Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: BBinder on October 28, 2002, 03:25:33 AM
-
jets are not for sissies you just dont know how to pilot a jet
and it would be cool having F18's F14's tornado's etc etc battling it out
-
Damn. We should never have let the trolls out from under the bridge.
palef
-
hmmm,
noone tould U is that:
not ww1
not Korea
not Vietnam
not Deser Storm
simulator? strange
http://www.hitechcreations.com/
Should HTC use larger fonts to type thats
WW2 based game?
ramzey
-
It is not a bad idea, but there are a lot of factors working for the success of on-line simulation games. :)
For one thing, the immersion factor particularly derives from distinct historic events. Modern day jets are interesting and fantastic in their own field, but the limited warfare they went through is very lacking in terms of immersiveness when compared to the second world war.
The second World War was a sequel to the "war to end all wars" in a much larger scale, millions of soldiers clashing all over the world.
The air battles of these vintage era planes were also spectacular... giant squadrons of aircraft clashing over flak bursting skies.. hundreds of massive and shiny four-engined bombers in formation.. German planes baring in like a spike into those formations... flames in the sky.. planes falling down.. a raging torpedo planes and dive bombers flying through ack firing like flames of armageddon... you can probably understand what I'm saying. ;)
The WWII air warfare has an epic scale which appeals to even the people whose country never participated in the war. This, is something modern day jet-fighters can never have.
Another thing is, the limitations in WWII airplanes have ironically designated the "up, close and personal" aspect of air combat. No on-board radar(well.. AH does have AWACS :D ), no electronics, no gadgets and devices, and no missiles. The fight depends all on human eyes and skill, and this apparently appeals much stronger to many people than looking through the HUD, reading the numbers and boxes, and pressing the button to release a missile, killing a target 5km away.
...
If a modern-day jet on-line sim is ever to be successful, its going to need a warfare large enough for people decades later to remember it as "an epic struggle.." Thank heaven such a thing hasn't happened yet.
-
There have been 3 Major WWII online flight sims so far. A couple of WWI online sims with varing success, and a variety of boxed games dealing with one or the other world wars.
Show me ONE modern era online sim where you fly a F-14 - f22?
The only one even in development is based on the Korea early jets. While some of the boxed games have a following for a while, the Jets just are NOT that popular.
Things happen too fast in AH, imagine 500 F14's rdy to launch Missles at 100 miles range at the drop of a hat?
That world moves TOO fast, has seen very little actual combat. How many pilots became aces between 1940 & 1945? Korea saw a few aces, Vietnam a few more but they were few & far between. Since then I think we've only added a couple of Aces to the list.
Frankly some days I wish HT had never modeled the 262.
I'll stick with AH & WWII thank you.
-
We have several modern fighter pilots and commercial airline pilots in our ranks.
We frequently call them sissies and pummel them if they try to argue the point.
AKDejaVu
-
Contact 12 oc!
Where?
There! Fox 3!
Oh I see it. Dot bearing due north 12 lvl 20 miles out
Betown shot down Kweassa
Heh, Dweeb...
Yeah! Dweeb
BVR Dweeb!
(BVR=Beyond Visual Range)
-
Things happen too fast in AH, imagine 500 F14's rdy to launch Missles at 100 miles range at the drop of a hat?
Actually, the Phoenix was designed to shoot down Soviet bombers, not fighters; its maneuverability is limited, particularly at the end of its range after the engine has burned out and the missile is essentially gliding.
-
Jets smell bad.
-
Originally posted by Ghosth
Show me ONE modern era online sim where you fly a F-14 - f22?
[/B]
JANE's F-15
okay that's not an f-14 but its a jet
-
i saw a movie about a F-14 pilot once, he rode a motorcycle, played old music on the juke box , talked trash , and got the girl
-
well u can always makes a more modern flight sim alot more fun isntead of just having jet fighters why not have airliners armed with weopons that would be gun ho fun :p :D :eek:
-
welllll.......... i don't know........ it would be quite a accomplioshment to kill a F-14 with a Hurr I lol or a d3a1 or a ju88 lol that would be the best..........
This will happen when HTC models Swasticas, atomic bombs, and the gladiatior.
-
Originally posted by NOD2000
welllll.......... i don't know........ it would be quite a accomplioshment to kill a F-14 with a Hurr I lol or a d3a1 or a ju88 lol that would be the best..........
Not with the pilot skills in the MA.
"WTF that p47 out-turned my f16!!!!"
-
LOL Betown, having BVR missiles here, most of us would die due killshooter all the time.
-
i want my boeing 747 armed wiht 20, 20mm gunns :>
-
Originally posted by Shiva
Actually, the Phoenix was designed to shoot down Soviet bombers, not fighters; its maneuverability is limited, particularly at the end of its range after the engine has burned out and the missile is essentially gliding.
You are assuming a long range shot. The AIM-54 does not have to be shot at that range. You are also ignoring the fact that in order for a fighter sized target to evade the missile, it needs to be able to detect it in time to do something about it.
-Smut
-
if you have a modern aces high with jet fighters you can limit half the the stuff like missisle ranges radar ranges etc etc
and i would like to see airliners with guns guns guns for extra fun and larfs
-
Wasn't there something called 'Lock On-Modern Air Combat' or similar under development? There's definately one lurking out there somewhere.
...Google is great :D
Lock on homepage (http://www.lo-mac.com/)
I do find the prospect of A2A fights in A10's appealing :)
Gatso
-
Originally posted by BBinder
i want my boeing 747 armed wiht 20, 20mm gunns :>
Heres how to do that BBinder
#1 - Get real
#2 - Grow up
#3 - get a job and buy one lol