Brainless

Ah.. thanks for that bit of info.

Same here about five minutes ago. Said 'too many connections'. Maybe this is a bumper day for people online here. Guess we'll know soon enough. At first I thought I had an internet link problem..phew but it's all O.K. :i-m_so_happy: P.S Don't you just love these new icons. :beta1: Wot's 'moil' mean tho'?

Can't wait mate. Yes we all ought to use the Knowledge Base more to release you guys for the modding work. Just one question. Will the Desert Storm project be only for WOI or will it go into the previous series. Sorry couldn't find the answer to that one in the Knowledge base!

What no comments/jokes/exclamations on my last post. I'm flying a Lancacster here guys.

Thanks Gr.Viper. Now I know. Nicely explained. I had the 'blip' switched off. I'll have to try it out again now.

Looks very much like the one I did a bit earlier today. It looks like no-one was hurt thank goodness.

Hmm...An ideal question/answer for the 'Brainless Guide' eh Kev. I think we should start this a.s.a.p. Although I know you are more than happy to help out I'm thinking this type of repeat question would save you a lot of time which I'm sure you could devote to other projects.

I tried the 'Blip' switch in the 'HARD' setting but I don't really understand its true purpose. Can someone please explain this to me, what it does and how this worked in the real aircraft that had it?

I expect you thought that when I got to this point I was a bit worried. Well I was a bit 'cos I seemed to be a bit high so had to go round.

Oh boy 2000 eh. Can't hardly get my head round that huge number

I don't have this game but I think it's an arcade style. I would think First Eagles is a lot better.

Well a very small milestone here cos' this is my 400th post. Thinking back to when the rule came in that you needed five posts before you could download I was a bit dismayed at first 'cos I thought I'd never find anything to say. Now you can't hardly stop me!! Admittedly a lot of my posts are well... Brainless but I guess some have been worthwhile. Anyway I hope you guys liked at least the odd on here and there and here's to my next 400 when it will be beer and cigars alround..well virtual ones anyway.

Good luck mate. I'm sure you don't need it tho'.

The bottom pic on the right looks like one of my early carrier landings. Bit like Wrench's early ones.

What about a flying V1 doodlebug for the WWII expansion in SFP1?

O.K where's it at , what's the target, who got blown away & whose picture is it?

Oh yes of course. I did know that one. It's just that... well I'm a bit Brainless today.

Here we go with those Alphabeticals I can't figure out. What's a CPO

Perhaps this is just the sort of question and answer that could go in the 'Brainless guide to why your sim doesn't work'( see my post). What do you think mate.

Yes it's nice but still not easy. A great feeling tho' flying down 'in the groove' with all the lights flickering and then suddenly you're on the deck.

I'm not an American as you probably know but well said mate. You need to remember these brave men and women.

Yep. Same here. It's all about practice makes perfect! Just flown a carrier op from YAP 'Dead of Night' and landed the Skyhawk in the middle of the night on the USS Oriskany. Now that's not easy in any aircraft although the Skyhawk is a dream to fly. Finding the right carrier in the dead of night even with the radar directions is no picnic!

Hi guys. I read here recently that you were in the process of updating the Knowledge Base and Guides, which is eminently a very good idea. This has prompted this post by me. As you know I’m pretty incompetent when it comes to computer stuff and often have problems not so much with the detailed things which are mostly well documented in the READMEs but with the simple silly things like forgetting to implement something properly. This is what could be called ‘doing a Brainless’ With this in mind I wondered if it was worth starting a Brainless Guide to the simple things which someone didn’t do properly or forgot about and then found the game or mod didn’t work. Now I find you can start looking to do all manner of things, which in the end don’t help solve the problem, when all that's required is a simple line added to an ini.file, saving something like the gundata or weapondata properly etc. etc. With this in mind does anyone think such a guide would be worthwhile? I’m thinking this would start something like the list below which could be adapted/edited as appropriate to refer to first before more detailed corrections to a particular problem are looked into or made. This list could be made into a ‘sticky’ and then added to over time by members who encounter problems and then post the resolution. Now I don’t know if this would be useful or not and I know you guys are far better at this stuff than I am and maybe this isn’t needed but I thought it worth posting the idea. Here’s an example of what I mean. The Brainless Guide to why your game/mod doesn’t work. 1.Problem:- my guns don’t fire. Answer:- you didn’t update/save the gundata in the gundata file. 2.Problem:- my object doesn’t show up Answer:- The XXXX _DATA.ini was’t in the Configuration file. 3.Problem :- My weapons/gundata file won’t open. Answer:- They need enabling in the Data Execution Preventer. You get the idea yes? Simple things common to the sim series but they can cause you a hell of a lot of problems! There may of course be more than one answer and this can be listed as appropriate. If you think this would be useful post here and the ‘admins ‘ will no doubt do the necessary. If you’ve done this type of mistake don’t feel bad. I do it all the time. It’s called ‘doing a Brainless’!!

I don't have Vista but I found on Windows XP that the editors didn't work until until I disabled them in the Data Execution Preventer. Does Vista have that?

Very nice. I'm looking forward to it.