Olham

Seems still to be there - gee, they even have a Spitfire IIa - the REALLY good looking one without cannons! http://www.aerofligh...itor-centre.htm

So cute, the little fellers! Good text, Flyby!

Damn - and I had thought, a hundred planes were a helluvalot!!! Twohundred-twentysix?!?!? (Faints...)

I guess most people didn't know - like me - that they could click on that plus sign, if they liked a post.

Probably cause you deserve it, mate! But surely, some PUBlicity would help.

As I heard repeatedly, the sim "Cliffs of Dover" (CoD) was not or hardly just playable for many simmers. A main reason seemed to be too much detail, and all that presented with the latest graphic effects. The evolution of PCs seemed to have been slower than the makers of CoD had once assumed, when they started building all this detail and eyecandy. That made me wonder and think about the following; those are my thoughts, and I'll be glad, if anyone can add some knowledge. Also please feel invited to correct me, where I'm wrong. It seems to me, that the two best WW1 sims follow different ways, to achieve different goals altogether. 'The other sim' puts all on the modern, realistic look; and a rather easy way for online multiplayers. It's latest graphic effects quality seems to use up so much CPU and GPU performance though, that it is not able (or not reasonable) to provide the player with the amounts of aircraft underway, that would have been there in real life. This means, there are no aircraft around anywhere, except the ones spawned for the player's mission. Nothing bad with that; seems it's just a limitation that had to be made, to be able to provide the player with the most modern graphic effects. OBD had said some time ago, that they will stay with the CFS3 engine, because it offered them all they wanted to accomplish; and that possibly 100 planes could be in the air (if I remember that right). Not all in one encounter, but in the whole area - nevertheless really there; you can fly away from your way- points, and you could meet them. This huge amount of aircraft could, I guess, not be produced, if they had all the latest graphic effects, like glosses and reflections etc. - the most players' rigs would simply fail to generate all that. Now OFF was meant to be as close as it can get to the real historical events, as they were back in 1915 - 1918 - no less. That is a very different, a historical approach to the subject of simulating the whole of WW1 aviation. At the momentary point, both these ways merged together would not be possible to generate, I guess, and it may not be possible for a longer time - if ever. That is why I don't see these two sims as real competitors. They do not compete, because they each produce and represent a different field - both absolutely with their own rights and advantages. And I as I see it, none of them could ever fully reach the others hallmarks. As an enthusiast of WW1 aviation, I own both of them, for the above reasons. I have largely stopped buying every game I see here and there; I pick them very carefully nowadays. But for everyone who is really interested in the history of the Great War aviation and all the detail with it, OVER FLANDERS FIELDS is definitely an absolute "must have". Sincerely.

Thanks, Hauksbee! Carrick, perhaps it's only, cause you are not the wordy type. Wow, Widow, you beat my fame by several lengths!!

Seeing that in real life could make goose skin!

What you guys all find out! Geeze, I didn't know that! I'm famous!!!

Gaw, I couldn't resist - hope your puppies won't sue me for that!

Aaaahhh - that's what those signs are there for! Do I also have a reputation? Must go and check it out!

Where? Where??? Well, whereever Creaghorn saw you - welcome back, CJ ! Hope the family and the music is going alright.

Boomer, you're on the map - I'll have a large virtual "Director's Bitter", please.

Jwrich, your "little old lady with the wheelchair" and her looking up can break a tough man's heart! Edit: Gaw, your puppies are looking like little Navy boys learning to use the rescue isle!

Update 19 December 2011 - 01:36 h Berlin time (= GMT + 1) Boomer113, England, added. The maps are in post 1 of this thread

Hey, Boomer, welcome to the OFF World. If you send me a PM with your town and country, I'll add you to our OFF Forum Pilots Maps.

How cute! The big one has no problems in the snow, and little Pippin - like a dwarf from "Lord of the rings" - is trying to keep track. Lovely!

PM sent.

Ah - great, thank you, Creaghorn!

You can find such works in this Screenshots Website/Forums here - they have installed an OFF department. http://screenshotworld.com/frontpage/

Damn - what programm? Title? Will it get repeated?

So many pages already - I have seen all suggestions through again, and collected these as my personal favs. OVER FLANDERS FIELDS "The Dawn of Aces" (Pappy55) OVER FLANDERS FIELDS "The Great Air War" (RAF_Louvert) OVER FLANDERS FIELDS "Above the Trenches" (Shiloh) OVER FLANDERS FIELDS "The Dawn of Aces" (Pappy55) OVER FLANDERS FIELDS "Fire in the Sky" (Olham) OVER FLANDERS FIELDS "To Hell and back" (Rickitycrate) OVER FLANDERS FIELDS "OFF vs Godzilla" (sandbagger) OVER FLANDERS FIELDS "Heaven on Fire" (Bullethead) OVER FLANDERS FIELDS "Hope & Glory" (Widowmaker) OVER FLANDERS FIELDS "Height of Glory" (Crossbones) OVER FLANDERS FIELDS "The First Aces" (Olham) OVER FLANDERS FIELDS "Hell Above" (Dej) LENT FAMOUS TITLES OVER FLANDERS FIELDS "Cross & Cockade" OVER FLANDERS FIELDS "Above the Lines" OVER FLANDERS FIELDS "No Parachute" OVER FLANDERS FIELDS "Crossing the Lines" .

OVER FLANDERS FIELDS "Young Wings"

Not that obvious, Hauksbee. The Agatha Christie book came out in the USA under a different title, because short before, Graham Greene had released his book "Stambul Express", which was called "Orient Express" in America. NOW yer olde brain cells have something to chew!

. OVER FLANDERS FIELDS "High Frontier" OVER FLANDERS FIELDS "The High Front" OVER FLANDERS FIELDS "Skywards - Heavenwards" .