JediMaster

And I have mine on my D: drive, where the programs folder is without limits as well. Basic rule of thumb is only recent games are ok in the C:\programs folder, ones made after Vista's release when the "new" way of doing things was understood. With XP and before it was understood everyone had write access to every file in that folder, so games like Il-2 were written without regard to limits on that. If you've got a game made before 2008 or so, you don't want to put it in C:programs 90% of the time.

Ok, I understand that, although TK even put failure as a probability in the SF series so I'm just surprised ED didn't put it in long ago. It does explain a lot of things I've seen in LOMAC and DCS, though. As for ECM breaking locks, IIRC I've seen that in many sims over the years as well as losing lock due to notching and (in a few nice instances) terrain masking. I agree it shouldn't be a zero-sum "ECM on = no lock, ECM off = hit" equation, but there does need to be some wiggle room. In other words, if my ECM is on, I should need less chaff and maneuvering to defeat a missile. Right now it seems like ECM has 2 functions--it reduces engagement range so that instead of launching at a missile's max you have to wait till burn through, which I think is like 20nm, and it enables HOJ locks from missiles with that ability. While I agree with the 2nd, the first makes realistic tactics harder to use. In reality no fighter pilot would be "blinking" his ECM on and off, yet it became a valid tactic in LOMAC/FC requiring that "power on delay" to be brought on in one patch, which really irritated me as someone who doesn't play against other humans, just AI. Also, it makes your choice of radar missile and side largely irrelevant. With ECM operating, every radar missile has a 20nm max range, so other than SARH vs active changing when you can break off, no radar missile has a range advantage over another.

I think planes that fly domestic routes only need not bother. Those flying int'l routes should be judged by risk ie flying to Australia or Japan or the UK is hardly different than domestic. Going to Africa, the Middle East, SW Asia? Sure, for those.

Yeah, "announced" and "released" are two different worlds. As I noted to someone else making the complaint that not enough Euro planes were being done, who's buying? DCS' primary markets seem to be the US and Russia...so naturally they get the most. How many people would spend $50 for a DCS Mirage simulation? I'm sure lots of Russians have zero interest and a lot of Americans wouldn't want to fly a "French" plane. So if the effort involved is the same, wouldn't you make a plane likely to sell more?

Does that mean that in absence of EW/CM/evasion, all missiles have a 100% PK chance? I always heard (perhaps anecdotal, perhaps verified, I can't recall) that the R-77 wasn't as reliable as AMRAAM and more likely to fail at some point in the process, from launch to guide to impact. So the R-77 was potentially as good, but in reality was not always able to live up to that.

I don't know that missile work is part of any particular module's work or if it's just "DCS World". Obviously AA-only platforms need all those missiles working properly, while all the existing non-beta releases only have a few IR missiles able to be used by the player and it's not been a major concern. I would suppose it would be considered part of FC3's development, but there will likely be many missiles like the French ones that won't be heavily worked on but will need proper modeling for the 3rd parties doing those planes. I'm thinking ED is in charge of the missiles, but I suppose if they're specific to a particular plane maybe the 3rd party will have to do it?

With the Forger being unconventional of course.

But when we don't all come rushing at it in waves in relatively straight lines it will be very confused.

He's totally serious. And don't call him Shirley.

For some reason I thought FF had merged into BMS. Shows how much attention I pay to it!

Naturally, but the facade of neglect is a powerful image, regardless of his actual intentions. When you think about it there's no logic to it being deliberate, but instinctual emotional reactions to things like that aren't usually tempered by logic.

I've also heard that Sukhoi is now on the "out" and UAC is on the "in." Likewise Mil's and Kamov's designs have flopped back and forth with the Mi-28 and Ka-50/52 switching between the pick for the next helo, but I'm not sure what part of that is political and what is practical.

I'll just say there are very few deaths I would consider "needed." Almost none of them are by those serving their armed forces.

That doesn't present a very good image. Also gives fuel to the "PC development on the back burner" rumors.

I'm pretty sure her medical issues will exclude her from any frontline sort of role, as well as being a pilot or any other type of position where a sudden problem could be fatal. There are plenty of noncombat roles that need to be filled as well, and her filling one of those would free up someone who could be on the sharp end of the stick from being relegated to a support role. I can't speak as to the overall staffing levels and needs vs quotas, but it won't hurt for her to visit a recruiter as long as she has realistic expectations that she might not get exactly what she wants.

What I find funny is the 29K lost to the 33 decades ago, and is now going to be replacing them.

I don't know about criminal charges, but I think this is a prime target for a civil suit.

It's not like Archer's Enterprise was in the Rec Room in ST:TMP when Decker was showing Ilia the Probe around.

If the missions are closely related, it makes the most sense to package them. If they're an eclectic bunch from all over the war, do however you'd prefer to, but I think packaging is still better since even together one file of missions is pretty small...but grabbing a bunch of individual files takes more time.

I did it because at times there were so many of them talking, and it would insist on playing them sequentially, that I would hear wingmen screaming they were dying quite awhile after all combat had ceased and their planes were nothing but craters. I also couldn't help but laugh at their sticking to radio protocol even in death. "This is 4, AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!"

I've never tried other than simply turning off the chatter altogether. I'll try stuff today and see if I have any luck.

I'll try and do that today, if not this weekend then. So specifically you want to see how the AI utilizes them vs other AI and the results of those attacks?

Don't forget all the foreign countries the US gives aid of varying types to worldwide!

Right, but unlike a plane most of the throttle work is pre-programmed because a human would have a hard time getting it precise, especially under the vibrations of launch...those engines make it SHAKE. So while that is there, it's not used necessarily when you would expect. It might even be that controls the OMS but not the main engines, I've not bothered to check!

Flexman was using a 3rd party engine to make his Combat Helo sim, but that thing has been on a development rollercoaster for some time now, who knows what will come of it if anything.