JediMaster

The first 2 are in Il2 and many WWII sims before it, and you can get an F-86 for SF right here. I think there's a mod with an F-86 for Il2 as well.

[Han Solo]

Well that was a long time ago, I'm sure he's forgotten about that by now...

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I think TK also does not have an economics degree. Otherwise, he might have come to the conclusion that Exp2 didn't sell as well because maybe people weren't really capable of spending money at the time?

Also, frankly, Exp2 was underwhelming besides the ME, and if you don't care for the ME, you bought it for nothing. The campaign customizer as DLC was a good idea, because if people don't want it they don't have to pay for it (although I think that SHOULD be standard because it enhances the otherwise limited campaign options, and when you have no MP and ONLY single missions and campaigns, you really need either the ME or the CC in the game if not both). However, Exp2 was pretty much "some obscure Euro jets" other than that. To non-Europeans its appeal must have been small. At least Exp 1 had the P-51 and covered the relatively famous late 40s war in Israel.

Finally, while I bought and enjoy them all, I think the route he took with SF2 was a mistake. Redoing SFP1, WOE, WOV, and WOI should not have been done. SF2:NA should've been the first SF2 title. People are STILL flying SFP1 and its brethren, and while SF2 is better it wasn't NECESSARY. He could've switched to the SF2 engine with 1 new flyable plane per title/expansion, kept the ability to use SFP1 mods (as most of the early SF2 mods were just ports), or just dumped the mods and put MP in as he said he might in the past (his notion that mods and MP are mutually exclusive I don't agree with, but there you go). Let's face it, SF2 as it is today with just a flyable F-14 but MP would sell great. The MP would have to be more than we had in SFP1 (random missions only) because it was too little, the ability to do campaigns or at least to do scripted missions in addition is needed. Don't dump the random, though, because in say DCS or RoF I constantly have the problem of lack of MP missions to fly and there's no options for campaigns or randomized missions there. I would love an SFP1-style random MP mission ability for both of those.

Also, while it must be nice to get almost 100% of your sale price for yourself, I really think TK should look to Steam. Raise the prices if needed, but Steam has exposure. Just showing up when people search for "flight" or "sim" in Steam would be instant ads. There's also Impulse/Gamespot, Direct2Drive, and others. What's TK's ad method now? Word of mouth from existing customers? People stumbling across his FB page? Random Google searches? Inefficient.

Well, I would think he has other avenues rather than just "free".

He could compensate the artist with a free copy of the game or some small fee. He couldn't give $40? There's some unionized pay scale he can't violate or something?

Maybe combine it with advertizing for that artist in the credits ie "DDG textures by OlMamasBoy, other mods available at olmamasboy.com" or something like that. Many people do that...you provide a sample for free in return for free ads for your business. So they texture a ship for free, TK pimps their site for free where they could sell mods for SF2. Like Prowler maybe?

Let's face it, if there's one thing you can't credit TK with, it's thinking outside the box...and it's usually a box of his own creation.

I mean, he finally got on the DLC bandwagon, and while I appreciate the idea of making extra ships DLC (because let's face it, you don't need them, they're purely there to enhance the game and that's what DLC is perfect for) I think his reticence to accept help implies a distinct lack of trust in others.

Unfortunately rollbacks don't always work. I've had better than 50/50 luck with them, but still there are those times when it fails.

A couple of questions.

Will it have MP? Adversarial and coop vs the AI?

Does being in beta now mean they hope for a 2012 release? If so, where will they be selling it? Stores, digital DL, Steam, Impulse, etc?

I've played some naval sims in the past, starting with Harpoon and Aces of the Deep and moving on to Seawolf and most recently SH3 and Dangerous Waters (spent quite a bit of time in DW, although the graphics could've used help), so a new one in that class is welcome.

On the flipside, most Europeans have far smaller commutes than those in the US. When your country and population are both smaller than my state (Florida), things are more compact.

The reason the speculation in oil exploded in the last 10 years was the 2000-2001 recession. To get out of it, interest rates were bottomed out. The stock market was also not so great at the time, so money was put in two primary places: real estate and oil. The real estate bubble didn't just pop, it exploded, and we're STILL reeling from that. The oil prices, however, due to their international nature and the supply often being in Bad Nations is still free to go all over the place.

Oil prices will drop when interest rates climb high again and the Filthy Rich can make themselves richer on other projects than the simple buying and selling of oil. With real estate in the crapper and interest rates so low that I can't remember the last time I earned more than 1% at the bank, the Filthy Rich have limited opportunites to make themelves filthy richer other than oil.

Generally speaking, if it does it will suck. The SP parts of games designed for MP historically are afterthoughts that, while functional, stretch the definition of the word "game".

My answer is I would use a Jedi Mind Trick to make him point the gun at himself while he THOUGHT it was pointed at me.

That or I drop my pants and as he averts his eyes to avoid seeing my lightsaber I run.

Supply and demand are no longer relevant. They have SOME effect on oil prices, but only SOME. The rule of the day is now perceived supply and demand. The great thing about perception is no amount of facts will alter it, not in today's society. Allegations, threats, and rumors are far more influential.

So the US has more oil and gas sitting in tanks waiting to be used than ever, but the price still goes up! Why? Because the supply MIGHT drop. Maybe. If the following 15 conditions are met, we could be in trouble!!!!! So quick, bid higher on the next oil contract!!!!

The reason the price of oil goes up when it has no business going up is people make money off that. Doesn't matter that the rest of us lose on it, the Privileged Few make money, so it happens.

That stronger fuselage is also quite a bit heavier IIRC. Not a problem for a mud mover, but not so great for ACM.

Mars' polar caps are shrinking.

Man isn't there.

Solar radiation intensity drops by the square of distance, and as Mars is ~2x farther from the Sun than Earth, it gets ~1/4 the solar energy. Yet its polar caps are shrinking.

Connect the dots.

Yes, I loved its predecessor, F-19. I played TONS of that, back when it was my only modern jet sim. I had Gunship (but had largely stopped playing it by then), F-19, SWOTL, CYAC, and I think that's it.

I loved F-19's debrief, which went further than TK's because, in addition to telling you what happened when, there was a map with an Indiana Jones-style line drawn across it showing where you were when the incidents occurred. So you could see how you made a 180 and ran when the MiGs fired on you!

Yes, I too would like the winner to be the person who picked closest to NOW.

Ok, NOW.

Alright...NOW.

Did you update your SB drivers?

An air campaign against Iran is hard to predict. It could go any way. A ground campaign, well that's easy. It would be a cluster%#&@ of epic proportions. Of course, any action likely to impact oil prices (and the problem is oil speculators LOOK for reasons to raise the prices, like Mahmoud sneezing, a car wreck in Saudi Arabia, or a whale farting by an offshore rig in Nigeria) would make the entire world situation worse without any shooting even having to start. That's what Iran has over us. We don't get oil from them, we don't care. Yet other countries do, and on top of that they can affect a vital supply route with very little effort (a ship attacked here, some mines there). We'd have to spend a ton of resources to hurt them, and they have to do very little to hurt our economy. Sure, we're hurting their economy now, and that makes it more likely they WOULD hurt ours of course.

So, if Iran decides to play the oil supply card, THEN I can see attacks in their future under the "nothing left to lose" theory. As long as they merely threaten to hurt the oil supply without actually doing so, only Israel would dare go after them.

Unfortunately, the gameport was declared obsolete long ago. You can forget getting them to work in Vista or 7. With XP, you should be able to still use it, I used my TM FLCS/TQS/RCS combo until I got my Cougar in 2007 I think. That was because that year I got rid of my old SB card w/gameport and switched to a card without. Trying to use the mobo's gameport was an exercise in frustration (horrible spiking and other connection issues) so I went USB.

Frankly, in 2012 you really have little choice. There are gameport-USB adapters out there, but getting them to work is tricky. Generally they work for simple sticks, but a HOTAS like my old TM combo was insta-fail. The only add-in gameport I know that ever really worked were the SB cards, but Creative stopped supporting those old cards years ago now. Other than that, you might be forced to get a USB stick of some type.

Russia's last ME outpost is Syria, so their interest there is purely strategic. They don't give a damn about Asssad himself, they just want to keep their position.

Likewise, China doesn't care about him either. They just have a vested interest in keeping the UN out of "internal affairs" because they don't want the UN one day knocking on THEIR door. So Iraq invades Kuwait, they're on board with kicking them out. Vague rumors of WMDs and general "he's a threat" talk, and they oppose intervention in Iraq. China's motto has always been "what happens in *insert country name here* stays in *insert country name here*."

From what I understand while the helos fly like Arma a bit, it doesn't play like it. After all, all you have is Seattle to fly around in I think?

We need space-based power. Or fusion. Either would remove our reliance on foreign sources.

Hmmm. I suppose *CRACK* could be classified as "mechanical" then.

Israel does everything its own way and generally keeps quiet about it, so don't be surprised it's hard to find concrete info.

I know the F1 is coming after NA, I just mean that as far as a "full" title goes, the ground work will be largely laid out for a SA title. We'd need Brit carriers, likely the Harrier would get an upgrade/facelift, but considering the timeframe TK has picked (late 40s thru 1982) it's one of the few famous conflicts he's not touched on yet besides Korea (which we know he has plans for "eventually"). Unlike Korea, though, I think it would take far less work for Malvinas/Falklands.

This didn't belong in the BSG forum, so I moved it here assuming you're talking of SF2 and not SF1. Either way, flying the Harrier should be common to both series.

As for the Harrier, IIRC like said the Harrier only does VTOL at low unarmed weights. Usually it's STOVL because fully (or even mostly) loaded the engine doesn't have the thrust to take off with no aero assistance. So short rolling TOs with or without ski ramps is the name of the day for a Harrier heading out.

Accidental annhilation? Was this malfunction electrical, chemical, or hysterical?