My "This game has become junk" rant.

[waystin2]

Here's a question I asked the other night:  What happens if your team loses the map?

- oldman

This is why we stopped letting Semp hold the map. 

[Randy1]

How would the ENY kick in if your team is getting hoarded by both sides yet your team has the most players???? That doesn't make sense...

I have seen this before but it was an odd day for sure.  The 190s were vulching after deacking but you couldn't get a worble. 

[Chilli]

This is why we stopped letting Semp hold the map. 

He told me the other day they make one helluva blount 

[earl1937]

I just don't think it is quite as black and white as you say.  No doubt there are a few that just stay logged in.  Most of the tower sitting probably has a reason.  Some of things I have heard on vox.

Got to go walk the dog
Pizza man at the door
Need a beer and make room for more
Granddaughter or Grandson wants to talk to me
Just need to take a break
legs went too sleep
butt went to sleep
Making a sandwich
Wife is frisky
girlfriend is frisky
girlfriend is frisky and wife coming back soon

OK, I am guilty of two of these, I will let you guess which ones! LOL

[Chilli]

earl,

Frisky with one's self does not count. 

[MajWoody]

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[Mongoose]

What do  you expect? High Tech has things arranged to where you have to "gang bang" to take a base!

  So we have an environment where we have to work together to achieve an objective.  So work together.  Whether you work together to capture a base, or work together to prevent the capture.  The team that works together the best will be the most successful.  So get out there, find some folks to work with, and have fun. 

[Scca]

How would the ENY kick in if your team is getting hoarded by both sides yet your team has the most players???? That doesn't make sense...

IF your team has the most players so that ENY kicks in and is getting hoarded by both teams, there's obviously an issue with the players skill level, coordination, and teamwork, that is the big problem.

Well, it may not make "sense", but it happened to my squad on Monday.  Horde attacking us on both sides of the map, not fighting each other, eny was 12.   (outrage denied)

In defense, it was a small map, with lots of space between bases.  when the "front" is two or 3 bases, it compresses the fight into one or two bases, therefore a horde.  We had 12 eny, the bish were buzzing us with 262's

[guncrasher]

This is why we stopped letting Semp hold the map. 

 


semp

[Stratocaster]

Really not that much has changed in the past 10 years or so, other than the numbers (hopefully AH3 helps address this). There were more fights to be had overall, but the hordes/furballs feel just as they have since the release of AHII. For the 2 or so years I played the original Aces High there was much more participation between the players of each country and I remember the excitement of joining player created missions in the MA. These missions were sometimes HUGE with many many sets of bombers and escort fighters for as far as you could see. I remember my computer bogging down when those launched! Aces High is one of the few MMOs that doesn't force you to do anything particular. This freedom is why I play the game, but the other side of the coin is it is entirely dependent on the players to give it life! Ups and downs.

[rpm]

Same thing again tonight, except it was the Knights that were fighting Rooks and ignoring Bish. Apparently one sided battles are the new normal for AH. One thing (among many) that Air Warrior got right was a limited amount of aircraft from a field. There were only so many aircraft at a particular field so the entire side couldn't up from there. When the stock was depleted you had to use another field to launch.

We know this is historically inaccurate because the entire stockpile of a country's aircraft was available at any field in WW2. That's how we beat the Germans at Pearl Harbor. Same thing with the giant bomber missions into Germany. They all left from RAF Duxford.

[Volron]

earl,

Frisky with one's self does not count. 

 

[DREDIOCK]

Same thing again tonight, except it was the Knights that were fighting Rooks and ignoring Bish. Apparently one sided battles are the new normal for AH. One thing (among many) that Air Warrior got right was a limited amount of aircraft from a field. There were only so many aircraft at a particular field so the entire side couldn't up from there. When the stock was depleted you had to use another field to launch.

We know this is historically inaccurate because the entire stockpile of a country's aircraft was available at any field in WW2. That's how we beat the Germans at Pearl Harbor. Same thing with the giant bomber missions into Germany. They all left from RAF Duxford.

I've been saying this for the better part of 10 years.

While the base limits in AW it is my understanding was done to out of necessity due to technical limitations. It is however one of the things they unintentionally got right and served to help spread the fight out.

One thing this game AH had right then screwed the pooch on is in moving away from the zone base & strat system which was far FAR better then anything we've had since. Yes we still had the horde all those years ago. But at least you could figure out where they were likely to go as zone bases were more important then other bases and people would actually try to defend them even if only to be involved in a fight

Back in the day yes we had hordes. But they werent the nearly absolute norm we have now. Even if you are willing to change sides the options now are horde...or be horded. I frequently fly outnumbered anyway. And typically I dont mind it all that much as it can be quite amusing seeing how long I can hold out while watching so many put so much effort into killing one plane. But I can only track so many targets before even that becomes not fun. The numbers become absurd and it just gets to be annoying.

Flip side is. Flying with the numbers can also be fun for a while. But even that gets old.

I much prefer a more or less balanced fight. Even in a fight to take a base makes the final capture of a base more gratifying. I'd rather spend all night in a fight to take one base then spend all night rolling up bases one after another nearly unopposed

[icepac]

Hate the playa...........not the game.

I saw zero strats defense while the furballers whined about not finding a fight as they conga lined straight from the nearest base to the nearest enemy base without any sort of reasonable tactics or strategy.

Well....duh........when you and 26 other friendlies show up with altitude, the pickins are slim.

If you're bored.........then you're boring.

The game "sucks" because you "suck".

"you" being a generic term not singling any one person out in this thread.

[The Fugitive]

Hate the playa...........not the game.

I saw zero strats defense while the furballers whined about not finding a fight as they conga lined straight from the nearest base to the nearest enemy base without any sort of reasonable tactics or strategy.

Well....duh........when you and 26 other friendlies show up with altitude, the pickins are slim.

If you're bored.........then you're boring.

The game "sucks" because you "suck".

"you" being a generic term not singling any one person out in this thread.

When are you going to get it that most fighter type players don't consider circling around a strat looking for a high alt con OR and belly scrapping one, not to mention a possible GV out for an afternoon drive any kind of "fight"?

That is what they are complaining about.