JediMaster

FYI interesting side note: the YF-23 holds the supercruising record of Mach 1.6 without afterburners. Neither the YF-22, F-22A, or X/F-32s/35s can get that high.

Yes, but the guys running 5 year old laptops can't have the game running slowly at max detail, can they?

I just used the SF2 installer where you put in the email address you used to buy them from TW and one of the keys he emailed you and it DLs and installs everything you own at once at the latest patch level.

No idea on OFF's moddability, but I can tell you DCS and ROF are far more limited in what they let you do than SF. I also liked CFS3 quite a bit, but I haven't had it installed since I went to Win7 more from lack of motivation than anything else. I only flew it MP with one person, he lost interest, and my solo time was spent with other sims more. There was one MAJOR thing I hated about CFS3 though...the stock airplanes' DM was stupid. Someone went into the files and looked and it was setup so that in most areas of the plane there was a 70% chance of the control cables being hit! I've lost count of the number of times the first bullet to hit my plane crippled my ability to roll, and if I was in a turn at the time at low alt it usually meant I crashed. Conversely, in Il-2 I rarely lost any controls but elevator cables and even that was rare in of itself. I did buy the Firepower addon and loved their planes and new effects. I also grabbed a majority of the 1% planes although some of those planes were a PITA to install. Of course, it wasn't really much tougher than SF actually. The big irritant was in addition to the planes, the guns, and the weapons (which we've all had to mess with in SF) there was also the bizarre "pylons" folder for the little things holding the weapons on the wings! No kidding, my pylons folder had more objects than my weapons folder! Anyway, I still have my install archived on my HD with all the mods, but I'd need to reinstall it and patch it first to make it work, and it looked dated compared to Il-2 on release (stupid DX7 water!!) and is no better today.

I'm sorry, were you expecting the media to actually practice journalism in 2012, doing research and being informed on what they're reporting on? Please say no, otherwise I might laugh so hard as to die from my mouth opening larger than the Earth itself!

I don't see anything wrong here, so I'll give a provisional "OK" to you promoting it in this thread. We've had people promoting other KS projects here before, and I'm sure we'll see them again. We just don't need dozens of threads all over the place.

To some extent. It depends how much time is put into it. You want a basic thing like say an F-15A it shouldn't be too hard, just take the C and downgrade its abilities and use the same 3D model w/new skins. The main difference is the engine supports more, so you could put a ton of time into DCS/FC and it would show, while with SF2 you get diminishing returns...at a certain point you run into engine limits.

I'm not sure what that really means. It could mean many things, including that once he "builds out" SF2 he's giving it up entirely...but my guess is he's instead signalling a change of direction. Instead of the next release after the last SF2 title (whatever and whenever that will be) being "SF3", with the fictional desert terrain upgraded, mercenaries, same plane set upgraded, etc, he's looking to make something that wouldn't seem to be "SF3". Now what THAT would be I won't even bother to guess...he's not THAT predictable. It could be something we'll all cheer for, it could be something we all jeer at, but most likely we'll be split between those who like and those who don't (because not every early Beatles fan liked late Beatles' music, and not every late Beatles fan likes the earlier stuff, but some like it all).

Was that spent explaining how you make an upside down question mark at the beginning of your question when you're talking?

Or the E-2, where it folds back flat against the plane!

I second that. A worthy effort indeed.

Can you imagine that happening on the Su-33, with foldings wings and stabs??

Expansions are also the only way we get new AI planes. While we only got the F-14 to fly in NA, we did get several new AI planes. No one will buy DLC of a plane you can only escort/shoot down!

I don't know, I see no loss when converting the BMPs to JPGs. BMPs are just plain inefficient.

Of course, that single F-14B had little in common with the ones that served in the last 20+ years. That was truly just an A with the new engines that never made it. Did it ever fly with 2 of them? I remember seeing shots with one engine installed (the exhausts were so dissimilar it looked really odd) but I'm not sure if it ever got 2 before someone got the bright idea to just can it.

Come on, Jet Jaguar was the best giant robot ever, tag team wrestling with Godzilla vs the Ugly Monsters!

That would be one HELL of a big desk, requiring an equally large room, and unless they were LED a LOT of heat and electricity.

Supported Products GeForce 400 Series GeForce GTX 470, GeForce GTX 465, GeForce GTX 460 SE v2, GeForce GTX 460 SE, GeForce GTX 460 GeForce 200 Series GeForce GTX 275, GeForce GTX 260 GeForce 9 Series GeForce 9800 GTX/GTX+, GeForce 9800 GT, GeForce 9600 GT, GeForce 9600 GSO, GeForce 9600 GSO 512, GeForce 9600 GS, GeForce 9500 GT GeForce 8 Series GeForce 8800 GTX, GeForce 8800 GTS 512, GeForce 8800 GTS, GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GS, GeForce 8600 GTS, GeForce 8600 GT, GeForce 8600 GS So it supports it, you can use them. Whether there's any REASON to is another matter. I'm sure they're not doing anything for that card anymore, although if there's some game-specific issues with the previous drivers these might resolve them. Oddly although the file DL is the same, the readme notes on the site when you pick 8800GTX under the DL page looks different (see above) then when you choose say my GTX570. Then the readme omits the 8800GTX from the list.

So...do you like it more or less than Top Gun now?

It may play like it somewhat, but with a totally different universe/backstory I'm not sure how close it will ever be.

[Ferengi] Free?? Where's the profit in that? [/Ferengi]

With all titles merged, SF has MiG-17, 17F, and 17PF. Don't ask me which ones came with which titles, I don't have any non-merged installs. I've got 5 already!

I would call that ejecting too late!

Like so many other things the DoD does, it doesn't matter that it's consistent with everything else, just that someone with authority was able to justify it in a vacuum.

Yeah, Frugal's was the F4 place like we're the SF place or SimQH is for a couple of the other sims. I must admit I rarely went and if I had a logon I forgot it LONG before the place collapsed.