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Offline Rich46yo

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Re: Do you like WW I Air Combat?
« Reply #180 on: January 30, 2009, 01:59:17 PM »
Most players wont take the performance step down of the EWA. What makes you think they will run to the WW 1 arena where the airplanes in it can be outraced by the slowest of WW-ll planes? How many 10 min climbs to 10,000' you think they will endure? Only to be HO'd and pilot wounded and forced to climb again.

No, I think 9 out of 10 might fly the arena once and never do so again. These airplanes were so slow theres really no way you could fight them on a regular map. Even worse AH will be spending all those man hours creating a different sim when their main sim needs so much more work. More updates, more airplanes, more vehicles. Mostly tho I just think almost all their players just wont like the performance step down of a WW-l sim. Especially if it was modeled realistically. I think Korea would get far, far more use.
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Re: Do you like WW I Air Combat?
« Reply #181 on: January 30, 2009, 02:05:46 PM »
Most players wont take the performance step down of the EWA. What makes you think they will run to the WW 1 arena where the airplanes in it can be outraced by the slowest of WW-ll planes? How many 10 min climbs to 10,000' you think they will endure? Only to be HO'd and pilot wounded and forced to climb again.

No, I think 9 out of 10 might fly the arena once and never do so again. These airplanes were so slow theres really no way you could fight them on a regular map. Even worse AH will be spending all those man hours creating a different sim when their main sim needs so much more work. More updates, more airplanes, more vehicles. Mostly tho I just think almost all their players just wont like the performance step down of a WW-l sim. Especially if it was modeled realistically. I think Korea would get far, far more use.
Why do you note that they were slower and climbed slowly, yet assume the combat altitudes will be the same as the WWII arenas and that the bases will be as far apart?  That is silly and it grossly underestimates the ability of others to think.
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Re: Do you like WW I Air Combat?
« Reply #182 on: January 30, 2009, 02:47:55 PM »
Why do you note that they were slower and climbed slowly, yet assume the combat altitudes will be the same as the WWII arenas and that the bases will be as far apart?  That is silly and it grossly underestimates the ability of others to think.

Nope! I'm guess in that we see so few maps in the WW-ll sim that nobody is going to bother making new ones for a few WW-l planes.

10,000' was not the combat altitudes of WW-ll. Mostly it was fought higher. Even in WW-l there was a race to build better and better performing airplanes in the 10,000' to 16,000' altitude range. 10,000' is an entirely realistic altitude for a WW-l fighter sweep. Even then altitude= energy and energy= life. Service ceilings of WW-l aircraft were generally in the 20,000' range. Think there wont be cherry pickers in a WW-l flight sim?

The ultimate expression of air power in the war, the Fokker DVII , was dominating largely because of its high alt performance, roll rates, and dive characteristics.
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Re: Do you like WW I Air Combat?
« Reply #183 on: January 30, 2009, 05:29:36 PM »
People are sitting here talking about the slowness of WWI airplanes in terms of flat out top speed, which is accurate. What they do not realize is that because everything is done so much closer in, and because the airplanes can turn so well at low speeds, on a visceral level the combat feels "faster".
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Re: Do you like WW I Air Combat?
« Reply #184 on: April 11, 2009, 11:54:57 PM »
Sorry for resurecting the dead, but I missed this one!

I REALLY wish HTC would give this serious consideration.  I would sooo break out the credit card.  Not having an active account, I wasn't able to vote in the original poll.

I think seeing how many of the current WWII players want a WWI arena might only give you part of the data.  What you're not seeing is the size of the unserved WWI avaition fan that wouldn't have been on your WWII server to vote.  This genre is currently almost completely unserved.

Although I heard WildBill is thinking of revamping DOA.  :t

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