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What's in your wallet? -- hide it and run for the hills hehe The Caveman ads I liked, but I totally forgot what they were advertising though which means the method was more memorable than the product for me apparently. What did the Caveman ads try to sell? Gekko insurance ads are always fun. Some years back, Wallgreens had great music in their commercials, and some of the smoothest flowing commercials were Pantene hair spray ads.

How widespread are these smolder fires? Peat is everywhere over there right, and not so deep the smoke gets out? CV:: hehe

FC:: Use the Force FC. Reminds me of my physics sub who worked Oxcart long ago as engineer. After class I said, you did all that with slide rules? He said he never thought about it like that but yes he did hehe.

Thanks, big new site for me ~> http://www.blackburn-buccaneer.co.uk/0_Contents.html I'm looking for info on the proposed supersonic Bucc. Any ideas?

P-26 and B~10 are two very cool planes, although possibly because I never studied this era much. If I did, I would almost certainly have lesser known planes as my period faves. As it stands now, until I study this era, these two are exciting planes indeed. Stratos, I suggest an idea I've always had in the back of my mind: Some kind of intervention in North Africa desert, with other Euro powers involved. This era gives possibility of Zeppelins, as well as some Spanish Civil War stuff. Bf-109B and Ju-86 comes to mind.

Something like Factory Smoke. I got semi-active volcano smoke working okay, the next step is fully active red hot lava blowouts, should work like expanding tga and fall to gravity while fade. I was supposed to make volcanos for Charles' Timor campaign but I got derailed after the basic smoke, and I'll need these for RingOfFire map to keep B-47 crews something to look at to keep them awake. Rabaul was said to be going off alot during the Japanese use of that spot. Its going to require ramping up some FlightEngine.ini far clip distance though so you can see smoke beyond the stock 20km Dogfight Bubble typically found in all TheSims.

Please do not feed the Supermodels I saw a girl once with that on her t-shirt, always remembered it.

LOA = Lightnings Over Airfield That's about it hehe. On a more sincere, serious, and even severe note, back when TK releaced the HUNTER for WoE, he told us he had to make a choice between Hunter and Lightning, but not both because of lack of Dev resources. He went Hunter at the time.

I don't agree with the Forever War, but if ya gonna do it, this is the way. Ghurkas

Start:: oooo what popped into my mind was that movie, forgot which, but Harrison Ford and the maths teacher wife. Do your maths fellas!!

There's alot to whine about with TK's AI, but I always remember the terrain avoidance ability here. Recall FB Maddox AI could not handle terrain elevation, and it crippled the releace of PF on that game's New Guinea map, the AI was so bad about crashing into hills. But man/manette when I came to THE SF I was stunned at how well the TK's AI pops up and down avoiding terrain. Its so good you can make a low altitude strategic strike sim with this game on that feature alone.

Two ideas I've been suggesting a bit, but I'm doing nothing with these as I'm working my Ring Of Fire campaign, and will be for another 20 years it seems. (1) Kamchatka, as it has amazing terrain generated by TE() (2) South Pacific about 1958 to 1962. China manpower backed by Soviet aviation follow the general script of the Japanese in December 1941 and early 1942. Very mountainous terrain. Lots of opportunity for NAVY and RN/RAF. The short ranges of alot of unrefueled Soviet fighters will hurt them, totally opposite of the long range advantage of A6M2 for Japan in early 1942. So, Yak-25 as primary escort fighter? 1958-1962 has the best mix of ancient subsonic and Mach 2 with alot of stuff in between, and basic early SAMs. I promised Charles I'd make some active volcanoes for his Timor campaign, but I got only half way done. Old 1500 "sf" kilometer test map of this region, can be made much larger:

jomni:: We can't think of it like that because they don't do that. They pop out of a black hole I guess, and only near the Player I assume. It goes back to that sim vs game thing. I want more of a sim, but you can make it fun by "over doing" mission things a bit. If it were me, I would add additional small backup AI flights coming up later, with *real* waypoints flying their own mission, and they can bail out anybody, not just the Player. And that is something even the Player can be aware of in briefing I suppose. Knowing there are -- or are scheduled to be -- backup flights coming up. But you know how schedules seem to work out. Think of the F-4s coming north into NV passing returning flights going south back home, in case they were being chased by MiGs. Player could know about this possible help being available in general. Something like that as one example.

Spectre, last page:: Okay, you mean these helper flights pop out of hyperspace? If so, I can't get near that, as I require all AI aircraft to exist, so to speak, flying their own waypoints the whole time. I'd rather a mission or campaign simply generate backup flights that fly their own missions, helping whoever they come across, which eventually I hope to do in my own campaign when I get her done in about 10 years from now -- and still SF1 too.

Interesting: from a X750 review at Xbit So, if you have a 750 watt PSU, and are only using say 200 watts, than you are using only 200 watts. Larger PSUs let you run higher power, if you want, but also let you run low power. That gives far greater options. Since my fan does not spin I'm using 150watts or less, although I have often looked to see if the fan was spinning and on rare occasions only saw it come to a stop from apparently a short run. I guess when I play the StrikeFighters, my only game, I may just be touching on 150 watts. Less than I thought. I know the fan works because when you first power on, the fan blips a bit and comes to a stop. That's to let you know its working so I've read.

I noticed these photos, very smokey, maybe something added to the exhaust for effect? Scroll down to the F-18 shots ~> http://bbs.thirdwire.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=4964

[H] also does top PSU reviews ~> http://www.hardocp.com/ Great forum too.

VonPaulus, not sure now, maybe cat 10.2 when I was switching the cards in and out. Now running 10.4. I suppose the 5000 series is taking time to optimize for, although I did notice a decent improvement in the 4850 performance between 10.2 -- 10.4, or 9.12 - 10.4 don't recall now. I quickly decided the 4850 was the keeper. Also the 5770 is rather loud, tiny fan with restrictive fan casing. I never liked "fancy" looking cooling solutions and they tend to be very loud. One thing about that 5770: I got an ASUS because it had a strong solid bar across the top edge of the card which got rave reviews among Newegg customers. This bar prevents bending the card lengthwise when pushing or pulling, and gives a solid point to handle the card with while installing/removing. Its a very nice feature. liberty:: A larger capacity PSUs won't use more energy than a smaller PSU for a given load. Larger PSUs do allow a larger load. Get as large as possible for future expansion, and its generally thought that PSUs last longer if they are not run always near their max load, which is a rough number apparently. So you can never get "too large" a PSU energy consumption wise, although I've read articles of high wattage PSUs shutting down immediately if they don't detect a minimum threshold load. The newer high wattage PSUs have addressed that apparently, the *good* brands at least. I'm running: AMD Athalon II X2 250 dual core -- 65 watt max Gigabyte "something" 790FX full size ATX motherboard 1 250GB hard drive, plugging in backup hard drives when needed and unplugging them. 1 HD 4850 a few case fans, not much else. Not much load at all. And I still went for the 750W PSU. Its interesting how it works. The fan never runs because I'm using so little load in my system, maybe 20% of the PSU's max most of the time. The fan will kick in when power usage or temperature rise. However, the fan blips and stops at power on start, which I've read is to let you know its working. Basically, in my low power system, the high capacity PSU functions as a fanless PSU. Its designed for this, and Seasonic uses the best components out there for home PC, which is why they are expensive. Power supply is the one item in your computer where the price differential between brands can be near an order of magnitude. However, always stay away from the bargain price PSUs. If you want to save energy, get one of the "Gold" rated PSUs. Seasonic, which generally does not advertise in competition with the brands it makes PSUs for, nevertheless stepped into the market last year with the X650 and X750 and started the popularity of the "gold" series. Top site for PSU reviews is JonnyGuru ~> http://www.jonnyguru.com/ Power supplies are pretty much all they do.

Von Paulus:: That could be in some DX11 games, or under some DX11 features. I was not sure about this when I upgraded so, in the same week I got an ASUS 5770 and a Gigabyte 4850 and tried them both. In SF1 which is DX9, the 4850 gives a solid 20% faster framerates, yet was listed at Newegg for about 30$ less, and that was a relatively expensive 4850. As StrikeFighters original series DX9 is my only game, I could be leading others down the wrong road here, but at least a very affordable wrong choice of road not too difficult to back out of.

If you want the best built and most dependable PSU now available for home PC get the 750Watt Seasonic X750 Gold. Everything in your build will depend on your power supply working great. Think of PSU like the engine on an airplane. Its the core of every computer. Google the hardware reviews on this item. I have one and was planning on getting another for another build, but I'm waiting to see the new Seasonic gold PSU's that were shown at Computex trade show in Taiwan this summer. They are very interesting indeed. Seasonic is the builder of the interior of high end PSU's for some other brands, like Corsair, so I just goto the source so to speak. I've read that other brands often substitute cheaper fans on their high quality Seasonic built interiors. But, czech out the hardware forums for this though. Your selection of ATI 5770 shows you don't want to overspend on a gaming supercard, although you are going Intel i-7 with watercooling. Something doesn't match here. If you are not sure about what gaming supercard to get, just get a "budget" 4850 to start with. If you upgrade later, you will have lost only pennies with zero risk as the 4850 are so well priced now for performance and have a solid history behind them. I think the 5000 series is extremely overpriced right now with little performance advantage except possibly in some DX11 games. I suggest a Gigabyte HD4850 although there are others.

Veltro and Soulfreak can open as many threads as they want.

Sorry to hear that FC. Back when I was tower climbing, we heard stories of guys getting shot at way up there on towers in the waay back country. Some clowns might be out there with laser instead of rifle, or both. Sick. Jedi:: You know, air marshalls fly sometimes, so could an escort armed with laser homing missiles tag along sometimes, maybe orbit near the field.

Yep, a nerd hehe ~> http://bbs.thirdwire.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=2257 Don't laugh. What TK did here has probably never been done before in TheSims.