JediMaster

Should cross 70 here today at least! Rain on the way, though...

Only problem with Rafale is it's just as short-legged as the Hornets they have now. I've never seen an photo of a Rafale on operations without 3 BIG tanks underneath and that means that much less ordnance. Perhaps the better solution would be to get their tankers converted to have booms? Or even to wait until the USAF picks a new tanker (which if it's not Boeing will naturally result in more Congressional protest over jobs and blah blah blah ) and then a buy a few off that order to make it cheaper and sell the existing tankers.

Well unlike the F-16 the F-35B/C already had that because only the USAF uses booms. So all it would mean is an F-35A with a B/C forward fuselage and the boom receptacle deactivated. As I don't know the inside of the plane, I can't say if that will be easy or hard to do, but it has to be feasible.

In fact I just upgraded my CPU from a C2D E8600 @ 3.3GHz to a i7-2600k @ 3.4Ghz. Doesn't look it by that speed stat, but going from dual to quad core along with hyperthreading and an overall faster design means I got a big bump. I may have to upgrade my 5850 if I find I have to turn down the graphics too much, but I may not.

Gogamer had a sale on ROF:ICE yesterday and I picked it up for only $30 including shipping! That savings I'm sure will be translated into at least 1 extra plane later on!

It's been years since we've heard a peep out of LP. It's now almost as long since F4:AF's release as the gap between the original F4 and F4:AF! There had been talk of more planes for it as well as upgrading the graphics engine, but after all this time I have the feeling that despite what they called "better than expected sales" it wasn't enough and they exist in name only now.

Too bad it wasn't the other way around, because refitting a boom tanker with hose-and-drogue is easy and not that costly. However, I can't believe this will be the only time this comes up. There are many countries out there that don't use boom tankers that may not want to pay for the C model's extras. F-16 operators won't worry, but all current Hornet/Super Hornet operators must. Was Australia going to get the A model? Actually, thanks to their Wedgetails and F-111s I guess they already had boom tankers.

Well, personally, I just think a plane with 6 engines fits better with 4 gauges in the pit than 2! Granted of course in both cases it's a fudge...

I'm sure the plan is to cover all the major theaters and time periods of the war eventually. I don't know if they'll ever go beyond to Korea or not.

I know nothing of that group, but Skype and Ventrilo along with Teamspeak are internet voice chat programs, used for comms by most online gaming/simming groups.

Well, Dagger and I aren't the same person, so it stands to reason we'd see things differently. That's why we have multiple mods here and not just one!

LOL, I'm almost at 190 and want to get back down to 170 myself, guess I have a smaller hill to climb than you! Anyway, I bought an offroad bike because of the larger tires (since those speedy bikes don't like things like potholes, transitions from street to sidewalks, etc) and used that for years. It's sat in my garage for the last 4 years or so and I really need to see if I can get it working again or if the tires are ruined from being flat so long...

Watch any 24 hrs news network and you can see how easily one person's fact can be seen as an opinion by someone else, and vice versa. I've seen WAY too many opinions and speculations out there repeated as if they were facts because of a miscommunication in the retelling. Naturally the head of any company is going to put a positive spin on their product, whatever it is. If they are caught outright lying about it, though, that will ruin their credibility and you know they don't want that. You can't talk about "facts" when it comes to statements like "most accurate damage model" because like most things it consists of several aspects and which ones the developers saw as critical not every customer will agree on. The "fact" would be "contains a damage model that takes variables X, Y, and Z into account". Now if a customer believes that the impact of Z should be lesser or greater than the devs saw it, that doesn't invalidate the work that went into it. It's a design decision and you either take it or leave it. I take far more issue with things like Il-2's claim of "most accurate WWII FMs you can find" and then every other patch changed said FMs to a noticeable degree. So, has it been made MORE accurate? If so, then it wasn't that accurate before was it? Ditto the AI issues. People would point out notable flaws in the enemy AI and the only response was "who's done it better?" That's sort of like saying "less people die from eating our food than any other local restaurant"...you can be better than the others and still have lots of room for improvement! Let's face it, though, most people aren't great communicators. What they mean to write may not be what others perceive when they read it because they were too brief or too rambling, so one side is offended his criticism isn't being listened to while the other is offended by their perceived tone of the criticism or perhaps its inaccuracy. Both sides have reasonable points but don't hear the other's because they get defensive. As for the perception that this forum was anti-ROF, I think that was the natural consequence of people on other forums talking about it in a negative manner getting their posts deleted or banned and then coming here. What else will happen but said persons will feel MORE negative because of their voice being silenced, justified or not. There weren't as many pro-ROF people because I guess most of them stayed at those other sites. So if you get say 5 people talking amongst themselves about what they don't like, that can give a misleading view. We draw the line at personal attacks, but I think some places err too far on the "we all should play nice together" theory and disallow comments that they FEEL will invite personal attacks LATER. In other words, proactive control...a little bit like the cops arresting a guy who looks suspicious as he walks in to the gun shop, not even waiting for him to buy a gun let alone commit a crime just because people who looked/acted like him in the past would. Legitimate concerns are allowed as along as the posters don't go over the top with rhetoric. We can't control if someone is posting the same thing on other sites 1000 times, we can only control what is allowed here and I don't think it's ever gotten beyond what I could simply call "negative".

Here in FL we didn't have TVs in the classroom except the ones on the cart with the VCR attached. All we got was a message from the principal over the intercom and then we had to wait hours until we got home to see what happened on TV. The Miami Herald put out a special section of the paper dealing solely with it (it was as big as the sports section). I had that paper for years, but I think it was tossed about 10 years ago. The entire front was dominated by a picture of the explosion. Of course, it took quite awhile for them to figure out what happened. That report was before they even realized about the O ring link. I was living here when Columbia didn't come back and it was like reliving the past.

What did you think the A-10C was?

I'm having nightmare visions of Chinese pilots singing "You've Lost That Lovin Feeling" at karaoke night at the O Club...

I played my PSP a lot in 2006-8. Then I got a good gaming laptop and started bringing that on trips instead, even though it's a LOT bigger, because of the games. I really liked the games I played in 2006-8, but then the new games coming out for it that I wanted trickled down to nothing. There were a couple SW games I could've bought, but I see no reason at this point. However, I see this one finally has dual sticks!! If I get one, it will be to game because I don't want it to do anything else. I have my Samsung Galaxy S for that and my Zen for MP3s.

I think they're all still out of your price range! Prices depend on a ton of things and "true" cost (aka flyaway aka unit aka the price for parts and labor alone excluding everything else) is very hard to come by, for any military plane.

Just wait till you see Doom 4! Then you'll know...um...if Doom 3 was the real disappointment!

Ever since SF introduced the idea of "cloaking fields" as an advanced form of camoflage people have been looking at how to do it.

I'm not getting in either, but there are a large number of possible reasons.

I'm sure Jason doesn't intend RoF to be the single product that 777 releases, so perception of the company is important above and beyond RoF's sales. RoF went from being "that nice-looking WWI sim I'll never get" to "that WWI sim I'll get at some point when I have more time" due to the updates and positive attitude of 777. Now granted to them someone who says they won't buy is no different to someone who says they will because in both cases the product hasn't been bought, but I'm sure it's always better in the long run to have a potential customer that will talk kindly about your product to an avowed never-customer who talks down about it. While I never recall seeing before that the original RoF business model was to be an MMO, and in fact I thought I saw an early interview pre-777's involvement denying it, many including myself did suspect it from the way things seemed to be setup. There was nothing wrong with that except perhaps that flight simmers and MMO players tend to overlap only slightly. I myself haven't played an MMO since WWII Online's debut in 2001! I played it for a few months while it was free and when it went pay-to-play I stopped because frankly the game wasn't up to par. Before that, I think Air Warrior was it for me! So, it's good to see RoF is continuing to grow because the WWI market is pretty much a 2-horse show now with RoF on the "pro" side and OFF on the "amateur/mod" side. TK did FE and FE2, but it's obvious that's not his focus and I have doubts we'll see more in that area.

Wow, in just a week too. That really sucks.

So it's the Super Hornet's radar using the Golden Eagle dish...makes sense, allows economies of scale.

So, seeing as this patch seems to get things back on track, I wonder how long till the Tomcat struts its stuff? Exp 2, its mission builder, and the patches delayed it, but that's all over now so...