Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Rob52240 on December 21, 2014, 03:00:49 AM
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Off peak time is horrible. Due to my work schedule I expect that I'll end up finding a new game.
I don't know what happened during my absence but it was not good. I see 25 - 50% of the population that we had 2 years ago. This is very bad for a sandbox game.
I find myself mostly unable to find a fight and when I do, more often than not it's just a gang bang.
I hope that paying 6 months in advance helps because I have a strong feeling that I'll be leaving 4 months on the table for HTC.
For the most part coming back to Aces High was a big waste of money (I bought an expensive new tower just to play Aces High on) and an even bigger disappointment.
Sorry for the negativity, I'm just being honest.
I do hope that the player base grows and I will stick with it for at least another month because of the highly anticipated graphics update.
If I had something positive to say about how things are compared to how things were I would be sure to mention it, but I can't think of anything.
<S> players
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Well some of us have no option but off peak
Its a bit of a different game but can be alot of fun..and there are some great people. .
Just change your gameplay abit and make the most of it
Its more personal. ..and light hearted too
《《S》》 to the off peakers
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What Jimmy said. I play off peak regularly, even though i don't have to. The guys who play then are a hell of a lot of fun to work with. Pragmatism isn't a bad thing, if you can't find what you normally like to do, branch out and find a different method of game play.
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I'm about to head in ... see you two there :t
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Rgr that :banana:
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Good way to find a fight during off peak:
Ask a friend to join
Up from a random base
Fly to a random enemy airfield non noe
Wait for the enemy to up
It will most of the time attract other players to join because they belive there is a fight going on. Key is to create a dar bar that indicate thar more than one plane is inbound.
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If I've said it once I've said it 100 times. I think the mega maps and 12 hour rule no one can speak of, is ruining this game. The graphics update won't do nothing but make a prettier empty arena.
Has anyone ever hosted special events during the off peak hours? That would be a nice option. I don't know...something needs to change. Nothing I'd love more then to see the population back up to where it was in 06-2010.
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Why cant we speak of the 12 hour rule? I think its way too long.
We need bigger mapz! :old: :D
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I usually just ask if anyone wants to go to the DA. Works 50% of the time and we usually have a lot of fun.
Last night I got 3 others to go DA and we did rolling 1 on 1's and then some 2 on 2 stuff. Everyone had fun.
The MA is too big for the numbers that time of night. It does allow the buff runners to play though.
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I think you guys are kind of missing the point... if the game is stale on off peak hours why bother? 5 years ago I could log in at 4am cst and find a fight, now I flip on the xbox. New guys + boring gameplay = no new subscriptions.
I really think a free month or two, and an promotional ad push is the way to go here. :cheers:
Edit: After the new release that is
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The off hours were always one extreme or another. Most the time it was just boring as the whole arena was basically empty and the only planes in the air were normally bombers at 30K, but when things got fun during the off hours they would be a blast! Some of the best fights I ever got were from the off hour pilots.
Really hoping that after the big graphics update HTC puts a ton of time into fixing all the little bugs and annoying game features (HQ function and the unspoken number rule that we're not allowed to talk about anymore are the 2 big ones), and then does some big advertising. Hopefully that'll bring in at least some new blood.
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Off peak time is horrible. Due to my work schedule I expect that I'll end up finding a new game.
And you are just one of many adding to the dilemma. :bhead
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How many more players do you guys think will help with this problem?
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Not that I go way back in the game or anything, but when I started in 2010 we needed 2 late war arenas for the same maps that we use now. Except for tuesdays which were Titanic Tuesday.
In addition to this there were usually a half dozen guys in late war and several dozen in the dueling arena at all times. WW1 usually had a few people in it at any given time.
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Wow I war it to be like that again. :mad:
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Titanic Tuesdays were annoying because the game (server or client side I don't think was ever figured out) couldn't really handle having that many players in one arena and there were a lot of bugs.
It's funny to think of that now.
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Yea!! Have uncontrollable raucous, raping and pillaging masses about the arenas.. the good old days.. the good ones huh..? Only problem is finding the merits for these players to come back to the game.. probably something to do with evolution I suppose :cry
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H2H was a great introduction to the game for free. I might start playing if i could get a couple months free playing other newbs before i jumped into main. I dont think it would hurt to bring it back.
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I miss titanic Tuesdays
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I miss titanic Tuesdays
:cry
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lol wait till i find you in the arenas you little orangutang i'd be glad to light you up, get going :aok
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Another thread and another player said it well, condensed game play would do best in off hours. At the very worst of off hours game play (I should know, due to my schedule) there are more than enough players to have outstanding battles, unfortunately...... they are sometimes prevented from even coming into contact with one another (3rd man left out country battles, and radar outages).
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Off peak time is horrible. Due to my work schedule I expect that I'll end up finding a new game.
I don't know what happened during my absence but it was not good. I see 25 - 50% of the population that we had 2 years ago. This is very bad for a sandbox game.
I find myself mostly unable to find a fight and when I do, more often than not it's just a gang bang.
I hope that paying 6 months in advance helps because I have a strong feeling that I'll be leaving 4 months on the table for HTC.
For the most part coming back to Aces High was a big waste of money (I bought an expensive new tower just to play Aces High on) and an even bigger disappointment.
Sorry for the negativity, I'm just being honest.
I do hope that the player base grows and I will stick with it for at least another month because of the highly anticipated graphics update.
If I had something positive to say about how things are compared to how things were I would be sure to mention it, but I can't think of anything.
<S> players
I honestly thin #s are increasing through the past 6 months.
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BURN DOWN THE WW1 ARENA that hardly ever sees use, and add an "OFF PEAK" Arena with ALL planes enabled, that only rotates SMALL MAPS. how hard could this possibly be ??? ive seen this idea, and many other EASY fixes to the slow death of this game that just go totally ignored. :furious
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BURN DOWN THE WW1 ARENA that hardly ever sees use, and add an "OFF PEAK" Arena with ALL planes enabled, that only rotates SMALL MAPS.
This would not work unless you close the 'regular' LW arena.
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Titanic Tuesdays were annoying because the game (server or client side I don't think was ever figured out) couldn't really handle having that many players in one arena and there were a lot of bugs.
It's funny to think of that now.
Bubi you ever gonna actually play again or are you content looking pretty making posts?
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Has anyone ever hosted special events during the off peak hours?
I have. It had a miniscule turnout.
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I just added up the years I've played online flight sims and came up with a number that was a bit scary. I probably spent more money in that first year of Air Warrior than in the other 17 years added together.
But, I'm with Rob. 3 people, one of whom is a drunk Jimmy, isn't a fun night. Not only that, the weekend evenings are pretty pathetic too. My evenings that is. As much as you guys keep harping on about adjusting your gameplay to what's available, the numbers have dropped to the point where Aces High only makes sense for those located in the Americas. And that's something you'll have to accept, your opinion that the fault lies with the player is just that, your opinion, and as such the rapid decline in numbers makes a lie of that opinion.
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The donut map was great at centralizing action. Especially at night.
I just logged off out of boredom.
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I just added up the years I've played online flight sims and came up with a number that was a bit scary. I probably spent more money in that first year of Air Warrior than in the other 17 years added together.
But, I'm with Rob. 3 people, one of whom is a drunk Jimmy, isn't a fun night.
Oi oi savaloy
I resemble that comment
I make the best of it mate and dont cry into my conflakes about it...Anyway you quit....im still here trying to have fun
.and succeeding
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Come on Voch.... that attitude is not helping us here... come back and you can even be an Honorary untensil..... I know Jimmy is just itching to be one...but just doesn't know how to tell the 71st hahaha j/k .... get in here...I wish I could get hold of blackboy and badmood... I think they have gone by the wayside too .... It would be good to get a bit of a kiwi contingent together and bug the Aussie buggers.
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How do i yell the guys i am utensils curious
Am i wrong in hankering to bug the aussie buggers
I am so confused
Espicially as my old squaddies want to trash my feelings
Life is soooo complicated
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Actually, had a blast early this morning, thanks to Tongs, JimmyC, Skewer, NikonGuy, Rod*****, MrJousts, MrCart, Harp (you NOE bomb**** :D ), and all the other cool dudes up early as well.
This goes back to what someone else said about condensed warfare being good. Fester's Map was up, and the longest flight I had was 10 minutes to AAF to help slow down the Bishop front, about to reset the map with @ twice the number of players in early morning (;eaving a large map defenseless).
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It's a blast flying with you guys early in the morning. =S= the contingent from down under and all of the insomniacs from the US. I'll keep getting up early, to have fun with ya'll.
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i would probably play off peak (my mornings) in the next couple days because i'll be off work, but I will not risk getting stuck on a high # country during peak, so I will not..
yes.. 12 hour rule whine.. :bolt:
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I enjoy Of-Peak times , well peak time for Aussie`s anyway with time differences.
Can roll a GV to an Airfield take ords VH & all guns down and camp the runway shoot planes taking of fills in 30 mins a few nasty pm`s makes the evening. Normally had a few to drink so bit of a blast.
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I enjoy Of-Peak times , well peak time for Aussie`s anyway with time differences.
Can roll a GV to an Airfield take ords VH & all guns down and camp the runway shoot planes taking of fills in 30 mins a few nasty pm`s makes the evening. Normally had a few to drink so bit of a blast.
yb3,
Don't take this the wrong way, and please keep enjoying the game the way that you see fit. When there are so few players on, the hide and seek, catch me if you can ground and strat game helps to frustrate players that want "quick" action. Some mornings I feel like a drive out to the spawn point, to be killed by camper, and then drive out again...... but, most mornings I want to grab my cartoon flight suit :airplane: and shoot down other things with wings.
You say that you are actively taking down ords or camping a runway. In those cases, you are not hiding, and providing some sport for others to join in and engage with another online player. The only problem is that on large bases, a lot of this kind of action over a broad number of bases, ends up being very washed out. Something about killing or being killed by the same player, time and again gets old real fast.
Someone else made a good point that AH has no channeling strategy (they did once with field order, but was removed quickly) to concentrate the numbers in off peak. The result is many times, the :joystick: fun seeking player, ends up :noid looking for spies who gave away their hiding position, and base take effort.
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Enforcing capture order (lanes) during off peak would condense the action.
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Open sandpit....