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Offline AKIron

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Re: State of Sim'ing 2024 Survey
« Reply #30 on: January 12, 2025, 05:50:48 PM »
I usta agree it's not enough to win, someone has to lose. These days not as much. I guess I could script a little AI whining.
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Re: State of Sim'ing 2024 Survey
« Reply #31 on: January 12, 2025, 11:20:43 PM »

Animl, 

I find it hilarious you think I care where you post.  That is not my forum.  You posting there is purely a matter between yourself and that forum's moderation team.  I did give them a heads up you were coming last time.  I explained how mentally unstable you are and showed them the screenshots of your sexually explicit stalker unsolicited PM you like to send people who disagree with you on a forum.  I showed them the posts where you were saying you were heading over explicitly to try and start trouble on their forum.  We laughed about you a bit. 

But go ahead and knock yourself out.  They're ready for you and your forum account is flagged.  I'm sure you will do wonders representing the Aces High community over there. 

Oh, and I've said time, and time, and time again...that DCS is not a replacement for AH.  It's a different kind of game.   The WWII planeset is too thin, plane development takes too long,  WWII is not DCS' core competency, and the server just has the wrong architecture to support a 24/7 MMOG in the sense AH has.  Something like Enigma's Cold War server was only possible through tons of custom scripting and a lot of coding man-hours.  Cudos to them, but they worked really hard to pound a square peg into a round hole.

But thanks for bumping the thread.  Here is your reward for today:




Bahahaha, post of the year so far.

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Re: State of Sim'ing 2024 Survey
« Reply #32 on: January 13, 2025, 07:55:24 AM »

Bahahaha, post of the year so far.

Why many have him on ignore. we’ve all seen you 500 sales pitches. We’ve all seen your chilish attacks go on for 20+ pages. I know you had s hand in doxing me. We all saw you attempt to label as a sexual predator. So  sit down and shut up with your greaseball professional victim.  Crap. Its your track record idiot. You made your rep, get iff your soap box that you created. You talk like no one saw that sht when everyone did. cry me a river, my middle finger isn’t big enough for punks like you. You encourage YKW to stir the game and bbs. You even posted about dcs 5 times in a scenario announcement. You have the mind of a 10 yr old. No offense to 10 yr old. Don’t bark up my tree for the rep you made for yourself here. Its YOU. You are your problem. You can’t take what you put out.

You got ONE PM you DESERVED after 3 threads of 10-20 pages of you acting like a child to me. Stop your victim crap. I stand by that PM.

Talking about PMs3-4 if your own tribe told me what you’re doin that I have you nailed. You have a big mouth. I have s lot if friends out there. If you think you’re going to talk snd plot about me on discord and I’m not goin to hear about it, you’re lost in space.

All because I tried to help OUR game? Pathetic.
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Re: State of Sim'ing 2024 Survey
« Reply #33 on: January 13, 2025, 08:51:23 AM »
Why many have him on ignore. we’ve all seen you 500 sales pitches. We’ve all seen your chilish attacks go on for 20+ pages. I know you had s hand in doxing me. We all saw you attempt to label as a sexual predator. So  sit down and shut up with your greaseball professional victim.  Crap. Its your track record idiot. You made your rep, get iff your soap box that you created. You talk like no one saw that sht when everyone did. cry me a river, my middle finger isn’t big enough for punks like you. You encourage YKW to stir the game and bbs. You even posted about dcs 5 times in a scenario announcement. You have the mind of a 10 yr old. No offense to 10 yr old. Don’t bark up my tree for the rep you made for yourself here. Its YOU. You are your problem. You can’t take what you put out.

You got ONE PM you DESERVED after 3 threads of 10-20 pages of you acting like a child to me. Stop your victim crap. I stand by that PM.

Talking about PMs3-4 if your own tribe told me what you’re doin that I have you nailed. You have a big mouth. I have s lot if friends out there. If you think you’re going to talk snd plot about me on discord and I’m not goin to hear about it, you’re lost in space.

All because I tried to help OUR game? Pathetic.

Animl,

No one here has doxxed you.

You yourself chose to publicly post your own RL name voluntarily when you posted the link to your sad little 5 person FB group.
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The info about your long, extensive, and frankly quite shocking, criminal record is publicly posted by the state of Indiana.  They don't have a choice.  They have to do that by law.  If you got a problem with that information be made public  (Wow, I don't blame you), take it up with them.

And even still, no one has posted a link to that information here on this board, yet, out of compassion for the shame you must feel about your behavior.

Please, get into treatment.  Please, get some professional help.

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Re: State of Sim'ing 2024 Survey
« Reply #34 on: January 13, 2025, 09:44:44 AM »
How do you rate the FM?

The FM used to be better. It does model some things that some other sims don't like aileron reversal in spits at high speeds but due to complaints it has been dumbed down over time to make it easier and thereby making it all feel kind of generic.

Most of the German pilots for example only use B&Z tactics and seem to have no concept of yo-yo's or scissors or any such tactics.

They kept messing with the strategic bombing stuff too because of complaints. In the first stages of a campaign the allies have havocs and the early model 109s are hard pressed to catch them, much less shoot them down.

Overall my feeling is that the flight part is not their priority. When I quit playing a while back they seemed to be focused on cranking out new content over fixing bugs that have existed for 10 or more years.

This is based on playing it for over 10 years although I have not played it much recently.

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Re: State of Sim'ing 2024 Survey
« Reply #35 on: January 13, 2025, 09:54:28 AM »
Combined with 1C's inexplicable decision to put IL2: GB on back burner and go off and start trying to compete with DCS in the jet space.  Really?  Seriously?  Good luck with that.

I agree, this is some dumbazzery in my opinion.
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Re: State of Sim'ing 2024 Survey
« Reply #36 on: January 13, 2025, 10:03:24 AM »
You guys do realise that widespread interest in WWII aviation dies with us?

I disagree with that. There are many young people in the game I'm currently playing to the point that I don't think I've ever met somebody older then me. I'm not saying they aren't there, I just haven't met any.

I think that the WWII sims that survive will be the ones that can grab the attention of this younger audience.

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Re: State of Sim'ing 2024 Survey
« Reply #37 on: January 13, 2025, 10:05:12 AM »
Combined with 1C's inexplicable decision to put IL2: GB on back burner and go off and start trying to compete with DCS in the jet space.  Really?  Seriously?  Good luck with that.

Realistically I am not sure how much more there is to do in WWII. The planesets for WF and EF are pretty fleshed out save heavy bombers (Which don't really fit the nature of IL2 Multiplayer combat anyway) and there are apparently technical issues with 4 engine aircraft or something like that. They pretty much have every major plane type and multiple sub-variants and field mods where there were some. A couple more Italian planes would be cool, but they don't seem keen at all on dipping into MTO.

There is Pacific, of course, but it seems to stray away from the bread and butter they have, plus with CP upcoming there's no real use competing with that. It would be a lot of work to introduce Pacific since the only real assets that can be copied are USAAF planes, would need entire sets of IJAAF/IGN and USN/RN aircraft.

I know IL2 is a household name in the aviation video game space, but it feels like if they really wanted to harness other eras and theaters they should've re-branded a long time ago, somehow strategically dropping the IL2 name.
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Re: State of Sim'ing 2024 Survey
« Reply #38 on: January 13, 2025, 10:46:45 AM »
Realistically I am not sure how much more there is to do in WWII.

Oh, IMHO, the amount of things that could be done still is quite large.

They could even redo a better BoB.  I don't care that a previous dev had done one two decades before.  Do it again better.  Can't do something you did decades previously with new technology?  Why make a Falcon 5 then?  Four other versions of the F-16 sim hadn't already done everything that could be done?  OR and Aces High III for that matter.  Wasn't everything already done by AH II?  Sometimes just a tech reboot is enough justification.

There is Pacific, of course, but it seems to stray away from the bread and butter they have, plus with CP upcoming there's no real use competing with that.

There is exactly a use for competing with that.  WWII is their bread and butter and only source of revenue currently.  Korea is unproven, years away, and already showing sign of not really being wanted even by a large portion of their own fan base.  It's a "forgotten war" era that evokes little emotion in people because no one cared about a UN mandated "Police Action".  Not exactly a backstory that inspires.

CP is gunning for their bread and butter with brand new tech and funding.  They can walk away from their money printing machine and leave it for CP to take over, or they can fight for it.  And CP chose it's franchise name a lot more intelligently so I bet you bucks to Navy beans they don't plan on stopping with the Pacific.  Instead they are abandoning their money printing machine to go compete in the jet space with a company that pisses jets for breakfast.  With unproven technology that may or may not play out.  With a dev team that pretty much was a basket case before Williams straightened them out, and now he is gone again, now he is their competitor.  My guess is their team will badly flub this new effort without his guidance with an era no one cares about, abandoning a loyal fan base that didn't ask for that and still has lots they want to see finish and\or explored further.

It makes no sense to me to hand my money printing machine over to a new competitor startup.  They have two years probably to get in there first with an update Pacific Fighters for this century and deny CP an unfulfilled niche to get a toehold on their way to taking the whole WWII space.  If you let them establish a beachhead with CP, they will eventually take your whole market share, and if Korea flops (65% chance IMHO) then you are left with nothing.


I know IL2 is a household name in the aviation video game space, but it feels like if they really wanted to harness other eras and theaters they should've re-branded a long time ago, somehow strategically dropping the IL2 name.

Agreed.  It's stupid.  Especially since they imply the road is forward from here.  So IL2:Vietnam?  IL2: Gulf War?  Wut?
They'd have been better off leveraging the other part of franchise name.  Great Battles.  Or maybe Great Air Battles.  Still invocative of their previous titles but unshackling from an era specific title that will not make any logical sense going forward.  Like:  Great Air Battles: Vietnam,  Great Air Battles: 6 Day War, etc.


In my opinion, the IL2: Korea thing has a big chance of reliving this brilliant product decision:



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Re: State of Sim'ing 2024 Survey
« Reply #39 on: January 13, 2025, 11:04:30 AM »
From steam charts:

AH now playing 6; 24H peak 11  (actual number: in the arena 36. I can Only guess the 24 hour peak, maybe 130?)
Il-2 now playing 431, same as 24h peak (I have no idea how many are playing non steam)
DCS now playing 1588, 24h-peak: 1600 (Many if not most are also playing the non steam version)
WWII Online: 22 in game now, 25 peak. (I have no idea how many are playing non steam)

for comparison
E:D (Thats were I'm at most of my time these days) 8794 /8794

Yeah, See I feel the #s from steam probably turn people away from AH given the low # count. Its misleading. Especially when most download the game outside of steam. The rating just the same probably turning people away too... especially knowing they'll have to pay $15 a month to play and learn the game after 2 weeks...

The difference is that, those other games don't immerse players like AH does. So even with say 1600 playing, they are in a bunch of different servers. I cannot figure out for the life of me why AH doesn't have player hosted servers. They are FTP for crying out loud. I realize they don't get populated easily, but it's really due to them not staying up long enough and building a following in them. Perhaps not being able to leave the arena while doing other things in the game could be an issue.

Nevertheless, with 100 - 130 players on at the same time in the same map, it sometimes feels more populated than those other games because of many players in the same area of the map at the same time fighting it out. I also feel like AH has a better all around scoring system as well as the other games don't have any long term metrics once the server resets.

All in all, If people only go by Steam, its a losing battle for AH if they don't even check out the game because it doesn't look like anyone is playing on top of poor ratings because it's not entirely FTP...among graphics and other things.

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Re: State of Sim'ing 2024 Survey
« Reply #40 on: January 13, 2025, 02:20:48 PM »
Not reading anything. Not back walking anything.

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Re: State of Sim'ing 2024 Survey
« Reply #41 on: January 13, 2025, 02:42:30 PM »


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Re: State of Sim'ing 2024 Survey
« Reply #42 on: January 14, 2025, 03:27:45 PM »
PCs are getting big upgrades this year. For a long time games, especially flight sims, pushed the hardware. The hardware that will be available in a few months is capable of anything any current game/sim can throw at it, even in VR. I expect flight sims to up their game.
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Re: State of Sim'ing 2024 Survey
« Reply #43 on: January 14, 2025, 05:02:55 PM »
PCs are getting big upgrades this year. For a long time games, especially flight sims, pushed the hardware. The hardware that will be available in a few months is capable of anything any current game/sim can throw at it, even in VR. I expect flight sims to up their game.

You mean like new video cards or something?
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« Reply #44 on: January 14, 2025, 05:38:30 PM »
You mean like new video cards or something?

Video cards capable of twice the performance of the last gen. That's big. Intel is hinting at much improved performance. AMD won't be upstaged.
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