DanW

Yes, tail skids, A-4 wings, new lights and vents and some intakes have been reworked. New templates will cure all the ills when they get released. :)

Yes, the F-105 model was reworked. It's not exactly new, but we reworked enough of it that it needed to be remapped from the ground up. At some point soon, I think we will get some templates released. The other aircraft, stated before, haven't changed much, so most older templates will work. A few parts got remapped on some of the planes, but I can't remember which. I think the F-8 landing gears maybe, and some parts for the F-4 and A-4 in SF2 were remapped.

Commando.... It's not just one of the greatest Arnold movies ever made! You still owe me a Wisconsin based pastry of some sort, but that's OK. :yes:

Don't lie...you are too busy cross dressing. You should go to frugalsworld and help Stiglr with his cockpit. :ph34r:

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Oh dear... Never thought I'd do this but: Flightsims are dead. Well, almost dead. Let's call it life support. Follow this link: http://static.filefront.com/cgw/1989_12_issue66.pdf Look up the A-10 and M-1 games and find the retail price: 69.99 and 49.99. Quite a bit eh? Now take a newer game like FE: 29.99. Now, given the state of graphics in 1989 versus the state of graphics in 2006, would anyone disagree that the amount of labor needed to make a flight sim today be astronomically higher than in 1989? Also, let's look at the number of player flyable aircraft/tanks in the 1989 games. ONE. How many in IL-2, First Eagles, Jet Thunder, LOMAC, etc, etc? NOT ONE. So take the one flight model, cockpit, shadow, damage model (if the 1989 games even had shadows and damage) and then multiply that times the number of planes in the game. Now lets add high resolution skins, decals, animation, lights etc, etc. Finally, let us QA and debug all that. Oh yeah, remember we are selling for close to half of what we sold for 15 years ago. And trust me, we aren't selling more copies now than in 1989. Let us now do some accounting. I think you get the point. A few people paying 100 bucks for a simulation isn't gonna do near as good as a game selling for 1/3 of that price in stores all over the world. Roughly the same amount of people are buying flight sims today than 15 years ago. The retail price has went down. The development cost has skyrocketed. The numbers don't add up anymore. That's why there are so few. It has jack squat to do with quality, flight models or anything else. The people that make these sims, American, Russian, etc, etc, do it because they love it. If you think anyone is doing this to get rich your seriously mistaken. But in the end, its up to individuals to buy the games (yes, they are games, all of them) if they so chose. If you think that 'holding out' for someone to make the Holy Grail of flight simulation, then you are gonna be waiting a long time. SF/WOV/WOE/FE are all about what you make of them.

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...please go read the Thirdwire beta board. dan

Patch 2 is still in the works and will be released when it's done. Anything else you hear is just a rumor. dan

The F-86 is ready for download. Mirror it if you like. Thanks for your patience and sorry it took so long. We'll plan on updating at the bugs roll in. The PSD templates will follow shortly. dan http://geocities.com/dczurawski/index.htm

"MP issues are the downfall of this sim. You CANNOT make a sim these days without getting the MP working. TK ignored MP in his first patch, totally alienating half of his fan base." I wouldn't consider you part of TK's fan base.

That is the bombsight. Back in the day, that's all they had.

Don't worry, he does this ever 2 months...and has to post it on every message board there is. :roll: He'll be back. :)

LOL I can't win in this forum. :roll: Thanks for changing the title Jeff, it was very misleading the way this guy posted it. Besides don't you think that there would be someone in official capacity announcing this patch delay? ie, TK, SFI, myself or SimHQ? As I said before, this kinda stuff isn't healthy and some folks are just a tad bit sensitive in some forums. The patch should be out sometime today as per SFI. And yes, I do have a clue. More than you can imagine. 8)

Yet you post the exact same thing here.... :roll: This kinda stuff isn't healthy for anybody. Dan

I thought this guy gave up on Strike Fighters....

There is no OpenGL support for Stirke Fighters. It uses Direct3D. Dan

Just a short F-86 update. We'll be working on it a little faster now. ETA is unknown (A.K.A 'when it's done' 8) ) Dan

Chaff is not implemented in the game yet.

Hehe, OK OK, Jeff and Fates run a good board here so no need to get in a pissing match. 1) The pic that was in your thread was pretty sick. Whether or not you posted it, I have no clue. In any event the thread is gone, no harm done. 2) Check the game credits. You may see a name on them that looks just a tad bit like my user name. So yes, you are insulting a member of the dev team. In fact, im pretty sure one of the moderators already emailed you and told you who I am. So what is this stalking thing? 3) That F-86 you are talking about...that's MY plane(shared with Zur of course). So yes, you are insulting one of the persons making the F-86. 4) Please stop sending me personal messages calling me a fool. I get the point. 5) Enjoy the game and the forum, that's what it's here for. And lighten up just a tad bit. :) My apologizes to Fates and Jeff for this little tirade. Dan(the newbie) 8)

I guess you don't know who I am do you?

That was a pretty disgusting pic you posted. Not cool at all.

I like the second one :)

Nice site, We'll try and stop in here when we can to help folks out. :) dan