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Title: Update?
Post by: Paladin3 on January 30, 2013, 02:02:40 PM
Whats the new update?
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: Krusty on January 30, 2013, 02:19:01 PM
What update?
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: Sunka on January 30, 2013, 02:40:57 PM
20 second update..not to much.
Version 2.29 Patch 2 Changes
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Fixed a bug that would cause a field icon to stop flashing after a disco reconnect.

Radio buffer tabs are now limited to 5 separate tabs.

Auto-takeoff can now be reenabled using the autopilot key if you are stopped on the ground.

Clipboard button textures were not loading.


Achievement System Beta -

A lot of redesign, fixes, and expansion have gone into the achievement system.

Changed how reputation stars work to avoid conflicts with things like the .squelch command.

Added an option in the achievement menu to disable the display of stars.

Achievements now display a progress bar.

Earned achievements now show a time and date stamp of when they were earned.

The reputation value of an achievement is now displayed in the achievement description.  All values are currently set to 10 for the beta.  There is also a reputation page that tracks how much reputation in each category you've earned.

Added and replaced achievement categories.  Added a lot of new achievements and achievement icons.  Not all achievements have a unique name at this point in the beta.

Added an in-game achievement icon auto downloader.

Fixed all known bugs regarding the awarding of various achievements
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: LCADolby on January 30, 2013, 02:44:33 PM
Still no Skins update  :furious

 :cry
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: nrshida on January 30, 2013, 02:56:23 PM
Reputation stars? Oh good grief.

Title: Re: Update?
Post by: Triton28 on January 30, 2013, 03:14:48 PM
Added an option in the achievement menu to disable the display of stars.

See... now everyone can calm down and stop comparing AH to CoD.   :angel:

 :bolt:
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: Krusty on January 30, 2013, 03:17:43 PM
Reputation stars? Oh good grief.




This. A thousand times, this!
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: Nathan60 on January 30, 2013, 03:20:36 PM

This. A thousand times, this!
See the post DIRECTLY above yours
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: Krusty on January 30, 2013, 03:23:31 PM
See the post DIRECTLY above yours

Doesn't change the fact that this game's credibility took a major hit with XBOX-style "achievements"....
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: Nathan60 on January 30, 2013, 03:38:13 PM
Doesn't change the fact that this game's credibility took a major hit with XBOX-style "achievements"....
Why? Please elaborate, You said it yourself "THIS GAME"..
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: Krusty on January 30, 2013, 03:43:14 PM
I didn't say "this game" -- and besides it's rather self evident. Achievements are a sad waste of HTC's efforts and lower the quality of the game ever-so-slightly simply by existing.
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: Sunka on January 30, 2013, 03:43:38 PM
All i wanted was the HE111 ,fso's and scenarios coming up could have used it greatly.Maybe two weeks.
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: SmokinLoon on January 30, 2013, 03:45:41 PM
The He111 is on its way, no worries.    :aok
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: tunnelrat on January 30, 2013, 03:45:50 PM
Doesn't change the fact that this game's credibility took a major hit with XBOX-style "achievements"....

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-72xszplsDS0/UOR2wZSfNmI/AAAAAAAAB7c/0yezWSO_CXA/s640/AHBB_RRT.jpg)
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: Nathan60 on January 30, 2013, 03:48:18 PM
I didn't say "this game" -- and besides it's rather self evident. Achievements are a sad waste of HTC's efforts and lower the quality of the game ever-so-slightly simply by existing.
sorry "THIS GAME'S" and you still havent explained how HTC's cred took a hit. I disagree with your opinion about achievenment but like achievments I can choose to not participate in it, BUT I wont do that its slow at work right now
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: Ack-Ack on January 30, 2013, 03:49:38 PM
Doesn't change the fact that this game's credibility took a major hit with XBOX-style "achievements"....

No it hasn't.   :rofl

ack-ack
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: Lusche on January 30, 2013, 03:52:21 PM
I didn't say "this game" -- and besides it's rather self evident. Achievements are a sad waste of HTC's efforts and lower the quality of the game ever-so-slightly simply by existing.



 :rofl  :rofl


Title: Re: Update?
Post by: Wiley on January 30, 2013, 04:07:34 PM
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-72xszplsDS0/UOR2wZSfNmI/AAAAAAAAB7c/0yezWSO_CXA/s640/AHBB_RRT.jpg)

:rofl

So help me God that'd better not be fun I hear...

Wiley.
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: Nathan60 on January 30, 2013, 04:08:29 PM
I didn't say "this game" -- and besides , I didnt like when they changed from the telegraph to the telephone, nor did I like when people started using color tv.s  Its change and I dont like it.
OK, fair enough
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: hitech on January 30, 2013, 04:23:25 PM

This. A thousand times, this!

The Krusty scale has just been recalibrate for a new max level.

HiTech
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: Lusche on January 30, 2013, 04:27:11 PM
 :lol
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: Bino on January 30, 2013, 04:34:57 PM
Just flew with the new update.  Not happy.

Had three kills in the LW MA, and *immediately* after each one, ended up with a "host connection lost" disco.

Have to admit that the re-connect inflight *did* work, but boy, is *this* gonna fubar the FSO.   :cry
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: Karnak on January 30, 2013, 04:35:43 PM
In my opinion achievements have had no impact at all, good or bad, on Aces High's reputation.  Almost all modern games, no matter how "serious" they are or what platform they run on have achievements.  I can't think of any game I've bought in the last three years that hasn't had achievements and at least one other older game I play has added them as well.
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: Nathan60 on January 30, 2013, 04:41:14 PM
I like them because If If I cant think of or get tired of something OI can do the achievements.
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: hitech on January 30, 2013, 04:48:29 PM
We wrote achievements back in the last century, only we called the medals.

HiTech
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: 1MADDOG1 on January 30, 2013, 05:46:04 PM
We wrote achievements back in the last century, only we called them medals.

HiTech

FIXED! :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl

Sorry Dale, I couldn't resist. It was almost as good as a "Pesonal Attack" :devil
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: Ack-Ack on January 30, 2013, 06:05:50 PM
The Krusty scale has just been recalibrate for a new max level.

HiTech


 :rofl
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: Ack-Ack on January 30, 2013, 06:10:47 PM
 Almost all modern games, no matter how "serious" they are or what platform they run on have achievements.  

Achievements have pretty much been a staple of MMO's since EQ, it's really nothing new in the PC MMO genre.

ack-ack
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: Babalonian on January 30, 2013, 06:10:50 PM
The Krusty scale has just been recalibrate for a new max level.

HiTech

Nope, already pegged it and whacked it so far out of calibration it struck me down on the floor from laughter.  He's on a roll this week.

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,344608.msg4550215.html#msg4550215
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: Changeup on January 30, 2013, 06:17:23 PM
Who cares?  Let the achievers achieve for crying out loud!!  If the achievement system keeps one more person in this game for me to shoot at, WOO-T-F-HOOO!!!!

Mr Dale,

Please research other game-type thingies that people will like so more will subscribe to your game.  That will give me more people to shoot at and you will make more money. Win-win.

Thank you for your time,

Changeup

PS - I hung out at your airfield a few weeks ago to get my ride....I even brought gas money.....but you never showed up.  I'm going to stalk you now, K? :rock :D 
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: captain1ma on January 30, 2013, 08:40:06 PM
i think the achievements are a nice touch for those looking for the that warm and fuzzy feeling. for the rest of us, killing red guys dead is all the achievement we need! im not good at that, but i have fun trying.

WTG HTC

LOVE THE KRUSTY SCALE!!  :D
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: MK-84 on January 30, 2013, 09:07:26 PM
I didn't say "this game" -- and besides it's rather self evident. Achievements are a sad waste of HTC's efforts and lower the quality of the game ever-so-slightly simply by existing.

Is it possible achievements serve a purpose? 

To give new players a sense of accomplishment in what likely has the hardest learning curve of anything they have ever played?  To make progress more measurable?
To encourage learning, understanding and enthusiasm for history?
To give measurable results to try new things?
For some whimsical fun, for others stated value in what they have accomplished?
Something new to experience for the folks that have already "seen it all."



Title: Re: Update?
Post by: Nathan60 on January 30, 2013, 09:12:23 PM
The Krusty scale has just been recalibrate for a new max level.

HiTech
Can i have a Krusty scale upvote/down vote tool on all posts!
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: Volron on January 30, 2013, 09:14:02 PM
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-72xszplsDS0/UOR2wZSfNmI/AAAAAAAAB7c/0yezWSO_CXA/s640/AHBB_RRT.jpg)

 :rofl
Title: Re: Update?
Post by: Gixer on January 30, 2013, 09:32:06 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v449/davest/trophy-achievements-are-pointless_zpsa01eb419.jpg)



<S>...-Gixer