Fates

Newsflash. Some of those changes are happening tonite. Please be patient as we make a few more minor changes. Cheers~ Fates

Welcome to CombatAce. Feel free to pull up a chair and post away! Cheers! Fates

Sorry Jimbo....must have been drinkin that night.....lol

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OK guys...CombatAce.com would like to bang in the New Year by offering everyone here a chance to win some excellent prizes. This time around, we are having another simple easter-egg hunt for answers. Please read the Contest thread and Check out Skater's Naturalpoint TrackIR 4 Pro Review Good Luck!~ Fates

Skater posted a review of the TrackIR 4 Pro for everyone. Be sure to take the time to read about this great piece of hardware that has already made it's mark in Flight Sims, and Racing sim, but is soon to hit FPS Shooters by Storm. Naturalpoint TrackIR 4 Pro Review

We...back at it. There's three new calendars available for everyone. You can get them HERE: CALENDAR GALLERY

How's the progress coming? CHeers~ Fates

Zur, I agree with you 99.9%. My only exception in your statement above would be this: Realism is not the impression and experience equivalent to the real world. Realism is the perception of the impressions and experiences that the real world may bring. If I've never seen an F-15 in my life and I buy this "game" that simulates an F-15 (under the developers constraints of time and money), then my experience and impression of the game may be heightened. To me, this would be a great game full of realism. I'm not a rivet counter so a basic model and skin might look real enough to me. I'm not an avionics guru, so the ability to do certain things in the cockpit would give me a great sense of realism. I've never flown one, so the flight model seemed pretty real to me. However, My perception of realism would change the more and more I envelope myself in flight games, and aviation, and military jets, and readings of ACM's and taking airshow pictures, or growing up near an airbase. The more real my perception becomes, the greater impression a game is going to have to make on me. I'm going to start looking for differences in flight models, and I'll look for proper weapon loadouts, or I'll simply become more aware of the avionics abilities. Point being, everyones perception of reality is different. I believe that Zur's enjoyment of the game is simliar to mine. It's not about having perfect models or accurate flight models. It's about the enjoyment that we all receive playing it. We engulf ourselves in the perceived reality and we extract fun out of it. The less fun/enjoyment you extract from the game the worse the game is for you. Having the ability to scale that perception level will mean the world to each player that comes to fly. Fates

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I'll share in the pain as well... frackin Dolts! Will someone bring them a Defensive Coach for Xmas?

Well...I would like to thank those that participated in our Allied Forces Christmas Contest! I hope you came to know Jason over at GoGamer.com as well as their whole site and products available. I would like to thank our sponsors for whom without, we would not be able to bring you such gracious prizes. I'm pleased to announce the winners of the Allied Force Christmas Contest are as follows: 3rd Prize Winner: Alanthegrate Natural Point TrackIR Hat Just Flight C-130 Add-On and Just Flight F-117 Add-On on PC-CD Falcon 4: Allied Force 2nd Prize Winner: Kestrel2004 Natural Point TrackIR Shirt CH ProThrottle Falcon 4: Allied Force 1st Prize Winner: ODB_Warlord TrackIR 4 Pro Saitek Rudder Pedals Falcon 4: Allied Force Congratulations Guys~

There's a new version of America's Army available. AAO 2.8: Coalition. The new version includes a new map creator, mission editor, and a pair of tutorial maps, and incorporates a number of bug fixes and other improvements. There is a patch to update version 2.7 I think that everyone here who enjoys modding may love to take a look at the Map Editor. It's a very useful tool and you will soon see custom maps on AAO Servers. Cheers ~ Fates

Dagger has mustered up another interview with Yuri at Akella about the new PT-Boats: Knights of the Sea Sim. Be sure to make your way over to the Naval CIC Forum and check it out... It can be found.....PT-Boats: Knights of the Sea Interview:PART 2 Visit the PT Boats:Knights of the Sea website: http://www.pt-boats.net/

Nicely Done.

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You can't see them because USAFMTL insists on using his photobucket. It's quite annoying because he never keeps the pics in their long enough. I say we all stand up and protest and spray him will silly string.

OK guys...here's the next contest for everyone to win some excellent prizes. This time around, we are having an simple easter-egg hunt for answers. Please read the Jason with GoGamer.com interview and answer these three simple questions. Email me the answers and CombatAce.com will choose 3 winners with correct answers at random. The Contest will run from 12/7/2006 until midnight on the December 17th (Pacific Time/ GMT-8). You must EMAIL ME USING THIS LINK the correct answers. CombatAce will randomly choose the winners no later then 12/20/2006. You must be a member of CombatAce.com to participate. Good Luck Everyone! BTW, there's a special treat for everyone that enters... Cheers~ Fates 1) What's Jasons 2nd Favorite Game Genre? 2) What Online Squadron was founded by Jason? 3) Who has GoGamer.com signed a distribution contract with? What is at stake in all this. WOW!~ We have another set of great prizes from our sponsors at CHProducts, GoGamer.com, NaturalPoint, and Lead Pursuit. So, Be sure to visit their sites for some great gamer hardware as well. This time around, they have given us the opportunity to offer you the following: Contest Prizes: 1st Prize TrackIR 4 Pro Saitek Rudder Pedals Falcon 4: Allied Force 2nd Prize: Natural Point TrackIR Shirt CH ProThrottle Falcon 4: Allied Force 3rd Prize: Natural Point TrackIR Hat Just Flight C-130 Add-On and Just Flight F-117 Add-On on PC-CD Falcon 4: Allied Force

Last night to enter....

The two hottest air combat sims out today are Wings Over Europe(WOE) and Falcon 4: Allied Force (F4:AF). You can read more about them in their individual forums on this site. If you r looking for a WWI sim, well....there's that too...and you should check out more in the appropriate forum. Being from Argentina, you may also be interested in the development of Jet Thunder.....also check out that forum. Cheers!~ Fates

The Airbus 380 market is not passengers, but freight. And now, FedEx has canceled their orders and UPS may do the same in favor of the Boeing. I think the pax market was always intended to be small compared to freight.

Yep...I got backbone...and I'll knock you off that soapbox for a few days. Don't bring it to this forum...period.

I'll be doing calendars for the entire 2007 soon....I"ll remember your request.

Following the links here: http://www.arma-net.co.uk/ The game is very buggy at the moment, and I would suspect a patch relatively soon. They will be releasing the US version in January 2007 I think, and my guess it will be patched up already. Another downfall that I'm aware of is that GameSpy has pulled its lobby away from ArmA. There's a lot of disgruntled players over this... Fates