How about cutting HTC a break on the BBS

[Arlo]

Seriously

I bet I could find the answer for you once I'm home from the workplace, if I'm inclined. Or ...  you could do a post search under Dale's forum account (this'll be moons back) and see him mention that the 12 hour switch was decided on with input from the. community and that its not going to keep changing. Topic locks are actually rather blunt in themself. It indicates a dead topic. All the obtuseness in the world won't change that, especially with an pouty foot-stomping attitude attached.

[Tank-Ace]

I just wanted to say that last night, I saw Jaeger1 change the side switch timer in the AvA, and it took him about 2 minutes, even while I was shooting at him.

It's clearly not an involved, drawn-out process, and wouldn't delay updates by even a day.

So while I think many have been a little harsh, the "well they're busy!!!" reason for why a change hasn't been made is utterly nonsensical.

[Changeup]

I just wanted to say that last night, I saw Jaeger1 change the side switch timer in the AvA, and it took him about 2 minutes, even while I was shooting at him.

It's clearly not an involved, drawn-out process, and wouldn't delay updates by even a day.

So while I think many have been a little harsh, the "well they're busy!!!" reason for why a change hasn't been made is utterly nonsensical.

Exactly

[Nathan60]

You know a lot of people are blaming the 12 hour rule for their not waning to play anymore, but as I look in the forums and in the game it seems the vasy majority want to do 1 of 2 things that's furball and roll bases. This gets boing after awhile. IMHO the historical squads that  fly actual missions, not just rolling bases in 20 thousand p38s may have it right. But its on us the player base to change how the game is actually played. Try something different, get out of the horde and pork some ords, escort a buff on a long range mission do a stuka raid hell those are always fun. Get a bunch squaddies together and go kill the furball with a fighter sweep, try something new. Cant switch sides to where the furballs are? Go bomb something, isn't that better than spamming the boards over the same things over and over again?

[Shamus]

Just my opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2KLyBapfTc

[Easyscor]

Just my opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2KLyBapfTc

 

He MUST be an AH subscriber!

[BluBerry]

I just wanted to say that last night, I saw Jaeger1 change the side switch timer in the AvA, and it took him about 2 minutes, even while I was shooting at him.

It's clearly not an involved, drawn-out process, and wouldn't delay updates by even a day.

So while I think many have been a little harsh, the "well they're busy!!!" reason for why a change hasn't been made is utterly nonsensical.

+1

[Copprhed]

Statements like this always make me think of a Bill Cosby line from his old stand up routine "Let the beatings commence".

Go read this thread,

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,361494.0.html

And see how well a response to the OP worked out, he is still screaming just like he did before I gave him a response.

Now do you think a response to you is going to work out well?

The point is many time we are damned if we do damned if we don't, many times we choose to say nothing because it is the less of 2 evils


HiTech

Whiners are gonna whine.......

[68Raptor]

Two weeks ago I was in the DFW area and paid a visit to the HTC office. Hitech gave a brief display of some of the new water/terrain...very cool stuff and not unlike what's been posted in the updates. I watched Dale at work and let me say, what he does is tedious stuff. The situation is no less demanding for Skuzzy.

It's safe to say that HTC is aware of the side switch time demands/complaints/suggestions, which have overtaken the general discussion forum of late. Each time Hitech or Skuzzy have to deal with a distraction on the BBS, less work is applied to the game re-write. I for one would like to see the game progress continue unfettered. Can we just leave the drama behind and let these folks do their' work?

+1 MAX 

[BluBerry]

Cant switch sides to where the furballs are? Go bomb something, isn't that better than spamming the boards over the same things over and over again?

I am here to fly fighters and that is it.

If I log on in the morning to play for an hour and the only fight is between the two countries I am not on, I switch.

you can go work an 8 hour day, have an hour commute both ways and when you get home to log on and play with your friends you can't… because it hasn't been 12 hours yet.

Fun huh?

nope.

log out.

[68Raptor]

Seems like the answer would be to not switch sides in the morning then. You know how the game works but you still switch in the morning knowing there is a very good chance your friends will be on in the evening prior to the 12 hours being up.

[FLOOB]

The side switch whinning went way beyond posting a statement into lets be obnoxious and harrass htc to give us what we want. HTC should give them a choice, a warm glass of shut the hell up or the fire hose.

[SkyRock]

scuze me Muppets but am curious...

what does TWBYDHAS stand for?

 

[Easyscor]

Well, since I was sucked into posting by Shamus's YouTube link, here's the answer hitech gave back in 2009: http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,272524.msg3409835.html#msg3409835

It's every bit as appropriate today as it was then.

<sniped for the key bits>
Now things have not really changed since the days I have first started playing online games, and are very much the same for almost all genera of games.

The is one very very simple fact. People will eventually get board with any game they play. 95% of the people leave quietly and find a new game or hobby to enjoy.
5% of the people are board like yourself and begin to blame the game for there boredom. The reality is they are just not having, the adventure and learning they used to enjoy is gone for them, and there really is not much that can be done to ever make them happy.

Then these 5% wish to state things like it cost much less to keep an existing customer than find a new one, in reality nothing could be farther from the truth. There is another flight sim company would tried to please there old time customers with many game play changes, in the end each change they made chased more and more of the normal cycle game players away. Started limited how much fun a new person had, and destroyed the game using the simple thought that they should listen to the whines of old time players who really are nothing more than burnt out on the game because they have been playing to long.

[68Raptor]

Nice find Easy 

Somethings never change huh?