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I don't consider race a factor. There are white gangs. The Hispanic gangs are likely greater in numbers than any others. A gang-banger is a gang-banger. The point I was trying to make is raw numbers don't always tell the whole story. You know, there are Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.

No doubt there are some truly innocent bystanders. However, the gang-bangers will put a 12 year old on the corner hustling drugs and looking out for the law and others encroaching on their turf. Just because some victims are listed in the news as "school aged children" doesn't automatically make them innocent bystanders.

Thats actually probably the reason. Nice weather = more thugs and gang-bangers on the streets. I may be a little callous but I don't feel too sorry for most of those "victims". The vast majority are gang-bangers killing gang-bangers. Unfortunately the powers that be would rather try and pass "feel good" laws that are already proven ineffective instead of attacking the problem at the source...the criminals themselves.

Send your email to capun1950 "at" yahoo "dot" com. As for the rest....It is what it is. You can follow their requirements to gain access or not. There is nothing to debate so lets not get into it here.

Hmmm....I could get a good Conspiracy Theory going about that. The premise? The Left Wing Socialists in Chicago (and their comrades in the media) will stop at nothing to promote their agenda.

Its not a problem per say. You have to register with them to get a password for access. Its all right there on the link you posted.

Damn! We had a 5.4 quake early this morning. Epicenter was in West Salem which is about 100 miles north of me. It was felt as far away as Chicago, St. Louis, and Louisville. Shook the house pretty good. Anybody else feel it?

"In the end there was nothing that could have prevented the departure." Then there is no failure on your part, Eric. You can lead a horse to water......... And THANK YOU comrpnt. You certainly didn't have to go to the trouble.

Bluegill...filleted, beer-battered, and deep fried.

No but it made the water in the toilet go around clockwise.

I was sleepin' away. First I thought it was a train switching cars, then I thought Nahhhh....its just the old lady snoring.

Not sure what you mean but if you are referring to the downloads section here those Sopwiths have been removed by their modelers to another site. Try here: http://cplengineeringllc.com/SFP1/

Well we don't get many around here although the New Madrid Fault is the source of one of the bigger quakes in North American history. Geologically speaking this area of the Midwest is one huge basin, not divided by many fault lines, so when one hits it travels farther without being interrupted by mountains or other large faults. Most tremors I've experienced have been more of a vibration but a few were strong enough were you could actually feel the side to side movement.

News reports are now saying that the quake was felt as far away as Ontario, Canada.

No need to be sorry. Its not that big of a deal. Just trying to keep all the Q&A together so its easier to follow.

Hi kaw. Welcome to CombatACE. Please have some patience and try not to make multiple inquiries about the same thing on separate threads. This forum may not be as active as you are used to but someone will come along and answer your questions. Thanks.

I use a free program called 7-zip. http://www.7-zip.org/

Amen to that! Its a concept that is TOTALLY lost on so many people. They seem to think that all TK has to do to make his sims work like they want them to is just type in a couple of lines of code.

sinbad....That's pretty much the way I have it. I still enjoy the early war stuff too. The ideal solution would be to incorporate stalls/spins/spin recovery without having to change the FMs so drastically. Don't know if thats possible? I really miss the forced landings too that have been eliminated in the EP too.

But a SAM is strictly a defensive weapon....of course. :yes:

Interesting POV. IMHO, from a strictly dogfighting perspective, history plays a major part in terms of A/C performance and fighting ability and the very real differences between A/C as both sides leap-frogged each other as the war progressed. If you don't care about history or a certain level of "reality", why not just make all the planes fly the same...leaving it solely up to the human pilot's capabilities? That wouldn't be much fun either. What is far more interesting to me about the air war in WWI is the ebb and flow of technology as it applied to fighting. Add to that the, again very realistic, random aspect of not knowing whether the pilot you are about to engage is some Killa ACE or just "meat" makes for a better simulation. Some kills were indeed "easy". Thats just the way it was and to remove that from the game is not desirable to me. I'm just glad we have a choice to play the game as we see fit.

Hey there, bezpete. Welcome to CombatACE. Great first post and thanks for your comments. Pull up a chair and make yourself at home.

Well the patch did fix some things that needed fixing (the Army Co-op CTD bug comes to mind) that affected basic gameplay so, IMHO, if you are going to fly the EP you need the patch. We already have a good set of FMs for the pre-EP, pre-patch version of FE and I think those should remain available for those that want to use them. As I see it, if you are going to patch the original FE to "EP standards" it makes no sense not to buy the EP too so we are back to the EP + Apr.08 patch scenario. Personally, I wouldn't bother with trying to update FMs for those 3rd party planes that are available in the EP ie. the Camel, DR1, Spad 7, etc. We really only need two versions of FMs. One set (already done) for the pre-EP/pre-08patch version and one for the EP1+04/08 patch. I don't think its going to make much difference where you release them as far as feedback is concerned. No. 1 sounds good to me.

Another point. Most of these A/C didn't perform well at high altitudes so it should be very much "aircraft specific" when we consider this. The DVIIs and Dolphins are mentioned as good high alt. planes, there are probably a couple more but the rest just couldn't generate the horsepower or didn't have the best airfoil design (again the DVII) to fly well near the ceiling.

A point about "sitting ducks". Raw pilots with very few hours in the cockpit and poor situational awareness in combat were a very real part of it. There's not much available from WWI but I've read and seen interviews with RAF pilots from the Battle of Britain describing returning to base to find bullet holes in their planes without having ever heard or seen any enemy A/C or having any idea they were being shot at...and they had radios. The sky was not full of Aces or even above average pilots. In fact I think it was quite the opposite. Perhaps the real problem with the sim and unskilled pilots is their apparent lack of action even when, as the tracers are zipping past their heads, it should be obvious they are being attacked? Regardless, IMHO, "sitting ducks" are just as much a part of the "reality" of the air war as the skilled, wily veteran...probably more so. This is not intended as any sort of criticism of your work, Peter...which is fantastic. Just a different point of view and maybe not so different after all?