AE's Healthy Forum Presence

[Canoerebel]

(I just posted this is my "Here come the Rebles!" AAR, but thought it might be worth posting in the general forum also.)

I have been monitoring the number of forumites present in both the AE section and the WitE section since the latter game debued and snatched away one of my opponents. For awhile after its release, WitE drew more to its forum...then after three or four months the two games ran basically even with AE gradually asserting a small lead...and now AE almost always has more; sometimes twice as many.

Also, while a number of old timers have gradually faded away (VSWG, Grotius, Q-Ball, Mogami, Admiral Dadman, Knavey, Yubari, and others over the years), there seems to have been a big influx of newcomers to AE of late. Perhaps these folks were drawn by AE's reduced price during the Matrix sale event sometime back.

In any event, the AE forum seems alive and well and lively, which is great news for all of us who love the game. So while we miss the departure of a cheerful old timber like a Grotius or a Q-Ball, we are fortunate to welcome a cheerful newcomer like GreyJoy.

[JeffroK]

I think WITE is badly in need of a WITE- Generals Edition.

Its closer to WITP than WITP-AE and could do with a decent kicking to bring out the good and clear out the rubbish.

Plus we are nicer people, sometimes, well at least occaisionally.

[Mynok]

I spend a healthy (unhealthy?[:D]) amount of time in both places. AE has the advantage of longevity. Most of us know each other to at least some degree.

WITE is still very much in the evolutionary stages. I'm looking forward to seeing what it will become.

[Lecivius]

Agreed.  I have both.  But there are a lot of isues with WitE, and it has a very steep learning curve as well. 

[mc3744]

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

Agreed.  I have both.  But there are a lot of isues with WitE, and it has a very steep learning curve as well. 

Steeper than WitP?!?
Is it better vs. AI or PBEM?
Would you recommend it to WitP AE player?

Thanks [:)]

[khyberbill]

I followed the WITE forum for a bit to see if I would want the game. I have the previous games, WIR and War in the East and did enjoy them both. The problem with WITE appeared to be not only the complexity, but two equal opponents would quickly become bogged down in what is called a blanket war. More like war in the trenches from the Great War or war in China in AE. Heck, I already have that with AE.

[mc3744]

I gather you are not too fond of the game, are you?

[JeffroK]

I also almost purchased it, about a day away when a lot of complaints started to appear, mostly when people hit the blizzard.

IMHO, they tried to do too much to a situation that has already been done to death, and failed.

At least the PTO was relativly fresh, not many owners of The Eagle and The Sun out there (I'm one of the sad guilty party!), so we accepted a lot of what GG provided
in vanilla WITP, for a while.

Then WITP's best part, the editor, allowed the game to step up to levels such as CHS and then to the AE release.
Even here it has taken DBB/BigB/Treespider to further tweak it to even higher levels.

WITE is just past stage 1, and has a long way to go before I'll buy it.

[Mynok]

Yes, it needs some work. Not all games turn into WWI in the east though. They've done good work getting the first blizzard right, and now they are working on some balance issues in 42. It's still fun to play. And a nice change of pace from the WITP I've been playing for almost 10 years now. [:D]

[LoBaron]

Same here. Only two things held me back: time constraints and the air model is too abstracted for my personal taste.

[crsutton]

As an old "Europa" player WITE really intrigues me. But it really came down to time. For now I would rather devote my time to AE.

[Micke II]

Same feeling for me. I prefer AE far better than WITE. To my opinion the big mistake of WITE is the IGOYOUGO system instead of the WEGO system which is working very nicely in AE. The flavour of AE is in WEGO system which allows to the players plenty of strategic options which is not the case in WITE.

[jeffk3510]

I haven't tried WITE yet... does look like fun however. I have noticed a nice increase in new faces as well Dan.

Good to see.

[Paladin1dcs]

While I'm new to the forum and game, I'm not new to the series.  I started playing WitP some time back and only recently upgraded to AE.  I have to say though, I'm so highly impressed with it to this point that I'm looking into other offerings as well.

Now just to find the other Johnny Rebs...

[Buck Beach]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

(I just posted this is my "Here come the Rebles!" AAR, but thought it might be worth posting in the general forum also.)

I have been monitoring the number of forumites present in both the AE section and the WitE section since the latter game debued and snatched away one of my opponents. For awhile after its release, WitE drew more to its forum...then after three or four months the two games ran basically even with AE gradually asserting a small lead...and now AE almost always has more; sometimes twice as many.

Also, while a number of old timers have gradually faded away (VSWG, Grotius, Q-Ball, Mogami, Admiral Dadman, Knavey, Yubari, and others over the years), there seems to have been a big influx of newcomers to AE of late. Perhaps these folks were drawn by AE's reduced price during the Matrix sale event sometime back.

In any event, the AE forum seems alive and well and lively, which is great news for all of us who love the game. So while we miss the departure of a cheerful old timber like a Grotius or a Q-Ball, we are fortunate to welcome a cheerful newcomer like GreyJoy.

I have wondered about Mogami, I know he had been off to war a couple of times, acquired a wife and had a kid (a full plate of RL for anyone). Seems he would have been tickled to death with AE.

His last post was back in early 2009 when he was ready to ship out again and his last log on was a year or so later. Even with his busy new life not many of us can put down our old toys so completely, especially someone who was so dedicated to the game with the number of posts he had racked up. At some point the old twitcher loses its total control of a body and allows most of us to again dust off our old toys. Better than diving in to the bottle (I am a man of experience here and quite an ambidextrous juggler[:D]).

Buck

BTW I have also missed Cobra very much with his fine art and map abilities.

[VSWG]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Also, while a number of old timers have gradually faded away (VSWG, Grotius, Q-Ball, Mogami, Admiral Dadman, Knavey, Yubari, and others over the years), there seems to have been a big influx of newcomers to AE of late. Perhaps these folks were drawn by AE's reduced price during the Matrix sale event sometime back.

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated - I'm still lurking. [;)] 2 PBEMs and something called "work" do not leave much time for posting, though...

[Canoerebel]

Hey, that's great news!  I forced VSWG to out himself!  [:)]
 
Seriously, I had no idea you were still active, so that's just good news.  Losing the "old timers" is painful, so finding that they are still around and active is a treat.

[Rebel Yell]

ORIGINAL: Paladin1dcs

While I'm new to the forum and game, I'm not new to the series.  I started playing WitP some time back and only recently upgraded to AE.  I have to say though, I'm so highly impressed with it to this point that I'm looking into other offerings as well.

Now just to find the other Johnny Rebs...

They're out there.

[morganbj]

Yep. We're here.

[Paladin1dcs]

Good to see that, I'm up in Virginia's occupied territory and Rebs are actually fairly rare up here.

Anyway, I have to admit that while I've lurked here for a short while now I'm still fairly new to the forum in general.  If I might ask some of you who have been here a while, who are some of the more experienced players on here?  I'm reading Canoerebel's AAR right now and am learning quite a bit, especially from the back and forth between Nemo and CR, but who else should I be watching?