Jimbib

So on one hand you object (your words above) to CA seeking financial help to stay online instead of being forced to shut down, but on the other hand you're openly admitting and seem somewhat smug about pirating TK's games, so you basically want everything for free and everyone else can pay for it, yet it's other people that are the problem?

@gaznaw and @muhammad, I understand where you're both coming from with restricting the free accounts to less downloads / slower speeds and whilst this will help alleviate the traffic on the servers in the short terms, it would be susceptible to the current exploitation that some are doing with multi-accounting: Up until now, if someone wants to download 20 files without waiting, they will just create 4 x accounts (which get 5 free downloads per day). Under a new system of 1 file download per day, they will just create 20 duplicate accounts to get around the system to get the same 20 files. Slowing down and putting barriers in people's way unfortunately won't decrease the cost to Erik every year of $4,000-$5,000 just to keep the lights on and the website running, what's needed is people willing to contribute to help him out so he doesn't have to pay it all himself. It has been covered elsewhere in the recent threads but there's no big company / money machine behind CA pulling the strings, it doesn't make any profit but instead is operated purely for the enjoyment of others. It's all on the shoulders of Erik and a few generous donors like @logan4 said, and he needs our help. I actually feel there are some startling double standards going on between SF2 and other flight sims out there with modding communities. I see no shortage of either payware or mod websites that require monthly subscriptions to access the libraries for the likes of DCS or MSFS, but somehow people are more than willing to pay to get access to mods for those games but believe that SF2 should be essentially be a free bar? Or how about the actual cost of entry to SF2? It's never been a 'cheap' game and TK only did a few discounts over the years. I somehow struggle to believe that if everyone has been paying the longstanding $40 price for any of the SF2 games (or $100 for whole bundle) that they can't chuck a few dollars in the bucket to help Erik out? Sorry but that doesn't add up to me. If anyone thinks they can do better than CA, then I implore you to open your own community website, and foot the bill of storing gigabytes worth of mods and terabytes worth of traffic, for twenty years, by yourself. Please let us all know how that goes for you.

A subcription will be needed to access the download library now here at CA.

Hi Carlo, what issues are you running into specifically, is it the stretched screen? I am running similar and have managed to get the settings dialled in so that it works okay. EDIT: this thread below might help. After you have manually set your resolution and aspect ratio in the options.ini file set it to read only, otherwise when you launch the game and go into the graphics options menu the game will revert it to default. (I just never open the graphics menu in game to avoid messing with my manual in settings)

Unfortunately I think that will land Erik back in the same position... instead of people exhausting their previous 5 downloads a day and then making duplicate accounts, they would now do it after only 1-2 downloads creating a bigger multi-account problem. A lower download cap won't fix the problem sadly, what is needed is revenue generation to cover the operating costs.

Thanks for sharing this @FalconC45, I wouldn't have heard of it otherwise The game already looks quite impressive for only £15 on steam, I might have to give it a go and if the development roadmap (https://nuclearoption.wiki.gg/wiki/Development) is anything to go by there is a lot of bang for buck with this. If modding was enabled, it would be cool to get realistic aircraft, vehicles, weapons, terrains, airbases etc. into it.

Hope you are feeling better again soon Ravenclaw!

As per your last thread on this topic @PJB... https://combatace.com/forums/topic/98381-strike-fighters-3-request/

A couple of thoughts on the NODs, they could either be animated manually like alexis99 suggests here: Or I wonder if there is a way of hijacking the slimer self-illuminating feature described here that would need doing in 3ds max?

Hell, I would gladly settle for GTAV's simple rotary flight model using mouse and keyboard to be somehow magically implanted into SF2's engine just to be able to zip around a battlefield blasting ground targets and then drop in sharp on a helipad / ship to re-arm.

Looks like a Bartini Beriev VVA-14 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartini_Beriev_VVA-14

Before it was CombatAce, I believe it was BioHazard as DA mentioned, old URL was http://dev.biohazcentral.com/ (old captures can be seen on the wayback machine). Congrats to @Crusader and @Wrench and the rest of you on the 20 year mark! Because it's your CA birthday, that means you brought the beers and cake in... right?

This one here? Can you be more specific? Is it the external model... the cockpit... the skins etc.? Like Wrench said, the only way to get a better external or cockpit model is to build a new one.