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What about 'uppers' and 'downers'?

Mmuahahahahahaaa!!!! MudWasp, I remember I had a similar time with him while being in Jasta 2. You see, now you got some kind of friend, and you both won't get bored, but can look forward to the next meeting. I shot him down over the lines once, in a fight very low over the mud. But he must have climbed out of the wreckage and entered another S.E.5a. Next day he wanted revenge. Personally I prefer it this way - I would want to see the historical aces as long as they would have been there. You can still note in your pilot book: "Shot down British ace Albert Ball". .

Ahem... - yes, you are obviously QUITE happy! Welcome back, Tranquillo, and good luck in the air and in bed on the ground!

Hi, Shiloh! I also recommend to switch all aids off. Suddenly you see the real events then, and it works fine. Throw away your crutches, brother - you can walk! I never had that problem to keep up with my flight - so I recommend: Albatros! (Mmuahahahahaaa!!!!) But seriously: maybe it helps when you do NOT try to climb as well as them, but rather concentrate on good forward speed. Only climb a bit, then line up with horizon, until the crate has the full speed again; then climb a bit again, and so on. I call it "staircasing". Once the flight reached their altitude, they won't climb anymore, and you may reach them. Another thing you could do is (for the price of loosing personal skins): fly with limited fuel. Of course you must know how much the journey takes to return safely...

For a start, I don't think there are 8 must-haves. Let me see... 1. a good joystick as described by Bullethead, plus: a very fine-graded sensitive response* 2. rudder pedals - especially essential for WW1 aircraft** 3. TrackIR - puts you in the cockpit! 4. a good graphic card, that allows quick head movements without producing white jaggies, or stutters 5. a fast enough CPU that allows the immediate generation of plenty of fighting aircraft around you 6. a 16:9 or 16:10 monitor - the higher the resolution, the better That's it IMHO - only 6 essentials. * since I always had problems with aiming and shooting, I have now bought me a stick with much finer sampling than most others - and the improvement is incredible! The stick is the THRUSTMASTER T16000 M from the Guillemot team, who also build the great (but far more expensive) THRUSTMASTER HOTAS WARTHOG. The sampling matrix inside the stick has 16000 x 16000 dots! The accuracy you get is absolutely stunning! ** pedals are not a must-have to be able to control the aircraft - they are a must-have, because they give you the right and much more real impression of how it was to fly these craft.

Bullethead - man, this time you had me worried! This leave was a bit too long, Sir!

Hey, Flyby, I meant to send the same: seasoned with a little blink of the eye. A pity we can't post incl. "emotional timbre". I knew you were only joking.

(You see I know nothing much about baseball. But knowing you, and seeing you are most exited, I wish him all the good luck and success he will need for that!)

Ahem - I have a more professional "vision" of them. They are all grown ups. They have made an incredible cornerstone for WW1 Air Combat Sims with OFF. They are not under the pressure of company managers or money lenders. They are actually as free as can be to build a great follow-up product. And I bet, that is exactly what they are doing. In their own time.

That is what I meant to say too. No one wants an unfinished product. From OBD we wouldn't have to expect a halfbaked sim for sure. The idea was only to eventually split off parts, which can be added later. But however the decision and the way - I will wait and I'll be ready.

I agree with Hasse Wind here. Of course you want to get the FM and tactical AI behaviour done right, but for more additional aircraft, you could always add expansion packs. I guess no one would resent that - I certainly not - and IMHO a sim like WOFF is anyway quite inexpensive compared to the immense amount of work that has gone into it. So extra aircraft could be thought of and be bought later. Everyone here should know by now, that you are only few modellers, and that an aircraft model takes a long time to build nicely. So why not think about it? But when it is to make the combination of FMs work with a very smart tactical behaviour that has never been seen before - then I understand why you want to carry on, until it's working as it should. Von Baur, you MAY be feeling old, but in your mind you have preserved yourself a good bit of youthful impatience, like we had as children before Xmas. (But believe me: I only TRY to appear calm; I only PRETEND to be patient - sometimes it's killing me...) .

That's what I knew and tried to explain to the impatient pushing ones around here and the other place many times. I am full of trust, that you will come up with the ultimate tactical WW1 aviation experience. The good things need more time than the average. I hope you reward yourself every now and then. like going to your best Indian restaurant and have some "Chicken Tikka Massala".

OK, Hellshade - you won! Keep going, boys, and keep up the new strategy not to make our mouths eyes water again and again. The time of the long wait will be forgotten once the completed WOFF is released. Good luck with it!

Pain? You guess they feel pain? Couldn't it be that they spend pleasureful evenings flying the Beta-WOFF??? :flyer: :flyer:

Yep, I just "walked into the same trap" - damn, yeah, another year gone by.

One tip for using TrackIR: if you get white jaggies at the corners during rapid head movements, you should set up your graphic card control panel to "Wait for vertical refresh: Always on". TrackIR may take a while to really get used to, but it is such a BIG difference - it really puts you in the cockpit. I have found settings, which give me a safe picture almost with any movements I make. I can even lean over board and look down vertically. If you want to try my profile, give me a note - I can post it to you.

I read somewhere that overclocking the CPU changes some values for the memory too. Does your AMD arrange that too?

With his rig, he shouldn't need any overclocking IMHO.

"Zatt is ze reason why vee paint der Albatros so colorful! Mmuahahahahaaa!!!!"

It's always nice to see a pilot flying OFF like that, with cheerful glee - only to see him getting shreddered within the next 14 days. Mmuahahahahaaaa!!!!

Well, my graphic settings are in the "Sticky Threads" at the top under "Graphics Setup - An easy pictorial guide". With NVidia cards it may be a little different though. But for a start, you should right-click on your desktop to get to the NVidia Control panel. Go to "3D Settings" (or similarly called) and make sure, that your NVidia card will control Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering. (It should NOT say something like "Use application settings") Then select AA of 8, and AF of 4 - that should look fine (you can later raise these, but it's not really necessary). If you use TrackIR, you should select "Wait for vertical refresh: Always on" - this will avoid white jaggies at the corners during rapid head movements. Maybe you can find other settings too from my "Graphics Setup". When you are ready, you should have an option to save the settings under "Over Flanders Fields" or "OFF", so you can select them later again. For other games you may want different settings.

If you lean over board of a two-seater, the reflector clip can easily fall off and disappear below you! Then you'll have to fly the rest of the mission with the hat switch! Mmuahahahahaaaaa!!!!!

Albatros D.III (OeFAG) 253.24 with an original Austo-Daimler engine. Koloman Mayrhofer built this airworthy replica and presens photos of her first flight over the Austrian Mountains. There are many more photos in that thread. http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/replica-aircraft/58439-albatros-d-iii-oef-253-24-flying.html

Found some on EBAY for 139,- $: http://www.ebay.com/...=item2ead08ce92 http://www.ebay.com/...=item20aec2371d

Wasp, you can have the hardware TrackIR 4 Pro, and still run the TrackIR 5 software with it. I am doing the same, and it works fine.