General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: toddbobe on July 25, 2025, 10:59:23 PM
Title: Advertise on yarnhub
Post by: toddbobe on July 25, 2025, 10:59:23 PM
Most of us got here because of advertisements on the history channel, that is now a shadow of itself, may I suggest advertising on yarnhub, its what the history channel was.... with a WWII focus. Thats just my $0.02 worth, but I could be wrong. Todd Bober (todd bobe)
Title: Re: Advertise on yarnhub
Post by: GOODBYE on July 25, 2025, 11:17:35 PM
I love yardhub and blue paw print. Both excellent sources for WWII knowledge and absolutely would be great spots to advertise AH if desired :joystick:
Title: Re: Advertise on yarnhub
Post by: hazmatt on July 26, 2025, 03:13:50 AM
Uh, sounds like Yarnhub is making their own game...
Title: Re: Advertise on yarnhub
Post by: The Fugitive on July 26, 2025, 08:31:46 AM
So in 3 months that the offer was open they got just over 2 million. It doesnt look promising. Now if Hitech teamed up with them........ hmmmmm
After watching the video it sounded like the Combat Tour that HTC was working on years ago. Picking your character and working your way up in rank and such, even hoping to bring in subs. Just goes to show how far ahead HTC was back in the day.
Title: Re: Advertise on yarnhub
Post by: CptTrips on July 26, 2025, 08:52:28 AM
So in 3 months that the offer was open they got just over 2 million. It doesnt look promising. Now if Hitech teamed up with them........ hmmmmm
After watching the video it sounded like the Combat Tour that HTC was working on years ago. Picking your character and working your way up in rank and such, even hoping to bring in subs. Just goes to show how far ahead HTC was back in the day.
Yes, but ideas don't mean anything unless you execute. The world is full of ideas. Getting them to completion is the hard part.
I was hoping that War Online: Pacific was going to be the Tour of Duty successor but they went some other direction with it. A kind micro transaction War Thunder furball-lake kinda thing.
The AI stuff, btw, was intended to a be a cornerstone technology of the Tour of Duty effort.
Title: Re: Advertise on yarnhub
Post by: hazmatt on July 26, 2025, 10:05:40 AM
I hadn't looked into this game before. What I can see looking on steam, the website and the forums it looks like it never really took off. I'm curious as to why? The reviews seem to either love or hate it. Didn't see many in the middle.
Title: Re: Advertise on yarnhub
Post by: CptTrips on July 26, 2025, 10:49:45 AM
I hadn't looked into this game before. What I can see looking on steam, the website and the forums it looks like it never really took off. I'm curious as to why? The reviews seem to either love or hate it. Didn't see many in the middle.
Well, that would be a whole long thread of it's own. ;)
It was abandoned pretty early I think. It seemed abandoned for a long time at least. I doubt anything has been done to it beyond a few initial tweaks.
If I were King...
I would have had a completely different UI approach. Especially the initial landing screen. The game would have had a reasonable single player and single player campaign system. (The AI stuff isn't there yet but that could have been extended. It would have been doable if that is the direction they would have chosen. It's code. )
It would have implemented the beginnings of a career mode. Needed for SP campaign and possibly applicable to a Tour of Duty online experience of the same gaming universe.
I would have had an online portion similar to the Staged Mission arena. Various fighter sweep, jabo, escort missions and you could fly one of your avatars, (You might be simultaneously managing multiple careers, one a carrier pilot, army fighter pilot, bomber pilot, transport pilot, etc. Some Axis some Allied. ) anyway you'd fly some part in the mission for the avatar career you wanted to advance. Etc. Earn rank and medals, etc.
Then you might have a side mosh pit furball lake practice arena sorta like what was implemented. But... I dunno that thing was whack. Did AI on your faction still attack you? Am I remembering that correct? It all seem like a confusing setup. I would have kept even the moshpit AvA. The AI would be AvA. So if you are US, you could reliably predict eh AI Zero was an enemy. etc. Whatever. It felt like it needed a lot of work but Definity should have only been a side practice arena.
Dump the micro-transactions.
Sell for fixed price ($14.95) and free online access. HTC has no shortage of un used-bandwidth and un-used server capacity at the moment. No need to be pennywise and pound foolish. And bandwidth is cheap. Sell it on Steam as a "value" priced sim. It also comes with a coupon for one free month on HTC premier WWII combat game Aces High. You get that for the purchase price of $14.95. Get it? ;)
Anyway, I am not a King and ideas are a dime a dozen. They went a different way, but that didn't seem to have much potential.
$0.02.
Title: Re: Advertise on yarnhub
Post by: CptTrips on July 26, 2025, 10:54:35 AM
Most of us got here because of advertisements on the history channel, that is now a shadow of itself, may I suggest advertising on yarnhub, its what the history channel was.... with a WWII focus. Thats just my $0.02 worth, but I could be wrong. Todd Bober (todd bobe)
Any place you can advertise for free can't hurt.
The question is how much do you pay for advertising if your conversion rate is ~1% or less.