Attracting more players in the main arena or what ever it's called today.

[fuzeman]

STOP THE PRESSES, PUT YOUR PENCILS DOWN!! { little bit of a tangent but he brought it up    } Only on P12 but need to reply.

lets give lunatic a chance to get his credibility back. So...

<SNIP> the main reason I don't fly KOTH is because most of the time its filled with UBER pilots, people who fly better than I do. <SNIP>

Never in my mind would I have thought I'd be considered an 'UBER' pilot, and I really can't be considered one by ANY definition { Lets be clear on that!! } So be careful what you say lunatic or those nice young men in the clean white coats will come and take you away Ha-ha .
Care to retract that statement? Now I do have KOTH experience having flown way back in it's glory days of Air Warrior, but that sure does NOT seem to translate to success. I got to wabbit status and made the TOC last year and I bet if we went to Match Play and went a few rounds we'd both confirm what we both assume, you can beat me in a dogfight. Can't ever recall fighting you but in my mind your above me. On a good day I consider myself slightly above average.
I'll make a post in KOTH or Special Events General forum and throw up my cogitations on KOTH there.

RESTART THE PRESSES, PICK UP YOUR PENCILS!!

On to P13

Edit- At P17
TA is free and every hour or lesson spent with an official Trainer earns them a timed access to other parts of game. Finish a lesson they have full access for 20 hours or some amount of time that gets the addiction going 
Back to P17

Maybe even register for and attend a special event, have to be a multi-stage one here, and you have access for length of that FSO or scenario.

[ccvi]

Right now, they show 3 players in "Legacy Gameplay" Arena. 

AH has 48.

Question was about decreasing. I think when I checked the numbers a year ago or so (they are on the web), it was about the same. So they are not decreasing.

[100Coogn]

Question was about decreasing. I think when I checked the numbers a year ago or so (they are on the web), it was about the same. So they are not decreasing.

 

Coogan

[ccvi]

1.  Blindly throw wads of cash [...]
2.  Take your computer to the local mall [...]
3.  Convince yourself that everything is awesome [...]
4.  Be more nice to noobs. [...]
Did I miss one?
[edit] Oh yeah.  5.  Add another Italian fighter.  [...]
Anything else?

Make it so easy to configure, with a guided configuration wizard, a configuration mini-game, or whatever, and before joining any arena, that the 20 minutes the typical noob spends does not consist of sitting on the runway in a typical best-case situation.

e.g. A little model plane on stick, that follows movements of the inputs depending on the configuration. Asking you how you want to control what, selecting an input device automatically when it sees input changes on an axis. Clearly display what input is seen, suggestion pop-ups of some logic determines that the problem might be on windows/calibration side.

(last sunday, scenario practice, some new player joins the h2h-room. It seemed to take quite a while to talk him through the setup to get flying. it seems to be a real issue.)

[bustr]

Not a bad idea ccvi since simplified visual feedback versus pushing buttons until something breaks is more to the learning style of the generations after the baby boomers. In a way it's a lot more hand holding than my generation would suffer and grouse about treating them like kids in an arcade game. But, if it's suddenly available, who cares. The controller setup GUI in the clip board has been what Hitech has stayed with from baby boomers through GenZ today. Personally I can see the efficacy of direct visual results to help orient people to their inputs. I keep modifying my offline test terrain just so I can receive visual feedback equal to playing in the MA for adjusting things. Right now I'm working on a direct fire over lay to shoot tanks with 88. I had to first create a circumstance that I could see all 6 drone tanks at long range.....yes visual feed back for real time testing is a good thing. 99.8% of new and existing customers won't invest the effort I do to get visual feed back. I think I now know why Hitech didn't give us a direct fire reticle for the 88 against tanks.

It would probably be too much fluff to show a 3D image as you setup each of the four modes and how your controller effected the object in question. The AH3 GUI's follow a pattern of giving you only what you need as though programing for the game world is far more important than how good the tower goodies feel and look. Looking around WT, Gaijin seems convinced the younger generations of players require a tower\menu experience that competes with the in game environment experience for glitz and whizbang to keep them coming back.

Seems the two gentlemen in charge of the AH versus WT vision have two different visions of what their customers need to immerse into their visions. Or Hitech is only one guy versus teams and has to focus his efforts to get the most by one programmer.

[Shuffler]

Don't get fixated on the primetime only. Other times only feature a fracture of prime numbers (as they only have). When I checked in during noon yesterday (that's when I usually did start my 'AH day' in the past), there were 9 Bishops, 9 Knights and 1 (!) Rook online. Euro 'prime' had 40-60 online, all sides combined.

And yes, more players do have a positive effect. More variety in combat opportunities (no, not everybody is here for dueling-style dogfights.) Big raids. Bomber missions, with escorts and a lot of interceptors. There are lots of things that just aren't happening anymore, just because there is not the population to sustain them.
When I was new, we had big Sunday (Euro) afteroon bombing raids organised by Kazaa. Nowadays, AH lacks the players for this. Even the country channel is often silent for long periods.

Yup I fly US late in the evening only. Those numbers are rising.

Maybe some Europeans been reading about low numbers and do not realize that someone has to be the first one in. They need leaders.

[fd ski]

i fly in europe evening times. Numbers usually are between 60-80 which isn't bad. But on some maps, even with those numbers i have trouble finding a2a action in any sense of the word. After strafing ack or two, i log.

I'm still convinced that numbers aren't a problem, maps are. Games such as Il2/DCS can have 30 people on the server and be full of action. Here we have 80 and tumbleweeds...

[Bruv119]

Yup I fly US late in the evening only. Those numbers are rising.

Maybe some Europeans been reading about low numbers and do not realize that someone has to be the first one in. They need leaders.

Europe??  Leadership???   are you making fun?     

[captain1ma]

lead by example bruv!!     

[TequilaChaser]

Outside of CptTrips, no-one else even bothered to reply or answer my questions or comment on my last reply to this thread...

That in itself tells me alot about what players saying/posting what they think HTC should do to get more players in the AH3 game verses what they are really interested in or thinking/wanting.... "Self-serving" comes to mind....


TC

[Shuffler]

Outside of CptTrips, no-one else even bothered to reply or answer my questions or comment on my last reply to this thread...

That in itself tells me alot about what players saying/posting what they think HTC should do to get more players in the AH3 game verses what they are really interested in or thinking/wanting.... "Self-serving" comes to mind....


TC

I believe that is a sign of how beat the horse is. Everyone would like to see more folks back here. Many have their own ideas. Hitech owns the company and is at any  meetings they have. He is also privy to many things we are not.

Suggestions are better placed in a letter to Hitech. On the boards they become one of hundreds/thousands.

There was over 160 players on last night. Seems to be rising numbers.

[Shuffler]

Europe??  Leadership???   are you making fun?     

On the flip side they seem to be doing what Germany couldn't in WWII...  take Brittain. 

[CptTrips]

Suggestions are better placed in a letter to Hitech.

I'm shocked, shocked to find out there are discussions occurring on the Discussion Forum! 

[Shuffler]

I'm shocked, shocked to find out there are discussions occurring on the Discussion Forum! 

They happen... alot of them over and over and over and over and over and over and over.... etc.

[captain1ma]

today is "Tell a friend about Aces High" Day!!! get to it!!!! we all benefit!!