranc on November 29, 2011, 07:32:53 PM
CAC- Boomerang

People would raise hell if it was added.

Why, because your just giving us a Brewster with 20mm's and a much cooler country of origin...

soo.....

BOOMERANG

(Beau would be wonderful to ;) )
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Ack-Ack on November 29, 2011, 07:47:43 PM

I disagree ......... I think HT should add nations, vehicles, planes or vessels, that had a stake in the war that are not represented 1st before adding anymore trinkets from country's all ready in the game. Aus, Fra being two major nations and Rom, Poland etc... and make it easier, by way of web pages, for potential costumers to under stand how to work/play/strategy of/the game.


I whole heartedly agree.

ack-ack
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Tank-Ace on November 29, 2011, 08:02:18 PM
as English is clearly your second language, I've been wondering how accessible you found the documentation for AH when you began to play, and the ingame menus etc? Good or bad?

Do you agree with Megalodon that if it was easier for other non-English native speakers we could increase the player base?


Wow, the sarcasam is overwhelming. Anway, I'm not saying it wouldn't be helpfull, but I'm saying it might not be nessecary (games for other countrys should of course have thier own localization package, that goes without saying, so ingame menues are a moot point). I'm saying that for complex communication of personal oppinions, such as usually happens on CH 200 and Ch 2, it wouldn't be nessecary, though it would be usefull.
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: coombz on November 30, 2011, 03:22:37 AM
Isn't the shame overwhelming? your English is worse than most foreigners who learned it as their second language. If you were my kid I'd probably have you put down.

Anyway I guess I understand that HTC and AH is a very different business model (and smaller team) to most other games and game companies, and so some taken-for-granted things like multiple language options are going to be hard for them to do, just the way it goes...

But I do think it'd get (or would have gotten) a lot more subscribers in the long run
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: coombz on November 30, 2011, 08:04:07 AM
ugh double post spastic-ness...hit quote instead of edit  :banana:
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Tank-Ace on November 30, 2011, 04:29:50 PM
Isn't the shame overwhelming? your English is worse than most foreigners who learned it as their second language. If you were my kid I'd probably have you put down.

Anyway I guess I understand that HTC and AH is a very different business model (and smaller team) to most other games and game companies, and so some taken-for-granted things like multiple language options are going to be hard for them to do, just the way it goes...

But I do think it'd get (or would have gotten) a lot more subscribers in the long run

Yes, because I clearly have more troubles with the English language than you  :rolleyes:. Of course you know what they say, "Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales".


Perhaps Aces High would have had more subscribers by now, if HTC offered the game in multiple languages. Perhaps that's something they lack compared to a large business. But then again, HTC has never expressed a desire to be a large business.
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: coombz on November 30, 2011, 06:01:38 PM
Did you ever have the desire to learn English better than foreign kids?  :lol Glad to see you're using the nice built in spellcheck now, if my posts have at least shamed you into that much, then the other members of this forum should thank me  :old:
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Tank-Ace on December 01, 2011, 06:09:19 PM
If your posts contained even a grain of truth, then perhaps they should. But seeing as this is reality, they're probably more inclined to ignore you than praise you for inaction.
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Megalodon on December 08, 2011, 10:26:58 PM
Punt
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Templar on December 18, 2011, 07:09:11 PM
WOW! I go on vacation for a year and you guys are at each others throats......ahhhh I missed this.....  :bhead  +1 for adding aircraft that are unique to new countries.  :salute
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: TwinBoom on December 25, 2011, 04:54:55 PM
3 Countries one stone

We need more representation and diversity
bring on these
1. The French <65 million people>
   A. MS-406
   B. D-520
   C. B-693

2. The Aussies <26 million people>
   A. CAC Boomerang
   B. DAP MK21 Beaufighter

3. The Romanians <15 million people>
   A. I.A.R. 80/81

4. The Polish <38 million people>
   A. PLZ.23 Karas
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Megalodon on July 01, 2012, 06:07:36 PM
3 Countries one stone

We need more representation and diversity
bring on these
1. The French <65 million people>
   A. MS-406
   B. D-520
   C. B-693

2. The Aussies <26 million people>
   A. CAC Boomerang
   B. DAP MK21 Beaufighter

3. The Romanians <15 million people>
   A. I.A.R. 80/81

4. The Polish <38 million people>
   A. PLZ.23 Karas

Lets add a couple more to the list

The Yugoslavian's (Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro) <20 million people>
  A. Ikarus IK-3
(http://i836.photobucket.com/albums/zz281/Megalodon2/IkarusIK-3.jpg)

The Bulgarians <8 million people>
Avia B-135
(http://i836.photobucket.com/albums/zz281/Megalodon2/avia-b-135-01.jpg)

The Chinese <1.3 billion people>
Curtis Hawk 75a
P-43 Lancer
P-66 Vanguard


 :aok
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Karnak on July 01, 2012, 06:19:57 PM
The Chinese flew a lot of I-16s as well, so they kinda have a plane in game now.

What about the idea of unicode support and having a General channel for English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian that, if it is possible, based on IP address tunes new players to the appropriate General channel?
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Lusche on July 01, 2012, 06:24:36 PM
(...) and having a General channel for English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian that, if it is possible, based on IP address tunes new players to the appropriate General channel?

While I'm for different language sub forums, I'm personally not sure if this ^^ would be a good idea. Splitting in game communications and such...  :headscratch:
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Megalodon on July 01, 2012, 06:30:21 PM
What about the idea of unicode support and having a General channel for English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian that, if it is possible, based on IP address tunes new players to the appropriate General channel?

I think that's a great idea!


Aswell.. being able to tune to the specific languages with a dot command .. exmp  .tune German?
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Karnak on July 01, 2012, 06:50:13 PM
While I'm for different language sub forums, I'm personally not sure if this ^^ would be a good idea. Splitting in game communications and such...  :headscratch:
Not saying that would be their only channel.  They'd still be in country and all as well.  Just one of the four channels set to their language's General Channel.
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Butcher on July 01, 2012, 08:27:25 PM
MS-406
D-520
Beaufighter
IAR 80/81

Early/midwar fighters? always get my vote +1

Don't care for which country or politics (i.e how many people) - frankly finger pointing which country "deserves" a slot is rather childish.

Not sure about the PZL P.11 - Fiat CR.42 Falco and Gladiator served in far more theaters then PZL P.11 or any other Polish aircraft.

With Gladiator and Falco you can have a Greek Campaign or North Africa both were vital to WW2, throw in limited 109s and Hurricanes and you have an interesting match up.

Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: danny76 on July 02, 2012, 06:09:24 AM

Yes they did that's not the point :)

If I was French would I join to fly a British plane probable not

Then you'd be wrong. French planes are more difficult to master because of all the reverse gears :bolt:
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Megalodon on July 04, 2012, 03:00:07 PM
The Chinese flew a lot of I-16s as well, so they kinda have a plane in game now.


 And the French flew the Hawk 75 as well ....quite a few attained ace status.
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Zodiac on July 04, 2012, 03:55:57 PM
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Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Noir on July 04, 2012, 05:01:52 PM
well if I get a French plane, I would like if it had a hs404 cannon on it  :aok
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: 100goon on July 08, 2012, 02:22:21 AM
1. The French <65 million people>
   A. MS-406
   B. D-520
   C. B-693


Unless the french planes come with guns the shoot out little white flags, I doubt they'll join.
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Noir on July 08, 2012, 05:03:49 AM
Unless the french planes come with guns the shoot out little white flags, I doubt they'll join.

ho ho ho that's so funny.  :bhead
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: bozon on July 08, 2012, 06:22:00 AM
MS-406
D-520
Beaufighter
IAR 80/81

Early/midwar fighters? always get my vote +1
Heck, the Beaufighters served almost from start to end and participated in all theaters of operations. The other plans are ****.
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Wmaker on July 08, 2012, 10:33:50 AM
So did the Fins
(http://i836.photobucket.com/albums/zz281/Megalodon2/finnishfighter.jpg)

It flew just a few hours before it was retired entirely. It didn't see any combat with the Finnish Air Force.

A good link: http://www.sci.fi/~fta/ca-fin-1.htm (http://www.sci.fi/~fta/ca-fin-1.htm)
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: Megalodon on July 08, 2012, 12:55:25 PM
It flew just a few hours before it was retired entirely. It didn't see any combat with the Finnish Air Force.

A good link: http://www.sci.fi/~fta/ca-fin-1.htm (http://www.sci.fi/~fta/ca-fin-1.htm)

I was aware,

(http://i836.photobucket.com/albums/zz281/Megalodon2/finnishMS-406-2.jpg)

How bout the MS-406?
You may like this book.

(http://i836.photobucket.com/albums/zz281/Megalodon2/finnishMS-406.jpg)
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: pervert on July 12, 2012, 05:59:04 AM
multi language support please! More players more money quicker we get new stuff  :)
Title: Re: HT.... Listen Please! Add New Country's to your game!
Post by: TDeacon on July 12, 2012, 09:11:43 AM
A few months back there was a thread about how to handle 2-week pass players in an attempt to keep more of them in the fold. Sadly, about the only thing I have seen come out of this is when players drop the 'alt-f4' trick veteran players quickly correct them. No use hazing those not in the fold yet.

This idea has an interesting angle. I doubt High Tech has a massive marketing budget though we on this list could easily gorilla market this. Imagine if we did have the French D.520. Could we gorilla market via Facebook, etc to French gamers about flying this bird? With the Poles, they flew Hurris and Spits. Is there a gorilla campaign to be had recruiting for a historical Polish squadron or wing? Do we have the ability to recruit in Japan for Japanese flyers? Would there be an appeal for Flying Tigers among the people of Taiwan/Formosa? What about recruiting in South Africa or New Zealand for respective squads that flew with the RAF? I've thought about drumming up a volunteer group (not a new squad) among Tennessee's many volunteers. Maybe a surge among us red-neck, southern folk.

Who knows but there might be an angle here....

Or not.

There is a real desire among many of us to build this community in various ways. Is there something to be done?

Boo

I think you mean guerrilla marketing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_marketing).  Gorillas are those large furry black creatures.  

MH