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Aces High introduced a WWI online sim a few months back, and it was popular for about 2 months. 4 aircraft in the initial release.
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OK I will be the first to post this smiley.. Hope it all goes well, I'd like to do a system build thread for my new machine when it happens
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Commodore 64 reborn! (Really?)
Lewie replied to Hellshade's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion
My curiosity got the better of me and I dug through our old computer stuff. I still have that old Orchid vid card, both the DX100 and the Pentium 133 486 DX processors and all of the main board memory and cache chips. I never seems to throw old stuff away. -
Commodore 64 reborn! (Really?)
Lewie replied to Hellshade's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion
I wasn't quite a computer nerd back then but a good friend had one of the early mac's and it had some interesting space physics simulators on it. Later when my wife was getting her degree in IT she brought home the an orphaned 386SX MB with the math Co-processor and we assembled a 'puter from leftovers of the IT department. And I learned a little about the Devil's Own System. My first 'gaming' PC was an 486 DX 100 with the psuedo Pentium CPU, and the Very LARGE Bus, 2 meg Orchid video card. WOW! All of 600X800 resolution at 256 mind bending colors and it ran Flying Model Simulator 6.1 I used to think the POST graphics for the Orchid card was particularly nice as they had the text do a slow fade from pink to violet as the memory sorted itself out. I kinda liked Window 3.11. No Commodore or Amiga stories here.. -
Does the Claim Form cover the duty roster board? This is the second time I've tried to make a claim, and forgeting the rank and name of my wingman I'm going to forfeit the kills. GGGRRRR!
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New to these forums and flight sims
Lewie replied to Shiloh's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion
Well to add further confusion to this discussion my CFS3 disc is the CD version and it's the 3.1 version. If the package has on the back a green trapezoid looking icon with ZONE.COM on it, it's the 3.1 version of CD and should not need to be modded. I also believe you can figure out what version your disc is by right clicking the CFS3 execute icon and it should say which version. -
As someone who mods for the 'other, other' freeware WWI sim I don't get this. I'm for any and all kinds of different WWI airflight and combat sims, the genera is not getting that much more popular, and it needs all the support it can use from all of us enthusiasts.
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You see that's where you need to bring the trackIR hat next time you are there, and when asked about it, make up some elaborate story about how it's a virtual reality tool they use for MRI brain scans. I mean, it's plausible..
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OT; CPU Cooler Information Overload..
Lewie replied to Lewie's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion
Oil cooling, it's not a bad idea if you got the inclination.. -
It's an Albert Ball kinda thing, you know, letting the frigid, 20 below air flow through your hair while on patrol.
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I've got a snippet of the beginning my handwritten WWI pilot's fiction piece that's set in Bloody April. I've been working on this for about two years. It's about a special-ops RFC squad that flies leftover Sop Tripes and Pups from the RNAS. I have one of A.V. Roe's old early planes resurrected as an unusual special night ops kite that's part of the story. It's not poetry but it's a bit prose-ish. ___________________________________________________________________________________ "You don't dream much when in a war zone, especially if you're one of the participants. The stress of keeping your sanity and cheer can sap the most manic of chaps. When you do dream, it's not always generous with sunshine and a blue skies filled with puffy white clouds. But this dream was sunny and warm, the clouds filling it's sky were well fluffed. It was a memory of my first long distance overland flight, Brooklands to Dover. It's 1913, in early June, nearly high summer despite the recent cold and sodden months preceding it. I'm in the co-pilot's seat of one of Brookland's AVRO trainers, the eventual model 504. I'm at about 5400' in a level cruise, letting it have it's own rein, watching the ground below crawl past at a glacial rate. The Gnome rotary in it's nose is pushing a wall of white noise and hurricane force buffeting around the little rectangle of perspex I'm peering through, I occasionally look over the side through the tranluscent atmosphere, the details of the surrounding country softened, given lambency from the mid morning sunlight. My instructor is in the cockpit behind me, pretending to be asleep, his control inputs either matching mine or he's really asleep. Serge was subtle in that way. He's the primary trainer CO of Brooklands, when he's not doing checkout flights. Rumor has it he used to fly with Cody and helped with the Cathedral, the first aircraft to fly in in Great Britain. One of the first to train new pilots when Bristol "acquired the rights" to build the Farman IV, and has had more firsts than most kite jockeys in the British Isles. The constant chortling rasp of Gnome misses a couple of beats, then steadies, bringing me slightly out of my reverie. I tap the rev counter, which was holding steady at 1195 revs per minute, check the compass and change my attention back over the side, trying to get a fix on the level crossing and bridge at Ashford. The engine suddenly silences, catches for a few revs and then silenced completely as the prop disc slows from translucency to indistinct blurs scything past the upper edge of the cowling. My mind was unprepared, I fumble around the cockpit, flipping the mag switches, I give the fuel tank hand pump a frantic twenty strokes. Turning around I look at Serge who is enjoying the view, a slight wistful smile on his face. He turns from his own contemplation and settles a bit in the wicker seat. He jiggles the joystick in my hand roughly and bellows "REG, NOSE DOWN!" I snap out of my befuddlement to the shock of the softening of the wind in the rigging and the growing rumble of turbulence on the linen and framework. We are approaching a stall, the stick is already tremoring with the buffeting of the upper planes. My first instinctual response while mentally flailing about was to let the joystick drift rearwards. I push the stick away from me almost too fast, as the seat is sucked out from beneath me. If it hadn't been for the harness I would have been left half out of the cockpit with my arm pulled down suddenly between my legs. The airspeed indicator rises as we gain airspeed and I level the stricken AVRO at about 58 mph. I was glad that you could maintain a fair glide angle with this aeroplane, but it doesn't save your ass if you make bad decisions after the fact. A long uneventful glide from 5600' can still end up spitted on a church spire or get you not quite within 300 feet of the only level ground in a rough, rural landscape. Minds in dreams also have a certain fascination with replaying past horrors.. I watch the altimeter drop past 4500', we're circling the South edge of Ashford, looking for a particular field below one of the downs edging the rail line from Dover, it's hilly with narrow swales engorged with swift freshets lined with trees, criss crossing the area we sail above. It's lovely and dangerous. Memory replays the Bristol Boxkite wreck at Filton in April 1912. Will Severn, all of 22 years of age, ends his life struggling to right the boxkite from a catastrophic canard failure at 800' up. His finance watches mutely as his aircraft steadily angles steeper and steeper. The noise of the engine as it overspeeds will remain with me forever. Serge and I have turned to the west, I've pinpointed a possible field that I marked months ago on my kneeboard's route map. Just a large "X" in pencil, no notes, typical.. we're at 3800'. Mental horror show, same year, July, at the King's Air Trials. A Royal Air Factory Farman Experimental and a Bristol Monoplane two place collide in front of 12,000 gathered in perfect weather to watch. The juxtaposition of a group of young children playing behind the row of vehicles and temporary seating, oblivious to the crowd's sudden silence, outcry of alarm, and muted impact. I think I see the field I've marked, from this distance it does appear to have a surrounding low stone fence interspersed with some smaller Elms and Populars, the approach will have to be made carefully. Below there's a knot of folks gathered in a yard near a house. Two children are pointing and trying to get their parents attention as we whisper overhead. Serge looks amused and gives the kids a big wave. Someone isn't too worried about having me at the controls. "
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OK but I fully expect that P4 will come with a Difficulty > Hard, 'Claims are punted to St.Omer', ( where they will be sent across France and photographed in front of various tourist atttractions, ala Amelie's father's garden gnome.
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Nah it's good to remind me, I owe a lot to my wife's liking of my hobbies.
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LOL OOohh! that'll leave a mark. I gotta say the Danish wimmins in their Brass Bustiers of those operas look pretty Germanic to me.
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As a married man I can't be entertaining such thoughts. My wife likes the sim.
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Yes, I've mentioned it before it's just the DVD install, I need to bring my laptop to a Wifi node so the superpatch download doesn't take an hour.
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Yup, looks like I need to do some updatin'...
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I'm getting an impression of Lake Woebegone Days here Lou, I have to love Minnesotan culture because it's still so linked with their Nordic descendants. A close friend of mine's parents were from Minnestota and her mom had that Swedish lilt even though she was second generation American. So I take it in Norwegian opinion that Swedish girls were a bit, nudge, nudge, wink, wink.... Oh yeah I also spent a week in France, where they did let me drive a car, although it was a right hand steering wheel from England and I had a bit of trouble with the bulk of the car being on my left, and they demanded that said car have these silly amber plastic headlight covers.
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Likewise, I'm a bit of an Anglophile anyways, and I've been to your country for 3 weeks in October, ( brrrr!) It was during the late 70's and you folks were keeping your homes and businesses at about 48 degrees. It was a small culture shock to this somewhat spoiled American. Things I really liked about you English was ( and still do.) your sly humor, the fantastic museums, my first taste of decent beer, the complete and utter brilliance of driving on the wrong side of the road, and the British Rail system. Yeah, I'm easily entertained.. Although they wouldn't let me drive a car in Ol' Blighty, I did get to do a small amount of bicycling and rode my host's moped for 25 miles on small roads between Coventry and Leamington Spa. That was something I'll always remember. Thanks for letting this questionable Yank into your country, I swear I tried to leave it in as close to it's original condition as I found it.
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Thanks gents for the answers to my questions. I have to say, that as Olham said, that this is a WWI sim, not WWII, and yes I understand this, but, my experience comes from flying two previous and different WWI sims, specifically RedBaron3d and SDOE's Fighter Squadron WWI, which I do modding for. I suspect being a mod for a different sim doesn't bode well for my approach to Over Flanders Fields because I come to this sim with an few things to unlearn. To take your responses as I can, Pol mentioned that the Workshops Realism tabs have 'claims' clearly written on them, ah well, no, mine don't, and I suspect it's because I haven't updated the patches and I don't have HitR installed. I thought I mentioned this earlier. I can post a screenshot if this helps.. Specifically about the wingmen, in SDOE, your flight groups hang in closer, and you do have same basic commands, but with different keys, and yes you can give your flight commands from greater distance in SDOE. Something to unlearn. In this recent FE2b mission I was going on what Bullethead and uncleal have mentioned about flying with an FE2b flight group when engaging an attacking enemy group, that you fly in a slight circle while repeatedly stabbing "R" to keep the flight group close and in single file behind you. Well the TAC HUD markers for my group were blue, and they weren't immediately coming into formation, but we did have the distraction of 3 Alby DII's dispersed over 3 different but close together airfields, doing airfield attacks, and I suspect the AI had better things to contend with. As it unfolded I was able to keep the airfield attackers occupied, pretty much on my own. I also suspect my wingman and the other two Fee's had some action. Thanks for the answers, I'm reading as much as I can about this sim, it's going to take a bit of time to sink in, as practice and application of what I learn become instinct. And yeah I may still ask a few more questions which should have obvious answers
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That's all fine and well, but are the realism settings the ones that change the claims from difficult to easy? It's not clearly marked as such.. And trust my life to my wingman? I punched "R" repeatedly when engaging my first opponent and my wingman just kept wandering aimlessly about a half mile away from me, never did come in to help.
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Then you're not going to like that my first two missions with my newest RFC pilot, flying an FE2b he managed to shoot down, ( well his gunner did the shooting.) one Albatros DII per mission. And these were just CAP's
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I'm looking in the workshops right now and I'm not seeing a choice for 'claims', so I'll assume this is something that comes with HitR? Or is it one of the post OFF purchase downloads I seem to have neglected to install. Yup, I think I know what I did wrong, I didn't patch the game.. :feeling like a dumb$#!#:
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Is this in some part of the OFF Forum called what "Noob's Need to Know"? 'cause this needs to be stickied. I didn't have a clue..
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It's my pilot's first mission after arriving? He hasn't yet finished the first day, it's kinda like Groundhog Day with Bill Murray. So far he's got 3 hours of flight and shot down two Albatros DII's and yet he's not flown any or had any claims get past the CTD. Sounds like he needs to buy several round of drinks and get to know the chaps.