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The A26 was built during WW2, but seen action in the Korean War and Vietnam. I may have moved the Skins to match the location of the Aircraft Add-On that they get applied to. I could do a simple fix and rename the WW2 section to : WW2-Korean War, but the overall plan is to remove the era tags all together and lists each aircraft skin by the model number to which it should apply. Thus it will eventually be listed under A26 and varients as I will likely but A26, B26, A26A all in one skin category....but that would depend somewhat on which model that they are made for. As these categories become more and more filled, we definitely need to stay on top of the organization of the entire section. This is quite a task with the incredible support we get from modders uploading the mods. You are correct that since there was no "Correct" section that it should just be put in general. Give me a few days and I'll attempt to sort the entire SKINS section out by weeks end. Cheers!~ Fates

20 Questions With GoGamer Jason of GoGamer.com… 1. Tell us about GoGamer.com. When was it founded, and what is it all about? GoGamer was launched in December 2001. Actually, the name just changed from Compuexpert to GoGamer at that time. Compuexpert became our distribution name and GoGamer is our retail name. GoGamer is simply a great online retailer to buy PC / Video games and Accessories. Think of EB Games, but a bit different and with more interest in niche products and genres. And better prices!! 2. Is GoGamer.com strictly for any particular genre of gaming or do you cover the all the bases, sims included? We try to cover it all. We have a huge collection of games and they range from Barbie Ice Skating to Flight Sim X. We also carry hard-to-find older titles and niche titles. We also import some games you can’t find elsewhere in the States. If console games are your bag then you may be interested to know that we just recently, with the launch of our new website, expanded our console offering a million fold. We now have thousands of console games available for all platforms instead of just a few dozen. 3. Do you play sims? If so, what are your favorites? Of course I play sims! It’s what got me into gaming to begin with. It was my gateway drug as they say. I played F-117 on my mom’s old 386 machine and got hooked. In college I sold my 1965 Chevy Nova so I could buy a Pentium 100 box to play Jane’s Fighters Anthology, Mechwarrior 2 and X-Wing Gold on. I miss that car though. I think I lost my mind that semester. LOL. My favorite flight-sim(s) of all time is the IL-2 Sturmovik series followed by the Flight Simulator series. I also really enjoy WOV and WOE, but the amount of add-ons for all of these titles is mind-boggling. I can’t keep up. 4. What genre of sims are your favorite? Flight, naval, racing, or (GASP!) The Sims? My favorite genre is flight, followed by racing and then naval. I really like the way Silent Hunter 3 looks and feels, but I just know nothing about how to run a submarine. I’m a complete failure as a U-Boat captain. The Kriegsmarine would not have been pleased with me. And The Sims is not a simulation!!! I hate it, including on our website when we put The Sims under the “simulation” category. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to describe that type of game so it always ends up under the simulation heading. Stinks. If a simmer comes to your site and enters the simulation section and sees The Sims 2 for sale he or she will doubt we know what we are talking about. 5. Benny Hill… Genius or fool? Elaborate. Absolute genius in my mind. He’s the only Brit to be on American television with any regularity I think. And man, what a goofy show. It was racy by American standards. He invented the term “dirty old man”. LOL. 6. I’ve noticed that GoGamer.com has recently undergone a makeover. Can you tell us about that? Oh man, this was a big project for us. Where to begin, I mentioned the improved Video Games selection earlier, but the site is a marked improvement in many ways. Most of them behind the scenes changes that make us more competitive, but you’ll notice a change in the look and feel too. Some of the changes took some of our regular customers by surprise and we had a few bugs we had to fix, but things have smoothed out considerably since launch. In addition to more console games we also carry a HUGE selection of Music and DVDs and even some consumer electronics like digital cameras and MP3 players. We are also working to offer computer hardware as well. Soon, we’ll have just about anything a gamer needs. I encourage anyone who is interested in shopping with us to look around and check out the new site. 7. Clear the air in the following controversy… What does it for you, ThrustMaster, CH Products, or Saitek? Well, I don’t want to sound political here since we are a major distributor of Saitek products and I plan on carrying CH Products very soon, but I do use both. I use a CH stick or yoke with the X-52 Throttle and I just recently switched to the Saitek rudder pedals. I haven’t used a Thrustmaster stick in a long time. I never picked up a TM Cougar. Once my TM F-22 Pro died I was done with TM. Saitek has shown some real initiative lately in their stick designs which I applaud. I can’t wait to get my hands on the X-52 Pro. I also applaud CH for embracing the Ergodex technology in making their new MFP. 8. How does GoGamer.com support the sim community specifically? Well, we advertise on a couple sim websites we and try to support the community by providing some prizes for contests. We also make sure to offer some great deals on sim related gear such as the TrackIR. We were the first to sell the TrackIR 4 for $149.90. We also, try to import or carry great titles and add-ons you can’t find in the States such as the IL-2 DVDs. We also just signed an exclusive distribution contract with Just Flight for MSFS add-ons. So, you won’t have to order from England to get their best products anymore. You can just come to us. 9. Will we see more sims and sim-related hardware sold at GoGamer.com in the future? Yes, we will always carry sims and sim-related gear. I’m currently working to bring over the SHIII Med Add-on and we need to carry CH Products in the near future. We want simmers to shop with us and we’re working hard to make sure we have products you want. The world of simulation has thousands of products and we can’t possibly carry them all, but we try to bring you quality stuff at good prices. 10. Are Canadians real, or are they just figments of my imagination? Canadians are real and great people, but the Canadian government doesn’t like product coming from America. They have all kinds of fees and duties levied on imported stuff. And what makes it worse is that they apply these fees in an arbitrary manner which causes many items to be refused upon delivery, which costs we have to absorb. This happened quite a bit when I was at NaturalPoint shipping TrackIRs to Canadians. When GoGamer shipped to Canada in the past it became a nightmare. We haven’t completely shut the door on Canada, but we need to find a sure-fire non-hassle way to ship to the Great White North. 11. I notice that beyond gaming peripherals, no hardware is sold at GoGamer.com, not even consoles. Will that change? We will eventually sell hardware. We are working to secure a supplier for that business. And regarding consoles, we’ve experimented in the past, but they weren’t that successful. Xbox 360s proved difficult to secure and Wii and PS3 will be just as tough. All the retail channels are on allocation so it will be 6 months before they are readily available for us to grab out of distribution. And unlike what you may have heard, there is little profit in selling the consoles themselves. That’s why places like EB create these ridiculously expensive bundle deals. That way they make at least a couple bucks. 12. We’ve seen you active a lot in the forums of various sim sites, is that a trend that will continue, and is GoGamer.com active on other non-sim gaming sites? I’ve been active on various websites for about a decade now. I try to hit various gaming forums to see what the scuttlebutt is. I’m usually visible as GoGamer.com-Jason so people can be exposed to our name, but I still chat about random topics I’m interested in. However, with working so much I only get to hit one or two forms a day. Plus we launched our own GoGamer.com forum which can be found at gogamerforum.com. Our forum is off to a fair start, but hopefully it will grow and contain useful content for gamers. I don’t frequent any non-gaming forum per se because they tend to just be places for people to argue, but I do hang out at the SimHQ Community Hall a bit. It’s a rather benign group of peeps. And I do read the CombatAce forums, but I usually just lurk on that one. I consider the flght-sim forums as one big forum network. One good thing that gets posted somewhere usually gets posted on the others as well. 13. It has been my experience that GoGamer.com has one of the best customer support policies of any video game shopping sites that I have been to. Hopefully this won’t change. Was and IS customer support a big deal to GoGamer.com? Thanks for that compliment. We do try to provide excellent customer support and it is a big deal to us. We have had some hiccups in our new system that caused some customers some heartburn, but we’ve tried ultra hard to fix these issues quickly. Our basic policies have not changed since the launch of our new site, but some of the mechanics have. This was mainly due to increased customer security. We now have a very robust system to protect our customer’s data and credit card info. Unfortunately, that does cause customers to be better stewards of their account info with us. What’s cool is that once you have a customer account with us and use our order system once, you will see how you can easily manage your orders with us. Some people just don’t like change though. 14. Do you play any multiplayer or online sims, and if you do, which ones? Yes, but not as much as I used to. IL-2 is still my favorite followed by Lock On, but I’m dying to try FSX online and have some interaction with real life ATC. I just need to find some time. LOL. I have also raced some NASCAR 2003, GTR and rFactor online. And back in the day I used to fly Falcon 4 online. F4 Campaign servers are awesome. I also founded an online squadron the 777 AVG and after a couple years of that, I joined the 4th FG. We had some really great times flying IL-2 missions. 15. Will the French ever win a real war or are they forever doomed to pastry making? I have a degree in Political Science and I still don’t understand French foreign policy or military strategy, but let’s hope France doesn’t fight another war, cause every time they do we need to come rescue them. Just ask my Grandpa. LOL And for those that want to point out the Gulf War chill ax! I’m kidding.  16. Do you have a callsign/gamertag, or is GoGamer Jason your actual callsign? I’m known as GoGamer.com – Jason mostly now, but my god-given (LOL) callsign is Burnin or just BV. My middle name is Vernon so I thought Burnin’ Vernon was cool. But then it was widdled down to just Burnin and then just BV. On the forums I used to be 777 Burnin AVG. 17. The PS2 and XBOX360 and XBOX Live have been big hits, almost a revolution in gaming, selling in the tens of millions of units in terms of games and the consoles themselves… Do you think that the added emphasis on console gaming spells the end of PC gaming as we know it and by extension, hardcore sims? Consoles are indeed very popular, but that has been the case for a long time. However, the next-gen boxes have introduced console gaming to a PC audience like never before. But on another note, Microsoft has realized that to sell Vista, PC gaming has to be the catalyst. Gaming is the reason behind the PC’s evolution from a 386 chip to a Core 2 Duo. Microsoft is banking on PC games and is putting lots of marketing money behind the Games for Windows moniker. So, as a result, assuming DX10 is what everyone is hoping it will be, PC gaming will get a huge influx of cool titles to sustain the industry. And with regards to sims, well, it’s a mixed bag. There are only 3 maybe 4 studios that are creating custom engines to run hard-core sims on. One being Microsoft and the others being Maddox Games and Eagle Dynamics. There are some smaller outfits, but their work is not guaranteed yet i.e. any viable products on the market yet. Hopefully, these bigger studios will continue to make sims and hopefully these smaller guys can find the funding to survive. The best thing we can do is be enthusiastic about their products and give encouragement and actually buy their products. 18. What is the current state of PC Gaming, sims in particular, and where do you think we are headed? I kind of answered this already, but PC Gaming is going strong, but has more competition from consoles. Sims are struggling, but will rebound in the next year or so with fresh titles. As far as an industry I think we’re headed for the era of incremental products. i.e. BOB followed by the Med and then Eastern Europe etc… Oleg has proven this method works if you sell a decent amount of content along with bug fixes. MSFS has only survived because of the cottage industry that has emerged around it. As long as you can buy add-ons and prolong the products life simming in general will not die. rFactor is a great example of how mods can make a good sim even better and boost sales. 19. Is GoGamer.com in it for the long haul? Can we, as gamers, come to expect to see GoGamer.com around for a long time, and to enjoy the same level of continuing support from GoGamer.com? GoGamer is in definitely in it for the long-haul. But for us to be successful I need people to buy from us! We have a lot of competition in the retail world, but I think we bring some great things to the table. And we always have great specials such as our 48 Hour Madness and overall great pricing. I encourage anyone reading this to give us a look when shopping for games or sims. We will continue to support the sim community as much as possible. Our relationship with the sim community has been a positive one so far and we hope it will continue. 20. What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? I’m not sure, but no doubt there has been a heated discussion at the Ubizoo about it. Relax people, I’m just teasing! LOL Thanks for the interview CombatAce. I appreciate the opportunity to speak to fellow simmers and keep up the great work! Thank you for running the "20 Questions With" gauntlet Jason… Really interesting responses. We look forward to continued support for the simulation community from GoGamer.com and, of course, to the great pricing on hard to find simulation titles and add-ons that GoGamer.com provides.

Who said "It's so easy a Caveman could do it?" Sorry....just had to post that... Cheers~ Fates

I was in the process of editing some files last night when the database crashed. It was restored, and that is probably what you saw. When the database restored...it must have reposted all the announcements.

Hyperlobby Client View File HyperLobby (or just HL) is an online gaming lobby primarily designed to support online flight simulation and other online games. Submitter Fates Submitted 04/13/2006 Category IL2 Series Utilities/ Editors

View File G15 Manager for IL2 G15Manager.exe is a small C++/MFC 7.1 utility for those happy enough to have the exellent Logitech G15 keyboard with a built in display. The application will show information from the "eventlog.lst" file in the IL2 directory. The CPU and memory resources used are very moderate (at least on my system!). Download one of the zip-files below, extract to a directory of choice and start the application, pick your settings and click the "Start LCD Output". Then minimize it and start IL2... Don't forget to read the README.txt file for more information... Submitter Fates Submitted 02/12/2006 Category IL2 Series Utilities/ Editors

View File G15 Manager for IL2 with MFC dlls G15Manager.exe is a small C++/MFC 7.1 utility for those happy enough to have the exellent Logitech G15 keyboard with a built in display. The application will show information from the "eventlog.lst" file in the IL2 directory. The CPU and memory resources used are very moderate (at least on my system!). Download one of the zip-files below, extract to a directory of choice and start the application, pick your settings and click the "Start LCD Output". Then minimize it and start IL2... Don't forget to read the README.txt file for more information... Submitter Fates Submitted 02/12/2006 Category IL2 Series Utilities/ Editors

PLAAF Loading Screens View File 8 pack of Peoples Liberation Army Air Force aircraft loading screens. By Greg 'geg' Thomas June 2005 Submitter Fates Submitted 06/11/2005 Category SF/WO* Hanger/Menu/Loadout

F-104g RCAF Skin View File F-104 Starfighter, of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This skin is based on a profile by Chris Banyai-Riepl. Unzip to the Strike Fighters>Object>Aircraft>F-104g folder, and it will be put into its own directory: Canadian104 open up the F-104G ini in the F-104g main folder, and add this to the end [TextureSetXXX] Directory=Canadian104 Name=F104J Canadian Nation=Canada Squadron= Specular=0.30 Glossiness=0.85 Reflection=0.00 replace the XXX with the number after the previous entry, ie. [TextureSet004] Directory=White Wing F104J Name=F104J White Wing Nation=Japan Squadron=207 Hikotai Specular=0.30 Glossiness=0.85 Reflection=0.00 [TextureSet005] Directory=Canadian104 Name=F104J Canadian Nation=Canada Squadron= Specular=0.30 Glossiness=0.85 Reflection=0.00 enjoy! Greg 'geg' Thomas, November 2003. etendard@gmail.com UPDATE MARCH 11 2004. Updated the skin to use Decals by Klatuu and added "Armed Forces" around the insignia on the nose. Klatuu's version (of the same plane) is also excellent! :) Cheers. Submitter Fates Submitted 06/10/2005 Category F-100/F-101/F-102/F-104/F-105/F-106 Skins

Just thought I would let everyone know that Thirdwire has just put up their online store for everyone. You can Download: First Eagles: The Great Air War 1918 THIRDWIRE ONLINE STORE Cheers~

LOL..... Here he calls SFP1 a "One Hit Wonder" http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=92247

OK.....I'm browsing around...and stumble across this: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=149610 I read it...and thought...OMG. What is this guy thinking? Anyway...thought I would share his /sarcasm "Kind Words" /sarcasm with everyone.... Please leave him a comment. Rebuttal?

Being from Michigan Myself, you definitely cheered for Michigan or anyone that played against Notre Dame. It is a sad day. Fates

Hey Cheif~ How's that new old house doin? You got the living room all decked out with the projection screen and the home built simpit? Keep stopping by...plenty of new stuff abounds. Cheers~ Fates

Dagger has mustered up an 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 Visit the PT Boats:Knights of the Sea website: http://www.pt-boats.net/

Cyclonus, I've been with this site for over 3 years now and not once received spam aimed at the emails accounts that I have registered here. I do not have accounts on the sites that you mentioned so I can't vouch for the software that they use to protect their users. I can assure you that our technical guru Erik is always on top of the latest versions of software used on this site to prevent these things from happening. Fates www.CombatAce.com

Dante_JT has posted a little video to show progress - This is look HOT guys...can't Wait!!! -Fates <center><object width="308" height="254"><param name="movie" value=" name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="308" height="254"></embed></object></center>

Well...I would like to thank those that participated on our Allied Forces Contest! I hope you come to know Jay over at Multiviper.com as well as their whole site and services 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 Contest are as follows: 3rd Prize Winner: 96th_Nightshifter Falcon 4: Allied Force Natural Point TrackIR Hat IL-2 Complete Edition and Ostfront Add-On on PC-DVD 2nd Prize Winner: johnstryker Falcon 4: Allied Force Natural Point TrackIR Shirt Saitek Evo Wireless Joystick 1st Prize Winner: The_Nephilim Falcon 4: Allied Force TrackIR 4 Pro Saitek X-52 Joystick

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I miss a good MP jetsim. I know everyone here loves the realism and modability, but I miss simple MP. There's just so many of us that don't mid getting into the same cockpit with a different flight model and having a good old fashion dogfight. Janes USAF provided just that and with Janecombatnet closing, it was a gracious thing to see Jiri pick up the Hyperlobby to satify us all Only problem.... There still isn't a good middle road combat flight game to take the place of Janes USAF, Janes F-15, and F18. These were the benchmarks that the IL2 series lives up to (and beyond)....now...lets see IL2 with modern avionics already... 1946 is just too early. Fates

We are pleased to announce our latest contest series. For Details, please see this thread: ALLIED FORCE CONTEST!

Welcome everyone to CombatAce.com. We are pleased to announce our latest contest series. We simply require that you be a registered user in good standing of both the CombatAce.com forums and the Multiviper.com forums. We are happy to announce an interview with Jay "Multiviper" Young of Multiviper.com which without doubt runs the largest Falcon 4: Allied Force Multiplayer Server on the web. We hope everyone takes the opportunity to read the interview and visit Multivipers site as he has put together a great server. Contest Rules: You must be registered with CombatACe.com and Multiviper.com to win. All winning contestants will be verified via email accounts on both sites, so it's important that you use the same email address when registering with CombatAce.com and Multiviper.com. You simply need to visit Multiviper.com and enter feedback in this forum thread. All winning entries accounts will be verified. This Contest is a "Give-Away" contest and winners will be randomly chosen by the CombatAce.com Staff. The Contest will run until 12:ooam PST on October 16 (Sunday Night) and winners will be verfied and announced no later then 10/20/2006. Contest Prizes: 1st Prize Falcon 4: Allied Force TrackIR 4 Pro Saitek X-52 Joystick 2nd Prize: Falcon 4: Allied Force Natural Point TrackIR Shirt Saitek Evo Wireless Joystick 3rd Prize: Falcon 4: Allied Force Natural Point TrackIR Hat IL-2 Complete Edition and Ostfront Add-On on PC-DVD Please visit our contest sponsors as they have offered up some great prizes. You can click any of the banners above. Enjoy Michael "Fates" Brown Founder CombatAce.com

20 questions with… Jay “Multiviper” Young of Multiviper.com, arguably the largest Falcon 4.0: Allied Force multiplayer server on the web. www.Multiviper.com 1. Why the callsign Multiviper? What’s the significance? The callsign was originally going to be the name of the server since the F-16 is called a Viper and there was going to be multiple players on the site, I came up with “Multiviper’s Server” and somehow I morphed into the callsign. It’s all Good.  2. Is F4AF the only flight sim you play or are interested in? Right now yes, F4AF is the only simulation I play. If and when Lead Pursuit releases another sim, I am sure I will be playing that as well and I will have a dedicated server for it. 3. What drew you to creating a site like MVS? Why invest so much time and effort? I bought my first computer back in the early nineties, just to play flight simulations, and Falcon 3.0 was my favorite out of all the ones available back then. I dreamed of the day that a sim would have stable multiplayer capabilities, like Lead Pursuit has done with F4AF, and with the same level of complexity that F4AF has. 4. Tell us about what you do in the real world. I understand that playing games and sims is not just your hobby… I am an Oracle Database Administrator as my day-to-day “real” job, so I guess you could say that I use computers for both work and play. 5. As most F4AF pilots know, you can fly more than just the F-16 in F4AF, albeit with some limitations… What is your favorite aircraft to fly, and why? I don’t really have a favorite aircraft, but I do enjoy flying the F-16 the most in F4AF just because it has the correct cockpit modeled in the game. I like the immersion of it. I just don’t feel like I am flying another aircraft type unless I am looking at its own 2D cockpit model and 3D cockpit model. It’s a suspension of disbelief thing. 6. Do real men wear pink, or is that just a myth? Myth. Real men wear chartreuse… 7. When doing missions on the Multiviper server, do you have any favorite mission type, or any mission preference at all? I like the ground-pounding, of course, air-to-air is also great, but I would rather be in low dropping bombs on the enemy. It seems more intense than waiting to dodge a missile from 20 miles out. Close up A2A is great also. I like the close-in knife fights. 8. When version 1.06 of F4AF was proven unstable for multiplayer, LP quickly had a fixed version of the game .exe available for open testing on your site. For quite a while, Multiviper.com was the only server that had it, and so you were the only game in town, so to speak. What is the relationship between Multiviper.com and Lead Pursuit, if any? I run a public F4AF server. It is not private. All are welcome and invited to fly online here. This, and the fact that we are so well known in the F4AF community, is why we received the beta .exe. The relationship between Multiviper.com and Lead Pursuit is you guys, the pilots that fly their simulation… Plus they know they can get on the Multiviper TeamSpeak server at anytime, and get real feedback from the pilots on the server about any issues, or any in game bugs. 9. Is Multiviper.com around to stay, or are you one of the many multiplayer sites that come and go quickly? Well, Multiviper.com has been around for over a year now, and I have no plans to take down the site. I think the reason behind the success of the server has been the 24/7, have fun and enjoy yourself, approach that we take at Multiviper.com. Not to mention the wealth of knowledge that a lot of the pilots have to impart to newer, greener pilots, and their willingness to help out the new guys and get them up in the sky and having fun in as little time as possible. 10. You’ve had problems with TeamSpeak hackers in the past… Have you had similar issues with the actual F4AF server and/or the Multiviper web site? What steps, if any, have you made to thwart these kinds of disturbances? I can’t do much about the TeamSpeak hackers except to warn my Server Admin’s not to grant (SA) rights to anyone without prior authorization, or to grant any weird or extraordinary request from unregistered or registered users. The Multiviper.com web server had some weird happenings once, but since then I have beefed-up the firewall and virus protection. It would be a lie to say it was 100% secure, but if someone were to hack into the server, it would not take more than a day or so to get it back up and running again, as it is a dedicated F4AF server with backup imaging and recovery processes, and with no secret government documents on it whatsoever. 11. What does it take to fly on the Multiviper.com server? Is there an admissions process as there is on many other sites? Do you need to demonstrate any particular skill level? Is there some type of military style hierarchy or chain of command? It’s easy to sign up at Multiviper.com. You do not need any particular skill level to fly on the Multiviper.com server, the only things that are required are a good broadband internet connection capable of sustaining a minimum of 128k on the upstream (with TeamSpeak working, so figure a minimum of 160k) and 256k minimum downstream speed (approximately 300k with TeamSpeak), reading the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) which is posted on the Multiviper.com web site, and signing up on the TeamSpeak server. Voice communications are a must have for Falcon, and TeamSpeak is required on the Multiviper.com server. If you can meet those requirements, then you’re in. We do not have a military-style chain of command, Multiviper.com is about having a good time and enjoying yourself flying with others. Basically, anyone should be able to jump right in and fly at just about any time, regardless of skill level. 12. Rate your skills. Would you characterize yourself as a good F4AF pilot? Who on the Multiviper site that you have flown with, impressed you the most with their skills, besides me naturally <flick, flick>? We understand that this is subjective of course, but let’s put their callsign in lights anyway… I am happy enough with my skills when I don’t hit the ground… I would say that I get better every day at flying the sim, and that is what intrigues me the most about F4AF. I learn something new every time I fly, and that is a Good Thing™. There are several excellent pilots that I fly with on the server. To name a few there… Kidvicious, MVS-Viper, Chandawg, Rainmaker, Gas, you (MVS-Skater), MVS-Khronik, OzCougar, Langy, MVS-Laugher, Rocky, VIP, Red Rover, JPClark, BlackAngel, Wicked, Panther, Teej, Shabo, Passive, Evil Koala, Blaze, Ricardo, and countless others… Sorry if I forgot anyone’s name, but there really is just a huge wealth of excellent, talented pilots on the Multiviper.com server. 13. What is the most challenging thing to do in multiplayer F4AF right now? Surviving!!! There is an all-out Sea/Air/Land war going on and it’s up to you and the other guys on the server (with a little help from the AI) to stop the enemy from advancing. But I would really say that multiplayer dog-fighting is hard as hell to get proficient at. 14. Are children welcome on the Multiviper.com server? What’s the recommended age for pilots there? That’s a tough question... Depends on the kid. I can’t control the language or the content and context of what is said on the Multiviper TeamSpeak server, so the kid would have to be old enough to deal with that aspect and be mature enough to be able to handle it. Other than that we really do not impose any age restrictions on our users. 15. Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party? No. I can honestly say that I have never worked for an oil company.  16. What is your stand on the F4AF mods issue? Are you for opening up F4AF to open community modding, as in the original Falcon 4.0 release, or are you in favor of LP’s approach of having modder’s submit their works for approval and inclusion? Which model so you think is the better approach? I think LP’s approach to this issue is the correct response for the overall good of the community. When flying multiplayer, we all need to be on the same page so to speak… If we have 12 people on the server with 12 different installs, bad things are bound to happen. 17. What’s next for the Multiviper site? Do you now support other games and sims, or do you have plans to support other games/sims in the future? It would have to be a great simulation… It would have to live up to Falcon’s gold standard of excellence in order to be considered. There are not too many sims out there that can be measured favorably against that yardstick. 18. How big is the Multiviper site? How many registered users do you have, and what is the most F4AF pilots you’ve had online at once? We currently have over 1600 registered users on the web site, and over 900 registered users on the TeamSpeak server. The biggest package I believe we have put together is a 24-ship package. It crashed the server pretty quick, and we had to pair off into smaller packages, but that was early on, with version 1.03 or 1.04. I think with the updates LP has done, and especially now with version 1.07, it might well be time to try this again sometime soon and go for the 32-ship gorilla package. I know we have maxed out the (50) slots available on the TeamSpeak server quite a few times, so a 32-ship package is a definite possibility, IF F4AF can handle it. But generally there are around 10 to 20 pilots on the TeamSpeak server at any given time. 19. Tell about a particularly fun or exciting mission you had on the Multiviper server… It would have to be the first 12-ship package we ever flew on the server. There was nothing particularly outstanding about the mission itself, but just the fact that we had that many people flying together trying to complete a common goal… Strike the target, and make it home alive. That made it one of the coolest and most memorable mission, despite the fact that we routinely fly packages of 16 ships or more now. 20. What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? Google it baby!!! That’s it! You’ve successfully survived 20 Questions With! Thanks a bunch for your time Multi. No problem dude, any time. Well, we hope you’ve enjoyed the first installment of 20 Questions With Multiviper, and we hope you’ll join us again for the next installment coming to CombatAce.com soon. 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Sweet. 10000000X better then the stupid dim light of the USAF Museum in Dayton. Lots of light shed on these wonderful aircraft.....love it. Didn't the Valkyrie goto Dulles? I was pissed when I waz at dayton last and it was missing from the collection. Fates