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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.

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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.

Bill Gates -- there was a time -- Kepler and Tycho -- where the rich funded a lot of very basic science, while staying out as well. I tend to think that's when science made its greatest advances. Sadly, I don't think today's very wealthy are independent of the giant banking system so I'd place little faith in them as opposed to the wealthy men of the distant past. A quickie from uni....The dude who came up with the idea that matter could be described as waves was Louis DeBroglie, a wealthy French physicist after WW1. Now...I had a physics professor, and during a Modern Physics class lecture, when we were studying matter waves, this prof said...I swear I'm not making this up... Physics Prof:: That is sad. Cool guy though, but still. Typhoid has tiptoed away from this thread now. But, just to keep things fresh, if anybody wondered where all the fuss about "carbon" comes from, while real pollution is being ignored, its because of carbon credit trading. It turns out that the giant banks are the one's most hoping to do carbon trading, and since we all know the giant banks have bought the .govs, we can see why carbon is being pushed hard as the "new pollution."

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No, it wouldn't. A Red side pilot setting up for the attack run would NOT see any of it in 3D, except the cockpit and the X wings of his own ship, or the 3D solar panels in the case of the Blue side pilot setting up for intercepting the attack run. Yep. The Trench visuals would be far beyond the range finding of two humoid eyes separated by a few inches. Now as for the tiny model, well... Same thing in combat flight TheSims. I hope the TheSims Devs never go 3D because everything is 2D in the air warfare environment except the Player plane as everything else is too distant for simulating pilot vision.

I'd be rather proud to say I'm the first man to get run over by a B-36 and live. For ya'll who read about Strategic Air Command, ya'll heard that story, the dude who lined himself up between the twin nose wheels. I went looking a piece and found this; a fun discussion. Sorry no youtube vid. RUN OVER BY A B-36... AND LIVES TO TELL ABOUT IT! Apparently, possibly, Amber on page 2 is related, and if so, has a first person soul story on poast #25. A nice touch on poast #19. Amber::

2GB for free? A 400GB internal hard drive costs maybe 40$. That's 20 cents for 2GB. So that's not quite "free" but... edit...can't get my maths right UK, you like tape drives, and so do I but I can't afford them as far as I know. Do any of these online data storage firms back up customer backup data to tape? Scott Mueller says newer very high capacity hard drives are not as reliable as older drives: They went too fast in ramping capacity basically. Thus, I suggest one or three lower capacity hard drives for backing up data. Alternatively, Scott suggests the "enterprise" hard drives, used on a lot of pro servers and stuff, but they run maybe 2x the price. I'm running one now and I think I'd like to get more because of some strange happenings in the past with regards to corrupted files. If ya'll can afford tape, do that. **** But, if the "kewl" factor of trusting some online source for backing up highly valued data is the only way to motivate CombatAce's chronically un~backed into BACKING UP, then I'm all for it.

Each soul is not offered a car. "Volunteers" are entered into a "lottery." Judging by the "prizes," this project is targeted at the poor, while bank.gov corruption helps keep those men, women, and children in poverty. Stary, it is crazy, like Strange crazy. I used to follow this stuff when I was at uni -- totally on my own though. Not ONE faculty member wanted to talk about it, nor any "conservative" or "liberal" students....except some Africans, Asians, and Latinos. I used to tutor physics (well, everything) and I met tonnes of cool souls from around the world. Minimum wage job but man was it the greatest job I ever had. Julhelm:: Required by....?