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Aces High General Discussion / Re: What happened to auto-ack?

« Last post by mERv on December 02, 2025, 11:39:42 PM »

Just to play devil’s advocate here…

Recently I have noticed an uptick in single ack pilot wound hits as I’m flying adjacent to a fieldwith only 1 maybe 2 guns firing at me at high speeds.

I’ll be cruising along thinking nothing of the ack and WHAM pilot wound…

Now, this could just be a coincidence and an unlucky roll of the algorithm dice a few times but it has happened more recently than I remember it happening before.

Not saying anything has or has not changed, just an observation.

 

Many players will confirm this but won’t speak up. Whatever the motive behind that to me is irrelevant.

I am a person who gets addicted to this game at times. I have only played 1 style of this game for the last 4 years. I have done thousands of sorties with the soul purpose of attacking bases for capture or attacking strats. When you do the same thing over and over again as many times as I have you notice changes when they happen. In this game, especially when it comes to bombing, you can learn and master techniques that when implemented will yeild the same results over and over again. When it stops yielding those results then something has changed.

Auto ack accuracy and lethality was buffed this year without announcing to the community. I don’t care why it went unannounced and I am not complaining. I absolutely love the fresh challenge this has brought to my gaming experience.

With that said I love this game too much to not keep announcing things like this when I notice it or when a player continues to disregard the rules established by HTC regarding multiple account usage. The funny thing is in a way it has been passively promoted to use multiple accounts to balance eny issues which in turn increases revenue. You can never stop a player from doing it. I just don’t have to sit there and remain quiet when someone doesn’t respect my time investment and decides to cheat to gain an advantage. They win in the moment but I always come back and achieve my objective later.

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Custom Skins / Late 109G-14 of JG 11

« Last post by Devil 505 on December 02, 2025, 11:17:27 PM »

This skin is an adoption of Fencer's original.

Bf 109G-14 of 5./JG 11 in April 1945. The unit was based at Strausberg, just east of Berlin. This aircraft was photographed in a hangar seemingly after a repair that resulted in the cowling being repainted with single dark color. I used RLM 83 dark green for this. In keeping with Fencer's original skin, I used RLM 81 green and 82 brown for the main camouflage. A yellow JG 11 Reich Defense tail band was supplemented with a yellow rudder and forward cowling, which to me makes it likely that this plane was passed to JG 11 from a previous unit in Air Fleet 4 based in Austria and southern Czechoslovakia.

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Films and Screenshots / Re: Fun fight

« Last post by HollyWood750 on December 02, 2025, 10:17:48 PM »

Sledge is a good stick. You did well against him.  I don't fly the G, but if I had been in a P47D-11, a couple of spots I would have tried a roll into a scissor. But prior to that, you did generate a couple of good shot opportunities, so like me, you just need to shoot better. 

 

HlyWd

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Technical Support / Re: Server to download Map's

« Last post by Molsman on December 02, 2025, 09:36:22 PM »

i use firefox ,,,, plus when i went to the website that feature for me to download terrains just says create a new personal arena and so on but for plane skins i can still d/l from the web site  I appreciate the help Bud

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The O' Club / Re: Just changed their minds..

« Last post by AKIron on December 02, 2025, 09:12:33 PM »

We build machines that are stronger and faster than us. We build machines that can perform complex calculations and solve various problems many times faster than us. Why can't we build machines that will improve themselves, making them smarter than us? Foolish to think we can't.

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The O' Club / Re: Is McDonalds Beef Chain Legit?

« Last post by Captain Virgil Hilts on December 02, 2025, 08:13:38 PM »

Thinking at some point soon, I'll make red beans and rice, jambalaya, and cornbread.


Not sure what I'm cooking over the holidays. Almost always smoked prime rib. Everyone else made awful powder dry turkey, and stringy ham for Thanksgiving, so I may be forced to cook for Christmas just to prevent my taste buds and innards from being terribly insulted again.

Going to Indy next week, the wife loves to hit restaurants up there, St. Elmo's for sure. Probably a German place, maybe an Italian place as well. No fast food though.

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The O' Club / Re: Just changed their minds..

« Last post by Busher on December 02, 2025, 07:10:20 PM »

Succeed in beating us to a Super AI. That will be bad. For us.

Still find the entire discussion to be laughable. An alleged intelligence that in some way becomes brighter than the team of people who built it? And even if that's possible, some human is going to hit the start switch and give this thing some form of control? And all this in a so-called advanced society where kids can't do basic arithmetic (let alone advanced calculus)?
Screw the Chinese - God help us

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The O' Club / Re: Just changed their minds..

« Last post by AKIron on December 02, 2025, 06:27:56 PM »

I wasn't aware that they weren't.

Succeed in beating us to a Super AI. That will be bad. For us.

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Aces High General Discussion / Re: What happened to auto-ack?

« Last post by MDStampf93 on December 02, 2025, 06:25:02 PM »

Just to play devil’s advocate here…

Recently I have noticed an uptick in single ack pilot wound hits as I’m flying adjacent to a fieldwith only 1 maybe 2 guns firing at me at high speeds.

I’ll be cruising along thinking nothing of the ack and WHAM pilot wound…

Now, this could just be a coincidence and an unlucky roll of the algorithm dice a few times but it has happened more recently than I remember it happening before.

Not saying anything has or has not changed, just an observation.

 

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The O' Club / Re: Just changed their minds..

« Last post by Busher on December 02, 2025, 05:58:09 PM »

You want china to succeed?

I wasn't aware that they weren't.