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Last news... These are the five main skins you will see it in our release soon. Since we have some time gained until the launch day we decided to make one more. If you paid attention reading the thread you'll guess which one will be. ;)

Panspermia idea it's a ...Moebius band kindda of. It sticks until one point. Observation: If on "my" planet something else brought here basic organic molecules etc then...WHO or WHAT brought, THERE, where the molecules those come from, material to create them before arriving to "me" ? And so on. That is why I called it Moebius in the first place, because this "cycle", asking yourself that, never ends. Truth is that here, at least, on earth, we know for sure that life didn't exist in the beginnings. Earth was bombarded billions of years with meteorites until it was sterlilized. That's a fact, not an opinion or an educated guess. Question is not how those basic molecules arrived here (though now we know how and that they did plus that 80% of the water brought, too), but how that basic materials arranged themselves in time, in the end, through complex processes, into life ! Personally I am a science defender, I don't believe in magic and supernatural etc and me and all the scientific world are puzzled that we didn't find the link between our "cousins" and HUMANS. And that's a problem. At least for now. A scientist has a lot of questions in his luggage and wants primordial answers...Would we have found the answer to this question before we will see/meet our end on this planet I wonder ? Drake ecuation kindda says what we all might thought at some point in time: if there were intelligent life in the Universe we might have heard of it by now somehow. We let aside here all the BS about UFOs and other nonsenses. I don't doubt that there is life in Universe, I just doubt that there is intelligent for now...Opponents of the Drake ecuation say that distances in universe are huge, which is very true and that even if one could have means to travel it would be almost impossible to cover great distances with generations after generations (if that could be fezable in the first place as an idea) and reach a planet/system as if you just walked a couple of miles and everything was fine as it was seconds ago when you left. So that could be a problem, even if intelligent life exists. Again, here I let aside fantesies that we will travel, some day , with some miracle engine/fuel, with speeds closely to the speed of light etc.Another other issue is that stars have the habit to...die/explode which gives you, as a civilization, a very small window (at Univers time scale) to born, develop and to make an honorable exit, in time, to expand your kind in the neighbourhood, where your dead star core ejection won't reach you... If you look to the evolution of humankind and you can understand, grasp its perspectives, its possibilities, its genius/creations and think that all of these would be in vain one day....a true sadness strikes you if you think deep to it. A NASA guy defined all that in one phrase: "All those billions years of humankind evolution, from dirt to stars, it all would have just been a beautiful experiment and nothing else"...That reminds me, somehow, of what Socrate (IMO one of the most intelligent person who walked on Earth) said, when he was asked what is the definition of LIFE: "Life it's just a long string of mistakes" :), which it's very true if you are honest with yourself, but in a way inevitable isn't it ? :D I did this parallel because situations described resemble somehow... PS - when I see on TV, on science channels, some scientists, some even with PHDs, that say we can do it (travel to stars) I smile. Have you noticed, they never say where we would take the fuel necessary to decelerate from percentage of light speeds they brag we can travel with or what will you do if the gravity of that habitable planet is 10 times than yours etc ? :) They are so naives... Or some other scientists, who speaks with such an enthusiasm and build hypotesis based on fantasies seen just in SF movies (worm holes). If you didn't know anthing about science, hearing them you would believe that worm holes are true and it's very doable what they propose. LOL

Maybe there are ...other bad guys walking in that...friendly territory, too. :)

I don't think ...communist could travel through stars. They were not too bright. The only notable thing they did, was to put a dog in a capsule who died asfixiated in the reentry. Do you think these kind of guys could travel to stars ? So, if the little grey men are somewhere in the galaxy and one day they will show up, it will be the end of human race. Nobody would travel stars system just for sightseeing. PS - of course, soviets did other things too in space but I didn't want let truth stay in a way of a good story . LOL

I liked the commentary of one guy there where is the video: " If aliens are looking for intelligent life they won't find it here " However, if ever an alien civilization would ever appear at horizon, it won't be good for mankind, that's for sure...:D. I never got those stupids who are joyful just because they have seen "aliens" crafts at TV.

Last skin WIP

In real life there is no need for such a technology for air-to-air combat. The pilot has a head-up display in his helmet (go take a look on youtube to such technology to get an idea how things work). Even in Vietnam era the plane forward display "knew" to recognize an air target. So in other words it would be an "overkill" to build target pod for an air target. The same goes for a simulator (game) If you saw a seqoence how a pilot is targeting a ground one, you will notice, unless it has a GPS bomb or the bomb is laser guided, that he has a little joystick with which he guides the bomb to the target. Now think how complicate it will be to maneuver the plane and in the same time to handle a joystick for precision, let alone firing the main gun. Personaly i don't know any pod for air to air targeting, but I might be wrong.

Last paintjob for FCK-1 gets contour.

I'll try an answer for you: I think they were mean people, preparing, when they voted, for you to show up and see it. LOL

A little announcement...we are entering in straight line, close to the finish line, with out FCK-1 project. Please stay tuned for more (good) news soon.

See, in Basic Knowledge section of the website, a tutorial written by MigBuster about game's files and how they work. I suggest, if you are new around, to take a good look there to all tutorials. They will answer to a lot of your questions.

I'll be more specific, 'cause I was once in your shoes. When it comes to stock planes, game's engine loads usually the CATs ( game archives files that content all the files needed game to be played. They are somewhere in the installed game's folder and being an archive you need a special software, already provided in the download section, TOOLS subsection, to unzip them. If you try, you will notice that you can't unzip them all, for instance the plane's models are restricted for copyright reasons). Sometimes people change or like to change things for a stock plane (fiddling with data in dataini file, making a new paintjob etc). Usually these people are called MODDERS and you will notice, in time, that they are plenty on this website. Some are specialized in doing certain upgrades to the models, others, like Wrench know to do new terrains/maps and so on .That's why TK, the author of this game, let the possibility for the engine to load these changes as well. So the priority goes like this: First the game loads YOUR changings if you did them to a stock plane and THEN loads the rest (basic from the archives). To do things less complicated, some basic files, like avionics.ini and cockpit.ini, author thought it would be better to keep them in the archives. Now you have a clue how things partially work for this game. In the future, when you have an issue do what Wrench suggested, be more specific with your problem. That's how you get help quickly here around;) Don't be a stranger.

Did you read, carefully , MigBuster tutorial ? If you did, it should work with everything that comes to it ;) "If you didn't find any food in the fridge, search it better;)"

If you pay close attention to wingmen, they usually accelerate and consume fuel qucikly. pay attention when engage or are dogfighting, they all use afterburner often so it's no suprise. I noticed that long time ago and , as a precaution, when i fly with 3 more wingmen, let's say, I fill their wing with some fuel. Do that and you'll see it will pay off.

You may ask around son, but if you ask me, I think they are too cheap to pay their airport taxes, that's what I think it is so they just fly and , when the fuel is near gone, they skip to the border of the map and, PUFF!, they disappear.

That's where Americans stole the model idea, don't you get it ? LOL "Never let truth stay in a way of a good story" :D

WOI from GKABS team. They raised the bar it seems.

Well I don't think so, he will be surprised what a black shade have my sun glasses.

"Wunderwaffe" !! LOOOOOOL I laughed my ass off dad!! :))))

Well, I guess you are faster than you gave yourself credits for that LOL

Really ? LOOOL Well then you must right away correct those... stupid hardware engineers that gave it that ugly name in allover articles and books: "dynamic shadow" :) Aaaa almost forgot, and please let them know it's pretty basic stuff , too, will you ? ;)

It seems that I missed that dad, but if you are still curious, just put me in the first column, I'll go with a old mighty mega pack release. By the way , why are you asking, are you going to surprise us with something ?

yeap, that's was what I was about to say it next ;). Is it Ravenclaw's work too ?

Raven did you say DONE ? I love it when this word comes out from your mouth ! :) I'd love to see what you are seeing when you are at your pc working :) How's that weapon pack we've been all waiting coming along ?

Hmmm...Fireworks ! Screams, blood, all the works... Wonderful ! I love it! LOL