My Last Kill in Aces High III

[Max]

Farewell Lusche! You've always been a fun adversary and an officer & gentleman. 

[Volron]

Bomber pilots will be relieved

Ha!  A TRUE bomber pilot will not be relieved, he will be sad for such a worthy opponent to take his leave. 

[LCADolby]

Ha!  A TRUE bomber pilot will not be relieved, he will be sad for such a worthy opponent to take his leave. 

 

[Lusche]

But after "only" 32 buttons, E:D wouldn't recognize #33.... So next step is vJoy/Joystick Gremlin to map the rest.

Puzzling how a modern sim game with so insanely many functions to map runs into a hardcoded 32 button limit 

What I thought you were claiming was that you had a 500 kill-to-death.

Against the B-29 that would have been amazing, but the reality is far from it 

Actually, I don't even have a 500-1 k/d against the C-47...

You don't have to leave! I only play between 4-10 hours a month when I can log in a see a good fight to partake in. While I realize you are probably 6 hours ahead. You may still be able to find some action randomly if you just log in and check the map gameplay. That's what I do. If I see a good fight, I'll roll, if not, may jump into another game for a bit. You've played 42 hours this month with over 250 kills, compared to my 8 with 85 kills. Heck I did really well last month with only 4 hours played. So I feel you are finding some action. I don't see why you should quit all together, especially with the #s picking up going into winter.

The overwhelming majority of those kills were made past midnight, often even past 2 am.

And for watching the map for occasional action during off hours...  I have done that for years. It's just immensely frustrating, especially as I'm looking for battles, not just a fight. Battles and 'strategic gameplay' was what kept me in AH past the initial dogfighting phase, and this is the aspect which IMHO has suffered the most.

[DmonSlyr]

The overwhelming majority of those kills were made past midnight, often even past 2 am.

And for watching the map for occasional action during off hours...  I have done that for years. It's just immensely frustrating, especially as I'm looking for battles, not just a fight. Battles and 'strategic gameplay' was what kept me in AH past the initial dogfighting phase, and this is the aspect which IMHO has suffered the most.

Yeah, I hear that. I am very similar in the since that I don't normally roll unless i have the potential of atleast 3 kills. I feel that the smaller maps like last night really do bring some good battles, however I find that there ain't enough players to really attack hoards when being hit from both sides. Bish were hoarding heavy last night and the rooks didn't do much to defend. I think a couple of BT guys and a few others tried, but the bish were steam rolling bases with no opposition. This was quite disappointing. I was left flying at 22k for 35 minutes seething at the teeth for a kill. I don't know what it is, it seems when sides gain a movement towards one side, it's very hard to bring that movement to the other side to defend/attack when needed. There could have been an absolutely huge battle last night between all 3 sides, but knights and rooks wanted to fight down south and bish were steam rolling rooks. What can you do...

[molybdenum]

Not to mean this in a bad way at all, snailman, but I will be glad if you are gone for good. I have always respected you as a person and as an opponent, but when you were on, part of my repertoire (strat runs) became unavailable. Why spend an hour+ grabbing alt and getting to target when I knew you'd likely be waiting in the 163 it took you 3min to reach alt with?

I killed your 163  once or twice (I think, reaching back to AH2 here) but the very fact of your presence on whatever country I wanted to hit stopped me from doing what I like most.

HT has made adjustments based on dwindling numbers off and on during ah3. GV darbar, etc. It might be time to limit 163s to a very few maps? Their presence really spoils the fun of dedicated strat runner types.

Time spent on game matters. I won't cancel if 163s don't go away, but the game will be less interesting to me and ppl like me as the skillset continues to sharpen towards the 163 ilk.

Comments?

[Brooke]

Comments?

Yes.  Fly bombers in scenarios.  It's a whole new dimension of fun.

[Shuffler]

Never knew any dedicated strat runners in AH.

[Volron]

Never knew any dedicated strat runners in AH.

We were out there, trust me. 

[LCADolby]

Comments?

I may just resub and fly 163s exclusively

[Spikes]

I may just resub and fly 163s exclusively

My thoughts exactly...

[Kingpin]

Lusche is just another player who enjoyed air combat leaving because of game changes that have negatively affected game play, in particular air combat.

Nobody needs situational awareness (SA) anymore because of the magic radar icons Lusche is referring to.  There is actually MORE hoarding now as a result.  Players will generally fly to where they are safer and now it's easy to see where you outnumber the enemy, even over enemy bases.  Even worse, there is no risk of being bounced anymore because the icons act as an early warning radar system.

You also have even more players in invisible GVs hiding in trees now.  In the slower hours, I've logged in and seen ALL the players in GVs and not a single darbar visible from someone "in flight".

I'm with Lusche on this.  These game designs have hurt the game, not helped it.

[Max]

Never knew any dedicated strat runners in AH.

You're teasing, right? APP75 has been hitting strats, 8 hrs @ day, 5 days @ week for the last 20 years 

[Bushmills]

I'm with Lusche on this.  These game designs have hurt the game, not helped it.

I'll take a guess and say too high a proportion of the player base are too be frank, boring. Not HTs fault.

[Kingpin]

I'll take a guess and say too high a proportion of the player base are too be frank, boring. Not HTs fault.

I don't think anyone joins a game wanting to be bored or expecting boring gameplay.

Blaming players for boring game play is like blaming diners for bad service in a restaurant. They might impact it, but they aren't the ones responsible for making it better.