Red Von Hammer

Or, to put the issue about bad AI to a more deeper perspective, here`s what Polovski said over at SOH earlier today: "AI is completely variable on each machine. XML editing has little noticeable effect on them. Some people find they are great, some thing they are bad. AI do not circle and crash on my machine, but during testing they did with very low power craft unless they are tweaked - hence the months of testing and tweaking." S! RvH

Sorry about that post before edwards, the Nieuport 17 trick, I meant Shift+C . My bad :( S! RvH

Hi Edward 1: Theres a fix by Pol in a stickie on SOH forum on how to get the Hang on Exit Bug removed, Stickie has same name as the issue itself. Also you should try running CFS3 before you run OFF. Seems to help for quite alot of people. 2: Yeah, They are shooting at you long before you can see them, but I think, contrary to FE, that`s better then not shooting you at all (Not throwing any bad words on TK here!!). Besides, You can always take evasive maneuvers, heres one trick: Climb above them before they get within 1000 yards during the head-on., Another one is to simply turn 90 degree away from them and climb at the same time, if they are too close. Sometimes you will end up in a bad situation, so, remember, Height is precious drops of life, Always climb higher then your enemy, make them go lower then you, hit them one by one and always make sure you have your 6 clear. 3: I have never seen those graphic anomalies, but if you adress them at SIMHQ forum or Sim OutHouse forum, atleast OFF Team knows about it. 4: I never seen that before either, When I fight the AI they do hard turns, Split S`s, Loops, just about anything in the aerobatic book. Unless they are damaged. Also I recommend Hard Flight Model. Which is actually alot better because now you can do hang on prop with D7`s, breathtaking stall turns. And more! :) 5: Yeah that issue is being worked on. I have same problem. 6: Because not all of them are released yet, but if you take a look at the Official OFF site, you will see they have released 4 patches, of which the first one, or the second one, i cant remember actually, solves the Quick Fight skin selection problem, also, in the Workshop, you can disable the warnings, OFF Team was fully aware of not all the skins being available even before they released the mod, but they will release more skins underway. So rest assured, you are not alone :) 7: There is a stickie in the SOH forum, where you will definitly see a fix to activate 2048 Hi Rez for skins. I really recommend you: Check that out! :D I too saw some weird model/skin problems even after I activated the Hi Res, Polovski suggests either bad Skin core file download, or GFX problem. I never had that problem again when I tried Refly. Also, better Models are under progress, as well as flight models and damage models. I hope I didn`t offend you in either of theese points. If I wrote something weird like, you will notice (Some kinnda obvious thing.) Rest assured, OFF suffers from some base issues indeed. But unless they are unsolveable like some of the points you mentioned, point 1, 2, 3 (Which only you seem to be having, and am sorry to hear that you do :( .), I can guarantee they are being worked on as we speak :) Thx for reading. Considered participating the 60thSqn Missions yet? They will further immerse you into the World of OFF. And would be honoured having you there :) S! RvH

Use Auto Trim Level, I always do that, CTRL+A :D Also, if you are flying the Nieuport 17, check out CTRL+C , you are in for a nice and pleasant surprise On my German Alb D.II pilot I have survived 3 hours now, have 39 claims and 9 confirmed On my French Escadrille Lafayette Nieuport 17 (Owh I just love the silver Nieuport 17!!!) I have about 2 hours and 7 confirmed and 29 Claims. S! RvH

Yeah, The Pilot die`s system is a little odd in OFF. That and the desktop going back to 1024x768 is the only issues I find pretty much annoying in OFF, but they don`t keep me from playing the game. OFF actually has a challenge, to survive 17 hours! That`s why I constantly find myself behind the stick xD S! RvH

It supports X, Y, X slide, Y slide, Zooming and unzooming. S! RvH

Yes, don`t worry u`ll get it. Remember to use a Download Application, like GetRight forexample. A failed download is too precious to go lost, so use a Download Application! S! RvH

Simple, U dont attack it. Main rule in OFF is to stay alive, U don`t have to accomplish impossible missions like attacking army bases. If you see a enormously outnumbering enemy squadron during a CAP, show them ur tail. Yes there are still some issues in both downloads and bugs. in the sim-outhouse.com forums, read the thread Winding Man just made, dont just start making One thread for each issue you are having, they will delete it without even reading it. Go into the: I have an issue, thread, and post calmly, unstressed and not with big letters. They will check that thread once a day and they will do anything they can to solve the problem as well as adding them into the KNOWN ISSUES, thread, which you also must read before posting your problem. Owh and also, You dont need Phase 1 for Phase 2, think about it :) Phase 1 was about 700 mb, Phase 2 is 2.3 gb.. (No offense meant ) Phase 2 deletes most of Phase 1 and backups other parts of Phase 1, during the install :) Also read the thread on how to enable 2048 hi resolution skins, If You are one of the real crazy graphics card fanatics, enable 4X AA in your graphics card software (OFF is not controlling Anti Aliasing.) And Phase 2 will look.. No offense but the simple truth: Better then First Eagles. To be able to have full graphics on this game, you need a better graphics solution then what is offered today. Polovski, one of the creators of OFF, had a 7800 GTX SLI setup, not even he managed to run OFF at highest graphics.. S! RvH

Indeed! All i did was using GetRight and I didnt get a single corrupt error, I suggest u do the same :) Just finished playing some ALL vs ALL in multiplayer with NSS and flydude and a couple of other guys. it was magnificent, allthough a little lagg, but atleast 5 times less lagg then FE! (No offense.) And best haven`t been tested yet.. Online Campaign!!! S! RvH

Yeah, I donated 20 bucks, not much, but all I can spare. Atleast it contributes alittle S! RvH

There, New site is up. They still urge people to not clobber it. And to please use a download manager or they wont be taking responsibility for broken download. www.overflandersfields.com S! RvH

theyre getting a server up within 24 hours. I dont want this to sound like a commercial or anything, so I`ll just say it plain: They would appreciate donations.. The new server is gonna cost alot of money.. Meanwhile, They recommend to get GetRight, or some kind of a download manager which will resume download if it gets stopped because of server crash or ISP plug outs now and then. I used it just now when I downloaded OFF, worked splendid. You wont get great download speeds. But atleast it downloads.. Patience grasshoppers, patience S! RvH

Nothing confirmed until just now, site is back up, temporarilly, at a very unstable status, the more people that download all files at once the more unstable it is. Winding Man said he didnt hold his breath. But thus far thus good. S! RvH

I know, that`s what I suggested.: 1: It will take a lot of time, so, those with best upload speed gets to download first but they have to promise to seed. 2: Torrent will be uploaded on a temporary OFF site. Thus, the chance of the torrent getting out on all other torrent sites=Zero, just like with Phase 1 which never got out on any torrent or anything, for all the time it`s been out. News: One dude that knows another person which has a server company or something, offered to give this guy a call and see if he cant help out. OFF Team, or, Winding Man, said he was very interested. Stay tuned! S! RvH

When Phase 1 came out I informed filefront to put Phase 1 in it. When they did I told OFF Team, Which got pretty much angry at me and told me to tell filefront to take it away. So no, they dont want any large commercial site to put up their mods. They want their own site to prove that nobody needs big companies to get things done. They dont even like torrents, and before Phase 2 release torrents were totally out of the question. But, desperate times=desperate measures, so I think torrent is a good temporary solution. But that`s it, till they get their servers back up again. S! RvH

Alternatives are being considered by the OFF team, Torrent as well.

news: Their ISP pulled the plug on a deal that was supposed to be unlimited bandwith... picture: But just hand tight! The problem is being worked on and soon we can eat the fruits of our waiting :) You are not the only ones :) I don`t thinkOFF team wants to upload anywhere else then on their own sites. Whether or not the situation is desperate for them, which I hope not. You could try to ask them :) S! RvH

Yeah, the servers just crashed.. No wonder, probably a couple of 10000s who clicked the download link at once. Tell u what, I dont think it`s such a bad thing, it only proves how popular this mod has becomed! :D And another thing. In the sim-outhouse.com OFF forum, nobody exept maybe 10 people of all those thousands which never got their off downloads. Because of the server crash, only LIGHTLY complained! Just be patient people, problem will be fixed :) S! RvH

yeah, and weve already had a can of worms on that. A BAD can of worms. S! RvH

if u dont want any AA guns, go into ur objects folder and rename your GroundObjects folder to something like XGroundObjects . That way the game wont read the AA guns and hence, wont load them into the game. S! RvH

Hi In the aircrafts data.ini file, let`s say, Nieuport 24: X:\Program Files\Thirdwire\WW1\Objects\Aircraft\N24\N24_data,ini . open it, and try this: [AIData] AileronDeltaRoll=1.3 AileronRollRate=-1.0 ElevatorDeltaPitch=1.0 ElevatorPitchRate=-0.1 ThrottleDeltaSpeed=0.1 ThrottleVelocity=-0.008 MaxPitchForAltitude=30.0 MinPitchForAltitude=-15.0 PitchForThrottle=0.0 PitchForAltitude=0.008 PitchForVerticalVelocity=-0.1 RollForHeading=2.0 RollForHeadingRate=-0.6 MinRollHeading=5.0 MaxRollForHeading=15.0 PitchForRoll=0.25 FormationSpeedForPosition=0.8 FormationSpeedForRate=0.45 GunnerFireChance=80 GunnerFireTime=2.5 ---------------------- Change it to whatever value you wish. GunnerAimOffset=0.0050 MaxRollCombat=60.0 MaxPitchCombat=50.0 MaxRollFormation=35.0 FormationRollForPosition=0.001 FormationRollForVelocity=0.1 RollForGunAttack=0.5 RollForGunAttackRate=-0.1 I often thought about it but never tried. Good luck. RvH

EmlD told me the N24 aileron tips were round compared to the ones on N17, and this far the ailerons on your N17 looks much like the ones on the N24. It is not a big deal either. Last time I spoke with EmlD, he was considering the N17 with a Vickers slightly to the Starboard as well. Now that you are working on a N17, and progressed far with it too, I am not sure what EmlD has decided. But point is, the MG`s Whether or not you include Lewis gun and put the Vickers on the starboard, does not matter to me, I just seem to remember, the only reference of which I actually saw a Lewis on the N17 (as well as a starboard Vickers.) Was in Flyboys. So I took it with a spoon of salt (And even when being careful, I can do mistakes, as showed in this topic :P .) Anyways, back then I was thinking, but not saying loud, EmlD could do the Flyboys looking Nieuport`s, and you could do the real thing. Now that I see all of theese Nieuport 17`s with many different versions, I just came to the conclusion It really doesn`t matter, would be cool with a round front sight with cross and a tube in the middle of the cross, and the rear sight is the "box" with the cylinder on top. As seen in EmlD`s N24. I really liked that sight, could aim and shoot pretty good :P . Anyways, just mere suggestions and wild thoughts Came to this big misunderstanding, next time WW1 airplane history is coming in topic, I won`t comment it without further evidence.. S! RvH

Rgr, I did not know that. Thanks for correcting me :) S! RvH

Hi Monty, good looking N17 there :D But, to my humble knowledge. The ailerons do not have rounded of tips like the N24 ailerons, the edges are a little more sharper. And I dont think the N17 have a Lewis machinegun on the top wing (Not to my knowledge.) Maybe With a few rare exeptions. I don`t mean to be rude or anything. And please do correct me if I am wrong. Again, nice looking kite which is coming along VERY nice! :D Salute! RvH

Hi all I have a problem with my Saitek X52 stick (the ordinary one, not the Pro model.) Yes I checked saitek.com and combatace.com forums for any solutions to this problem but there doesnt seem to be any solution yet. Each time I try to start the Profile Editor and/or Launcher, it keeps saying: Plug In Controller: You must Plug ina supported saitek programmable controller before you can continue." I installed new drivers "again.." And I still get the same problem. I did have the stick connected with a USB Hub ( The Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard, and this solution, as I have no more usb ports available on my computer, has worked fine with no problems for about 6 months. But today, it fails. However, the stick does shot up in the Gaming Controller properties in the Control Panel. It`s just that the software wont recognize it, I tried turning of computer, restarting computer, putting in new drivers, in short, I have tryed everything between heaven and earth. Without any positive results. I still get the annoying message: Plug In Controller, You must plug in a supported Saitek programmable controller before you can continue.) My stick has worked for 2 years, although with problems, but nothing that can`t be fixed with new driver`s or such. Just when I`m about to play a MP game with my friends in the First Eagles community, it fails on me. Good timing! :P If anyone has any suggestions, they will be fully appreciated. Sincerely Yours. Red Von hammer