JediMaster

I love NATO Fighters for a simple reason--I fly online with a guy who has almost zero talent for complicated modding. We've flown FE stock from day 1, and with the expansion we now have more planes although I've had my other modded FE install that I play offline. NF means that with the combined WoV/WoE install we have plenty of planes for MP with no conflicts plus he has a fully loaded install for offline. I love OTC even though I've never played it MP just because it was so involved if it had to be done manually, and that's why some of the equally good mods that were NOT all-in-one I've yet to install.

Yeah, like all those rappers referring to "dames" and "broads."

I heard a report of a belly-mounted turret with 360 degree arc (only usable when gear is up, of course) being test installed. That could work out.

Maybe if someone reminds Iran where the tech came from they'll send them back? LOL. :umnik2:

Maybe you can get a job with the outside vendor (assuming they're also local, which does happen sometimes)? You may take a pay cut, but at least you'd still be working.

You don't want to have to deal with extremist paparazzi, do you?

I'm not sure...I may not actually feel sorrow at this. I'll have to check with a certified professional like Dr Phil first.

However, Batman gets all the girls thanks to his cool car. Superman is forbidden to interfere with human history, and all he has is that lame Lois Lane.

Beware the eel spies...

Ever since I first saw Star Trek 3 the Excelsior has been one of my favorite designs. I hated the Enterprise B makeover, though. Does the NX change to NCC 2000 ever like it was in ST6?

That's right! Hard science is NO MATCH for wishful thinking!!

I suppose if the F-22 pilot did THAT he would indeed get shot down.

The eels of war won't negotiate The eels of war don't capitulate, They will take and you will give, And you must die so that they may live You can knock at any door, But wherever you go, you know they've been there before Well winners can lose and things can get strained But whatever you change, you know the eels remain.

What the frak are you frakkers frakking "blipping" about?

Orange Box for $29?!?! Damn, I'd get it at that price (same as Ep 2 alone) but I'm not allowed to shop at the BX.

Are you going to start dancing and singing "I love to sing-a, about the moon-a and-a June-a in the spring-a..."

Imp? Cacodemon?

A bug which would shortly have become standard for everyone anyway. Like we all didn't make the AI planes flyable in FE when we got it.

Howard Cosell?

Well, as a general rule modders spend so much time on their own stuff that spending it on someone else's is almost out of the question. Then you have the whole issue of what was done by whom. If Modder A is doing it but wants to use a plane by Modder B, and B hasn't had the time to update his plane to the latest standard, what then? A really shouldn't do it, it's not his responsibility and B likely won't look kindly at it either. Should A hold up his work waiting for it, or just move on? In that case, a LOT of mods get left out and the whole "unified" thing is moot. There are the so-called "total mods" that have been done for the jet sims in this series, like NATO Fighters, Op Tainted Cigar, etc, but usually all the planes in the mod belong to the same mod group and they don't touch the work of those outside for the reasons I stated above. I'm not saying this will never happen, I'm just saying I don't think it likely right now. Multiple installs is one answer. All these mods work with the pre-expansion game, so leave that alone. Make a new install with the expansion and then as planes are released/updated move them into that one. Sure it's a royal PITA to get the patched version working like the previous one again, but that's the price to be paid for FE being so open that so many modders have been able to do stuff for it.

Yeah, DA wasn't nearly as good as Chaos Theory or the original. I never played the 2nd one, although I heard it wasn't quite as good as 1 and 3.

Exchange programs between friendly nations are very commonplace. This is simply the first time for these 2 particular countries.

We need to get this story to Brian Williams.

We were on the precipice of a War...of the Eels!!

The media aren't the only ones shortsighted like that. Take the insurance industry. A key factor in setting the rates we pay is loss ratios--how much premium they collect vs how much they pay out in claims. I forget what the "standard" is supposed to be. Maybe 70% or so? For every $10 you collect in premium, $7 goes out to pay claims. Of course, for publicly traded companies they want to lower that number. Anyway, this is linked to sales. If your sales fall, the amount of premium you collect will fall as well (because people switch away all the time, so you need new blood). Claims stay pretty steady, though. So if you're only collecting $7 now, but still paying $7, now your loss ratio is 100%! What do you think the smart option would be? Obviously, lower your prices so that you'll increase sales and pull in more premium. What do they do instead? They RAISE prices!! "Let's charge more!" Sure, that works in theory. They get more premium from existing customers, losses stay the same, back in the black. What do you do when your insurance company sends you a notice they're raising your rates? You start shopping around! They not only have sales fall more, but they lose more customers. Premium falls MORE, losses only fall a little (because just one person's claim will equal the premium for a year from 10-100 people), your loss ratio INCREASES!!! So they do it AGAIN!! It's amazing to me how they can stay in business sometimes being so dense. The media reports on things to the world that few know about. They're just as dense. We may get they're wrong, but no one has a platform to call them on it and the public at large believes it.