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If you have a game in the earlier SF1 series, use the CAT extractor. See the CombatAce Brain Base if you don't know. The CAT file containing the ini file is in Flight folder. I have no idea what SF2 even is, so...

Wow that is nice they could do that. What was wrong with the building they had to destroy it? Next time use RAF hehe!!! Czech it out: Smooth RE crash....condo tower lays down flat. ~~> http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/11/different-kind-of-real-estate-crash.html

Possible little useful tip...maybe for those experiencing problems in this area. I recently found a good use for the MinPixelSize variable in FlightEngine.ini, started a thread over at Thudwire about it here... ~> http://bbs.thirdwire.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7030 After getting up SF1 with Win7RC and new ATI, I noticed the aircraft LODs vanished at rather short distances. Setting MinPixelSize=0 allowed me to increase the range to where the aircraft LODs vanish -- 9km for a large jet LOD at my res 1280x1024. Czech the Thud forum thread for details. I hope to eventually move to a larger/better monitor to further increase this.

Gepard:: Very interesting. I've read of peaceful resistance movements spanning Poland/E.Germany/etc... in the 1950s but we in the western "democracies" remained silent as they were beaten down. Is this Correct Thinking? Thanks for sharing!!!

Donne! .... at least for SF1. For loading screens, I put all the bmp's in another non-game folder I call AA.... LoadingScreen=D:\AA\F-106A.bmp Shared cockpits I put into a folder called A... Directory=D:\A\F-106A\Cockpit On very rare occasions, the radar does not work so I work around that by putting only the radar.bmp in an otherwise empty Cockpit folder, and accessing that radar.bmp with the Avionics file. Other than those few exceptions, none of my Aircraft folders have Cockpit folders. I don't use any hanger screens, just a blank bmp. No bmp files at all in my aircraft files as I know the loadout locations. I reduce all skins because I see the game as mostly what you see from the cockpit during gameplay and with alot of these old jets you see NOTHING of your own airplane at all, and other planes are at high relative speeds at far beyond Screenshot Range. I was working on doing decals the same way before my Windows crash this summer gave me a reason to joyfully forget SF for a while. Accessing decals from a non-game folder does work though. I have over 100 SAC, NAVY, RAF, IAPVO, and Flygvapnet planes installed at not too much over 1GB SF total. Very snappy. I admit I went overboard with skin reduction BUT it matches the best detail you would see of other aircraft when looking from your player cockpit.

Aussum Dave, and avoiding the deadbeat credit card companies. Easiest Christmas shopping decision I ever made was for a friend. I asked her if she liked Star Trek. She said she HATED it and I instantly knew to get her some LEXX DVDs. The hardest Christmas shopping I ever had was finding her the Canadian made LEXX. She liked it. She had to hehe.

First thing come to mind was Tigers In The Mud written by a German tank guy. Near the war's end he had troubles motivating his troops but managed an ambush. He had a couple SP of some kind forgot what and took out a column of Shermans I believe. No infantry and no Air Force involved in that one. Gave that book away so don't recall the details.

Woa Your story reminds me of what happens in aviation engineering world. Bad fluff ups get done in the rush.

That Orlando thing was weird too, and unemployment is still skyrocketing. Thanks Mannie. My sloppy mistake. The Palestinians are Israeli citizens. I lost my first read of it, but found another, apparently from Dubai. Palestinians join Israeli army for better life ~ http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090926/FOREIGN/709259780

~> http://www.spyflight.co.uk/Rainbow.htm

I've read Israel uses Palestinian volunteers in their ground forces, but don't know much beyond that. EricJ, thanks for your poast (and your -128 just downloaded it last night). Could this guy have just been so opposed to himself deploying that he basically went over to the "other side" as his way of dealing with it? The way I see it, he KNEW he wouldn't survive this thing, or not escape capture. My current "feeling," which is worthless and can, and usually does, change on a dime, is that he used his deployment as opportunity to do his act where it would hurt the most in the confined spaces on base, but that might more imply a Sleeper combatant, or not. I dunno. EricJ:: Thanks for poasting this! I've been reading some on the officer fraggings in Vietnam. But I take it the guys involved were short timers wanting to go home to live a normal life and perceived the war as pointless, and didn't want to be sacrificed to advance some officer's Army career, or so far I gather the thinking behind it all.

Teh New Air Warfare. Fire heat seeking grappling hooks, then send over the Para Air-Marines.

Model -- about 60 nearby stars to maybe 40 light years distance. Many moons back, I started with foam board from which I hung little bright painted blocks of wood of different sizes and colours with black thread. Sun centered. Length of thread calculated from astronomical star data. Size and paint representing absolute magnitude and spectral colour. Took a week to do. Finished and hung from ceiling for first test. Turned off lights at night and used flashlight. Perfect 3D effect, looking from different directions. Bottom of foam board painted flat black and so minimally visible. Black thread totally invisible. Near perfect. Went to take it down and dropped it. Threads hopelessly tangled up. Tossed it and later did maybe 8000 stars using FORTRAN on computer.

hehe old thread. Jamming does not work in my game, because it causes warhead detonation at I guess the point of tracking failure. SAMs explode just off the launcher, and if they have nuc warheads, they wipe out the SAM site (all swell, but...). If your game needs nuc warheads, jamming can't be used. Imagine shooting GAR-11 at target say Tu-95 employing jamming, and the nuc warhead blows under your missile bay (great job on that F-102 bay btw). Really neither does the self-destruct timer which also causes warhead detonation. I had thought up some partial workarounds for nuc missiles but never tested them until my SF-Free vacation.

Wow, never seen that feature before. Ask on their forums? They seem to be pretty helpful. Do you know which file is getting the hits? Maybe try taking out that one file (for a day or two if its possible to replace it later), or is it a file you need to stay there? Just tried that stats feature it but doesn't seem to stop loading. mmm

ASRAAM, congrats on the working nucs last page. If you can mac em better, thanks!! That's the best I could do for now anyways. I know we are supposed to poast pics here, and no prattle, so there...

Happens to the best. An interesting poast at the Market Ticker forum in a thread on this story. Ishmael:: And a whole B-52 crew. Sleeping Through an ORI by Lt. Col. Peter Katsufrakis:: Only the best! Although these guys worked LONG hours (days and days really) so every nap in the pit was well earned.

Is that shot in space, under surface ocean, or deep inside planet liquid core? I do see a few stars in one nice looking shot near the bottom right. Ships look great though. I love the ST universe, just not that visual implementation of it here. I guess you can turn it off or better; reduce it alot, and turn on the stars. One thing I credit Old Star Wars movie, and the old Star Trek series, for is the black starry starfields without the post-modern "computer game" overcooked nebula theme.

Good read Dave. If you think it wise, send him a BIG NO on this, or a caution. Charles:: I've heard some can still "profit" from home buying but it takes being there full time and knowing the currently rigged markets, or so I've gathered. If you think its a good idea, suggest the average guy rent and try to save money for family back home, or stay with relatives and save money for now. Bad time to sign into debt. Major family stressor. I think, when he finds where he would love to live for a few decades, and raise a family there, then buy, but never for "profit." thanks!!

Its really a Catch 22. Maybe most every bombing raid took guts or "balls" ... Dave you set this one up badly hehe!! I like to think of Midway, and the Army and Marine fellas based on the island keeping going and going like Duracell Bunny one at a time against the Japanese fleet, then the Navy Devastator pilots, with no fighter cover at all, who did almost NO damage they could *see* -- except pulling down the fleet's Zero cover to sea level before the Dauntless Party started: something the earlier striking aircrew did NOT wish to do haha. But that's how it worked out later. And then the non-kamikaze Japanese aircrew who flew essentially suicide missions against worsening odds as the Pacific war progressed. According to Saburo, all the Japanese pilots on Iwo fully expected to die there. I think most did. Not sure. Most interesting bombing raid to me was Soviet bombing of Newbie pilot Saburo's airfield in China sometime 1938 or -39, or so, by roundabout a dozen DB3. Saburo took off solo in his Ki-27 (edit...A5M, apologies to Saburo) during the ammo explosions and burning aircraft but could not catch the, at the time, high performance Soviet bombers flying away at 8km altitude. Airfield commander was executed.

Yikes. Just wow. I didn't know Bpao well at all, but have always used his works. I only poasted a few times with him waaay back but I could feel he was a major force in the sim from long ago.

Yeaps he lost. Did he complain before the loss?

Bulloney. Historically, the Ussian Democrat Party was the War Party. Welfare and Warfare go hand-in-hand like banks and debt.

ANOTHER BONE PARTY THREAD Works here in SF 2006. Its even flyable "out of box" with A-4 cockpit at least in KMD hand sculpted missions. Which Bone folder did you copy or install into your Aircraft folder?