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You mean like Maddox's Eventlog text file that records all combat across the map? There's nothing I could find like that in the SF. I wish TK would have allowed it, then we would have had 3rd Party dynamic campaign generators over the last few years.

Cater:: It matters when the war is fought at high altitude, like Formosa 1958. But this was a small experiment and I assume the missiles were maintained exceptionally well by a few NAVY guys who wanted to do this project. For those who missed it earlier, word search the article linked below for " arrival of the snakes " China and Taiwan since 1945; Part 1~> http://s188567700.online.de/CMS/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=151&Itemid=47 If I recall, one of the problems, among many, later in Vietnam was lack of training for firing inside missile paramaters. Once this was corrected results improved -- somewhat -- but it took near the whole war to get around to doing this -- if I recall correctly!! Most units did not maintain their missiles properly, but those that did got better missile kills. The need for near clean room maintenence in the tropics was another problem with early missiles. With our The Sims always focused on low level high gee combat, our idea of "dogfight" is not the same as high altitude fighter vs fighter combat. Up there its probably more like very slow chess manuevering at moderate high speeds. At 40k feet, the fast swept wing fighter -- neither missile launcher nor target -- can pull as much gee and gee is what caused so much problem at low levels -- well also poor seeker performance at lower altitudes and IR or radar distractions. AIM-9B was near 10 years old by Vietnam. I've always wondered about how slow missile upgrades were. The superjets got upgraded what, every year or 2, and fully replaced by new types maybe every 5 years (~1960). Missiles, maybe get upgraded once a decade back then, and fully replaced after what, a half century hehe?

Runway 88 would be runway 16. Both are kewl numbers so its all good.

Think square tiles in THE SF. Its easy numbers in the config.file so easier to make runway go up/down vertical, or side/side horizontal -- either x or y are constant and the varying coordinate is easy to follow. Granted with 2km tiles, I'm tempted to use 45 degree runways to get SQR(2) longer runways that can still fit on one tile. That means a bit more complicated numbers though. Also approach and departure waypoints. Also, placing airfield objects is easier if one coordinate is held constant over a number of objects. Or something close to that.

Trucks are safe too. Get a good 1980s to 1990s F-150 at least. Try to swing a 300 straight six or add it later. Best engine ever made. Or older Chevy if you like.

Get a truck. That's why I like trucks, well old trucks at least. They eat bolts for breakfast. Parts are cheap. Look better than any lol "car" ... Trucks - Bikes good, anything in between pffft...

I may have read there was a cockpit position change in some recent Patch.(**) TK did something different with open pit, or something. I doubt this is a bad Patch, but you may have to re-tweak things. Yes you ALWAYS have a solid reliable backup method (that means...multiple independent backups) of your game, in case something goes wrong like Patches you don't like. (**) I'm staying SF1 2006 level so I can morally support and have Compassion for any feelings of Patch Paranoia, but I can't help at all in SF2+.

Michele's Clashes book notes that during most if not all (forgot) the Vietnam War, missile testing was done at high altitudes against non manuevering drones, or something like that. For its planned role at high altitude, say for F-105 replacing F-101A as penetration fighter, against non manuevering PVO interceptors trying to catch SAC bombers, AIM-9B could be a wonder weapon. One of my fave Myth Buster stories is acig's account of the....

usafmtl:: I try religiously. I'm a bicycle nut and I always ride BOSS cruiser with big fat tires so I ride off road when traffic is heavy, and I always keep an eye behind me on what's coming up. That's why I will never ride those skinny fast street tires. When I drive I always expect a motorcycle to be behind the canopy framing (lack of better word) when I change lanes so I bobbing my head looking for a bike in the lane next to me. I plan on another truck, older F-150. Long ago I got rammed from behind at red light coming back from school -- some guys at my school (community college). After the E-Team left (one guy was hurting a little but was deemed okay) the cop writes a report and puts about 2000$ damage on the guy's car, looks at my rear bumper and starts laughing. Alot of scratches and small dents from work so I told him to put Zero down. If I recall he had to put "something" so he put like 100$ damage (I didn't claim it). We are all fine and typically I let the other guys drive off first which was a smart move because I got good view of what happened next. As we pick up speed, the damaged car in front, the airflow gets into the gash in the grill under the crumpled hood of the guy's car and the hood flies up and over onto their windshield. They stop and I stop to see if they are okay but their windshield is crushed now. What 3000+$ damage now lol. They should have played Strike Fighters the night before, but this was 1990s so they couldn't do that. Trucks and Bikes are good. Anything in between WretchFest Maximus.

There are one or two exceptions to Remakes. Teh Flintstones movie was one, and the Popeye movie with Robin Williams is still on of my faves. Oh. Duh I guess you are right. Yea no wonder that article didn't mention any Newbie Mr. T. lol. Never saw the show, but it looks like it was kinda fun. This New Movie looks sincere, serious, even severe, but I don't have sound on my computer. I never watch TV except, about 8 years back, some Canadian and NZ sci-fi. I met an actor a few years back and kids, helped her with something and she told me her name and I said "hey I'm phil and nice to meet you bye" so she had to explain who she was. That was the first time playing Strike Fighters the night before didn't help.

Server in case you "forgot" you got a new car. Pretty cool. I'm wanna a early 1990s F-150/250. Granted 1968 F-100 is the finest vehicle ever made though but I don't have a place now to work on one like it should be done.

Thanks macelena I figured there was a rare exception or two.

Fuel efficient... How about high altitude, like replacement for original F-101A, before F-110 arrives. AIM-9B works miracles up high.

For more info, follow the link at that page. At the end.... There is a new twist not mentioned however. Do we measure the popularity of Mr. T by using the Classical Mr. T or Newbie Mr. T? I'm going to guess that we should look at Classical Mr. T. If the New Movie inspires people enough so we see Classical Mr. T in the media, gold has reached at least a local peak and will soon drop. If not, no matter how popular Newbie Mr. T may be, gold will continue higher. Gotta have faith in Classical Mr. T I suppose.

Have you seen this? If not, you have now. Mr. T gold indicator ~> http://money.ca.msn.com/investing/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=23423037&page=6 The "Previous" 5 pages have good ones, hemline indicator, Time magazine indicator, etc...

Yea they are good bug exterminators. Can't do ants though. But one or two certain spiders you get rid of, and their egg...SAC lol.

Watch better them cottenheads, er coppermouths Better watch them cottenheads and coppermouths too.

Somebody probably did it earlier, but when I first got TEH SF in early 2005 the first thing I did was examine in detail TK's Enviro. I noticed cockpit lights didn't turn on until almost total dark outside. There was a period of time where it was too dark to read guages, yet not dark enough outside where the auto-lights turn on.

Dam. Why do these .govs pack everybody on one airplane? If I recall, Stalin was paranoid afraid to fly. So am I lol. I don't remember if they got him to fly, they tried but he was clever at avoiding it. Don't remember.

Thanks Viper that was great to see. Server I apologize I just love the youtube alot. Some crapp I see on it I don't but sometimes it sux to be me. I'm embarassed the way Wikileak handled this vid. Best thing is to make better spin. This thread did. Thanks to all the serial moderators for keeping it open.

Jug:: Wow Jug I saved that for U-2 load image. Me I use blank nothing. I found pics slow me down a little, and a little distracting. I used to be normal though. The neatest I had was once after I got TEH FB I found a low quality pic of Spanish I-15 with a huck dog starter truck hooking up to it. It was a sunset/sunrise pic alot like Jug's, some fuzzy shiny cloud layers in the background against the twilight sky. Poor quality but I-15 with truck made up for that.

lol Server that diplomat-dude in the airplane bathroom saying he was lighting up his shoe was joking too. Youtube can do a good job at exposing a potential emergence of a corrupt police state. Just before the USSR collapse, there was a peaceful demonstration in Tbsili and they didn't turn violent so Soviet troops had to beatem with shovels -- primitive Soviet version of non-lethal weapons hehe. I figure this was USSR on deathbed and news was getting out or they would have shotem. I suppose they were doing their job for the commie cowards in power. The shovels made dam fine tactics but in the end, Mission Fail. USSR Fail. Even armed and armoured illegitimacy fails in the end by its own corruption. Everybody needs to look up Youtube and The Station fire video (Great White) and learn and live from that video. Dense crowds -- small can be dense -- always made me nervous but I'm like that. But it kinda depends. I avoid Disney since it is...well, hehe Disney. I goto movies, and I used to get friends to sit in front row, and they whine something about "sitting in space shuttle at launch." I love being right in front of the screen. Now I sit in back row near entrance. You never *know* if front emergency EXIT doors are locked which happens with sloppy owners and managers.

Yea not much info to go on there. Both sides of the pond could tighten up requirements a bit.

I've wondered about that, thinking of the possibility of making isolated towering cumulus clouds out of 3d polygons, like the Sims Of Old, the Sims of Renown, say, DOS Su-27 FLAKER 1.0 from 1995. Since then all The Sims have gone to (rotating lol) "fluffy" cloud "textures" that don't exist as objects in game. A 3d cloud lod, set to float like a balloon, would interact with the SF sun and be illuminated on poly faces toward the SF sun, and shaded on faces away from the SF sun. Give it a big one polygon flat bottom. Skinning would be interesting. Something like these ~> http://www.chitambo.com/clouds/cloudshtml/towering.html What is CFS4?

That's sad or we are missing some story. Here's the weird part... Something is missing -- either from the story which is standard for zero quality quicky news like this, or a father/husband is missing which means there is no full "family" to begin with.