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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: FESS67 on March 25, 2017, 01:46:56 AM
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I have asked this before and the forum warriors seem to love it. But 90% of the people I talk to in game simply do not care for it. They either log off or turn the gamma up. WTF!! Where is the point in having a feature that causes some people to log and others to bypass it? Seriously, what is the point?
ps. yes, it is night in game and I am not playing, I am logged in though, just surfing the 'net waiting it out. How many others 'passively' log out? How many bypass it by altering gamma? how many actually play in the dark?
Hard to tell, but I do know that when I voice it on local comms no one likes it.
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oh, as I typed the numbers in the MA dropped by a considerable amount. Probably a feature of time of day combined with the night thing but enough to make a difference. I have now also decided to stop playing as numbers are too low for the fighter combat game style that I like. WTG, bring on the night, we all love it.
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I used to like night time when it came in AH2 for santa, but the current night time kills the game. Remove it or improve it!!!!!!!!!
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Night time was whined off the face of the planet before and will likely be whined away again :old:
It gives us old guys a chance to take a nap :devil
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That's what got rid of me last night. Couple of half decent fights but just couldn't see. I'm out.
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I like it personally. I also like the dawn/dusk.
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I have asked this before and the forum warriors seem to love it. But 90% of the people I talk to in game simply do not care for it. They either log off or turn the gamma up. WTF!! Where is the point in having a feature that causes some people to log and others to bypass it? Seriously, what is the point?
ps. yes, it is night in game and I am not playing, I am logged in though, just surfing the 'net waiting it out. How many others 'passively' log out? How many bypass it by altering gamma? how many actually play in the dark?
Hard to tell, but I do know that when I voice it on local comms no one likes it.
The reason we have it is because Hitech spent loads of time getting all the stars right and they dont want all that time to have been wasted :rolleyes:
I like it personally. I also like the dawn/dusk.
Technically, that is ALL we have, dawn and dusk. That is why you see that "jump" in the middle as it switches from sunset to dawn. If we had "night" we would spend as much time in the dark as we do in the light. Thanks god we dont!
While I can appreciate the work, and the artistry of the dusk/dawn cycle..... it really does look cool..... I hate the way it kills game play. My old eyes cant see the targets that well in the dark and so just saps the fun out of the game. I wont adjust the gamma because I just dont think that is the way to play the game. Like dive bombing in Lancs it just isn't right.
It certainly wouldn't hurt my feelings if they shortened the cycle up more.
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Hate the night. Hate the dawn. Hate the dusk. They all suck.
I'll play Doom if I want to be in the dark.
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if you are talking about last night-last night was FSO that's why the MA drained out. a lot of players only show up to play FSO. there were over 200 people in FSO and about 140 people in ma at the same time last night. is that much trouble to turn up gamma, wow lazy people, I think a compromise would help. dump the dusk and dawn.
but the Night time will probably go away the Whiners and crybabies usually win.
I like nighttime except dusk and dawn. :bolt:
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It's short, and I guess too much "reality". I say leave it. I don't turn up gamma, I play it as it lays. Even with Rift it works for me, but then I like no icons too.
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I prefer they leave it the way it is. The night, dusk, and dawn are of short duration.
For the GV'ers, the sneaky ones begin to shine when the lights go out. :D. Realism adds allot to the game. It is fun going on a bombing mission at night too. You can set the date (.date) to see the star patterns for a given date. That is a nice feature.
The new version is way better than AH2. As already mentioned, you can tweak the gamma setting to compensate if it is too dark. You can put the gamma back to the previous setting when daylight returns. You need a good video card to really enjoy this new version.
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I like it the way it is. The clouds look great at night.
It doesn't last long, and it changes the type of fighting I do...the black hurri 1!
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I have asked this before and the forum warriors seem to love it. But 90% of the people I talk to in game simply do not care for it. They either log off or turn the gamma up. WTF!! Where is the point in having a feature that causes some people to log and others to bypass it? Seriously, what is the point?
ps. yes, it is night in game and I am not playing, I am logged in though, just surfing the 'net waiting it out. How many others 'passively' log out? How many bypass it by altering gamma? how many actually play in the dark?
Hard to tell, but I do know that when I voice it on local comms no one likes it.
This isnt just directed at OP
HEAVEN FREAKING FORBID ANY OF ALL COMPLAINING ABOUT THIS RUN A FEW BOXES OF SUPS OR BETTER YET MAKE AN NOE STRAT RUN UNDER THE COVER OF DARKNESS!
Swear it seems like if conditions arent just right for some of you this is what you do... LOG AND WHINE! Christ sake do something for someone else ingame and you dont have to log during that 45 minute wibdow when its too dark for you old pudgy eyes
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If this is to be put to a vote I say leave it as it is. I like the changes and the cycle is short enough not to bother me. That being said we all know that the entirety of WW II was fought during the day time, in VFR weather, with no clouds or wind. Heaven forbide that it should change.
My 2cents worth.
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Leave it alone.
I like it.
Its different.
It's cool.
It's part of what makes Aces High different.
To the OP, maybe (unlikely) you had 90% of the players that responded to you say they don't like it, that does not mean 90% of the players don't like it. Many people just choose not to be contentious I believe and just don't respond to questions like that when asked.
I have also seen those kind of phrased thusly" "Is there anyone out there stupid enough to like this night time crap?". Stuff like that isn't a question, that somone giving their opinion phrased as a question.
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Still think most issues with the night are tied to the same issue where planes blend into terrain too much.
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This isnt just directed at OP
HEAVEN FREAKING FORBID ANY OF ALL COMPLAINING ABOUT THIS RUN A FEW BOXES OF SUPS OR BETTER YET MAKE AN NOE STRAT RUN UNDER THE COVER OF DARKNESS!
Swear it seems like if conditions arent just right for some of you this is what you do... LOG AND WHINE! Christ sake do something for someone else ingame and you dont have to log during that 45 minute wibdow when its too dark for you old pudgy eyes
I am not prepared to do something ingame that i don't find entertaining. I generally play aces high to fly aircraft in order to shoot at other aircraft or vehicles (my preference is aircraft).
I logged off at night in AH II and i continue to do it in AH III.
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Love the night, it's so................peaceful.
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I like that it is hard to see targets at night, seems normal.
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Remind me if I'm wrong but didnt the Pilots in the actual war have to deal with night and low light as well?
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Remind me if I'm wrong but didnt the Pilots in the actual war have to deal with night and low light as well?
Your wrong. They whined about it and demanded change.
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Remind me if I'm wrong but didnt the Pilots in the actual war have to deal with night and low light as well?
as this isnt ANYTHING like real life why would that matter? I pay $15 a month to fight other players in an air combat game. Anything that takes away from that hurts the game playablity.
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I am not prepared to do something ingame that i don't find entertaining. I generally play aces high to fly aircraft in order to shoot at other aircraft or vehicles (my preference is aircraft).
I logged off at night in AH II and i continue to do it in AH III.
Hear hear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And about that clip board........................ .... :neener:
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Would be nice if there was an in-game poll that asked if we like night or not.
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I LIKE IKE err NIGHT so I vote to keep it in.
Its beautiful to fly, if I have any problems I turn gamma up a bit, changes the same ole same ole. Add some rain, snow flurries, fog, birds, lightning and bring back the ah2 sun glare for hun in the sun RL combat.
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This isnt just directed at OP
HEAVEN FREAKING FORBID ANY OF ALL COMPLAINING ABOUT THIS RUN A FEW BOXES OF SUPS OR BETTER YET MAKE AN NOE STRAT RUN UNDER THE COVER OF DARKNESS!
Swear it seems like if conditions arent just right for some of you this is what you do... LOG AND WHINE! Christ sake do something for someone else ingame and you dont have to log during that 45 minute wibdow when its too dark for you old pudgy eyes
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I understand your point, however my response is the same as Thrila's. I play Aces High for the fighter combat aspect of the game. Nothing bores me more than running GVs, flying bombers etc. I will do it from time to time but it is not something I want as a normal part of my game time. I would rather stay and play than log and whine.
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Good news is the water is so nice that people fly into it during this lovely period of play.
Son walked into my room, looked at the night, and goes "why are those graphics so ugly"...I just told him "its a feature". He laughed...
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was just fighting over water from cv dark as ya like,
it was very immersive, you had to really keep your eye on the ball..alt.. it was like fighting in a black hole at times,
its doable.. so do it!
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I am not prepared to do something ingame that i don't find entertaining. I generally play aces high to fly aircraft in order to shoot at other aircraft or vehicles (my preference is aircraft).
I logged off at night in AH II and i continue to do it in AH III.
logging off because it got dark for a little bit is the silliest thing I've heard of--but it's your loss
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Night is fine. As usual someone probably missed an easy kill and wants to cry about it. Keep the night. Put a poll up and and I'll vote yes for it.
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Hear hear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And about that clip board........................ .... :neener:
Canadians are snow blind anyway
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I really really hate that word ----> immersive,
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What is the point with night if everyone just bring the gamma up ?
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The night is okay, I really like the dusk and dawn. I often have trouble seeing other planes, really frustrating for the odd time I can hang on someone's 6 and can't quite make out the plane to get a good bead on it....may have to do with my old, somewhat color-blind eyes, so green-red-brown-gray all look about the same, but I do enjoy the eye candy and don't mind the dark, and think the accurate stars are very cool. I sometimes play with adjusting gama and other settings just to help make out planes, and even icons visibly stand out, but don't "gama-out" the dark.
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As a 15,000 hour pilot with a solid 5,000 of it in the dark, AH night time looks nothing like the real world.
It is incredibly ugly, especially if you turn gamma up to make it playable.
However, HTC thinks the money is in GV's so it is here to stay most likely.
If you really want to get night time axed, post in game videos of night so it can be ridiculed by the gaming public for being so damned ugly.
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immersive
That ones for you Mystic Luna
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I am admittedly feeling the itch to return, but I wouldn't even consider it with night enabled in the MA.
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It doesn't last too long but it's kind of annoying.
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Let me tell you all right now
all of you :bhead
Turning up the gamma is frack'n cheat'n!
I shoot as well if not a little better at night. I got a 6 year old laptop with subpar graphics. When I am blind I dont let this effect my ability to play this game.
You people are the same ones who whine when the HQ is farmed over and over. Now I still have love for yall you bring a hell of a fight but where are you ever when it matters for the team? Hehe :bolt:
Night time is perfect for Jabo pork runs. No one will argue night is easy for combat. Fill these times with Jabo runs and if you suck at night use it to your advantage. Maybe switch to bomber intercept and practice on semi-fixed objects that light up for you to spot :neener:
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Or I can just go watch TV. :aok
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What is the point with night if everyone just bring the gamma up ?
Who is this "everyone" people talk about? Are we talking about the same person to whom our kids refer to when they need some fancy dirt expensive stuff because "everyone" at school has that - and after some further investigation it appears that "everyone" is a single person whom the kid envies or idolizes.
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Not a big fan of night, but it might be ok if it was a (short) smooth transition from dusk to dawn. As it is now, with the instant changes between strange lighting -- bright water/dark sky, dark land/bright cockpit, etc. -- it is just.... strange.
If I log on to find night in Buzzsaw, I'll go find something else to do. :O
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I like the few short minutes of semi dark.
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I like the few short minutes of semi dark.
Doesn't seem like a few short minutes to me.
Has anyone timed the dusk/night/dawn period? Guess the problem would be defining when dusk starts and dawn ends.
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I know HT wants us to say "ohhhhh Ahhhhhh it's pretty", but I usually just say "F*%$#@ it's coming". :old:
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Seems short to me...
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for the 4 billion 2million 400 thousand 642nd time
If you can not see at night you do not have your monitor calibrated correctly
What you should have is what looks like a harvest moon. And planes simply arent hard to see when in fighting range
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I like the night time and dawn/dusk transitions, Gets boring flying on perfect summer bluebird days all the time.
I would even like HTC to go further with weather (rain, snow, fog ) seasons (snow on the ground, icy runways, fall colors on the trees) and wind ( updrafts, downdrafts off the mountains, wind shear, crosswind landings etc)
I guess what I'm saying is that while the combat part can be challenging, the actual FLYING part of this combat FLIGHT simulator (HTC's words not mine) is way, way to easy. No engine management, auto-take off, no wind, always unlimited visibility etc.. I understand there must be some concessions, or else the learning curve would be so steep as to never attract new players, but the way it is now the flying is so easy and monotonous, it's boring.
Imagine a dogfight with rain streaking off the canopy, or getting bucked around by wind shear fighting in a canyon, or using that mountain updraft to get a jump on or escape an enemy, or after a successful sortie trying to nail a landing at an airfield with a 50' ceiling... this is the kind of thing I'd love to see.
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I would like the flying part to be all around more challenging/realistic. Including night time, I even wish nighttime was more varied too, sometimes a brightly light landscape under a full moon, and other times pitch black under a new moon.
Also it seems to me that HTC can't win. Players clamor for higher fidelity graphics, HTC delivers, then players complain that the increased fidelity make it more challenging.
And I bet for every player complaining about night on here, there is another who likes it, and therefore is not seeking out the BBS to complain.
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I salute those that are crazy over night time in AH3. Also, the developers did a really superb job on it so kudos to their hard work.
No disrespect but I logoff when game night arrives and log back in when it is daylight a again.
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I salute those that are crazy over night time in AH3. Also, the developers did a really superb job on it so kudos to their hard work.
No disrespect but I logoff when game night arrives and log back in when it is daylight a again.
Me too.....
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If there's a night I log off and go do something else.
Semp
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Sky looks great at night, everything else could use some work.
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I love a longer star lit night.
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Is it me or does it seem that we get this a lot about the nighttime in the Melee Arena?
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If Hitech bootlegged aimbots for $7.99 a download through another web site under an alias, people would be whining at the alias for it not insta-killing anyone they pointed their mouse at on the map. It would probably require you getting within 400 of your victim, then holding them in the box for 1-3 seconds. Too much like work......
Gotta wonder if the guy who invented that red led auto swim and rattle fish lure doesn't get hate mail because it won't clean and fillet the fish after catching them.
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+1 to OP.
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I agree it doesn't help the numbers.
I don't mind it but make it shorter. :aok
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I agree.......leave it alone in fact make it longer. The game isn't just about flying around in single engine fighter planes. The GV portion of the game have gone through some radical changes, no reason why the Air Jocks can't endure the same changes..............grow up and suck it up. Don't forget to take your ball when you leave Fess
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NO! I love the night. Perfect time for GV ops, or lifting a nice load of buffs and letting them climb out for a bit.
Is it me, or is there a lot more WHINING these days and a lot less of SUCK IT UP AND FIGHT.
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I agree.......leave it alone in fact make it longer. The game isn't just about flying around in single engine fighter planes. The GV portion of the game have gone through some radical changes, no reason why the Air Jocks can't endure the same changes..............grow up and suck it up. Don't forget to take your ball when you leave Fess
I love this community.
"Why are there fewer players? This game is dying!"
"Ugh, you don't like *thing*? Maybe you should quit and never come back!"
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I wonder if everyone that loves the realism of the darkness participates in a lot of scenarios. You know, those re-enactments in which obscured visibility might be more appropriate?
Seems like someone is always on text begging people to come to the SE Arena because of low turnout.
For the record, the starry sky is very nice, but my gamma goes way up at dusk and the game looks like crap. Seeing the ground, water and enemy is somewhat critical to have a melee in the Melee Arena. Melee Arena doesn't sound like a flight simulator or hide and seek survival game, it sounds like a place to find a fight.
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Oh to fight in legit night with a night fighter with working radar....That would be epic.
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Oh to fight in legit night with a night fighter with working radar....That would be epic.
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It would be. Plane mounted radar you actually have to interpret... Clouds, spotlights, engine flames...
Not what we have. +1 OP.
Wiley.
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I love this community.
"Why are there fewer players? This game is dying!"
"Ugh, you don't like *thing*? Maybe you should quit and never come back!"
I know...they should have at least added some cricket noise to the darkness .....
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I love this community.
"Why are there fewer players? This game is dying!"
"Ugh, you don't like *thing*? Maybe you should quit and never come back!"
It's a whole different level of toxic compared to any other game I've played...I don't understand it.
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I love this community.
"Why are there fewer players? This game is dying!"
"Ugh, you don't like *thing*? Maybe you should quit and never come back!"
I may quit because I find horble just..... well horrible. :ahand
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See rule #4
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VR and dark is a bad combination albeit the sky is cool.
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There currently seems to be a bug with daylight savings time conversions in my astrological code. This is causing an extra hour of darkness in the morning and none at night.
Working on it.
HiTech
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I see the light!
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It's too early for mayflies. Must be some other bug. I have seen a few junebugs already.
Just being helpful. :bolt:
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Bring back the night time....... I think that was a song years ago. Love the night.
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I like the night, think it is over too quickly actually. And no, I no not adjust gamma to improve my visibility. I think it is way too easy to see as it is, but I want realism, not gamey features. The planes have instruments for a reason.
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Last night on CraterMA, I almost didn't notice the evening, night, morning transition. Hitech seems to be working on it. Night now seems to be a variety of dusk.
I think Fess wants a game where the only activity is man and machine against man and machine with no automated interference, uneven odds or, extreme environmental changes. And everyone is waiting in line to fill his evening with ACM activity until he decides to log off. He pays his $14.95 like the rest of us and can dream. I've watched him close up in his P51 and he is very good at 1vs1 ACM, and seems to be only interested in that aspect of our game. Thursday night on my new terrain a player who likes similar types of action complained that there were too many fights going on, and all of the wrong kind of action. Now I'm confused, these forums used to burn with lamentations that all of the action had packed up and left no forwarding address. :bhead
When Fess posted this, nighttime was a very extreme environment change for a number of players including myself.
Self have you ever wondered what the Pacific tile set in the terrain editor looks like? Self I replied, you touch that evil application and I will scream. My wife yells in from the kitchen that me and myself needs to get a room together and stop driving her crazy. Bad self, I say baaaaaddddd self........ :confused:
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Sums me up pretty well bustr. My wish list would be no ack, manned guns, puffy ack, GVs or night time. Just good old fashioned air to air combat :)
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I really don't have a problem with nite... but I wish
it would last longer :bolt:
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well it looks like the whiners and cry babies won NIGHTTIME is no more. there are more people for nighttime but the people against it WON. how does that work.. all HTC's work down the drain because some people don't like it.
next thing you know there will be some whine about some plane or gv and it will disappear.
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sorry
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there are more people for nighttime [...]
How do you know that? :)
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everybody loves night time. now, finding and shooting a floppy fish spitfire at 500 feet over a destroyed town 400yds away at midday, impossible. nobody likes it. blame it on my aim and move along.
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Bring back the night time! The things people complain about. Sheesh.
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Agreed. Disappointed that nighttime is gone.
(https://media.tenor.co/images/2f763d5dc6561140e834e75746d23081/tenor.gif) won. :(
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....next thing you know there will be some whine about some plane or gv and it will disappear.
Hmm, I wonder if that works for people. :headscratch:
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If it has gone then HTC must have found enough reason to remove it.
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If it has gone then HTC must have found enough reason to remove it.
Or just havn't had the time to fine tune it back to what it was meant to be.
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Or just havn't had the time to fine tune it back to what it was meant to be.
So in fact the whiners and cry babies are not the reason it he's been removed, it was not working as intended.
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So in fact the whiners and cry babies are not the reason it he's been removed, it was not working as intended.
Ssh! You're getting in the way of a good rant.
Wiley.
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Most members of this forum who have been around for some years are aware of Hitech and his priority crunches that get in the way of tweaking he wants to do. Some times over the years it appeared that he ended up busy and the back burner gremlins hid the notes to himself he left back there. Getting out the torches and pitchforks is not the best way to help him remember something he has on a back burner.
Back burner gremlins are so naughty and love lynch mobs....... :t
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Will be nice to have smooth transitions through night time. I really enjoyed it.
The reality of finding targets hard to track at dusk and dawn just added to the fun.
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Or just havn't had the time to fine tune it back to what it was meant to be.
I'm sorry for the ranting, it's I love the nighttime-and all the work HTC has put into it
thankyou for fixing it
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I'm sorry for the ranting, it's I love the nighttime-and all the work HTC has put into it
thankyou for fixing it
Ahh you were ranting. I was of course whining and crying, just ask anyone :p
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Ahh you were ranting. I was of course whining and crying, just ask anyone :p
And here I thought you were sobbing , my bad.
HiTech :evil:
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I don't like it at all. Usually sit in tower and go afk for awhile or else get out of the game altogether.
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People leave the game for other reasons too. Ive seen 1/2 the game leave when theres a map change.
When I first saw night I was hoping for some scenarios based on night fighting. Like the RAF bombers blitzing the Reich under cover of night. Or if we ever got PBYs maybe the black Cats and/or all the air activity in the Pacific as the Japanese tried to resupp their garrisons under cover of darkness. Fact is there was significant action in the air at night during the war.
Now I guess hoping for those scenarios is just a pipe dream.
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You were hoping for those scenarios to take place in the MA? :headscratch:
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I know it's not always dawn or dusk in the arenas, but out of pure luck or because dawn/dusk is more apt to occur at my playing times, I often log in to find dawn/dusk or experience dawn/dusk within my couple of hours of playing.
I hate dawn/dusk. It is hard to see and so unpleasant for fighting.
Tonight, I logged in at about 9:30 pm Pacific, saw that it was dawn/dusk and logged out without even taking off once and thus won't fly tonight.
I know there are people who like dawn/dusk.
I suspect a much larger number of people dislike dawn/dusk and that some of those actually log off because of it.
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I know it's not always dawn or dusk in the arenas, but out of pure luck or because dawn/dusk is more apt to occur at my playing times, I often log in to find dawn/dusk or experience dawn/dusk within my couple of hours of playing.
I hate dawn/dusk. It is hard to see and so unpleasant for fighting.
Tonight, I logged in at about 9:30 pm Pacific, saw that it was dawn/dusk and logged out without even taking off once and thus won't fly tonight.
I know there are people who like dawn/dusk.
I suspect a much larger number of people dislike dawn/dusk and that some of those actually log off because of it.
Maybe Hitech could put it on a 23-hour cycle or a 25-hour cycle to randomize it a bit.
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I know it's not always dawn or dusk in the arenas, but out of pure luck or because dawn/dusk is more apt to occur at my playing times, I often log in to find dawn/dusk or experience dawn/dusk within my couple of hours of playing.
I hate dawn/dusk. It is hard to see and so unpleasant for fighting.
Tonight, I logged in at about 9:30 pm Pacific, saw that it was dawn/dusk and logged out without even taking off once and thus won't fly tonight.
I know there are people who like dawn/dusk.
I suspect a much larger number of people dislike dawn/dusk and that some of those actually log off because of it.
My solution is .gamma 2.0. It's not perfect but it at least allows me to see.
Wiley.
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Gebuz, you folks are a finicky bunch.
This passive aggressive approach to showing dislike to evening transitions, (sigh), when we're trying to grow the community, show that we like working together to make this a great game, makes me wonder. Seriously folks, pick the right battle.
If people spent all their energy coming up with new gameplay ideas and other strategies for Aces High instead of complaining about night time, we'd have a much better cohesive arena.
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Gebuz, you folks are a finicky bunch.
This passive aggressive approach to showing dislike to evening transitions, (sigh), when we're trying to grow the community, show that we like working together to make this a great game, makes me wonder. Seriously folks, pick the right battle.
If people spent all their energy coming up with new gameplay ideas and other strategies for Aces High instead of complaining about night time, we'd have a much better cohesive arena.
Sorry, where's the passive aggression? Some of us log, some of us turn up our gamma. Flying non night fighters into combat in the dark is silly, period.
Wiley.
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Sorry, where's the passive aggression? Some of us log, some of us turn up our gamma. Flying non night fighters into combat in the dark is silly, period.
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It would be different if we had true radar intercepts and lack of visibility, but it would make AH a completely different game.
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Add search lights/etc!
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It would be different if we had true radar intercepts and lack of visibility, but it would make AH a completely different game.
I would be all over that for scenarios.
Wiley.
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I remember back in AH2 I did a scenario with p47s and 190a5. Majority of the scenario was night time. I forgot what the name of that scenario was. It was a blast, cockpits were lit up and everything. The night feature looked way better than what AH3 nighttime looks like. It was a while back tho. Me and Irish0ne flew together in it. I wish I can remember the name of the scenario.
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I love the Dawn/Dusk and wish it lasted a bit longer. Great opportunity to sneak up on people who don't have very good SA, and it actually makes your tracers visible for a minute. It lasts all of about 10 minutes, so I don't think it's a huge deal. Just something else for people to blame their losses on. I'm pretty sure the Russians are behind the Dawn/Dusk cycle. :bolt:
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I wouldn't mind if it were only a very small proportion of my flying, but it actually isn't.
Things are very gloomy for a period in advance and afterwards. So, if you are flying for only an hour, a substantial portion of your time is squinting around in the murk.
The times I play are often off peak anyway, when there aren't a lot of people up. Gloominess makes it even harder to have an enjoyable fight in during the time I had available.
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So, who, exactly is against night time flying? Is it a dozen or are there HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS opposed to it?
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So, who, exactly is against night time flying? Is it a dozen or are there HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS opposed to it?
There are barely HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS of players. It doesn't take that many people logging to affect the arena these days.
Wiley.
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Gebuz, you folks are a finicky bunch.
This passive aggressive approach to showing dislike to evening transitions, (sigh), when we're trying to grow the community, show that we like working together to make this a great game, makes me wonder. Seriously folks, pick the right battle.
If people spent all their energy coming up with new gameplay ideas and other strategies for Aces High instead of complaining about night time, we'd have a much better cohesive arena.
Not that it's the main point here, but you don't have the correct meaning of "passive aggressive". Passive aggressive means that you oppose what a person wants not by clearing expressing your opposition but by silently not doing it or pretending to do it while not really doing it.
Also, I'm not finicky. I complain about something in Aces High about once every few years. I'm about the *least* finicky person in the history of this genre if you judge by how long I've been enthusiastic and active (been playing this genre since 1988 in Air Warrior).
I promote the game more than just about any player, and I recruit family, friends, and acquaintances to play the game. I've sent computers and computer equipment to people so that they can play AH. I've bought people equipment so that they can sign up and play. I've paid for people's subscriptions here and there.
But, every once in a while, I voice my opinion on how something can be made better.
In this case, in my opinion, the MA would be significantly better with a very easy change: eliminate dawn/dusk or make the duration of the gloomy period a lot shorter, so folks don't log off when it starts to get gloomy.
I think it is a constructive suggestion.
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Also, to be clear, this game is my most-favorite and main hobby.
I *love* this game. I want it to succeed. I do what I can to help.
That includes the occasional opinion on a change for the better.
The MA, in my opinion, would be better with the very easy change of no or much less dawn/dusk gloom.
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I think it is a constructive suggestion.
Fair enough - perspective is everything. Thanks for help clarifying Brooke. My comment of passive aggressive is not fair. Sorry mate.
Personally, I could really care less if it came or went. Makes for pretty sunsets and sunrises and it's super easy to fix right? (from the arena sunset/sunrise time settings).
I'd like to hear why Hitech has it turned on...so...bruh, why is it turned on?
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So, who, exactly is against night time flying? Is it a dozen or are there HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS opposed to it?
you might be under the illusion that those that play at night dont up their gamma. me I got tired of it so now I dont play, I'll either stay in the tower or log off and come back later.
semp
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Add more action in the night time!
Search lights, engine exhaust, lights in windows on town buildings/etc!
Make a deal out of it!
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Fair enough - perspective is everything. Thanks for help clarifying Brooke. My comment of passive aggressive is not fair. Sorry mate.
Personally, I could really care less if it came or went. Makes for pretty sunsets and sunrises and it's super easy to fix.
I'd like to hear why Hitech has it turned on...so...bruh, why is it turned on?
You are a one of the good ones, Mr. Fork! No hard feelings here for me -- you and I both at heart want the same thing: for AH to do well, and we love the game. We are brothers in that! :aok
I think it is on for several reasons:
1. It is realistic that a world has dawn/dusk as well as noon, morning, later in the day, etc.
2. Having different times of the day instead of it just being noon all the time adds variety.
3. Dawn/dusk is just for a short period (but that depends on how long you are playing -- it's not short if you are playing around a dawn/dusk cycle).
4. Some players do like dawn/dusk.
I've put dawn/dusk into scenarios from time to time. The difference, though, is that I don't put it in during fighting times. It's in there (if at all) at the very beginning when folks are climbing and travelling to a battle, and it will be gone by the time they get into fights, and at the end after the fights are done or to signify fighting time is ending, and they are travelling back to base.
The problem with it in the MA is that there aren't set times for battles. You log on, and you go fight. If your particular playing session is short, and dawn/dusk happens during it, a significant portion of your time is going to be in gloom. Also, I see significantly more people saying, "Ug. It's dawn/dusk again." instead of "Yay! It's dawn/dusk again!". Most people seem not to like it.
But, it's easy to do an in-game poll and find out more thoroughly. Do you want the dawn/dusk low-light period to be:
-- Same as it is now.
-- Shorter.
-- Eliminated.
If there is a clear winner, you can implement it easily.
I'd also (if it's not already this way -- it could very well already be this way) make it not sync up with the 24-hour day as suggested above.
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I haven't played in over a month unfortunately.
I downloaded the updates the other day and just logged in to play for an hour or 2. Night time? No thank you. Yes, i am one of those lame guys who logs out at dusk. :devil
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Add more action in the night time!
Search lights, engine exhaust, lights in windows on town buildings/etc!
Make a deal out of it!
This would make a world of difference
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I love the Night, when it's dark-but the dusk and dawn has either got to go or make it shorter or go by faster-green sky and green trees and grass do not mix
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wise words from a lunatic..same for me, I like the dark, its not actually dark anyway it seems to brighten up compared to dusk and dawn.
I would be happy dusk and dawn 2-5mins max but dark 30 mins
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I like the dark sky and the beautiful skymap.
(http://ww2today.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Mass_bomber_raid_on_Cologne.jpg)
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Why would anyone hate night time in the game? It gives a different fighting environment, and adds a new spectrum of fun.
They had to do it. So why not live in their shoes for a little while, and enjoy yourself trying to fight in the dark?
KEEP NIGHT TIME! Quit whining. Just turn up your gamma then you lil cheaters ;)
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Who's they? :headscratch:
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Why would anyone hate night time in the game? It gives a different fighting environment, and adds a new spectrum of fun.
They had to do it. So why not live in their shoes for a little while, and enjoy yourself trying to fight in the dark?
KEEP NIGHT TIME! Quit whining. Just turn up your gamma then you lil cheaters ;)
because I cant see at night and if I up the gamma like most do it hurts my eyes. that's why I just log like many others.
semp
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The night time is not for long and is added aspect to the game :old:
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because I cant see at night and if I up the gamma like most do it hurts my eyes. that's why I just log like many others.
semp
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I like the change. It adds to the game.
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Leave it alone.
I like it.
Its different.
It's cool.
It's part of what makes Aces High different.
To the OP, maybe (unlikely) you had 90% of the players that responded to you say they don't like it, that does not mean 90% of the players don't like it. Many people just choose not to be contentious I believe and just don't respond to questions like that when asked.
I have also seen those kind of phrased thusly" "Is there anyone out there stupid enough to like this night time crap?". Stuff like that isn't a question, that somone giving their opinion phrased as a question.
I like the Night in here .........gee I think the Brits love it too, I seem to recall they Bombed at night. why does this game always have to cater to the Furballers and what they whine about
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I stopped in last night. Everyone had about 60 to a side and 35 of the Rooks, I counted them, were at A9 unopposed, for the hour I was on until they finally took it. The map had the Bish with 100% of their own and 19% of the other two besides of the fact the map was only 20 hours old. So it could have just as easily been 35 Bish or Knits taking A9 unopposed, and usually is.
So thats the game today. That or sitting in a tank waiting for some poor sucker to spawn so you can whack him from thousands of yards away. Last Sunday, at 2000 hrs prime time, there were 130 players and I counted 10 in fighters on my side on the entire map. 4 in bombers and about 15 in tanks. This was 8pm on Sunday. There was no night. "Night" had nothing to do with it.
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I like the Night in here .........gee I think the Brits love it too, I seem to recall they Bombed at night. why does this game always have to cater to the Furballers and what they whine about
Because some of us like to interact with our opponents as opposed to going to every possible length to avoid them.
Where are the night variants of the planes? All I see are the day versions. Seems kind of silly to me to fly day fighters at night.
Wiley.
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Because some of us like to interact with our opponents as opposed to going to every possible length to avoid them.
Where are the night variants of the planes? All I see are the day versions. Seems kind of silly to me to fly day fighters at night.
Wiley.
I think at least one B-29 skin has black paint on the bottom. Also isn't there a Lancaster with black bottom? Now that I think of it there is a black B-17 and Black or extremely dark blue B-24 here in AH.
added: There is black Havoc or A-20, black mossie, I'm sure there are more.
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I think at least one B-29 skin has black paint on the bottom. Also isn't there a Lancaster with black bottom? Now that I think of it there is a black B-17 and Black or extremely dark blue B-24 here in AH.
added: There is black Havoc or A-20, black mossie, I'm sure there are more.
Spotlights? Cockpit lights? Onboard radar? Schrage musik? Actual darkness? Field/town lights? Exhaust flames?
Wiley.
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some players are colorblind so it makes it hard for them too see
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some players are colorblind so it makes it hard for them too see
......or old with glasses.
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......or old with glasses.
Bingo is the game for you :old:
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This game is hard for some players. Perhaps HTC should do away with the hard flight model too. :rolleyes:
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I thought the night thing was fixed a couple of months ago... :noid
Why is thread still going...
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Alright ive held my mouth shut long enough regarding the night thing. We have an extremely grey area calling AH a simulation or a game. Being so not one of us like to say we spend a lot of money on "video games" don't evan own an xbox but I got the h.o.t.a.s. with a hot laptop (not some gaming machine its just nice). I'm going to say ten times outta ten "I have a ww2 simulator" and do I not? I don't go home to play, I go home to fly or with the wife. What I'm trying to say besides have you seen the beautiful night sky or how bout the clouds because without something up there in the background "they look like a bunch of damn models" - Leonardo Di Caprio Aviator. HTC took time into our sky and there on the right track also I thank them for it (although everone complains and its always sunny on aces) Now if were always going to have perfect conditions get rid of the gauges nobody is gonna need IFR were all great at VFR dogfighting, navigating, etc. I live in Vegas and our weather isn't as nice as the weather on AH. We have arena's for "playing around" but I enjoy the realism of the software and for the most part the people. Night, Clouds, Wind mandatory especially on historical events. K too the wishlist this one goes but nightfighters with a radar of the day installed in them. Imagine a town burning and giving off an orange glow. I like the one the guy said about the searchlights too badass. Excuse my language. Anyhow like everone else ill keep playing but if our HTC programmers aren't eating cause we all went to some other "GAME" they wont care if we ever login again so all I'm saying is its a no-brainer yes we absoultly must have metrological conditions accurate to real life. Including AT LEAST 45minutes of night, evan 7/11 has a one hour cool-down,
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I am here because its dark in game - I have my blinds totally closed and still cant make out things on the monitor well enough to play. Tried the gamma thing but it looks weird, then you have to change it back when it gets light again. Just getting to be a time to sit in tower or get out of the game and do something else.
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Alright ive held my mouth shut long enough regarding the night thing. We have an extremely grey area calling AH a simulation or a game. Being so not one of us like to say we spend a lot of money on "video games" don't evan own an xbox but I got the h.o.t.a.s. with a hot laptop (not some gaming machine its just nice). I'm going to say ten times outta ten "I have a ww2 simulator" and do I not? I don't go home to play, I go home to fly or with the wife. What I'm trying to say besides have you seen the beautiful night sky or how bout the clouds because without something up there in the background "they look like a bunch of damn models" - Leonardo Di Caprio Aviator. HTC took time into our sky and there on the right track also I thank them for it (although everone complains and its always sunny on aces) Now if were always going to have perfect conditions get rid of the gauges nobody is gonna need IFR were all great at VFR dogfighting, navigating, etc. I live in Vegas and our weather isn't as nice as the weather on AH. We have arena's for "playing around" but I enjoy the realism of the software and for the most part the people. Night, Clouds, Wind mandatory especially on historical events. K too the wishlist this one goes but nightfighters with a radar of the day installed in them. Imagine a town burning and giving off an orange glow. I like the one the guy said about the searchlights too badass. Excuse my language. Anyhow like everone else ill keep playing but if our HTC programmers aren't eating cause we all went to some other "GAME" they wont care if we ever login again so all I'm saying is its a no-brainer yes we absoultly must have metrological conditions accurate to real life. Including AT LEAST 45minutes of night, evan 7/11 has a one hour cool-down,
:headscratch:
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+1
DEACON!!!!! what ya doing, how have you been
did you change your call sign? good to see you
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Alright ive held my mouth shut long enough regarding the night thing. We have an extremely grey area calling AH a simulation or a game. Being so not one of us like to say we spend a lot of money on "video games" don't evan own an xbox but I got the h.o.t.a.s. with a hot laptop (not some gaming machine its just nice). I'm going to say ten times outta ten "I have a ww2 simulator" and do I not? I don't go home to play, I go home to fly or with the wife. What I'm trying to say besides have you seen the beautiful night sky or how bout the clouds because without something up there in the background "they look like a bunch of damn models" - Leonardo Di Caprio Aviator. HTC took time into our sky and there on the right track also I thank them for it (although everone complains and its always sunny on aces) Now if were always going to have perfect conditions get rid of the gauges nobody is gonna need IFR were all great at VFR dogfighting, navigating, etc. I live in Vegas and our weather isn't as nice as the weather on AH. We have arena's for "playing around" but I enjoy the realism of the software and for the most part the people. Night, Clouds, Wind mandatory especially on historical events. K too the wishlist this one goes but nightfighters with a radar of the day installed in them. Imagine a town burning and giving off an orange glow. I like the one the guy said about the searchlights too badass. Excuse my language. Anyhow like everone else ill keep playing but if our HTC programmers aren't eating cause we all went to some other "GAME" they wont care if we ever login again so all I'm saying is its a no-brainer yes we absoultly must have metrological conditions accurate to real life. Including AT LEAST 45minutes of night, evan 7/11 has a one hour cool-down,
well I don't think people will quit they, will log off for 30mins and then log back on, daylight last's a whole lot longer than night.. as for the other stuff What? :headscratch:
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Because some of us like to interact with our opponents as opposed to going to every possible length to avoid them.
Where are the night variants of the planes? All I see are the day versions. Seems kind of silly to me to fly day fighters at night.
Wiley.
I agree, just some of the people here do not like the nights......so why spoil the night fun for just some of the people
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Night would make sense if we had night fighters with onboard radars, if we could actually see engine exhaust flames on aircraft etc etc.
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Night would make sense if we had night fighters with onboard radars, if we could actually see engine exhaust flames on aircraft etc etc.
Ya mean the big red icons are not good enough..........don't forget the bombers your trying to find are going to have just as difficult time in the bomb site as you are finding them.....so it all shakes out in the wash. It takes different skills that have to be learned and you can't do it with 20 or 30 min of night time...
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I moon everyone when it is dark.
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Wow Shuffler! You need to get on a diet! That Strawberry Moon looked a lot bigger than last months full moon. Think the night sky was off a bit too. I think I could see the LITTLE Dipper just under the moon? :devil :x
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Wow Shuffler! You need to get on a diet! That Strawberry Moon looked a lot bigger than last months full moon. Think the night sky was off a bit too. I think I could see the LITTLE Dipper just under the moon? :devil :x
DOH. :bolt: