Siggi

I have the book and it's interesting to see the text brought to life like that.

Maybe you'd like to quote me where I've come across as a "raving lunatic"?! Oh, you can't, because you're engaging in hyperbole. Seriously, what are you on, describing anything I've posted over there in such absurd terms? Are you a child?

And yet even the most fanatical MP'ers over there claim the SP market for RoF is significantly bigger. Personally I really don't know which is the bigger purchasing base, SP or MP. And Bandy, considering the amount of bashing handed out to anyone over there who dares to go against the cheerleading grain, including trash-talk from you, I guess you can feel free to STFU with your hypocrisy. With all due respect.

Thanks Hellshade, DL'ing now. :)

The "American chap" begs for not inconsiderable amounts of money up front with one hand while with the other intimating how touch-and-go the whole affair is if not enough money is forthcoming. It's no bloody wonder he's been rebuffed by so many potential partners/investors; with savvy like that I'd sooner invest money in a company making chocolate teapots than throw it down the crapper with RoF.

Well Olham, maybe a sub-bombing seaplane sim is what the majority of WW1 air-combat simmers want from their RoF...but I'm going to take a mad stab in the dark and hazard a guess it ain't.

So, rather than set out to provide the missing iconic planes from the early stage of the conflict...you know, pertinent stuff that Richthofen was shooting down like the Fe2, the Strutter and Be2, 777 have decided we need a pair of obscure SEAPLANES and yet another late-war forgettable barge, the DH4. http://riseofflight.com/Blogs/default.aspx And...get this...they want people paying months up front for it! At this point I'd usually say something like "I'd like some of what they're smoking" but meth is a bit OTT even for me. This'll be forever remembered as One of Those Moments. The moment RoF turned away from it's chance of ultimate success and took instead a step over the edge of the precipice. :suicide2:

They're the same thing Olham. :)

Probably not.

Caught it by sheer chance (flicking through the channels) and thought it was quite superb.

It also has five pages of mimeographed foolscap with engine addendums for the Monosoupape and 70 HP Renault (RFC School of Instruction Reading).

I believe the more brutal/miserable/deprived ones normal daily life is the less likely one is to suffer from PTSD. Ones environment creates a psychological culture that dictates ones reactions and responses to stimuli.

I've vaguely coinsidered text-scanning it (OCR) so the data can never be lost no matter how many copies vanish. But I believe they're actually rather common? What year is your copy Louvert? Mine is 1916 and has the Shorthorn to DH2 in it.

I'm pretty sure I mentioned this a good few months ago and promised some pics. Soon as I got it I put it in a briefcase and forgot about it though. It's very weird to hold this and know that it was once just a few miles down the line in time and space from where Richthofen was killed. My grandfather viewed the wreck a few days after it had been torn to pieces by souvenir hunters.

It's Hollywood, what did you expect, authenticity?

Gawd no, I had no idea what was wrong with his PSU. Just my experience over 12 years or so that nine times out of ten if a customer had a dead system, plugging my PSU in would bring it back to life and then I fitted a new one. Dead mobos were extremely rare for me. The guy in the shop, I suspected him of fleecing people. I was also "No fix no fee". And that was going to people's houses so I really couldn't afford to get it wrong too often.

It's a weird thing though. I've found "nine times out of ten" during the years I did PCs, you found differently and the bloke at a local shop found otherwise too (always mobos with him). I think it must have something to do with chaos-theory and the laws of probability and stuff.

"Nine times out of ten..." :wink2: Glad to see you back up and running Tranq. :)

I repaired/built PCs for around 12 years and nine times out of ten what the OP describes was down to a PSU failure (with all other components surviving).

Companies like this are owned and operated (at the higher echelons) by criminal scum, and I think we all know that by now.

Try a different PSU.

Coming back to P3 with fresh eyes the main issue I've come up against is the way combat invariably goes down to the deck and most/all the target a/c (fighters) end up yo-yoing (high-angle climbs and stalls). I'm also not able to change the FOV with TiR enabled which results in a very claustrophobic feeling in the cockpit. The distance from the instrument panel is authentic but the severe lack of peripheral vision is not. I understand the former is addressed in P4, no idea about the latter. I'm not sure it matters how many planes RoF produces, and/or how quickly, as its engine is simply unable to handle large numbers of AI planes simultaneously. They have got around that to a degree with a good spawning system however. My general analysis is that OFF has everything but at a medium graphical level while RoF has little but at a very high graphical level. RoF also masters the feeling of being in a real plane very well in terms of functionality and movement and technical detail. OFF is the glass 3/4 full and needs RoF's 1/4, if that makes sense.

Thanks Pol.

All good so far and I've not seen less than 40fps with all the sliders maxed out. But damn, I've forgotten so much by way of tweaks...how to lose the radar thingy, how to sit back in the cockpit. I'll get there though.