JediMaster

Funny you phrase it that way when fuel is always measured in pounds and not gallons! Anyway, there are plenty of other names they could've used for tankers. Note however that "official" tanker names like "Stratotanker" and "Extender" are totally ignored by the community. Everyone calls them KC-135s and KC-10s. What are the names of some defunct gas companies they could use?

I'm intrigued now. How would one go about upgrading his rage? You backed off from talking about it but I want to know! Enough range talk, let's hear about RAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In the campaigns I prefer the tactical nukes.

I feel relieved for you! My new daughter, born Tuesday, came home with us on Thursday and we're exhausted from just TWO days in the hospital. I can't imagine going there that much!

I haven't finished my first run thru of ME2 yet, but I like it as much as ME1. I hope ME3 doesn't disappoint.

Believe me, it will take you some time to get everything comfortable again. At least you'll be in a better position once that's done!

Voyager? For a tanker? Doesn't seem apt. That would have been a great recon UAV name though.

Oh, that's all? I was hoping for a long list.

His AARs are addictive, please consult a physician before engaging in any regimen of reading Beach's AARs. Side effects include anxiety, heart palpitations, sweating palms, and ED (for people). In the presence of a sim, priapism may be experienced.

It's an admitted flaw that RoF runs best on dual-core machines under WinXP and quad-core (or more) under Vista/7. Reverse combos work less well. I know a guy with dual-core and 7 and he gets acceptable performance at med/hi levels, but I can max it out on my i7 and it still runs better than his.

I await the reviews to find out if this is easier to get into than X3, which I tried but failed to get into.

Be aware that for the last 7 hrs or so the site is down, as is a ton of Amazon-hosted stuff as they're having a major outage.

The problem with jet fighters is most of them have their CoG shaped by their engine. That means a glider model will need a lot of ballast to get its CoG properly placed, which drives up the weight.

SF is the true "sandbox" sim. You can fly almost anything versus almost anything and blow up, well, almost anything!

Well, to be fair the first release of First Eagles was pretty limited. I think it gave you maybe 4 or 6 planes? It wasn't until the expansion/FE Gold that it became well rounded, and of course FE2 was just FE Gold redone. So, it's true that those who started with ROF:ICE got a better deal than those that started with plain ROF...but that's pretty much par for the course for all games. Pick any game, wait a year or 18 months for the "game of the year edition" and you can get more stuff than it had on release for probably a bit less or you can pick up the original game at 1/2 price or less (I saw RoF non-ICE going for under $20 when I got ICE). Therefore, by getting it at the beginning you basically were an "early adopter" and you paid for that privilege. As for the extra planes, when the 2 bombers were close to release a few months back, they had a mega-sale on all the other planes and I was able to pick up every single seater ICE didn't come with for just over $30 (and I paid $30 for ICE itself from Gogamer). So, for $60 I got a WWI sim with a ton of planes. While it's true that OFF and FE are cheaper, they're not the same type of product.

Argh, the Il-2 modding scene is getting as bad as the F4 one! The only way to do Il-2 was always OGL, the DX renderer was just there so they could say it worked. It looked horrible. However, the water=4 I recall wouldn't work on ATI cards because Oleg said they wouldn't cooperate with him to enable him to get it working. Not sure how that worked, but whatever...

The red zone has always been for the dropping off and picking up of passengers. There's no stopping in the white zone.

Don't put your finger in your ear! You don't know where that finger's been...

The KC-135s aren't bad anymore thanks to the newer engines, but when the E-8s land here (rarely, but on occasion) they're admittedly just as bad as the DC-8.

Big Safari, the USG equivalent of the Skunk Works. They do good stuff.

That reminds me, is the top-end water in Il-2 still nvidia-only? I've got 4.10.1m installed, but no mods.

Anyone else here got the BSG DVD or BD set? I already had the entire series up through 4.0 on DVD, so I skipped buying the Bluray set. If I'd known that was coming out someday, I would've waited, but them's the breaks. I just bought 4.5 on DVD as well, didn't see the point in having the whole show on DVD except the last half of the final season. So I've been watching all those ending eps again, now of course knowing where it will all end up so picking up on things I missed the first time around. I've only got a couple of episodes to go and then I'll be on the finale...what mixed emotions I have about THAT one.

Well, TK's poll indicated he basically is going to switch to planes instead of full-fledged expansions now so people can pick and choose what they want.

That's right, I remember. I had the lasagna.

The shuttle will be stored in a new hangar to be built near the carrier, it will not be on it. The orbiter can't be housed outdoors, anyway.