Lexx_Luthor

Thank You! Computer 2 -- 829$ ... mmm... build your own. What kind of monitor do you have, and are you willing to move it over to the new build? Neither of those boxes comes with monitor. Possibly keep your case, keyboard, hard drives, DVD, possibly power supply but it may be too old and low power...6 years old? Power supply is the most important thing, like engine is the most important thing in airplanes. What Windows are you running now? I always suggest Win~7, but notice those two boxes comes with Win-7 "pre installed" and note that the software included does NOT state a full Windows installation disk. If so, that is unacceptable. A bit different than the usual hardware sites, is Scott Mueller's website. He's writes the Upgrading and Repairing PC's books, now on 19th edition. ~> http://forum.scottmueller.com/ One of the better normal hardware sites is [H] ~> http://hardforum.com/

Wrench, what horizon distance are you running with Wall=35E+3 *and* can you see beyond the north-south map edges?

How about tile height map bmps, make a single pixel, with a good height, and that would be like a huge mound. Guns might sit on top of that, uh I think. I never really tested if ground objects can sit on top of the height map bmp dots.

If you can do this, you can entertain some wild ideas. One example: Recall the prehistoric story of one giant continent, and everything else one giant ocean. Gia maybe, or whatever its called. I know you can make 12,000 kilometer maps, cos that's what I work with. So if you can cut-paste your own bmps from other generated DEM, or iffin TK releaces NewTE someday where terrains are created as bmp files from scratch, or something like that, you can patch up a Jurassic Map or something. Or make a Cretaceous Campaign. I just know somebody would end up making brontosaurus lods or tgas.

Yep, for games that first one is not even budget box. Skyviper, poast link to the offers so we can czech em out. or edit that rubbish into humoid readable format. That's the best thing you can do; slap together your own box, if you have the time to catch up on the hardware websites. Athalon II X4 is a great little quad chiplet, and you can't go wrong with it. I think the II series is the best low price cpu out there. I have the X2 dual core, 3.0Ghz. You need a good grafix card. Shop out parts for own box to see what it would cost, assuming you can use some of your current gear (keyboard, drives, monitor, etc...)

FC:: You gonna cluster thirty 1/4 A3-4T in that? Nice

uh, yea, but not in PM. Only ask here in thread, so others can learn as well (...or I can learn if I get it wrong as usual...).

aH, thanks C~5, I'll add this to my cold war strategic vault.

Stary:: Yea, burns me right up. Throwing away good airplanes, and risking good lives too -- not just the stupid flying near other craft or the ground when they don't have to -- but potential victims or property on the ground too.

Ding! Ding! We have a Winner

If only the AI visual blind arcs worked we could tweak them along with opponent visible distance to create "night" versions of any airplane. Streak says the arcs don't work, and possibly never have (I think I gather that from his poastings...!!!). A quick test I did on every Patch level since SF 1.0 makes me think the visual arcs never worked. Maybe its different in SF-2 but I ran back to SF-1 after a few days of un-modifiable 62km horizon distance. Hopefully, my quick tests were WRONG. Anybody ever use the arcs successfully? For interfering with AI night vision, something I've philosophized about is using the Line Of Sight feature of the game's flak puff clouds but replace the cloud tga's with clear invisible tga's and vary their altitude levels. I know the flak puff clouds can be made to appear at varying altitudes within a defined altitude range (instead of a single altitude cumulus base). Anyways, if that could work to blind AI pilots from seeing other aircraft in an on/off fashion then that could be a way to simulate night light levels on the AI. I never tested exactly what happens when AI aircraft lose LOS to its opponent since I quickly eliminated these clouds from my game. Using them as invisible "clouds" to simulate night combat would interest me though.

** FREE TIP ** B-70 is made for SF-2, but can be used in SF-1 but only the 002 LOD model file works in SF-1. But it works superb. You may have to take out some decals to avoid transparent fuselage. I had to. I minimize the number of decals anyways so it worked great. Also, the giant wing tip animation has to be tweaked back to Sf-1, either 2006 or 2008 they are different tweaks for either SF-1 Patch level.

Another reason I am not impressed with with close proximity flying -- close to other craft OR the ground -- unless the mission or training for that mission demands it. Flying fancy shows is not one of the missions.

Congrats Strato Dave! Yea, I also vote 20 years worth!

Yep, butt, somehow E-car threads always turn into gas prices or climate, and those always turn into banking when the situationally (just made that up) aware are round and bout. I love golf carts. Beef them up a bit should be all we need for urban and local rural soul transportation. Souls are light weight generally. Carry a few high density packed tool bags maybe, or a tiny trailer even. Don't try to make them look like those jelly bean cars. E~cars should have their own independent look, but not have that golf cart look either. The real issue here is road systems and driver training must ensure equal utility for walkers, bicyclists, bikers, E~cars, and older cars or trucks. Its said that New York intentionally destroyed bicycle transportation in favour of gasoline car transportation. I dunno, but there's a lot of petty corruption going round (by petty I mean non~banking).

lol yea. Back when I played DOS Su-27 Flaker 1.0 from 1995, I could only dogfight at night against the Su-24s, without turning up my monitor brightness knob (remember those, they worked so fast and easy). Only the Su-24s had bright red/green wingtip lights that could be seen from long distance. Well, that, and Su-24s were easy meat for Flakers anyways.

ShrikeHawk:: At first, it was called Global Cooling. But that was a 1970s thing. If you want less petroleum use, then stop the subsidizing of oil, and let the free market find its price. That free market price will be significantly much higher I think. THAT is how you "educate" folks. The nicest thing about the ramp in fuel price here in USA back in 2008 was that everybody drove slower, and thus more safely in that respect. High speed kills, and like afterburner, eats fuel. Even the big truckers slowed down, as they then had to take into account fuel costs as well as time to deliver. I loved those higher prices. "Climate" is changing, because that's what it generally does. I like to think, if we are warming up, its more volcanic related, and any reported ocean warming may best be explained by this, since heat capacity of the atmosphere is many orders of magnitude *less* than the heat capacity of the oceans. Think about it: The mass of water in the oceans is vastly greater than the mass of air in the atmosphere, and we all know about the specific heat of liquid water being vastly larger compared to most if not all other substances, especially gases such as air. Possibly, one of the amazing realizations in the early research into climate and chaos was that there is no such thing as a climate, if one defines climate as "average" weather. Climate does not exist, since as a chaotic system, it has no average, or "normal" steady state, or something like that. Or so I've read in a book about Chaos anyways. --- Most important, for those who last page poasted that "nobody is certain", it IS certain that those most behind the idea of human caused global warming is the global banking system, as that system stands to profit by this idea -- carbon credit trading for example, and the confiscation of private non-banking or "main street" wealth as opposed to "wall street" wealth as another example. We also know for certain, just looking at this one CombatAce thread, that we are not yet willing to talk among ourselves about the banking system.

Stary:: Yep. It brought back memories of the Maths. If that was me, I'd have to eject within the first 20 seconds.

See I told you so. I said here that if I upgraded from SF-1 and bought SF-2 then the world would end. I was right. I am NOT Perky!

T:: hehe, was just thinking, if they make carbon credits Legal Tender, payable for all debts public and private, and make "taxes" (say to the U.N.) payable only in carbon credits, then all bets are off. The social science, or behavioral science, behind monetary fraud is endlessly fascinating.

Hey Jug, when you get your install back up right, make a copy of it somewhere else where you will never touch it unless...you need to restore something that you lost in your play folder, like planning maps for an example taken out of thin 70kft air. In other words... BACK UP ! There are several levels of backing up. First is common backup of your play game, keeping the backup (or backups) current with your play game folder and mods. Next level of backup is for longer term, keeping things safe in case you have an error or disaster that you backup up to your first level backups, meaning your backups won't help here. Last level perhaps is keeping the original game, installed, in a backup folder you NEVER touch again unless you want to start over, and you don't have to re~install from CD/DVD. Granted, now with the game downloaded, you don't need CD anyways. I have SF 1.0 installed and totally un~modded as a last level backup, although I stick Patches and stuff like KMD or Extractor in there as well. I've used it a few times.

The game Chuck Norris Forever took 28 years to reach releace, handily beating all other titles in delay.

Something else too. I've read that the automated GCI comm -- radioing data to the interceptor's autopilot (or I theorize, at least to the pilot through indicators presenting information) -- was more resistant to jamming than man~to~man voice comms.

Interesting thanks a million there. I'd assume in the general situation, GCI would try to guide the interceptor to a good position and velocity behind the target. There's some coverage on F3D tactics for a similar situation in the December 1951 issue of Popular Mechanics. The article Ride a Jet Fighter by Thomas Stimson Jr. starts on page 134. On page 138... :: Ride a Cigarette Lighter

Wait till Jellystone blows. That's gonna be the big booboo.