JediMaster

On the plus side, if Godzilla or some other sea monster is in the water it can ram them at high speed like a knife!!!

Come on, tell me those shows with the bass fishers wouldn't get better ratings if they called it "Bass Hunters!"

You probably don't have another one lying around, but if you do I'd try installing it from another DVD/CD drive. Just a thought.

Yes, Battle of Britain is the first title in the SoW series. That means there won't be nearly that many different models of planes to fly in it compared to Il-2, but with time they plan to expand on it. Of course, depending on how much time they take that engine could be obsolete long before they get even half as many planes as Il-2 has.

I'm getting the vibe that maybe we need to head over to the SF2 DL section to get these planes. Anyone else feeling the same thing?

Quite honestly, I doubt it ever will. With the number of planes modeled that are currently not available elsewhere, and the unlikelihood that we'll ever get successor sims to model them all, I don't see myself ever dumping it unless (until) it gets so dated that I feel like I'm just unable to cope with it anymore. That said, I've been playing Dark Forces on Steam from 1995 and that game just looks AWFUL now...but it's still fun.

A good scale for the effectiveness of a gov't is the magnitude of the issues it tackles. Going after a TV station for showing a satirical cartoon shows just how ineffective Venezuela has become. They can't do anything substantive, so let's demonize the US to try and create an enemy for the people to rally around and let's also attack one of their CARTOONS.

Something I don't get--shouldn't people say they go hunting for fish instead of "fishing"? There's no difference in the end result, just the technique, but many things are hunted in totally different ways anyway. You don't go "deering"...

I just might vomit.

Well to be fair if the visibility is poor it looks just like a C-5 with a different paint job. I like C-17s because they're so quiet!

Right, reputation seems to be a measurement in of itself that does nothing (other than let you know what people think of your posts I guess).

Usually if a plane has a partition between the front and rear cockpits it's due to ejection seat-related concerns and would be standard on all built. The only reason not to have the mirror is if the plane wasn't a trainer but a combat 2-seater. However, I'm unaware of any 2-seat 25s that are designed for combat not training.

Well...that certainly is depressing!

If I were the Swedish police, I'd start by interviewing all the financially strapped screenwriters in the area to find the mastermind!

Well from the link name itself I get that it's a presumed midair collision! The investigation will have to determine that for certain.

Perhaps he'd spent time in the tent smoking a little "Tripoli Gold"?

There are also the subscriptions to help the site pay its rather hefty monthly bandwidth bills for all those downloads.

Oh, I really would've thought Il-2 modeled that. I never even looked.

Did you have wormsign?

There will be NO stoning until I give the word, even if someone says Jehovah.

Of course, TK spent far less time and money developing FE and it also promised less. It's the difference between buying a Ford Focus and finding it reliable and comfortable and buying a Lexus and finding broken functions, poor reliability, bad mileage, etc. You expect more from a higher-end product, not the same as the lower-end with just a shinier coat of paint (or graphics and FM/DM in this case?) TK knew from the start modders would fill in the blanks by making his engine amenable to easy modding and based on the history of his previous sims, especially the heavily-modded EAW (even though that sim came out of the box with a ton of features, planes, and a nice big map of Western Europe). However, while modding does create longevity for your original product, it serves as a disincentive to buying expansions thanks to the "why should I pay $XX for those planes and terrain if I have this free 3rd party mod for it?" attitude. If you release a full-blown sequel you risk fracturing the modding community and it needs to be done after enough time has passed. If neoqb has decided now to start allowing it, after setting themselves up as basically a sim structure that they would micro-charge for extras like planes, it's almost a tacit admission that their business model was badly flawed.

Honestly I have no idea as I've never even attempted to fly the game with a keyboard! I've been using a joystick with my flight sims since my 386 in 1991!

Wait, are you implying there was a time he would've been popular here??

I would think that would be easily fixed though, right? Or is there some bug that prevents it from running out?

The perfect water options require a video chip capable of doing it. You didn't say what your laptop's video specs are, but that has a great bearing on it. If it's an Intel of whatever type, it will never work. If you have an ATI or nvidia, it might. In fact, I believe the highest water options are nvidia-only, at least they used to be, even though the ATI cards could do it. Having DX9 installed doesn't mean your video hardware supports everything DX9 supports.