Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: DLXIRON on December 28, 2019, 04:19:26 PM
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I have to say that I am completely impressed that you have the intestinal fortitude to keep this game and BBS up and going even though you are told multiple times a day how much and how hard you are blowing it. I would have kicked the plug out of the wall long ago! I would have to imagine that such a skill set would be better used somewhere else besides a video game :)
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Dougie
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Blowing it?
He made a game that has been running for 20 years. Not only that, he made it with a crew that has fewer people than the number of janitors in large studios.
:salute
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Blowing it?
He made a game that has been running for 20 years. Not only that, he made it with a crew that has fewer people than the number of janitors in large studios.
:salute
I think he is talking about all the posts other people are making saying this. OP is giving HTC kudos.
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I think he is talking about all the posts other people are making saying this. OP is giving HTC kudos.
That is how I understood it too.
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I have to say that I am completely impressed that you have the intestinal fortitude to keep this game and BBS up and going even though you are told multiple times a day how much and how hard you are blowing it. I would have kicked the plug out of the wall long ago! I would have to imagine that such a skill set would be better used somewhere else besides a video game :)
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Dougie
I'll second the motion. Hitech has made this wonderful game, and then he is told constantly that he is doing it all wrong. I am always amazed that he puts up with all the abuse he gets. I am also very grateful, because I love flying in Aces High, even though I don't get to do it very often.
:salute :salute :salute
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I am very grateful that I have been able to enjoy this great game over the years.
Thank you HiTech!
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Gent's we all know what he likes. Lets get them bottles rolling. :cheers: Funny, I was thinking the same thing recently. Thanks Hitech for making such a great game, don't let all these old men discourage you. :old:
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<S> HiTech and thanks for the entertainment.
HONK!
Gooss
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Was just thinking the same.
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Agree
Great game
Many thanks :cheers:
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If the game is going so great, how come the two late war arenas were about full all the time and now about 150 players is about normal, plus the early and mid war arenas are gone. I would like to know.
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If the game is going so great, how come the two late war arenas were about full all the time and now about 150 players is about normal, plus the early and mid war arenas are gone. I would like to know.
And that is the answer Hitech and many of us or trying to answer. There are many individuals who believe it is because Hitech won't make the changes that they demand. Most of those changes would change Aces High into something very different, which would be bad.
Some people want an arcade game, while Aces High is built on a real flight simulator. Some people just can't deal with the learning curve. The goal then is to help people get up that learning curve so they can learn and appreciate what we have here.
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And that is the answer Hitech and many of us or trying to answer. There are many individuals who believe it is because Hitech won't make the changes that they demand. Most of those changes would change Aces High into something very different, which would be bad.
Some people want an arcade game, while Aces High is built on a real flight simulator. Some people just can't deal with the learning curve. The goal then is to help people get up that learning curve so they can learn and appreciate what we have here.
Which roles back to proper mandatory preflight trainingfor "new" accounts and a training corps that is reachable whenever a trainer is online by having the trainers names a different color in the roster and announcing when a trainer is online via arena wide message. Of course give the trainer the option to choose "not available" before entering an arena if they choose not to train during their time online.
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If the game is going so great, how come the two late war arenas were about full all the time and now about 150 players is about normal, plus the early and mid war arenas are gone. I would like to know.
Nobody is saying the game is going great, they are saying it's a great game. But, it's not for a casual gamer.
AH3 is a niche game like WB. When there were fewer choices available to players FA, AH, and WB all had a community of players.
In AH2 a lot of players were in the DA instead of the MA because the MA didn't suit them.
When more choices became available FA, AH, and WB, all lost players. When FA shut down many players came to AH2 and for a time boosted the declining numbers.
The only game that is like AH3 now is WB and they aren't doing as well.
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If the game is going so great, how come the two late war arenas were about full all the time and now about 150 players is about normal, plus the early and mid war arenas are gone. I would like to know.
Internet bandwidth increased enough and latency decreased enough to make other multiplayer game types besides flight sims viable. It turns out a lot of those 700 players in 2003 weren't completely and totally dedicated to nothing but WWII aircraft to the exclusion of all else. It turns out they probably just wanted to blow people up online. At the time, Aces High was the best in class option. But they were always primed to move on as soon as other genre became available that were more natural fits for game-play preferences.
Then competition came in with the big money resources to make more broadly approachable, popular multi-player internet game genre with massive budgets for AAA graphics and monitization models that the market found more appealing, and enough advertising millions to make sure every youngster has their upcoming game on their wishlist 6 months before release.
It was either all that, or the sticking to 3-sides that did it. :t
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Nope. Hitech focused upon making the game for a small group of players that remain loyal to this day. That is all.
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I am very grateful that I have been able to enjoy this great game over the years.
Thank you HiTech!
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The man's got patience! Good thing it isn’t me, there’d be a lot of PNGs lol.
:salute
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I am very grateful that I have been able to enjoy this great game over the years.
Thank you HiTech!
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:salute
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I am very grateful that I have been able to enjoy this great game over the years.
Thank you HiTech!
+1 :salute
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Love this game. Nothing I have found out there comes close.
Merry Christmas Hitech and Happy New Year to you, your crew and your family. Looking forward to what 2020 will bring. :salute
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Great product HiTech! You’ve got this dialed in so close to real world flying, it’s amazing! Keep up the great work and have a fantastic New Year. :salute
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i remember far worst flame war/improvement suggestions back in late 90s in WB :) He's immune by now.