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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: FLOTSOM on November 08, 2011, 08:12:47 PM
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when your flying/playing aces high?
after being in and out of this game and on the boards for a few years now, and seeing many different types of personality types appear and disappear amongst my fellow players, i ask you who are you when you put this cartoon wonderland addiction into true perspective?
i personally have never viewed it as anything more than just another video game. i cannot even pretend for a moment that i am a real WWII fighter pilot, tanker or Bomber Jockey. i do not find, nor derive, my honor, integrity or sense of self respect and worth from it, i do not stress over how great i am seen to be or how feared i may be by other players and i have no ambition to be anything more than simply entertained while i waste hours of my life interacting with the masses in the cartoon airways. i take none of it seriously and put it down just as fast as i pick it up with out reservation or a feeling of loss.
the only sign of withdrawal i may suffer from, when stepping away from time to time, is missing the funny sarcastic and down right cruel/borderline abusive sense of humor of my squaddies. (there is nothing like being a member of the Muppet's, they just evil to the core!) but aside from that, at the end of the day this is now, has always been and will forever be just a game for me.
what about you.............is it just a game or..........?
p.s. if you cant answer honestly then just don't answer. you only waste your own time if you lie.
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what i am is just another guy passing through town...
just a game, so whats the point in taking it seriously? if you take it seriously then your still stuck in that "office cubicle" work mode. no fun in that.
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I'm pretty much the same guy in game and on the boards as I am in real life. I like to be nice because there's really nothing to be gained from being a jerk in the virtual world. But I do have my very dark side and my son describes me as 'evil'. Just because I have thoughts doesn't mean I act on them. If I did the zero growth population people wouldn't have a platform.
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I fly here because of my love of WWII aviation, and games from my childhood such as Red Baron and Aces Over Europe and the Pacific. I find it infinately more gratifying to shoot down a live person, than a bot... and I do feel a certain sense of accomplishment when killing a particularly tenacious enemy, or dying a good death.
When my adrenaline gets going, and unfortunately it does... I can get angered by what I consider 'cheep', but then I'm just as guilty as anyone else of the cheepness.
Over the past couple years, I've gotten more enjoyment out of the GV aspect of the game, so that's a plus... but I really enjoy flying high ENY fighters and especially medium bombers (P38G/A20) into dogfights. I could probably play the game for score and k/d spread and switch to a Pony or Dora exclusively, but that's not fun for me.
So who am I you ask?
I am the Deathbringer from the Sky!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-yBHgdGzk4
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When I play Aces, I can imagine I'm a 109 pilot defending the Reich from an allied air raid, or a Tiger ace, holding back the red-tide in East Prussia. I can picture myself rolling through the sweltering heat of North Afrika, or across the endless rolling steeps of Russia.
I've always felt closer to my German side of the family when playing the game, as I'm sure all who have relativly close family members who fought in WWII do.
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This is who I am, I like to go to the pub and drink beer, when I get home, I like to fly cartoon wwii planes around and auger a lot.
(http://i603.photobucket.com/albums/tt118/phatzo/cupday003.jpg)
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The real world is tough enough. While I have moments where I get a bit serious about the game, it's rare.
My historical inspiration for +Tiff in AW and then CorkyJr is AH is a combination of "Guppy" in the book "Nanette" by Edwards Park, and P/O Percy Prune, who was a cartoon disaster pilot used by the RAF in WW2 for training in a monthly journal called "Tee Emm"
Guppy was a P38 pilot in the 39th FS, 35th FG, this of course why the BBS name is Guppy35. He became an ace while trying to drink himself out of combat as he hated it so much.
I was given a little wartime book called "Prune's Progress" by a Spitfire XII pilot named Peter Cowell. It traces the family history of P/O Prune and the second to last is his father who was a WW1 flyer, "Ropey" Prune who had 27 aircraft destroyed confirmed, all British.
I think I've lived up to, or down to as the case may be, Guppy, Ropey and Percy Prune quite well in AH. That's Pilot Officer Prune in my avatar btw.
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/Ropey.jpg)
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/guppy35/Percy.jpg)
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I play this game because it is a challenge. I am a gamer and this has been my first and only flight sim. I do find the history interesting of course which is another reason to stay but its not what drew me here. I picked my name from a Russian ace who isn't well known and doesn't have many victories 16 or so. Of his 16 though 6 were aces from JG 54 with a combined total of 4 Knights Crosses and 397 victories.
I won't say I don't care its just a game of course because I do care enough to have a BBS account and do like to keep my KD above 2 and land lots of kills and pretend I am a uber elite fighter pilot because its part of the fun.
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I don't think I'm significantly different in real life, on the BBs or in the game. It's a game, a passtime, a way to relax. I try not to interact on 200 mostly by ignoring it. I interact minimally by vox with countrymen. I'm a loner in RL just as I am in the game.
I started not caring about score/rank, ended up playing for score/rank and once again don't care about score/rank. I mostly fly high cover base defense but always end up on the deck. I don't mind going in at any odds although lower odds are better. I don't mind going in with any plane and I've played the whole set exensively but British and German planes have always been my favorites due to my fascination with the European air war and the battle for Britan. That said I don't ever imagine myself as an actual pilot at the time although the BOG scenario and Brook's substitute for Coral Sea drew me in.
I like to play the whole game to various degrees so GVing is a big part of my on-line time tied with fighters and decreasing to attack then bombing. I don't often try to capture anything.
I live for a great fight and a win. One on one or one on multiples. Hell, I even like a good one on multiple even if I lose as long as I made a good showing of it (I've seen my share of me on 10 or more... 3-4 is manageable depending on the match-ups, more is not).
I view the game as a chess match, both in watching the map deciding where to play (usually where it seems my country needs me most which usually means outnumbered) as well as individual fights. The other night I pawned a guy with a 5+ K/D ratio while I was under 1 K/D, both of us in K-4's. I guess no one ever told him he had flaps. I felt good about that. He logged immediately. I guess he didn't. The next fight I was pawned by a Pony D when I deployed flaps and he held E and danced on my head. Oh well, so it goes. I kept playing.
Yes, I get frustrated at times but try not to vent. If another 200's or PM's me I may or may not respond.
I'm not the best in the game, never will be and don't care. As long as I'm not the worst (I don't think I am) and still have fun I'm satisfied.
That's about who I am.
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I play (when I can) due to an obsession with flight and WWII - always been this way. I am the same way in R/L as I am ingame - and I try to maintain my own standards in both (low as they may be)
I play for fun, the immersion in the Scenario's and the friends I've made in game (a few of which I've met in person) - all that I've met have been good people, and fun to fly with and against.
Wurz
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I started playing some time in feb. 07 as SAJ73, this being my first ever flight sim. I started off in a spit, flying with a mouse and still remember my first take off in the DA arena with the attitude 'here I come, now we'll show them'.. :lol
Took me about as long as it takes to fly out to the furball to understand that it was a bit more to this game than just flying out there and popping down planes doing flat turns.. Kept upping and getting more and more confused about how people I where chasing infront of me could suddenly disappear in a turn and instantly end up behind me shooting me down?! :furious :noid
Well, time went by and i got into the aspect of really urging to learn this game and how to really fly the planes. Got me a stick and also got me alot of good help in the start by a few great sticks. One of them later took me into his squad, (TAx57 of TA's Aerofighters Inc.) and I'm still in that squad. Thank You TA. :salute :aok
I also want to mention a couple of other good helpers in the start, Longbawd being one of them. He took his time to train me for several nights, and set up appointments throughout the week just for me. I truly appreciate that, tho I have not seen Longbawd online since back then.. If you by any chance may read this, I hope all is well. :salute
And 67Yankee also took his time to help me out alot in the beginning. Ty Sir, hope all is well with you too if you read this. :salute
My favorite planes of today are first of all hogs, but I also fly other planes. Started to like the 109 more and more lately..
Me as a person: I enjoy this game as a great way to have fun, and I do my best to keep it fun. Meaning that even if I am not among the top pilots in this game, I like to give my opponents as good a fight as I can in attempt to also make it fun for others. I twist and turn alot, and that's just the way I like to fight, close and on the edge of falling out of the sky mostly. I don't care if I get killed as long as the fight was good, but I can get a little tired of the game if I end up being vultched or hoed over a longer timeperiod with no good fights in between. (We've all had those days I guess) Then I might just log and come back at a better time when I finally had enough of it.
I used to fly DA only back in the days, but I have started flying more and more Main Arenas now and usually find a squaddie or ten to team up with. Even if I am a bit of a loner, I don't talk on vox mainly because I am Norwegian and just don't feel comfortable with speaking english.. I type instead, as I type more or less fluent. And it has never been a problem with my squaddies, one day I might pick up the mic also.. :P
I had a leave from the game for a period of about half a year a while back, as real life kicked in. And when I decided to come back I came back as 'Essay73'. As SAJ73 always made people ask how I pronounced it, or they just called me SA- (Thereby Essay). And 73 is the year I was born, simple as that. :)
I have also grown very fun with the AvA, and try to go there as much as possible when I see the arena populated with 2 or more people. It usually gets crowded in a matter of minutes as soon as a couple of guys hang there for a good 10minutes, and then the fun begins. :D
I get well along with most people online, and don't experience much drama on vox or 200. I may see alot of drama on 200, but I don't care to take part in that. That's not why I log on to this game!
I have got alot of good friends during my time playing AH2, and even though I don't meet them in person I still appreciate their friendship. You can never get too many friends! :aok
So there you have me more or less, I am myself in game, BB's or real life as I see no point in trying to be better (or worse). So see you in the skies, and hopefully we can merge into one of those epic fights people just talk about, or wing up in the chase of virtual glory and fame. :aok :banana: :angel: :salute
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Im that guy who will up at a capped field because it needs defense, the one that will drive a goon off a capped field to help a gv holding the town, the one who flys under 65ft to drop ords at a base that needs it gone, the same one that will laugh like a wild man as I dodge 5 bad guys on the deck in my "super" Brewster. The same that will fly anything in the game and do anything to cause as much trouble as I can before starting again.
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When I play Aces, I can imagine I'm a 109 pilot defending the Reich from an allied air raid, or a Tiger ace, holding back the red-tide in East Prussia. I can picture myself rolling through the sweltering heat of North Afrika, or across the endless rolling steeps of Russia.
I've always felt closer to my German side of the family when playing the game, as I'm sure all who have relativly close family members who fought in WWII do.
Well I had some family remembers that served the reich, and some that served the U.S. so I kinda bias maybe. This is the reason why I don't fly RAF or Japanese....
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... the second to last is his father who was a WW1 flyer, "Ropey" Prune who had 27 aircraft destroyed confirmed, all British.
:lol
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I am the best looking in game and only player who is Ugandan :old:
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In 2007 I was playing ace combat 4 & 5 on Playstation and got tired of the scenarios in each level starting the same way every time. It was to a point that I going through all the levels of the game in a day on the wknds. I found AH by doing a search for online air combat sims. I got a lot of hits, but AH seemed the best. After a 2 week trial I was hopelessly hooked. I like the fact that the game has evolved so much in the 4 years I've been a member of this community.
I had to take a break because of R/L issues and cancelled my acct. My daughter loved watching me play so much that when I cancelled my acct she wanted one of her own, but now she's bored(she's 16 and has the attention span to match) so I'm taking her acct over. Look for me as Rinzler now.
Cya in the unfriendly skies.....
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I played AH for six years before finally cancelling my subscription due to many real life reasons. In that time, I enjoyed the immersion it offered, and finally I settled into what I enjoyed most- bombers, especially B17's. I do not consider myself an avid gamer. I appreciate the history that this game tries to keep alive. It inspires me to read, watch documentaries on WW2 aviation history, and LEARN a little bit of our history- something that many of my generation (pushing 40) and younger just don't take the time to appreciate.
This is not a cookie-cutter game. It's something of far more value.
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Well I had some family remembers that served the reich, and some that served the U.S. so I kinda bias maybe. This is the reason why I don't fly RAF or Japanese....
Took me a long time to fly anything with a meatball on it.
I also have family that were on both sides of the WW2 conflict. Grew up loving the microsoft flight sims (Land your Learjet on a Carrier}, TV shows (Black Sheep) and Movies of the War(Flying Tigers ect.).
AH I felt was a combat flight sim when I joined but seems to feel more like a game these days. So much chatter. Maybe I shoud detune 200 to try to get the the feeling back. :airplane:
YES HiTech I know it's a Game! :bhead
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:noid
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I'm just here to support a game developed in my country...... Texas.
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I think I'm the same person on-line or in life. Just your typical Type A, with ADD, scatterbrained adult, who has had a life long interest in aviation. I was thinking about Aces High the other day and I realized that for me at least, it's more than a game, it has become a hobby. One that I can focus on when I want, and how I want, and still enjoy it.
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Bleh texas/texans
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I'm pretty similar to how I am in game IRL. I am a gamer with a passing interest in aviation. I got into WBs on New Year's 2007 because I didn't know any better. Flew there for a couple years then migrated over here.
I look at the main arena as side based combat. It is our job to push the red guys around in our airspace, through whatever means we have available. I fly a bit more aggressively than I would if my life depended on it, but for the most part I fly to survive, and kill people through just about any means at my disposal. I don't take things seriously long term, though I do occasionally get bent out of shape if I die badly. I couldn't care less about score, but I do keep a bit of an eye on my K/D, just because I consider it a pretty reasonable metric of how I'm doing.
I don't expect, nor want a fair fight from the other side. Any kill they get on me means they beat me throwing everything I had at my disposal at them, pathetic though it may be at times. <g>
For me, it's fun to shoot down other people and fly with friends. The movements of the ground war may as well not exist as far as I'm concerned. I fly to defend the area I'm in from the red guys, whatever form that may take.
Wiley.
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I'm Wileys wingman.
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I'm just here to support a game developed in my country...... Texas.
Only two Thangs come from Texas........ :neener:
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Only two Thangs come from Texas........ :neener:
I see your wearing a hat... which are you :neener:
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I'm more relaxed and less argumentative AFK. That's about the only difference.
Not being able to release frustration around the house, 200 becomes my dumping ground when my blood sugar gets low and my blood pressure gets high. :joystick:
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:headscratch:
I have no idea..... :uhoh
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I think I am me?? last time I checked I was me, unless someone says they are me. I could be wrong but I think I am me?????
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I look at it more like going to a bar with 400 friends and a few I dont care about. drink a couple, tell some outrageous lies about how we held back 100's of fighters with nothing but a .45, bs some more, talk about women and silat. and oh yeah once in a while we fly a cartoon plane and make fun of each other.
semp
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I like to hang out with squad mates. I usually don't get mad too fast, but some things(or people) just get on my nerves long enough to make me want to explode.(which i have only done once :D) My favorite plane is the P-38 followed up by the 109.
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the only thing i can really say, is that the "me" that you see online, or on the bbs, is the same "me" you'll deal with when meeting in real life. i don't have time or inclination to do fake personas.
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I am the knight rider! :aok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61VhdEsDzd4
and somedays im John Milner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFgTMYEaWlc&feature=related
(http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd313/natorino/cobrajet.jpg)
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I am from antarctica
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I am the knight rider! :aok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61VhdEsDzd4
+1
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i am..........
IRON MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :devil :airplane: :airplane: :airplane:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LjbMVXj0F8
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i am..........
IRON MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :devil :airplane: :airplane: :airplane:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LjbMVXj0F8
I would have went with "http://youtu.be/ICbc8DpcX3w"
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I would have went with "http://youtu.be/ICbc8DpcX3w"
HOLY HIGH PITCH BATMAN!!
did someone kick him in the cajones on that third one?
that being said....my singing sucks worse than his. why ain't i as rich as him? :noid
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AH2 is the most dynamic and challenging game I have ever played, and its fantastic. I have a lot of gamer friends and I cannot stop telling them about fights i have had using my hands to try to explain to them what it is and how you think and the way you imagine and predict. IRL I am just a single grad student in some corner of the Cambridge UL plotting my research and ignoring the fact that I will die poor but happy-ish.
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In all seriousness, in response to the OP, here's what AH is to me and "who I am" when I'm here.......
First, like I'd wager 99% of us here, I'm an airplane nut- particularly prop-jobs and warbirds. I became interested in WWII when I was probably 5 or 6 years old, and begged my mom to buy me the "American Heritage Picture Story of WWII" in the bookstore..... I poured over that casebound book for years, all 600+ pages of it. I grew up with an uncle who was a pilot in the USAF ("hauled trash" in C-141s) and retired a bird Colonel, now flies commercially for US Airways. All I ever wanted to be in life was a pilot.
I got my pilot's license in 1992 while an AFROTC Cadet, then found out a year later in 1993 I could not fly after failing the eye exam, this after having earned an appointment to the Air Force Academy. I stupidly gave up my dream, thinking I had no chance of being a military pilot, and went about the rest of college trying to figure out what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. Fast forward almost 20 years, and I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.
I've worked for two large corporations, and have been in sales in 3 different industries, currently owning one small business while working as a sales rep for another in a completely different field. The economy sucks, and life financially has been pretty much a struggle. Work and family life is hard enough, doing it in a bad economy in a job that is 100% commission based is a nice source if you're ever looking for a way to be really stressed out.
AH for me is a lot more than a game... it is an escape, a catharsis, a place where I go to be the person I want to be on the inside when I have to smile and be polite to a rude client. I was always involved in sports in school, and am probably too competitive for my own good, although I've learned to not worry so much about that as I've gotten older. But my goal as a 'toon pilot is to be the best squaddie and countryman as I can to the green guys, and the worst nightmare I can be for the red guys. I run my mouth too much on 200, I know, but I like to talk a little smack here and there, like back on the football field. I like to think that here, just like there, when the whistle blows and the game is over we all shake hands and are still really just a bunch of guys who have a lot more in common than we probably even realize, and all love the same thing.
:cheers: to all you cartoon pilots, even the ones on the other sides, just for being here and being part of something that has helped keep me sane for the past nearly 3 years.
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+1 Last two posts.
Well said gentlemen. :salute
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When I am not working, I am playing hockey (tending the net). When I am not playing hockey, I am coaching my sons in hockey, when I am not coaching, I am playing AH2.
I am a guy that served his country in the Infantry. I can attest to the fact that I (and several of my Marine Brothers) owe our lives to an F-18 pilot in a combat situation (different story altogether). My grandfather was a Navy Seabee that served alongside Marines in the Island Hopping Campaign in the Pacific in WW2. I have always had a fascination with flight and WW2 so this game truly fits the mold for me. In RL, I work for the Govt. It is an extremely stressful job.
When I started playing this game, all I did was point and shoot. I didn't know what a HO was, but I was doing it often (point & shoot). Through out the 4 years I have been playing this game, I have learned to actually fight instead of point & shoot. I have learned a lot about flight from Rodent57 (actual USAF Retired pilot and heck of a guy / friend).
In the beginning, my chat on 200 was either defensive or protective. I have learned that chat on 200 is useless to me. I don't talk it up anymore on 200 other than to salute someone over a good fight and I detune 200 to avoid getting into chat wars.
AH2, to me, is my one place where I go to destress from the real world. A place that I go knock on a friend's door and ask if he can come out and play. I truly like and respect the guys I fly with.
I am glad this game exists for the mere fact that it is my only place to go to escape the realities of the world and enjoy the friends that I have made in this game.
:cheers:
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I'm the old guy that never imagined we would have something like this game to play when I was young.
I'm the guy that plugged in my first computer 16 years ago and the first search I did was "Flying Games" and found Airwarrior and played 10 hours, untill 4 in the morning the first time I logged on.
I'm the guy that frequently wonders if I play too much.
I'm the guy who was an aircraft controller in the USAF and cannot stop looking at the map and dar and keep track of as much enemy and friendly activity as possible and use that information for textbook intercepts as I was taught.
I'm the guy who is aways patient and flys to an altitude that allows me to choose.
I'm the guy who was the biggest jerk you ever encountered in Warbirds.
I'm the guy that learned that these games are not my personal arena to be abusive to my fellow man.
I'm the guy who loves this game, loves the players, loves the camraderie and will always be kind and considerate to you no matter how you act.
I'm the guy who is the same in real life as I am in the game, finally.
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Personally, I'm a mid 50's guy whos been playing here for over 10 years, with a couple years at Air Warrior. For the past 30 years I've been a vending tech repairing all kinds of vending machines from coffees to pinball and video games. Been married to the same wonderful women for almost 30 years and have 2 sons both with bachelors degrees <--- most proud of this part.
In the game, and on the boards I'm the same guy as in real life. I speak my mind, and don't suffer fools gladly. On the other hand I will go out of my way to help any one. To me this game, as well as Air Warrior as always been about the challenge. It's a game that can never be mastered. Sure you might become very good at parts of it, but never ALL of it. The only time the game gets frustrating to me is when people go out of there way to remove that challenge (see "HOing" and "Hording" in the Aces High dictionary). While being average at most of the game I don't think I excel at any of it. Like most people inside I'm secretly hoping the enemy are cringing in fear and saying "oh great Fugi's here", and that the friendlies around me are cheering "oh great Fugi's here". :P
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Chicks dig me, because I rarely wear underwear and when I do it's usually something unusual.
But now I know why I have always lost women to guys like you. I mean, it's not just the uniform. It's the stories that you tell. So much fun and imagination.
Lee Harvey, you are a madman. When you stole that cow, and your friend tried to make it with the cow. I want to party with you, cowboy. If the two of us together, forget it.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here. I'm gonna volunteer my leadership to this platoon. An army without leaders is like a foot without a big toe. And Sergeant Hulka isn't always gonna be here to be that big toe for us. I think that we owe a big round of applause to our newest, bestest buddy, and big toe... Sergeant Hulka.
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I'm swamped in real life. Great wife, two kids, many employees and a few boses. My normal work week runs 50-80 hours, haven't had a real vacation in over five years. I love aviation, almost got a shot at being a Naval Aviator while in college but tearing up my ACL ended that, played tanks instead. As a kid I memorized everything I could about WW2. Facinated by the Pacific War, navy birds and defending the Reich against Allied hordes. My hero is Cpt David McCampbell, USN CMH. In one mission he downed 9 Japanese birds of prey.
When I fly I take it mostly serious. I am not a gammer at all. I've owned a couple computer games in the last 20 years but didn't play them much. I've played Playstation or Xbox two or three times in my life. I have seen Dirty Birds on the iphone, looks pathetic but since its on my wife's phone won't say that out loud.
At some level I am trying to balance this game being my only escape from all of my real life obligations and fighting the nerd within. I want to buy a track ir but have decided owning that is when Aces High finally owns me. Maybe, maybe I give in. Who knows but right now, much work to do. I have several reports and interviews to handle to ensure I have time tommorrow to wax Yarbles in his bloody Spit 9 over the Enemy Coast. :banana:
No, I'm not addicted. Just confused. Born about forty years too late. Right now I should be in my late 80's, still flying this game but instead lecturing you pathetic gamers about how it was really done! And of course telling all you HO artists, snap out of it.
Boo
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some great answers guys, thanx and :salute to those of you that understood.....
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdLIerfXuZ4&ob=av2e (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdLIerfXuZ4&ob=av2e)
That is all...
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Integrity........same guy all the time.
999000 <S> :aok
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Integrity........same guy all the time.
999000 <S> :aok
UMMMMMM...................... ............................. ....NO!!!!!!!!!!!
SUM-A-BEEEEECHHHHHHHH WITH LAZER TARGETED .50's!!!!! that is what you is!!!!! :neener:
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I was an aviation nut every since I was a kid. I'm an old guy. Somewhere in '97, a buddy showed me Air Warrior and I was doomed. Been at it off and on ever since: AH since 2002. Since I'm only an average fighter pilot, chasing red dots has mostly seemed silly to me. To do what I can to help my country's war effort is what gets me going and is plain out and out fun. Primarily, I'm a jabo pilot who is not interested in tossing their ord to chase that low la7. After ord is gone, having exited enemy territory, I love to climb back up and hunt near my own field.
Spent a good deal of time in buffs and became proficient. I love teaching new guys how to dive bomb accurately. I know how frustrating it is to miss. How frustrating it is to hit and not know why.
Now, the allure of the game is less the game itself but the friendships I've made over the years. I try to keep my rank low enough to grab a CV when someone is doing something dumb. That is, running the game straight into cartoon central.
<S> to all
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I've been a WWII plane nut ever since I read my first book. "The Flying Tigers" by John Toland. Yes, I still have it.
Got my first taste of flight simming in the early 80's with MS Flight Simulator on my buddies Apple Macintosh. Oh how we loved flying around those black and white pixelated skies and landing at Merrill Meigs field.
Around '90 or so I got to play F-19 Stealth Fighter on our IBM machine. (Can't remember which model). Of course this was around the time Prodigy came out so I had to fight Mom for seat time. :lol
Then, I'd say '91 or '92 another friend introduced me to F-16 Fighting Falcon. I was blown away. Spent the next few months hammering migs for fun.
The next 17 years were computer dark ages for me. I didn't get another box until 2009, at which time I immediately invested in FSX and a Saitek ST290 joystick. It was heavenly. I took my Lear jet around the world and just had a high time in the various planes. (Over 1000 landings, not to mention the augers. :O :lol )
However, the time came that I wanted to shoot at something. I bought CFS3. It was fun for about a month, but I needed to shoot at a real person. The AI just didn't cut it.
A quick internet search led me to AH. I've been here off and on for almost 2 years now.
:salute
EDIT: The old ST290 started to give up the ghost, so I got a Thrustmaster T-Flight HOTAS. Love it.
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If I understand the question...
It's just a game to me, but the reason I stay and play is the friends I've made over the years.
I have traveled from the USA to Europe to meet my squadies in person, spent many years flying with the same guys.
They are my friends and I enjoy spending time with them, plus AH is just so damn fun.
~kc
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I cry like a little kid that got his toy taken from him when i get shot down.
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I'm like last night's dinner....just passing through :x
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On the mountain I was told that I am what I am........
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On the mountain I was told that I am what I am........
You're POPEYE? :rofl
(http://fr.virtualdj.com/image/99105/49245/Popeye.jpeg)
Just joking, couldn't resist.
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You're POPEYE? :rofl
(http://fr.virtualdj.com/image/99105/49245/Popeye.jpeg)
Just joking, couldn't resist.
Ahh from my younger years... memories.
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I am a princess, just like real life.
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i've been an airplane nut since i was a kid. i remember when i was about 12, my family and i were headed to another family members house for christmas. my mom gave me a bag of presents to carry to the car. it just so happened that at this time we were re-modelling our house and adding a deck. well, the deck had been built, but the railing had not yet been installed. so, i walk out the door with this bag of presents held out in front of me. i hear the drone of an airplane overhead, and, like always, my eyes are to the sky, and nothing else exists but that buzzing airplane. well, i guess i forgot to stop walking and walked right off that deck and fell 8 feet face first onto the driveway. you think bellyflops in the pool are bad, try one on your gravel driveway sometime! :lol
airplane fetish aside, who i am in RL depends entirely on the day you find me in. some days i'm the nicest guy in the world, some days i'm everybodys worst enemy. some days im overly competitive, some days im all about "it doesnt matter if you win or lose". i think that translates into the game at about the same ratio it manifests in my RL. so i'd have to say that i'm about the same person in AH that i am in RL. :rolleyes:
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I am the Scythe in the fields at Summer,
I am the Thunder that awakens the Earth,
I am that which gives the night air it's chill.
I AM ANNHILATION INCARNATE!
http://youtu.be/nXPIezT_LpA (http://youtu.be/nXPIezT_LpA)
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Aces High is just a video game so however good or bad i do in it doesnt effect me the slightest when i step away from my computer but if you run into me in the game you'll probably find at sometimes i may be a humble person but at other times (depending how i feel) I'll act like an overlycocky irrogant jacka** and after beating bruv 1v1 in spits im still waiting to 1v1 someone who can beat me but anyways...
Its like I tell people i have god given talent... if only it was a talent worthwhile lol.
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well, I have a fluffy white tail and I am about 3 lbs (maybe 2.5). I'm grey with a swirl of white. I will eat just about anything and will hump just about anything. I don't live as long as many of you homosapiens but being a Oryctolagus cuniculus has its advantages, believe me.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Oryctolagus_cuniculus_Tasmania_2.jpg/220px-Oryctolagus_cuniculus_Tasmania_2.jpg)
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Aces High is just a video game so however good or bad i do in it doesnt effect me the slightest when i step away from my computer but if you run into me in the game you'll probably find at sometimes i may be a humble person but at other times (depending how i feel) I'll act like an overlycocky irrogant jacka** and after beating bruv 1v1 in spits im still waiting to 1v1 someone who can beat me but anyways...
Its like I tell people i have god given talent... if only it was a talent worthwhile lol.
oh rly ?
I thought those were friendly duels but if you want to swing a cat. The spit 5's were 3-0 me :aok.
Your very good in it but hardly large enough samples to claim such greatness.
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I'm a guy that's lost his love for the game. Especially when gamers throw around words like "god given talent and greatness" when talking about themselves or others concerning this game.
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Especially when gamers throw around words like "god given talent and greatness" when talking about themselves or others concerning this game.
Why?, I mean if one seriously believes that their "god given greatness" amounts to a skill at a computer game, isn't that pathetic enough to the point of being almost comical. Makes you wonder how much it must suck to be them (as clearly their RL talents are no where to be found).
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Why?, I mean if one seriously believes that their "god given greatness" amounts to a skill at a computer game, isn't that pathetic enough to the point of being almost comical. Makes you wonder how much it must suck to be them (as clearly their RL talents are no where to be found).
:aok Clearly you are a wise man Ardy. I have a couple of coffee cups saying I'm the worlds greatest dad. That's all I need to feel good about myself.
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:aok Clearly you are a wise man Ardy. I have a couple of coffee cups saying I'm the worlds greatest dad. That's all I need to feel good about myself.
What!?!??! Are you suggesting that being a good dad is more important then cartoon airplane flying!!!?!?!?
I look at it this way. I wish that my life was so simple that what I do in a cartoon airplane was the be all, end all of my existence. Much to my chagrin, reality keeps reminding me that in the end, AH just isn't that important :)
Good fun when I get the time though :aok
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ya know......originally, i only put up a sarcastic answer....so here's a rather long read....but it'll give ya'll some insight into me. not that ya really want it, but i'm puttin it up here anyway. :D
who am i?
i am the product of a single parent home. born in 1962, to my mother catherine, and father george. my brother was born in 1964, but by this time, my father had gotten himself kicked out. he had done some pretty horrible things to my mother, and my grandfather removed him from the household, with the warning to never show his face again, with the risk of serious bodily harm. my uncle was there to back him up. my uncle is also how i know why dad's gone, but mom doesn't know that i know.
mom worked 2 jobs as long as i can remember, and being a single mom with 2 rugrats, she moved back in with her parents(they are the reason i am the man i am today), who helped. grandpop worked massive hours for PRR, but always made time for my brother and i. my grandmom worked a part time job, and kept the house immaculate.....which considering my brother and i, was a full time hob in itself.
i got crappy grades up till about sixth grade, then when i started seventh grade, it seemed as if something clicked....went from straight d's and f's to straight a's and b's. grandmom always helped with homework, and/or reports when mom was working. she also made dam sure that the both of us did our work before we could watch tv, or go outside.(yea i know, some of you are gonna thing she was a slave driver).
in school, seeing is i've always been skinny, and had the tendency to be blatantly honest, and say what i thought, when i thought it, i tended to get picked on a lot.(you young guys call em bullys today). i just took it, and often times when they didn't get a reaction, they'd go bother someone else. i think it was tenth grade when they got the hint and left me alone, as one guy kicked my hand as i went to grab a book out from under my seat. in hindsight, i think he didn't intend to do anything other than to knock the books on the floor. either way, doesn't matter. i stood up, picked up the desk, and threw it at him. i missed. thankfully. when i came back from my suspension, his buddy was waiting for me.....big dude, and i was so friggin scared, that i couldn't move. this little italian kid stepped in, and tried to back the guy off.....and it worked, when his friends showed up. that was the last that anyone ever bothered me that way.
when i graduated, to be honest, i had no clue what i wanted to do, and had already been working in restaurants for a couple of years, so i stuck with that. the place i was washing dishes at closed, so i put feet to sidewalk, and had another job in less than a week.
an old greek guy hired me..again, washing dishes. this is the place that taught me a lot of responsibility. greeks are VERY hard to work for, but once they see that you're willing to give it your all, they treat you like a son. i went from washing dishes, to short order cook, to prep cook, to running the kitchen in short order. then they sold the place, and i couldn't get along with the new owners.
that's when i got my first job in automotive repair. my best friend got me in with the shop he worked at. another hard guy to work for, but very fair.
i spent a LOT of time doing the crap work...oil changes, tire rotations, cleaning up after the other guys, keeping the tow trucks clean, etc.
because i worked hard at doing the crap work, one day, the boss comes out, hands me the keys to a car, tells me to get a couple of the tow truck drivers to push it in the far bay, and figure out why it doesn't start. i opened my mouth to tell him i didn't know how, and he told me i could go sweep the floor if i wanted. we pushed the car in. to this day(it's been nearly 30 years now) THAT is the only car that ever beat me.
that's how i learned about 90% of what i know....hands on. it is truly the best way to learn to be honest. i was with that shop for around 10 years, and went from the pissboy to the main diagnostic tech. had nearly all of my ASE's by the time i left there.
during my time working here, at one point, technically speaking, i held down four jobs. i was wrenching for him in the daytime, taking a tow truck home 2 nights a week, delivering pizzas 3 nights a week, and delivering a local newspaper in the wee hours of the morning seven days a week. i had bills to pay off, so i did what i had to do. just like my grandparents, and mom. i never asked for anything to be just handed to me.
when i left there(it was really friggin stupid) i went to a limo dealer, and basically learned that i don't like flat rate, nor do i like the dealer type environment. it's ashame, as i liked a couple of the mechanics i worked with there. went back to the first shop for a couple years.
ended up leaving again, to go work for the guy that taught me a lot about running shops. when he hired me, at first, it was grunt work, till he got a feel for what i know, and could do. then the honeymoon ended, and i started getting to do eeeeverything. it only took a couple of years, and i was running that shop for him. i worked there till 2006, when one of his kids(teens) nearly drove me to a point in violence that i had to leave. wanna guess where i ended up? back at place of employment number one. only thing was that this time that guy came looking for me. that was a massive ego boost.
now we fast forward to the present, when i now own the 3 bay shop that i worked for years at. i don't own the building or property....that's a bad deal in new jersey, with the dep and laws.....too big of a risk. you buy the property, you buy the problems it has too. so i rent the building.
it's been a little over three years now, and i work more hours than when i worked for other people. the mechanics that he had hired when i left had driven the place into the ground. it's being a long tough battle, but i am slowly building it back up. i think that withint the next year or two i will have at least one full time mechanic.
a lot of the past, is why i actually enjoy giving advice here on this bbs, and on another one too......whenever i needed or asked for help, it was there, sometimes from unexpected sources. it's also why sometimes i seem overly sarcastic, or overly harsh on some of my opinions.
now, that i own my own business, the job has become fun to the point that it often doesn't feel like a job anymore.
out of my graduating class, i only know of one other that owns a business, and she's been in business for nearly 15 years....with her own construction company. i feel lucky to have had the guidance of my grand parents, and mother, as my brother and i are also among the very few from our graduating class to not have drug or drinking problems. i think over the years, we've lost nearly a dozen classmates to drug related deaths...and that's AFTER graduation.
so....that's who i am. hard working nearly normal schmuck.
oh yea, almost forgot.......i often come here to the bbs, and stir up the ford/chevy argument, 'cause it's fun. :aok
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ya know......originally, i only put up a sarcastic answer....so here's a rather long read....but it'll give ya'll some insight into me. not that ya really want it, but i'm puttin it up here anyway. :D
who am i?
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oh yea, almost forgot.......i often come here to the bbs, and stir up the ford/chevy argument, 'cause it's fun. :aok
:aok :salute
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I'm the guy in the hood, sitting at the table in the corner, quietly sipping my drink, bothering no one, until the first drunkard throws a swing at me...
Then I ruin the place, step over the bodies, and go look for another bar.
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I'm the guy in the hood, sitting at the table in the corner, quietly sipping my drink, bothering no one, until the first drunkard throws a swing at me...
Then I ruin the place, step over the bodies, and go look for another bar.
so what you are saying is you can beat up a bunch of drunk dudes :rofl
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so what you are saying is you can beat up a bunch of drunk dudes :rofl
or it could be that he imagines himself in that position when he watches that happen in a movie? :bolt:
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They're not all drunk.
I'll just keep sipping my drink...
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(http://image.wetpaint.com/image/1/Ar-dKWUftHBc5z4rR9Q2ag16555/GW190H198)
Wherever you see me...
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Interesting topic and great stories. I played AH2 for six months and have been out of this game for a year or so. I miss it. I would like to say that it is just a game, but for me it is also an opportunity to feel some excitement of combat without the real life horror. I have always taken great interest in air combat tactics and this game is basically the only affordable way of experiencing it. I researched 1/12 scale radio controlled model airplane air combat, but that has little tactics involved. When I played online I did not imagined myself sitting in a real plane although I sometimes made flights after some movie or book. For example after watching "Dambusters" I took a formation of Lancs for a two hour NOE flight to enemy HQ and back. That was the only flight I made that day. Due to my patience I was best in bombers and GVs. To my surprise I really sucked in fighters, but I did not take this game serious enough to go to a DA or training arena.
In a real life I am a low hour commercial pilot, so I should get enough flying, but it is not like that. I have to fly where other people tell me to, follow the flight plan, be efficient and so on. It is a great job, but it misses some things that I have to find elsewhere.
I occasionally read this forum, check the number of online players and play in offline mode. Thus I am pretty sure I will return some day. The first thing I am going to do is take a Typhoon to a horde and make high speed passes and pulverize everything that is unlucky enough to get in the way. :t
Compared to some FPS games you actually have to think in AH2 and that is great. FPS seems to be all about good reaction speed and mashing buttons.
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I'm a weak and terrified soul, thrown into an alien universe. Aces High is my sedative, my escape, my never never land and my doom. :uhoh
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I'm a weak and terrified soul, thrown into an alien universe. Aces High is my sedative, my escape, my never never land and my doom. :uhoh
OK I let you be Weasel too sometimes If you need to.... :D
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i still just like to be me. it's what i've always been, and it's what i'll always be.
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In the arenas I really am what you see. In general, I'm pretty easy going and encourage all who I engage with. Been that way all my life and the 10 years here with HTC.
Posting on the boards?...well it's a lottery depending on how much I have had to drink.
Recently I have learned that maybe posting after imbibing is not such a great idea, and so I will refrain from that..except for this one. <G>
I will say though that this is one of those rare, rare things that you can escape to, and not have regrets over.
cheers all,
RTR
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I started w Air Warrior in 94 and quickly became addicted flying around aimlessly learning to fly for a few months.
My personality type is Team Oriented with leadership qualities but my natural Tools are better suited for strategic organizing while having a boss above me.
In 1996 I was able to find a small squad of 8 guys where my real life passion and talents could be utilized within the Marine Air Wing (MAW)
They were new from a jet fighter game & taught them all I knew with a special emphasis on teamwork and strategy. My interests became their interests and with 40MAW's leadership we became very successful, hard hitting base takers.
I helped them grow from 8 players to nearly 100 of on off players. The core of the unit was divided into specific wings each having specific duties as seen fit.
Many of our early tactics were vDallas dirty.
I left the game in 2002. Came back summer 2007 and found another small squad called The Aces & 8's
Again I used my real life talents to help them evolve into one of the best base taking squads the game had ever seen. The squad grew rapidly with like minded individuals but unlike the MAW a code of ethics was established.
TEAMWORK, HONOR AND RESPECT was not only our motto but a way of life inside and out of the game. Many of the tactics we devised as a squad helped us evolve into a 200 base take -10,000 kill a month squad to fight against. Air , Sea or Land.
I was extremely honored to be able to fly with the good people of that squad until 2009. RIP A8WB (the squads resupply and troop leader)
On my return July/2011 I found the 8's mostly stopped flying. I have found no equal to the Teamwork and enjoyment I once experienced with them since.
Like many jobs I've had, it takes time to find the right players and organize that type of commitment for success we had all shared.
"Don't wait for them to come to you. Meet, KILL and disable them first as a single unit."
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