Icarus999

The marines flew the F-4S until 1992, They sent pilots to train at top gun up until the type was retired.

lol ... the only way those sharks would bite you would be as an an attempt to hold on to something. Getting pelted with shark shit would be more of a hazard than shark bite :)

ROFLMAO!!!

Why Doesn't he just upload it over here at CA? Considering the amount of help our members have given him over the years it seems like that would make sense.

I still think something like this makes a good choice for the fighter squadrons

The marines Had a Lot of A-4M's in service... They would be a logical choice for the airwings.

There are some old threads on this very subject, the idea of refurbishing some of the Essex class ships was very real. The Navy was planning to take F-8J's out of mothballs to provide the fighters for these Carriers' air wings.

Someone in a boat offshore.

We salute you Erik.... Amazing dedication.

How Is it done? I am not seeing the the add photo buttons in the edit signature area of my edit profile controls.

I had a security program called NoScript enabled, It makes the editor buttons disappear.... makes sense as they must use Java script. When I looked at the signature section I had no editing capability whatsoever.

Thank you, I have been wishing for this for years, its a big help!

Do not discard your old games or patch levels if you choose to download the latest versions. There are things that are locked with the new patches...and other things work better with certain older patches. The ability to create unique installs at older patch levels is a great thing.

It seems to vary quite a bit, AI attackers ( fighters that are pursuing other flights) can be relentless... but the defenders can be flat out retarded at times. Many times I have watched the defending AI fighters fly in formation with an enemy flight on their 6, as the enemy flight was happily gunning them down one by one

Because he was brilliant,and excelled at what he did. Many amazingly gifted people become so bored by our educational system that they drop out of high school.

Yep it undoubtedly is. I used to do a lot of shark fishing off California back in the 80's when the shark population was still in good shape. Now the population has crashed... the results are a few sharks have grown to monstrous proportions like this one... a shrinking population of small juvenile sharks, and very little in between. Seeing this big female dead makes me very sad. When Mako's in California waters reach sizes of 10 feet or so they begin targeting seals and sea lions because the sword fish and marlin populations are depleted. When they start eating seals they put on weight fast.

I have 2 installs of sf2na- one at the April 2012 patch and another at May 2013. I have noticed an issue with AI, AI fighter aircraft continue to fly on straight and level... often in formation, while they are under attack by enemy aircraft. This reminds me of the 2006 patch level of the "wings over" series. The AI got much better in 2008 and was carried over to SF2, But now it seems to be messed up again. Are you guys seeing this behavior... or is it just something going on in my installs?

My observations are from watching the AI flights fight other AI flights and also from watching how my AI squadron mates react to being locked up and attacked. Generally the attacking AI flights relentlessly pursue their targets, however the targeted flight most often remain in a loose weaving formation. Occasionally one of the targeted aircraft will loop back to cover the 6 of the formation, but this seems rare. Altitude does not seem to matter that much as I recall but i will look into it. The flights are fresh into the combat so it is doubtful that fuel is the issue. I just flew a mission In SF2E at the 2010 patch level and the AI tried to kill everything that locked it up on radar.... big difference in game play.

We used to be able to Rename the .EXE : as in - (Strike fighters2Whatever .EXE) and the Main INI: ( Strike fighters2Whatever. INI) which would then create a New Mod folder: (Strike fighters2Whatever) and the result would be a new stand alone Exclusive instal. When I did this with SF2NA/ Vietnam merged -patched April 2012, I get a new mod folder but the game freezes as soon as I select single mission or instant action(I did not bother to try campaign)... and I must CTRL+ALT+DEL to escape from the frozen screen. Anyone have any ideas whats going on here?

Thanks guys, I knew I was forgetting something.

I have E-3 sentry's in my install.... they took a while to start showing up. Random chance is my guess. I had the same issue with other aircraft, they eventually started showing up.

So if you set soviet navy as enemy nation 002 the soviet battle groups will show up in game, yet you are still able to strike land targets? Im trying to find a way to to strike land targets... while still being able to create mission editor missions that target the battle groups

What about the "new" Naval_strike coding that was implemented for SF2na... could someone explain how this works, and why... if NAVAL_STRIKE exists that only a "general" strike option is available.

lol