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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Killjoy2 on August 18, 2003, 10:56:04 AM
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Time for a poll:
Has the game gone stagnant for you?
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1) I enjoy playing AH more/less/same in the last 6 months.
Has the community become user unfriendly?
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2) I enjoy the AH community more/less/same in the last 6 months.
comments:
My answers:
1) less
2) less
comment: 2 things have set me to thinking. First was a trip the the dueling arena with SFOX which reminded me of how long its been since I had a real fight vs "whatever is happening in the main" and the depature of ammo. The only things that keep me coming back to AH is the friends of I have in the Flying Zoo and my memory of how much fun I used to have.
I am frankly tired of the horde mentality in the main arena. There are no real fights any more, just a few passes and 10 others will jump in to make the kill. There is no longer the opportunity to really fight someone or even learn to fight. The horde swamps everything.
I miss the ability to pit the strengths of one plane against another. I miss the ability to pit my skill against another.
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Hehe... my humility requires that I go to the MA. I've had my bellybutton handed to me on numerous occasions while participating on the ladder.
I am a talentless score-whoring slug.
Oh... the answer...
1.) No change. Six months ago (or so), the Flying Zoo made AH fun again. Still... we occasionally find ourselves in the same horde mentality. I really like flying against disciplined groups like the 56th. They are top notch.
2.) Less. Unless I turn off Channel 1. Tired of the whines about HO, TNBvBNZ, gaming the game, and the new thing... politics. Of course... it's also great fun to read channel 1 whenever someone on staff shows up and is forced to answer questions about everything from china patterns to the solution for global warming and world peace.
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Personally, I blame Canada.
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My experience in "flight simming" goes back to AWDOS (very limited) then AW on AOL (from very beginning). I only flew WB's briefly in 97 or 98. I stayed with AW thru 1999 and Moss told me about the AH beta at the AW con in 1999. All that being said:
The game has a whole has slowly faded and lost its appeal. The high point for me was 1.3....once 1.4 came out with the EZ mode FM things went a bit south and have continued since. My viewpoint is obviously based on my roots in AW (where gunnery model forced ACM) and experience early in this game (beta & 1st 6 months) where I felt like a newbie again. Easily the highest quality ACM (and toughest FM) I ever encountered. Slowly and sadly most of the quality sticks have faded away. Less than 10% of the current roster has any real ACM talent at all (IMO). In many ways this reflects the reality of WW2. Team work and #'s counted for a lot more than individual skill. Had I grown up in a different flight sim enviornment my expectations might be different.
At this point I'm simply making do...till the next flight sim shows up.
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I have been on a break to pursue other games for a while, I do it once a year to keep interest in games I play for a long time (WB, AH, GPL).
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1. Same. I get a kick out of it now. Just as much as when I started , if not more so.
2. Friendly? Hmmmm, didn`t know it was supposed to be. I figure if you can do something that results in numerous top ranked whines then my work here is done.:cool:
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Originally posted by Mini D
Personally, I blame Canada.
Nash, you better weigh in on this one...:D
-AlgyFT
Ooops, my two cents:
1. no change
2. no change
I still enjoy AH. Like others, can't wait to see what AH2 brings. The future looks good.
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The high point for me was 1.3....once 1.4 came out with the EZ mode FM things went a bit south and have continued since.
Same for me! Bring back 1.3 FM!!!! :D
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Ways I would fix it:
1: End the BBS, let the player community start there own ***** session BBS. Also freesup staff for real problems.. Letem go to Bigweek if they want...
2. Kill range channel, go back to Squad channel only, or private channel. To much negative happens on range.
3. Limit arenas to 250 and offer more arenas.
4. Give back the old pre pod bomber sites, yeah its cheesey but fun! And thats the key "Fun" taking out a field in one pass!!
Thats what we log in for Fun!!
My 2
T0J0
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Same - Took a few months off, came back and the game is fresh again. The MA is different, it's bigger with a lot more people, but I can still find plenty of fights. 1 on 1 fights are no more rare for me now then they were "back in the day".
Same - Different tards, same whines. HO/Running/Gangbanging/Vulching/Cheating/Warping/Whatever Dweeb whines were always here and still are. Since the population explosion Ch 1 seems to be a lot busier, but still not so bad that you can't read it. Implimenting the new kill msgs was a great idea, even if I still like the old style better...the new just makes a lot more sense with the larger #s flying.
Looking forward to AH2, whether I decide to stick in the MA or fly in the new arena.
SOB
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Originally posted by humble
The high point for me was 1.3....once 1.4 came out with the EZ mode FM things went a bit south and have continued since.
Oh brother, that's worth one of these retarded things > :rolleyes:
SOB
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1)less
2)more
been on the boards more than in the game.
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Still enjoy all of it.
Drex
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can you please repeat the question?
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hey , how do i turn on that "EZ mode FM"?
1) same
2) same, ( i turn ch 1 off )
44MAG
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Im otw from a63 to defend a62 right now, having an blast! Come and get me if ya can :cool:
Best spent money on an game ever, imagine playing the same "boxed game" the same amount as you can play AH over and over and over again....
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I still enjoy it,
when I stop fussing about stuff I want fixed in AH,
when I no longer get angry when shot down when I know I could have flown my way out if i didnt mess up,
when HTC no longer updates AH and no longer adds new planes regularly...
hell, as long as I can regularly fly my 262 into a cloud of red icons, bag 17 kills and land rearm get 10 more, get shot down, curse my loss of 200 perks and do it again after flying a p47d11 a couple times... screw it im staying.
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Has the game gone stagnant for you?
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1) I enjoy playing AH more/less/same in the last 6 months.
About the same
Has the community become user unfriendly?
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2) I enjoy the AH community more/less/same in the last 6 months.
People in game pretty much same too, the ones that count are in my squad and I have known some of them for years. Overall though for "community" I have to say I still rely on my offline friends for that kind of stuff :)
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I'm STILL looking for that missing tin of Altoids.
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Awesome game. I burn out occasionally... but it's not the game, it's the game'ERs that cause that.
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1) Less
2) Same
...-Gixer
-Hells Angels-
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1.) I enjoy the game less. The variation seems to be gone from it. A.) See plane. B.) Merge. C.) Avoid HO. D.) See his 15 friends. E.) Badda PING Badda BOOM!
2.) I enjoy the BBS more. Of course I only pay attention to about 8 people though, so Im sure the remainder of the community is dogflop... might as well put me down for 'less' here too. ;)
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umm my answers
more. only been here 5 months
the same. everyone still hates me:)
skull12
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Originally posted by Mini D
Personally, I blame Canada.
I would have answered earlier, but my power was out cause of some US thingy...hehe.;)
Lately I hate the game, cause my stick is broke so i'm using one with no hat and no rudder...sucks. Gotta love them gv's. hehe.
My crappy stick aside, the game lost a bit over the last year, i see less missions, mile high survivalists FAR too much country hopping. But I still play when I can, really looking forward to AH2.
The community: politics has leaked outta the 'o' forum like puke outta an overfilled barfbag, it's smelling up chan.1. But overall i'd have to say I like the community, and I really salute all the dudes (and dudettes) who help, like the special event folks, the training crowd, posters with ALL kinds of good info and help, I think it's pretty cool. <<<>>> All the good folks of AH.
Bumba
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Originally posted by airbumba
The community: politics has leaked outta the 'o' forum like puke outta an overfilled barfbag, it's smelling up chan.1. But overall i'd have to say I like the community, and I really salute all the dudes (and dudettes) who help, like the special event folks, the training crowd, posters with ALL kinds of good info and help, I think it's pretty cool. <<<>>> All the good folks of AH.
airbumba type ".squelch 1" was getting annoyed at that today. all that channel 1 was about politics. dems and rebs were just insulting each other and I was getting annoying so i just squelch 1.
AH would be triple the amount if democrats had made it
was what i heard from 1 person(i will not say who)
no think you mean the other way around
from another. channel 1 isn't politics chat room.
skull12
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1) I enjoy playing AH more/less/same in the last 6 months.
I dont know??? I still like the game and plan to play again someday. My joystick is broken.
Has the community become user unfriendly?
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2) I enjoy the AH community more/less/same in the last 6 months.
I dont know??? I wait for the airplane to fly in front then I pull the rigger (hopefully with my eyes open). Sometimes they blow up, sometimes they flame into the ground. Happens alot though. Sometimes I crash into the ground or get blown up.
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Has the game gone stagnant?
It’s not changed much I don’t think, or that I noticed, so no. AH is still a ton of fun, and works well as a MMOG. Better than most.
Anyway...
1) Same. It’s still a blast.
2) Depends, online seems the same, if not better. There's been the same Channel 1 stupid sh*t I ignore, but less of it. As a whole, it's way better. In the early tours people screamed about chute killing, and that's been all but abolished because of the bbs, which is a point to note. It can affect player behavior and attitudes.
There is more stuff to kill, some are drones. Some are really good, but the percentage is way off. Early players had to fight there way out of 1V1's consistently. Rivals were made, now they really aren’t.
Unfortunately the BBS has prompted threads like this lately, so I guess in that regards it's less. Sober Blowhards ironically seem to influence the bbs as of late in a negative way, so yeah, indeed, less.
I am frankly tired of the horde mentality against the main arena Killjoy. Does that affect your enjoyment of the AH community, more/less/the same ?
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AH is one of those places where you get out of it in equal measure to what you put into it.
If its going stale, its time for a change of venue. CT is always a good option.
But for me the MA is just a place to practise & grab a kill or 2.
The REAL flying is in friday nights TOD (now Squad Ops)
No sucide attacks as its a 1 life event.
All my brothers gathered around we head off to do our best to follow orders. Whatever they may be, or where they may take us.
Granted the AH community has changed a lot since the beta days where mostly everyone knew everyone.
But you can still find a lot of it around if you look for it.
Of course setting a good example always helps also.
Last if its really getting stale, go take a look at a new sim. I can promise you you'll see AH differently afterwords.
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Same
Same
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CT is always a good option..
I agree, with the new maps and planesets, AH would be even more fun. But I play mostly after hours, and it's only got 6 players then.
Not that Primetime CT doesn't have alot, it does, and I'll try to hit that in the near future for sure.
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1. Same
2. Same
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please tell me ANYTHING or ANYONE you have done for 2 to 3 years in a row, almost daily, for a couple of hours each day that at some point you have not grown tired of to one degree or another .... anything? anyone?
out of that very short list, AH remains in the top 5 for fun factor and overall good waste of time...
it's called human nature ... grass is greener... ah2 will be better than this ...
if bored in MA try CT if bored there try the DA or the ladder, if none of that doesn't float your boat - just leave but please don't make a thread out it :)
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I'm brand new to Ah...Been playin WB for the past several years.
Past year or so..#'s have dwindle to near nuthin in WB...took ya an hour to fly somewhere to even find a fight....In here, its anywhere and everywhere...its all up to me to take off in a furball, close to one or one thats way off....I see continuous *****in on the hordes in here.....u guys should feel lucky of the #'s in here..the alternative sucks...for being a newbie...i'm enjoying the hell out of this game....it kicks wb's ass!
As for the second part of the quizz....I've never met a more friendlier crowd in any online game i've played...Any question I asked...(and I asked some dumb ones) was immediatly answered...usually by more then one person...Ive now joined a squad..and we are continuously jokin, cuttin up and puttin each other down...and praising each other when one has done well...Makin friends makin (enemy)friends and flyin in a damn good game...make for an excellent time!!
PROJOE 367th Dynamite Gang
"NEWBIE HERE.....BUT NOT FOR LONG"
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Originally posted by Killjoy2
Has the game gone stagnant for you?
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1) I enjoy playing AH more/less/same in the last 6 months.
Stagnant? Hardly! :D I've been too busy for it to get stagnant.... and I still play most nights, only missing a few if I get bogged down with email and stuff.... (or go out to the pub!) :)Has the community become user unfriendly?
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2) I enjoy the AH community more/less/same in the last 6 months.
The AH community is fantastic for the most part and is what I mostly like about Aces High. If I get bored with one aspect of the game, I do something else for a while - but whatever I do, communicating with other players is what I enjoy most..... sometimes I have as much fun sitting in the tower and chatting, often for 30-40 minutes at a time. :p
And don't forget, if you get tired of the MA or CT - there are always the Special Events - see the Calendar (http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/calendar.php?s=) or check out my Weekly Announcements (http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=946984) for details! :D
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1) Less
2) Less
I had more fun when there wasn't so many simple minds playing.
Back when air combat was the "in thing".
I was never a fan of "2 countries Vs 1"
20 guys takin a base from 3 is BORING at best
For me the game is 1/3 as much fun as it once was. 20 on 3 sucks if your on the 20 side & blows if your on the 3 side.
But i know beter than to expect any changes------for the better
A_Clown
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i wood like to cee the wind go away and a better bomb site bombers nead to go 25 to 30k not 15k i find the fighters great but bombing in a fighter is way to easy nead to give the bomber guy something to do well you ask and that what i think after playing 1 year yb1CH jest an old AW bomber
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1.Less
2.Even more less
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Less - But not by much...still a good game.
More - Threats of physical violence has made things more enjoyable for me. Fun watching them simmer, come to a boil, then explode.
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1. Less
2. Less
There are 2 reason why i havent so much fun with AH
1. Cause there seams to be a change with the gameplay but its hard for me to tell what changes and why
2. The weather here is to good sit in front of a computer
I'm desperately waiting for AHII.
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1) more
2) more
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1. 42
2. 42