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Title: LOL the thread complaining about spam is locked but the spam is still there.
Post by: MiloMorai on September 27, 2021, 09:29:47 AM
as the title says
Title: Re: LOL the thread complaining about spam is locked but the spam is still there.
Post by: Maverick on September 27, 2021, 09:55:09 AM
Yeah does seem a bit strange doesn't it.
Title: Re: LOL the thread complaining about spam is locked but the spam is still there.
Post by: Shuffler on September 29, 2021, 05:02:00 PM
Likely means the site is selling advertising..... through posts.
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Post by: Devil 505 on September 29, 2021, 05:15:18 PM
Does seem that way...  :noid
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Post by: 100Coogn on September 29, 2021, 06:13:23 PM
HiTech is a one-man show now.
He don't have the time to babysit the forums, nor update this game.

Coogan
Title: Re: LOL the thread complaining about spam is locked but the spam is still there.
Post by: Meatwad on September 29, 2021, 06:16:27 PM
Is the office still there or has it closed down and moved into his house
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Post by: Peanut1 on September 30, 2021, 12:27:09 AM
Is the office still there or has it closed down and moved into his house
no longer an office...the game is near dunzo.
Title: Re: LOL the thread complaining about spam is locked but the spam is still there.
Post by: Eagler on September 30, 2021, 08:14:01 AM
Pretty sure he can run it from anywhere

Offices are so 2019 lol

Eagler
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Post by: whiteman on October 01, 2021, 04:08:56 PM
no longer an office...the game is near dunzo.

That reads like an opinion, waiting for a fact to back that up.
Title: Re: LOL the thread complaining about spam is locked but the spam is still there.
Post by: guncrasher on October 01, 2021, 04:57:13 PM
Pretty sure he can run it from anywhere

Offices are so 2019 lol

Eagler

I use my office to fly, but when wife is mad it turns into a bedroom.


semp
Title: Re: LOL the thread complaining about spam is locked but the spam is still there.
Post by: Peanut1 on October 02, 2021, 03:39:56 AM
That reads like an opinion, waiting for a fact to back that up.
Fact: Updates don't happen anymore Fact: numbers are at an all time low. FACT: The game will be gone if not bought by someone who has the interest to put resources into it...Soon
Title: Re: LOL the thread complaining about spam is locked but the spam is still there.
Post by: guncrasher on October 02, 2021, 04:00:33 AM
Fact: Updates don't happen anymore Fact: numbers are at an all time low. FACT: The game will be gone if not bought by someone who has the interest to put resources into it...Soon

fact, you are wrong.  we see more people than a few years ago.

will be ever see 1k in the arena, to be honest I dont know.  but I do know this, had a lot of fun tonight, mostly slept cause of my health.  but I had fun.

fact is I had fun, and for what I heard on country and 200, well, lots of players had fun.


semp

Title: Re: LOL the thread complaining about spam is locked but the spam is still there.
Post by: zack1234 on October 02, 2021, 06:45:29 AM
I had spam on toast other day :old:

Not proper spam but the rubbish spam for £1

Its was awesome
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Post by: The Fugitive on October 02, 2021, 08:59:25 AM
Fact: Updates don't happen anymore Fact: numbers are at an all time low. FACT: The game will be gone if not bought by someone who has the interest to put resources into it...Soon

I have fun when I play too, but I can admit that all of Peanut1's Facts are true and the game IS dying a long slow death.
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Post by: whiteman on October 02, 2021, 02:54:31 PM
Soon, I feel like that I’ve been hearing soon for years.
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Post by: The Fugitive on October 02, 2021, 03:01:37 PM
Soon, I feel like that I’ve been hearing soon for years.

It surprises me how it continues to last. Its probably like 80-90 % hard core fans of the game that keep it going with the other 10-20 % in flux moving in and out all the time. As hard core fans only leave when we die, it still will take some time.
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Post by: CptTrips on October 02, 2021, 03:12:44 PM
It surprises me how it continues to last. Its probably like 80-90 % hard core fans of the game that keep it going with the other 10-20 % in flux moving in and out all the time. As hard core fans only leave when we die, it still will take some time.


LoL.  I wonder just how many dead guys have HTC on auto-pay forever and their widows just don't notice the charge.
Title: Re: LOL the thread complaining about spam is locked but the spam is still there.
Post by: Lusche on October 02, 2021, 04:17:14 PM
fact, you are wrong.  we see more people than a few years ago.


Not in Aces High.
The drain has slowed down compared to a few years ago, but there are still fewer pilots per tour than ever before.
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Post by: Peanut1 on October 02, 2021, 07:55:54 PM
fact, you are wrong.  we see more people than a few years ago.

will be ever see 1k in the arena, to be honest I dont know.  but I do know this, had a lot of fun tonight, mostly slept cause of my health.  but I had fun.

fact is I had fun, and for what I heard on country and 200, well, lots of players had fun.


semp
I enjoy the hell out of it to. But no, there was not less players at any point after the first 6 months of AH than there are right now.
Title: Re: LOL the thread complaining about spam is locked but the spam is still there.
Post by: guncrasher on October 02, 2021, 10:25:59 PM

Not in Aces High.
The drain has slowed down compared to a few years ago, but there are still fewer pilots per tour than ever before.

i remember a couple of years ago that it would be around 100 tops.  yesterday we have 150 or so.  now I dont know about pilots per tour but when I log in, most nights I see above 100.


semp
Title: Re: LOL the thread complaining about spam is locked but the spam is still there.
Post by: Lusche on October 03, 2021, 02:40:56 PM
i remember a couple of years ago that it would be around 100 tops.  yesterday we have 150 or so.  now I dont know about pilots per tour but when I log in, most nights I see above 100.


semp


Your memory is playing you tricks. "A couple of years ago" AH had more players by any metric, be it pilots per tour, total hours played by tour or population online at comparable times.
Title: Re: LOL the thread complaining about spam is locked but the spam is still there.
Post by: CptTrips on October 04, 2021, 10:18:21 AM

Your memory is playing you tricks. "A couple of years ago" AH had more players by any metric, be it pilots per tour, total hours played by tour or population online at comparable times.

When I had last come back around early 2019, the Melee was running around 185 players most weeknights.

The loss rate curve is definitely shallowing.  All those who would be sensitive to lack of new development or the lure of the competition have already left.  The remaining players are mainly here for the social connections.  As long as their friends keep showing up to chat on chan200, they will too.  They might complain about no new planes or features, but obviously that is not sufficient cause for them to close their accounts.

The main threat to AH would be HT's health.  He is no spring chicken either.  And the (probably narrow) age range of the remaining players means that when they start hitting their expiration date,  many will be hitting it at the same time.  There is no new blood to smooth out the demographic trend.  Probably there are very few  "new" players at all.  Just an occasional previous player coming back again for a while.  But they are probably in the same age cohort as the rest and will hit their expiration date at the same time.

$0.02.


Title: Re: LOL the thread complaining about spam is locked but the spam is still there.
Post by: Peanut1 on October 04, 2021, 02:28:28 PM
When I had last come back around early 2019, the Melee was running around 185 players most weeknights.

The loss rate curve is definitely shallowing.  All those who would be sensitive to lack of new development or the lure of the competition have already left.  The remaining players are mainly here for the social connections.  As long as their friends keep showing up to chat on chan200, they will too.  They might complain about no new planes or features, but obviously that is not sufficient cause for them to close their accounts.

The main threat to AH would be HT's health.  He is no spring chicken either.  And the (probably narrow) age range of the remaining players means that when they start hitting their expiration date,  many will be hitting it at the same time.  There is no new blood to smooth out the demographic trend.  Probably there are very few  "new" players at all.  Just an occasional previous player coming back again for a while.  But they are probably in the same age cohort as the rest and will hit their expiration date at the same time.

$0.02.
someone needs to buy it from him and dump a few inherentince checks on payroll and advertising...I know a guy
Title: Re: LOL the thread complaining about spam is locked but the spam is still there.
Post by: Shuffler on October 05, 2021, 04:50:05 PM
I use my office to fly, but when wife is mad it turns into a bedroom.


semp
:rofl    :aok
Title: Re: LOL the thread complaining about spam is locked but the spam is still there.
Post by: The Fugitive on October 05, 2021, 06:54:30 PM
someone needs to buy it from him and dump a few inherentince checks on payroll and advertising...I know a guy

Give him Hitechs number!
Title: Re: LOL the thread complaining about spam is locked but the spam is still there.
Post by: fuzeman on October 05, 2021, 07:11:05 PM
I had spam on toast other day :old:

Not proper spam but the rubbish spam for £1

Its was awesome

But what kind of toast??   white, wheat, oat, potato, raisin, sourdough, pumpernickel, rye
buttered or not. or dare I say it margarine
toasted on an open flame or with an electrical appliance, magnifying glass and the sun?
 :bolt:
Title: Re: LOL the thread complaining about spam is locked but the spam is still there.
Post by: Peanut1 on October 05, 2021, 11:57:43 PM
Give him Hitechs number!
I have...they spoke. All I can say.
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Post by: zack1234 on October 08, 2021, 01:31:06 AM
But what kind of toast??   white, wheat, oat, potato, raisin, sourdough, pumpernickel, rye
buttered or not. or dare I say it margarine
toasted on an open flame or with an electrical appliance, magnifying glass and the sun?
 :bolt:

Bleached white toast with a shelf life of 3 years and lard :old:

Toasted by a box of matches
Title: Re: LOL the thread complaining about spam is locked but the spam is still there.
Post by: fuzeman on October 09, 2021, 01:04:13 PM
<SNIP>
Toasted by a box of matches

I assume self sttrikung matches that you lit scratching them against your 5 o’ clock shadow?
Title: Re: LOL the thread complaining about spam is locked but the spam is still there.
Post by: Shuffler on October 10, 2021, 09:20:45 AM
I assume self sttrikung matches that you lit scratching them against your 5 o’ clock shadow?

He has never grown any facial hair.... yet.
Title: Re: LOL the thread complaining about spam is locked but the spam is still there.
Post by: TequilaChaser on October 10, 2021, 09:39:41 AM
When I had last come back around early 2019, the Melee was running around 185 players most weeknights.

The loss rate curve is definitely shallowing.  All those who would be sensitive to lack of new development or the lure of the competition have already left.  The remaining players are mainly here for the social connections.  As long as their friends keep showing up to chat on chan200, they will too.  They might complain about no new planes or features, but obviously that is not sufficient cause for them to close their accounts.

The main threat to AH would be HT's health.  He is no spring chicken either.  And the (probably narrow) age range of the remaining players means that when they start hitting their expiration date,  many will be hitting it at the same time.  There is no new blood to smooth out the demographic trend.  Probably there are very few  "new" players at all.  Just an occasional previous player coming back again for a while.  But they are probably in the same age cohort as the rest and will hit their expiration date at the same time.

$0.02.




I have recently thought of HiTech's health and know he is several years older than me...  but having talked with Dale multiple times over the last 2 years..I  find that he seems to be doing better than some of us and knowing that Aces High is his Labor of love..I  see him keeping with AH as long as he can...or can  afford to stay in the black and out of the red, financially....

Just my thoughts on the subject. (CptTrips post pretty much says it all though)

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