You have to love these guys...

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I was browsing the First Eagles forum at SimHQ and came across this:

 

http://www.simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?...570#Post2353570

 

So let me see if I understand...

 

Forum traffic is down a bit so the sim is dead?

 

These guys have no sense that their sim is but a small cog in the ThirdWire machine. What I mean by that is that First Eagles will be affected by the same trends as all of the other sims in it's family. For five years now we've seen that the enthusiasm for these sims ebbs and flows as new patches, mods and new games are released. These guys don't know what a drought is like--some of us lived through the 1-year dust bowl between Strike Fighters patch 1 and patch 2. That was some real Grapes of Wrath s**t, with every other post on SimHQ being some negative crap about how the sim was dead and lomac was going to rock the world.

 

 

The FE guys are just hungry for something to sink their teeth into. See my thread on the Lewis Gun. Models of just about every aircraft in WWI came out in the first few months, so now it's a dry spell. Not a whole lot of different weapons in that era to model, either. I wish more skins were being done. I suck at painting on the computer (bad eye-to-mouse coordination), but I'm a great cut 'n paster. That's why I love TK's sims.

 

I wish the AI could fly formations in FE. I modded so many AircraftObject files and AIData that I couldn't remember what I had done in each. Finally had to go back to WOV and drop some MK82's. Also found some things to mod in WOV that I hadn't done before. That's why I keep coming back. IL2 is too rigid. In TK's sims, if I don't like it, I can change it (almost).

 

I've got SF:P1, WOV, KAW, WOE, and FE and I've been lurking around since 2003.

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Hopefully a team will get together and start putting out high-def models for First Eagles. I've seen a couple of really nice new planes for the game, but a lot (most?) are retreads from other sims.