Erik

Depends on what you're getting shot with.

Look at it this way ... now you get special attention at all metal detectors. I heard the new administration was thinking of adding breast augmentation to the list of taxable deductions for all security screeners. That couldn't be coincidental you must have planned it.

If it felt good we'd be morons for arming, protecting, and waging war with guns and ammunition. It would be far more affective to carry around free lap dance cards and massage parlor tickets. Seriously though getting gutted by a .223/.308/7.62 has to be the most painful experience anyone can endure. It's not so much the shot but the placement and delivery that I'd worry about. A 22 to the temple point blank wouldn't hurt at all compared to the 40 cal in the knee. I'm sure a splinter can hurt worse than a lights out shot.

I heard the Aussies got some new subs on order. I'd think you'd expect waves like that down in the 50's, 60's and 70's but in the Sea of Japan? WOW

I think we could have some fun with this but I'd need to know what we need in order to get setup. What would the needs of the Multi-players be if they had any? I think that's where I left the other post somewhere in the OFF General Discussion. For example: I can setup a dedicated Teamspeak server and provide admin level access to those who normally host the games. I can provide a windows server for hosting games but because I'm not an OFF'er I don't know what that would entail nor do I know how you guys normally host now. Just let me know and we'll see what we can get worked out and onlin E

I personally am not aware of the actions and people you (a10) are referring to and I know for a fact we are not asking you to re-live anything especially when it comes to your personal life. If you have some information that you would like to share with me directly that is detailed enough that I can research I welcome it. As far as our policy goes it's fairly simple. "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of those who want to disrupt our site with foolishness." I look forward to your information. Erik Thompson CombatACE.com

Aww man he came equipped with the guns and the haircut. Atta boy! Congrats on the new addition to the family.

I actually have quite a bit of experience with MP and DirectPlay. The problem isn't the host. The problem is with the players joining in. The way internet traffic (read: packets) is shuffled between players in DirectPlay is the common problem for all those issues you're talking about. I won't get into a long drawn discussion as to why since we all know it happens. More importantly here are some of the fixes. Locking frame rates. In MP8 the amount of data your computer sends to other players is directly tied to your frame rate. If there is an option in CFS like in MSFS to lock your frame rate at a target, set it below 30. The reason is if you have a powerful machine and good internet connection then it's possible your computer is getting say 60 frames a second, it's great for you but for the other players they are receiving updates to your position through MP at the same rate 60 updates per second. Now if someone connected to the game has a marginal setup and they can't handle all the information you're sending them they start to lag behind as their computer slows down. This slow down causes them to start sending position updates slower and you'll see jumping or false aircraft positioning. One of the fixes in MSFS X was to change the way the position reports are sent to other players, it's not done at a more reasonable rate of 5 position updates per second regardless of the frame rates you're getting. Not sure if the latest CFS platform got that update, but I don't think so. Routers - Firewalls. If you have a player that is behind a firewall and they are not able to receive or send traffic openly with other players then you'll have problems. It just takes one person to join a game that's behind a poorly configured router to cause everyone to get dumped from the game. DirectPlay makes the assumption that if you can't connect with every person in the game then it's been disconnected. Fix remove routers and firewalls before joining a game or make sure you've properly unblocked the ports necessary to play. Make sure you have a public IP address and not some internal network IP before joining. If you use a software firewall turn it off. Software firewalls sniff each packet that comes through your ethernet adaptor and it's a drag on resources while playing in MP. Best environment. Since the MP Engine uses everyone connectivity and processor ability to successfully host and enable MP game play it's essential that everyone joining a session be confirgured for optimal gaming. If you have a group of high speed FIOS or cable users playing a game don't throw a 56K connection into the mix. If you have a group of good machines with nice frame rates don't throw someone is poorly configured into the mix. The bottom line is it's everyones responsibility to make sure they can join a game and that their gear and internet connection is configured in such a way to allow everyone else to enjoy their time. The only way I've found to do this is just take the time to walk everyone through setting up their equipment. I'd still like to host a platform for game play and voice that everyone can enjoy if not experiment with to see how we can offer something terrific for the community. Let me know what I'm going to need to get it done. IE. CFS3 and a copy of OFF? Forgive my novice sounding question and be sure to point me in the right direction of the person I have to strong arm for a copy of OFF if I need it. E

Glad it's fixed!

The problem seems to be that your being forced to use a skin that should not be available to for our site. I've made some changes to your account's skin selection. Can you tell if that changed anything for you? I also use Firefox because it's simply the best browser available, IMHO. I have had no problems and certainly nothing of this caliber. I've been through all our features and areas of the site without problem. If the main page is working for you and you can get to the forums then the site is working as it should. What I'm trying to figure out is how it's not displaying correctly on your end. The site uses Java. We require cookies be set in your browser so we can keep you logged in. (Note* in the image you sent above you are NOT logged in. I think that's odd.) Makes me wonder if somehow the Guest mask is screwed up. I'll go look at that. Staying logged in, as I mentioned, requires your machine to accept cookies from us. I've seen this as a constant problem with Internet Suites like McAfee, and Nortons. They both think that a session cookie is the kiss of death and treat them as spyware. It takes some tinkering to get them to allow cookies. Try turning those types of software off to help diagnose the problem. A note on cookies: The session cookies we send to your machine are very simple in nature. They include simple parameters like who you are (read: username) and that your logged in by sending us your password correctly. Once set these simple session cookies allow us to share that information back to the site as you make each new page request. How horrible would it be if we asked for your username and password every time you clicked a link to move throughout our site. These cookies have very limited life cycles. They are only valid until you close your browser connection to us. [rant] I often wonder how any dynamic site is supposed to have security if we can't share information back and forth between machines. The Internet Suite designers think somehow this is possible if the *site* aka CombatACE can always accept information from users but users can't accept information from us. I'll be the first one to tell you that our site has a better chance of being malware, trojan, bot, and virii free than most users machines. Just by the simple nature of the operating systems we run respectively. *sigh* [/rant] E

This might help. Try using the advanced search feature. Select the forums which replies would most likely be relevant. For your case start with WOV/WOE/WOI, then expand your search from there. Also use the following search tips to help improve the returned information. Search Phrase = Results apple banana = Find posts that contain at least one of these words +apple +juice = Find posts with both words +apple -juice = Find posts with 'apple' but not 'juice' apple* = Find posts with 'apple' and/or 'applesauce' "Some Words" = Find posts with the phrase 'some words of wisdom', 'some words' but not 'some noise words'

Thanks for the reference. It looks like DirectPlay8 is the MP engine. Released in DirectX 9.0 it was the basis for the Zone round tables, if that's where it was hosted to begin with. I would be interested in providing a static MP session(s) and static Teamspeak server for OFF. I would be interested to know what the "community" at large would need to make this a viable solution for always having a game up and running that could be joined and if this would be useful.

Check on question 2. Question 1, and 3 if anyone knows.

I'm calling in the pros! Question: Can CFS3 connect to Micro$oft Flight Sim hosted games? What's the platform you guys use to host MP games? Does OFF change the way CFS3 connects to MP hosted events?

This is actually a calculation that is done live everytime you hit the upload button. The system calculates the size of each file you've upload and determines based on our settings if there's room for you to add more. Checking your files and removing them is the only way to clear this error. Please keep in mind. The Gallery has no limits, you can fill it with millions of screenshots and link them right into your posts. Use your attachment space for things you don't want to put in the gallery and for files you don't want to upload to the file download section. I hope that helps. E

On the main page of the forums down toward the bottom where the member names are listed there's a link to reset the cookies stored on your machine for our boards. Click that. Then:: In Firefox > Tools > Options > Content Tab make sure Java is enabled. In Firefox > Tools > Options > Privacy Tab make sure accept cookies and accept third party (until they expire) cookies is enabled. In Firefox > Tools > Options > Privacy Tab > Accept Cookies to the right "Exception" button click > Add combatace.com + always allow In Firefox > Tools > Options > Privacy Tab > "Clear my private data when Firefox closes" I tick this to keep my browser cache cleaned. You can click the button to the right and select what to delete when Firefox closes. ((Handy Tool)) In Firefox > Tools > Clear Private Data (CTRL+SHIFT+DEL) Make sure to clear your browser cache. If that doesn't fix then something is really weird and I'd consider re-installing Firefox. E

What's really weird is that your using a skin that shouldn't even be an option to members for our our boards. I went ahead and updated the site's skin cache settings, and forced users of the default skin and IPB Pro skin to use our standard set of skins. If that doesn't work take a look in the lower left of the site and see what your skin selection is set to. Let me know. SAMPLE:

Yeah you've been a busy guy. To get to where I sent you in that link do the following: Click "My Controls" (Top of page under banner) > On the page that comes up look under "Options" and click "Manage my attachements". That will get you to the same place. Some ideas for you. Start a photo album in the gallery. There is no limit on the amount of photos you can put up there and you can link them directly into your posts it's the same thing except you never have to delete any of the images. If the files you are sending out for multi-player games and such are something you want us to create an upload section for or you can use one of the current upload sections for in the download area you might consider that. E

Wow if that's true you managed to fill up 40MB of space. You'd be the first person on the boards to hit that number. We should give you an award. http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?act=U...amp;CODE=attach <--- Go here it will allow you to manage your upload content. At the top of that page before you delete anything in the upper left it will tell you how much space you've used. Can you report that number back here? Thanks. Erik

I'd never.

Hopefully this is resolved for everyone. Let me know. E

If I'm not mistaken that was the #2 engine failure during T/O at Dover AFB.

Kevin ... not really, but when you and mom recover we'll be expecting them.

For most it does. If you're behind a router, then you should probably do a soft reset on your router and modem. If your ISP caches routes then you're probably SOL and won't be able to read this until the cache updates. Either way it had to be done and there's never a good time to do it. Trust me when I say I try to minimize downtime to an absolute minimum and try to keep the community advised of upcoming events. If it was working would there be posts proclaiming my brilliance?

OORAH! Congrats man! Did you forget what causes those things?