Olham

Indeed! My first "Tim & Struppi" (Tintin & Snowy) books cost 3,50 Deutsche Mark back in the mid 60s, which was a lot of money for me then. Now they cost 9,- Euro - that would be 18,- Deutsche Mark!!! We don't have inflation anymore? Huh! They've only found new words for it!

I guess it's alright, and you shall receive that number. As you haven't got an insurance, you should do yourself the favour, and save the downloaded HitR! to an external drive, or to a DVD; so once you need to make a fresh new install, it is still there.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone at Ducksburg* and the rest of the states! (*or how is "Entenhausen" named in the original stories?)

A partly wonderful, and overall rather bizzare collection of random pics there, Carrick. But when she treated you well enough in hospital, that you could walk out again...

You mean, you are in the "OFF FORUM PILOTS Maps? And you HAD bought the drinks for us already?

No, Hasse Wind, wings still break off, partly or whole. Just holes in the fabric with the visible struts underneath, won't appear. Aren't you a complete newbie here, blackbaron? Almost forgott to welcome you! We have a great tradition here - new guy buys the drinks! I'll have a virtual Warsteiner!

Don't let your lady read that, Widow! I would be quite pleased already with Kiera Knightley lying next to me. She needn't whisper anything... just not run away. What I really would like to se: a top-notch (graphics- and storywise) remake of "Crimson Skies"! Come on, MICROSOFT - you can do it!

Blackbaron, you should look into "Workshops" and make sure you haven't set "Aircraft Skins" to "HighRes". At high resolution you won't see as much damage as on "normal res".

I knew all the time, that the red text in the upper left corner ("Z" key) shows the geographic coordinates of my momentary position in flight. But I had never before noticed, that you don't even need that red text. When you open your inflight map, they appear in it's upper right corner, in white. Now I used them for the first time for a claim report. Not sure, how exactly the claims manager wants them; I left out the numbers after the comma for the seconds. They coordinates now looked like this: N49*19'35" E5*34'50" I'll report, if it got affirmation (although: I was alone and entered "La Folie Ferme ground crew" as witnesses). Here's the Nieuport's crash site from GoogleMaps:

Railway tracks work very well in OFF - you can use them for navigation.

...as long as you don't hurt anyone...

Okay, okay - I'll save some money for it! (Thank you guys).

Good point, von Paulus.

Wayfarer, it isn't only good for crash sites. You can check lakes for example, and you'll find, that they are where real lakes are. Fly over a lake near your field, and note the coordinates from the inflight map. Then check in GoogleMaps, and you will most likely find a lake there or very nearby. It makes flying by map even easier, to check some landmarks around your airfield and see they really exist. In Alsace, I am flying mostly via paper map - and it feels like being free from any HUDs or info texts - free as a pilot.

"Hat in the Ring!" is only 9.99 USD now, and it brings you advanced "Workshops" settings, and several new planes (in other sims you have to buy each new plane). You should not experience any complications with "HitR!" - if BH&H is running fine, "HitR!" will also do so. Your decision - OFF P4 may still take well into next year to get released.

Damn - another one who seems to say, the price is justified....

CW3SF, if you don't have the addon "Hat in the Ring!", you still have the original "BH&H" AI. Then you do not need to select the AI quality. If you have "HitR!" installed, then you find it in the "Workshops", lower middle. See here: PS: you may say about OFF's AI what you want, but I haven't found one that fought better.

CW3SF, you need to write the names of your witnesses into the upper line, no ranks, first and family name, with commas inbetween. (Best note all wingmen before takeoff). The report itself should NEVER use any semicolons (that is a stop sign for the code language and will stop the report there.). You could write it like this: Over Soissons, we clashed with 5 Albatros D.V scouts and engaged them. I chased one craft from 3000 feet down to 1000 feet. Then I shot the whole bottom left wing off. The Albatros crashed into Soissons town at N 49* 22' 54" E 3* 19' 25" at 15:24 h. That's more or less how I write them, with the exception that I never yet used coordinates and can't yet say, if that increases chances.

Mighty, I can do nothing else for you than to wish you all the success you need - small or big, and this I really do. I can only say, that my ATI HD4870 (1GB) is a good choice still for running OFF. As the card came out summer 2008, but is still quite good, and shouldn't cost to much second hand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_R700

Wellllll - you've been away for some time, and we had several postings with links from them. You should go for all films by HAFU Video, which are their official video makers. Here is my favourite - the Albatros D.Va with the markings of Vizefeldwebel Josef Mai, Jasta 5:

I guess that you will have enough "less-grainy" default ones for the various Jastas to pick one of those for skinning? Some of us here are advertising OFF over in this Screenshots-Forum - here is my latest "almost-advertising": http://www.screenshotworld.com/forum/index.php?/topic/2742-spad-vii-from-one-of-my-french-campaigns-in-over-flanders-fields/page__view__findpost__p__16853

For "Aces over Europe" I had to "shovel" some extra memory free in "HighMem Sys" or so - my rig was running on the extreme back then - with only one hard drive with 500 MB - Mmuahahahahahahahahaaaa!!!!!!!

Indeed! Let's hope, that the PC and the gaming market for it, won't disappear!

It may well be, that the future computers and software will get built that way. And I dare to predict, that we will then look back at the old days of PC with big sorrow. The PC with it's OS and all other software is perhaps a big mess, hard to set up right - but it offers us so much freedom on the other hand IMHO.

Most people don't even know how to adjust their ATI Catalyst Control Center - if they would do, they would perhaps not have stutters. Technology advances much faster than the users.