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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Razorbak on May 20, 2021, 01:04:14 PM
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Hey folks, thought id check in and see whats left, I havent missed the game very much due to the low numbers and I check the forums here and there. Seems you have the same gripes from a year ago when i was still playing. I still think its a shame that the game dosent have more players/marketing but thats why I blew out. :neener:
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You will need patience because fights are generally 5-15 minutes away. "Prime time" for 100+ players online is generally 4pm PST to about 9pm PST or so Thursday-Sunday.
If you have the time (fly to target while doing something else like watching TV or reading) and patience, there's plenty of action to be had!
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9am PST this am had 2 bish, 2 rooks and 11 knights. Moat days lately we are lacking to hit 90 people. Between piss poor numbers a retardedly large maps playing is like attending your best friends funeral, 90% of the time.
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It’s a flight sim. You fly around.
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Guys I started with fighter ace a long time ago and when they went under I went to aces high and the numbers were great in both games until aces high went to ah3, imo the best game was fa because of the high number of squads in all countries and the way the game was played, ah would do well to adopt fa game play and the way the game was set up for example destroy a countries spit factory and no more spits damage 2 fighter hangars and you get a plane with an oil leak and so on. I love ww2 fighter sim games and endured the low player count as long as I could but combine that with the large maps and 5 month old snowman lol it shows you ht is just hanging on to whats left and there is no intent to do anything. YOu also hear that the low counts are due to how hard the game is to get a grip on thats bull toejam, ive been playing iracing and aces high is easy peasy in comparison. If anyone sees rud3boi or humboldt tell em i said hello.
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Hey folks, thought id check in and see whats left, I havent missed the game very much due to the low numbers and I check the forums here and there. Seems you have the same gripes from a year ago when i was still playing. I still think its a shame that the game dosent have more players/marketing but thats why I blew out. :neener:
What is the point of your post? It seems the majority of your posts are just complaining.
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Hey Razorbak,
Aren't you the one with that Davidson County dialect? That works in the auto-racing field....ie... Nascar/ ARCA etc....
iirc....we chatted in game one night and I picked up on your accent, heh... you told me you were over in big chair city and I told you I was SSW of Lexington down here at the Lake...
If this is you, good to hear from you....
Humboldt plays pretty frequently....haven't seen Rud3boi online lately but have spoken with him on the phone in the past month or so....
Will pass along that you said hello if I catch any of them in game....
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TC
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What is the point of your post? It seems the majority of your posts are just complaining.
Just stating the facts
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Hey Razorbak,
Aren't you the one with that Davidson County dialect? That works in the auto-racing field....ie... Nascar/ ARCA etc....
iirc....we chatted in game one night and I picked up on your accent, heh... you told me you were over in big chair city and I told you I was SSW of Lexington down here at the Lake...
If this is you, good to hear from you....
Humboldt plays pretty frequently....haven't seen Rud3boi online lately but have spoken with him on the phone in the past month or so....
Will pass along that you said hello if I catch any of them in game....
<S>
TC
Thanks yep iv got the southern accent for sure, Little Rock Ark.
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Guys I started with fighter ace a long time ago and when they went under I went to aces high and the numbers were great in both games until aces high went to ah3, imo the best game was fa because of the high number of squads in all countries and the way the game was played, ah would do well to adopt fa game play and the way the game was set up for example destroy a countries spit factory and no more spits damage 2 fighter hangars and you get a plane with an oil leak and so on. I love ww2 fighter sim games and endured the low player count as long as I could but combine that with the large maps and 5 month old snowman lol it shows you ht is just hanging on to whats left and there is no intent to do anything. YOu also hear that the low counts are due to how hard the game is to get a grip on thats bull toejam, ive been playing iracing and aces high is easy peasy in comparison. If anyone sees rud3boi or humboldt tell em i said hello.
Fighter Ace appears to have stolen a lot of the game play from Air Warrior. Not surprised since AW was the first and set the bar for the follow up games.
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Just stating the facts
Ok. You've posted 16 times and 13 or 14 of them have just been complaining. What exactly do you expect to happen? Just a bit strange IMO.
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Ok. You've posted 16 times and 13 or 14 of them have just been complaining. What exactly do you expect to happen? Just a bit strange IMO.
he should leave. not missed
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If anyone sees rud3boi or humboldt tell em i said hello.
Both of them are on regularly. Why not say hello yourself?
- oldman
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Well spikes I see your a ht boy I just stoped in to chat a bit, and I see things are still sosdd glad I left. See yall next year if your still around.
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Well spikes I see your a ht boy I just stoped in to chat a bit, and I see things are still sosdd glad I left. See yall next year if your still around.
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You came in to crap on HT and nothing more. Pretty much sums up your post history.
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Well spikes I see your a ht boy I just stoped in to chat a bit, and I see things are still sosdd glad I left. See yall next year if your still around.
Lol AH is awesome and you’re the one missing out
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Well spikes I see your a ht boy I just stoped in to chat a bit, and I see things are still sosdd glad I left. See yall next year if your still around.
been hearing that since I joined back in 06. you wont be around next year. we still around having fun :cheers:
semp
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Have to wonder why the squeak posts from these past 'aces'...
Would like to hear what multiplayer online ww2 air combat sim do they think is superior to AH and why..but you never get that info
I think some are not happy unless they are complaining
Get your 2 week trial so we can show you what you're missing...its free!
Eagler
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Well spikes I see your a ht boy I just stoped in to chat a bit, and I see things are still sosdd glad I left. See yall next year if your still around.
I run the Special Events team and website, so you could say I'm 'pro making this game a better place'. Next time you want to insult someone, it carries more weight with decent grammar.
FWIW, HT and I do talk semi-frequently, you'd have to ask him if he considers us 'boys' though. :)
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Hey folks, thought id check in and see whats left, I havent missed the game very much due to the low numbers and I check the forums here and there. Seems you have the same gripes from a year ago when i was still playing. I still think its a shame that the game dosent have more players/marketing but thats why I blew out. :neener:
It’s a shame because those like you don’t get your way and go away complaining. That’s why the numbers are down. Come back in and start a trend. :salute
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It’s a shame because those like you don’t get your way and go away complaining. That’s why the numbers are down. Come back in and start a trend. :salute
You hit the proverbial nail in the head. I've also noticed how they also claim to have been "aces" when they played.
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You hit the proverbial nail in the head. I've also noticed how they also claim to have been "aces" when they played.
Well, it only takes 5 kills technically to become an ace. It's a pretty low bar.
As far as the OP, well, bye.
Eagler, I expect most that go away would say IL2, but I don't see it.
Wiley.
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AH isn’t for quitters and crybabies. Let em go!
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You came in to crap on HT and nothing more. Pretty much sums up your post history.
My thoughts too. A well deserved PNG. The constant squeaking and moaning on here is getting old.
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He was definately an ace..
In a 190 that wouldn't drop below 450mph unless he was the 3rd guy in on a single con.
+1 for the PNG. I might complain a little bit more than others, but at least I'm playing the game.
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I've also noticed how they also claim to have been "aces" when they played.
More like “Score Farmers” in an arcade game at the mall.
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Have to wonder why the squeak posts from these past 'aces'...
Would like to hear what multiplayer online ww2 air combat sim do they think is superior to AH and why..but you never get that info
As a past 'Ace': There is none. So I'm not doing online air combat anymore, just occasionally offline DCS or (rarely) Il-2.
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That was a fast PNG. :rofl :aok
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I'd just like to say here for you HT, you've given so many people decades of top quality entertainment. Without doubt the best PvP WW2 combat flight sim that has ever been made. I can appreciate that keeping a server running is not free. No matter how much I manage to play I will continue to pay the sub until the very end. I am sure many of us here share the same sentiment.
What's left? Some people just can't see the lives this game community has touched and the friendships it has created. Truly one of a kind.
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That was a fast PNG. :rofl :aok
Deservedly too, I'd say.
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I'd just like to say here for you HT, you've given so many people decades of top quality entertainment. Without doubt the best PvP WW2 combat flight sim that has ever been made. I can appreciate that keeping a server running is not free. No matter how much I manage to play I will continue to pay the sub until the very end. I am sure many of us here share the same sentiment.
What's left? Some people just can't see the lives this game community has touched and the friendships it has created. Truly one of a kind.
Here here! This game is not for everybody. The guys that fly here are the best guys I know.
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I'd just like to say here for you HT, you've given so many people decades of top quality entertainment. Without doubt the best PvP WW2 combat flight sim that has ever been made. I can appreciate that keeping a server running is not free. No matter how much I manage to play I will continue to pay the sub until the very end. I am sure many of us here share the same sentiment.
What's left? Some people just can't see the lives this game community has touched and the friendships it has created. Truly one of a kind.
What's up mr batfink? Been a long time buddy. :cheers:
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What's up mr batfink? Been a long time buddy. :cheers:
Same old same old, Estes. Good to see you still kicking. :cheers:
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I'd just like to say here for you HT, you've given so many people decades of top quality entertainment. Without doubt the best PvP WW2 combat flight sim that has ever been made. I can appreciate that keeping a server running is not free. No matter how much I manage to play I will continue to pay the sub until the very end. I am sure many of us here share the same sentiment.
What's left? Some people just can't see the lives this game community has touched and the friendships it has created. Truly one of a kind.
2nd this
I have enjoyed aces high more than any other past time for the last 20+ years as it is always available, the old timers are mostly fanatics like me and usually have a great time every time I log in as it just takes one good a2a fight to make it worthwhile.
I cannot say the same for any other computer or otherwise game or activity.
As I try to get an hour in daily and more on the weekends AH has been my major distraction from life since stumbling into it from fighter ace way back when.
To the OP..That's what is left
<S> High Tech and thanks!
Eagler
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I've also noticed how they also claim to have been "aces" when they played.
Razorbck didn't once mention or claim he was an "ace" in this thread.
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Have to wonder why the squeak posts from these past 'aces'...
Would like to hear what multiplayer online ww2 air combat sim do they think is superior to AH and why..but you never get that info
I think some are not happy unless they are complaining
Get your 2 week trial so we can show you what you're missing...its free!
Eagler
The answer is, there is not one. Although his manner of discussing the population issues is confrontational, the issues that he is spotlighting are real. It saddens me as I love Aces High.
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The answer is, there is not one. Although his manner of discussing the population issues is confrontational, the issues that he is spotlighting are real. It saddens me as I love Aces High.
What could we expect differently? This simulation is from a war that happened nearly 100 years ago. Kids today don't know much about it. We grew up with a fascination and deep admiration for the machines and the men who flew them. We wrapped toilet paper around our necks and ran around the garden shouting 'dagadagadagadaga' at our friends with our arms stretched out to our sides. Most of us also grew up in an age when the concept of an internet allowing us to play dogfighting in virtual airspace against real people around the world was unimaginable.
So the development of this entire concept was like a dream come true. That fantasy has survived within us for more than 20 years. But we cannot expect the next generation to find any affiliation to this make believe world we love. The demographic of a game like AcesHigh does not quit. We die of old age one by one. We mourn our loses within our tiny microcosm here and that is something very rare and special.
Eventually the server will close down for good. Maybe not for many years to come. But the end of our age of cartoon pilots will one day be upon us. For now what we can do is find comfort in the nostalgia of the years we have spent together, the privilege we have been afforded in having this sandbox made for us to all share our passion for something that happened in the previous millennium. We should not be even thinking about medicating and life supporting the old gal until all dignity is lost. We should enjoy the time we still have left together in the best ways possible.
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Truth. The Pigs reminisce on the good times regularly <S>
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Razorbck didn't once mention or claim he was an "ace" in this thread.
Not sure why your taking his side in this. He clearly meant us to think it.
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What could we expect differently? This simulation is from a war that happened nearly 100 years ago. Kids today don't know much about it. We grew up with a fascination and deep admiration for the machines and the men who flew them. We wrapped toilet paper around our necks and ran around the garden shouting 'dagadagadagadaga' at our friends with our arms stretched out to our sides. Most of us also grew up in an age when the concept of an internet allowing us to play dogfighting in virtual airspace against real people around the world was unimaginable.
As kids we took an old innertube, cut it into strips, and tied it between the handlebars of our bikes. We would get a pocketfull of gravel and use the innertube as a makeshift slingshot. We would have dogfights riding around in an empty parking lot
And another time stretched a rope across the road and we would act like we were landing on a carrier and "catch the wire". We would see who could come in the hottest and successfully catch the rope and stop without crashing off the bike.
Fun times
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Not sure why your taking his side in this. He clearly meant us to think it.
I didn't take any side. Obvious false statements to encourage dogpiling are exactly why I chimed in.
False claims hurt credibility, so try avoiding them in future if you wish to have some.
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What could we expect differently? This simulation is from a war that happened nearly 100 years ago. Kids today don't know much about it. We grew up with a fascination and deep admiration for the machines and the men who flew them.
I used to read books about the war written by men who served. In 4th grade I wrote a book report about the story of a B-29 pilot and crew; the book was named after the airplane. I would love to have seen the look on the nun's face when she read the title of my report: "Fertile Myrtle". :D
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Sounds like a blast Meatwad!
(https://i2.wp.com/hangar47.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Me163-10_Messerschmitt-Me-163_Original-Hawk-kit-1960.jpg)
That was my 1st grade graduation present back in the early 60's
I had a ceiling filled of ww2 model aircraft posed in air battles for most of my childhood
Very few things have interested me as much in my 62 years
This game and its participants are all part of that
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Eagler
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As kids we took an old innertube, cut it into strips, and tied it between the handlebars of our bikes. We would get a pocketfull of gravel and use the innertube as a makeshift slingshot. We would have dogfights riding around in an empty parking lot
And another time stretched a rope across the road and we would act like we were landing on a carrier and "catch the wire". We would see who could come in the hottest and successfully catch the rope and stop without crashing off the bike.
Fun times
I would be keen to play this game even at this age :D
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I didn't take any side. Obvious false statements to encourage dogpiling are exactly why I chimed in.
False claims hurt credibility, so try avoiding them in future if you wish to have some.
It’s not hard to see the truth here. Seems like everyone else can. No need for “gotcha” posts if you ask me.
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It’s not hard to see the truth here. Seems like everyone else can. No need for “gotcha” posts if you ask me.
:rolleyes:
Beautifully hypocritical; half the thread is a "Gotcha Razor" dogpile.
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:rolleyes:
Beautifully hypocritical; half the thread is a "Gotcha Razor" dogpile.
True, however like many of the other responders here, I get tired of the "Non Players" getting on here and implying our ignorance and allegedly not understanding our love for the game. Like Mama use to say, 'if you can't say something nice, don't say anything", not to say constructive criticism is not allowed. I suspect many of these nay sayers have an axe to grind with Hitech or someone else in the game.
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True, however like many of the other responders here, I get tired of the "Non Players" getting on here and implying our ignorance and allegedly not understanding our love for the game. Like Mama use to say, 'if you can't say something nice, don't say anything", not to say constructive criticism is not allowed. I suspect many of these nay sayers have an axe to grind with Hitech or someone else in the game.
Yup! Sometimes you got to call a spade a spade :-)
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Yup! Sometimes you got to call a spade a spade :-)
Indeed, haven't I P38"Ace" :D
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Indeed, haven't I P38"Ace" :D
I like your youdube channel! 130 subscribers!
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Yup! Sometimes you got to call a spade a spade :-)
why a spade? what's wrong with the other 3 :bolt:
semp
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why a spade? what's wrong with the other 3 :bolt:
semp
OK ;-)
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I like your youdube channel! 130 subscribers!
Most kind. I'm lucky I have that many.
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What's up mr batfink? Been a long time buddy. :cheers:
why am I a cheater?
Unanswered question I still ask from 2012.