SGCSG1

I play the piano, mostly classical music. I'm in an online Falcon 4.0 squadron, the 72nd VFW. Flying modern jets multi-player with 8 other guys is AWESOME. I'm addicted to Civilization IV. And Civilization IV 'The Warlords'. And Civilization IV 'Beyond the Sword'. And lets not forget Civilization IV: Colonization. My, they do get their money's worth out a game engine, don't they?

I just got an email from the ROF people asking me to participate in a survey. It was very short, four questions focused on 'why haven't you bought ROF'. First question had a 'I do not believe in the Internet Connection requirement', and that's what I clicked. If they would back off on that I would buy this in a heartbeat. Oh well, we'll see. In the meantime I wish them luck.

My install of OFF is g.o.n.e...GONE, like the rest of my computer. I've spent all day rebuilding it. I spent three hours screwing around with a nightmare product called 'Bitdefender'. It kept killing my wireless network. WTF? Unbelieveable. You had to do all this weird nonsense to get it to work and - get this - settings were not carried over from one account to the next. Logon as another user....fight the bitdefender software for an hour. Junk, just junk. So what do you guys use?

Looks great, I'd love to dload them should they become available.

Very interesting: http://io9.com/5321837/peter-jackson-spill...war-i-airplanes I wish he'd make a movie with them!

The missing post is nothing, it probably didn't go thru when I hit enter - my internet connection really sucks. Which is one more reason, even I was willing to, I could not play 'ROF' (which I have no interest in anyway, since OFF is so amazing, why bother with another WW1 sim). The problem with most discussions of DRM is this: Sooner or later (and usually sooner....much sooner) the people on the 'pro' side of the DRM debate accuse the people on the 'anti' side of the debate of being thieves, thinking like thieves, acting like thieves, etc. That gets old. VERY OLD. I've been a gamer since 'X-Wing' came out in 1993. Not so much anymore. After the starforce fiasco I started taking a VERY pro-active look at potential game purchases DRM. I will not install steam or any other 'run in the background' client. I will not purchase any game that has limited installs. I don't mind one 'authentication' on install. But always connected to the internet? Unless it's a multi-player only game, that's just nuts. Needless to say, I don't spend near the money or time on computer gaming I once did. When I said 'ROF has a rotten business model' I absolutely believe it. I think if they had a simple, offline disk-check (like MFCS3, for example) they would get MORE sales than they will with this crazy 'you always have to be connected to our server' nonsense. Just my opinion based on my experiences as a gamer, my many gaming friends feeling about this kind of thing, and what I read about this issue. No way to say if I'm right or wrong. But I really believe this intrusive DRM is not going to be a long-term thing. The market just will not stand for it. I hope I'm right. I guess we'll see over time.

I wish the Boeing plane had won the JSF contest. I thought it was an amazing design.

A short lesson in logic and bad manners: Person A: "A flat tax is the only fair tax". Person B: "Only thieves think a flat tax is a good idea". What has happened here is Person B has indulged in what is called an 'abusive ad hominem'. It is a logical fallacy. And remarkably rude. Here, let me give you a second example, just so you know how this works: Person A: " ROF has a ROTTEN BUSINESS MODEL." Person B: "Its only rotten from a user whose perspective is skewed towards feeling like a thief and then possibly acting like one." So, again, we see that when someone has no logical, intelligent reply to a stated position they can resort to insulting the PERSON who made the first statement, instead of attacking the statement itself. Remember that...'abusive ad hominem'. You see it all the time in politics. Now you see it on this forum. Pretty sad. People should be able to express their opinions without being called thieves.

I completely disagree with you here. I HAVE NOT and WILL NOT buy ROF, or any game that requires constant internet authentication, or has limited installs. The people who download stuff from torrents (you, know, people who STEAL STUFF) would not necessarily be customers if they could not download it. But there are a lot of people like me, who WOULD buy something if the DRM wasn't so intrusive. So, no, IMHO, horsesh*t DRM does NOT guarantee more sales. Quite the reverse. Games that make a big deal out of not having bad DRM do VERY WELL in sales. Be good to your customers instead of treating them like thieves and screwing with their PC's - that's the way to 'guarantee a bit more volume of sales'. There are more PC games I'd like to play than I have time for. So I can pick and choose where I put my money. I choose to support companies that treat their customers well, and not companies that think that screwing their customers is the best way to get more customers. And yes, starforce is screwing your customers. I spent TWO DAYS debugging and rebuilding my PC because of that junk. Limited installs, constant online verification for single-player games....FORGET IT. ROF has a ROTTEN BUSINESS MODEL.

I'm still waiting for the 'Red Baron' to get its U.S. release on dvd. And waiting, and waiting.....

Do you like that airplane you're shooting at? Good, because you're going to end up wearing it any second now. :yes:

It's a great single-player game, best WW1 sim I've played since the original Red Baron. I haven't done any multi-player (yet) but I'm sure I'll get around to that someday. One of the many great things about OFF is that OBD Software is great about patches and improvements. I suspect multi-player will be ramped up on the priority list in the future.

This is a really nice forum. Lots of helpful folks. OFF can be a little weird at first, but once you get it setup the way you like, it's really slick.

I'm not happy with the MCFS3 default key commands, so I spent a lot of time setting up what I thought was a really nice keyboard map. And then my PC crashed. HARD. Before I start this process again (practice makes perfect)....is there a way to save the keyboard maps? Is it an external file somewhere that I can put on my backup drive, and then replace in case I reload again? I looked around in the OBD directory and nothing caught my eye. Thanks for any comments/suggestions.

Outstanding!!! Thank you! This is going to be a big help for those of us who like to re-do the mapping from the ground up. Mods - maybe this should go in the tips & tricks sticky?

If you need more money for that, just ASK. :yes:

Yeah, I got rid of those modifier commands and simplifed everything. Find friend = 'F'. Kill engine = 'B'. I've got my spreadsheet print-out, but I'm not sure how final it was, and it sure would be nice to be able to save the file.

That sounds good, too. I wonder if potential customers look at patch web-pages and are intimidated by the variety of patches. Yeah, I know, we hard-core don't care. :yes: But this sim is so good I'd like to see more newb's try it! I know I was slowed down for awhile by the whole, 'you need to have another sim (MSFCS3)' to install it, but you folks have made that so ridiculously easy it's not even near being an issue anymore.

Very nice, thanks for the good news. I'm curious, what is XDP/DM rationalisation?

Makes sense. I'll look forward to NOT reading the ROF posts that aren't there. :yes:

They may elect creepy Senators, but apparently they write damn good letters, too.

Thanks, I thought it was a keyboard-in-flight thing. I've tried bumping it up and didn't see much difference, I'll have to experiment when I have more time. The graphics in this sim are sooo good. I love the terrain. Hard to believe it started out as CFS3!

What are these settings? And where can they be found? 2) User FOV settings (Field-of-View) for Virtual Cockpit! Thanks for any info, I looked for a readme for this patch and couldn't find one in the OFF folder.

Outstanding letter. GOOD JOB! It will be very interesting to see if anything comes of this.

THANK YOU FOR THAT TIP !!!!!