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Lol, great, buy a peripheral to agitate my crohn's disease and make my already aging chair fall apart faster. Doesn't the X52 have FF?

It is just a trick. Careful editing can make anything look real. I met Albert Einstein and had my picture taken with him, if you think seeing is believing.

The stealthiness should make up for it if its harder to target than an F-22, even if it's A2A is similar to the bug(and she had more power behind her I think) An F-14 might not outrun a flanker, but she'll at least be able to keep up.

The CH sticks and cougar look good, but neither have force feedback as AFAIK. I need that little bit of sensation to feel when I'm at the edge of performance.

Bleh! If it was F4AF, LOMAC or WOE I'd enter it, but an arcade console game? Easily skewed towards console kiddies. Do you really expect a professional pilot to be able to fly with a thumbstick and press 'A' to fire missiles, aside from being trained to deal with real aerodynamics instead of scripted arcade performance? I'm sure they'll have fun outturning opponents in F-4s and Mig-25s. If it was a real flight sim that would use a joystick, throttle and trackir and have some semblance of simulation, THAT would be something to see with real flight simmers duking it out against real F-15 pilots.

saywhat, X3 is singleplayer. You must be thinking of EVE online.

Well the superbug wouldn't be so bad if it had more power and speed. If a flanker gets near it, its toast, the tomkitty at least has speed to rely on.

Another X3 player here. Amazing, I keep finding people all over the forums I already know playing it as well. Haven't gotten to see much even though I've had it since december. So damn expensive to buy new ships and upgrades, even harder when your TS gets destroyed while halfway across the galaxy.

Team Fortress 2. Valve made it exaggerated and cartoony instead of its original design being almost exactly like BF2. It's still supposed to play incredibly online though.

didn't you read? he got the brown box with deathtrap ladders CA has a teamspeak server? More people probably have BF2 or ArmA

A tomcat fitted specifically for night operations?

Seperate installs make things easier for most, and people like multiple installs to keep the planes that will spawn accurate to the theater. There's absolutely nothing that you can't run in one install if you understand the file structure and know what you're doing.

AMRAAMs. One missile isn't quite enough to justify an aircraft I too wanted to sign up and fly her.

Like I said, new cat. Of course someone may come along and take up an advanced tomcat program before then should a serious air threat emerge. Our economic love for China is dying and without that, they become an enemy superpower and its back to the old days.

If its any consolation I will most certainly retire the bug and give the navy a new cat during my administration. Lentine-Koppe '28

See my maintenance and performance analogy. If you want performacen, pay for it. Or not pay for it with our lovely deficit spending . Really, with the largest defense budget in the world, we can afford to keep such an excellent aircraft. With an excess of $400,000,000,000 spent on defense, you don't go to war with the army you have, you go to war with the army you'd like to have. No, for a better effect. Superior payload and range on the cat, I doubt the difference in electronics between the Cat and bug were worth the loss of both. The heart of the matter is the Boeing/MDD lobbyists were friendlier with the people who made the decision.

Damn that sounds good. They should have ordered her instead of the superbug. But what would they designate it? F-4T?

S%#$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! did he say if his 3d projects were recoverable, or backed up shortly before? Oh $% #$%&!!!!!!!!!!!!

Except that the tomcat was very versatile. I read that it actually outperformed the superhornet in A2G roles. IIRC in a side by side comparison between the flanker, her and the bug, it had longer range without fuel tanks than the bug did with tanks, it could carry a heavier bomb load, by far more thrust, comparable to the flankers thrust to weight ratio. The only advantages the bug has is maintenance and electronics because the old airframes of the tomcats. Both could easily be rectified if the Tomcat program wasn't cancelled, or was restarted. Think, if they replaced her electronics, made her with stealthier, lighter, composite materials the bug, raptor and JSF are made from and gave her thrust vectoring nozzles. The kind f performance she'd have MKIs and Su-37s running at the sight of her. They probably would simply ignore the superbug as a non threat. Ferraris and Lamborghinis are maintenance hell compared to a Honda Civic or Toyotta Corolla, but you don't see FIA GT teams using them now do you? Because the pasta rockets have better acceleration, higher top speeds, better handling, because they perform better on the racetrack, not because they're cheap or easy to maintain. The only performance the bug has over the tomcat is manueverability, but without the speed or acceleration to back that up, agility alone is useless, especially when its only advantage over its predecessor is still inferior to the opposition. Who really expected it to replace a heavy interceptor designed to shoot down aircraft, with a plane developed from a light ground attack plane which originally lost a competition for an airforce contract and do the same job well? For an A-6, A-7 and F/A-18A/C replacement its just perfect. But we might as well fly brewster buffaloes for air defence and superiority.

It still looks "off" despite being just like the 3 view. Have you compared it against any other 3 views or checked the UVW mapping for the diagram? Depending on the drawing it can be hard to get the dimensions right and the plane matches the diagram but doesn't look right. I've now adopted the use of making the plane its applied to the exact same dimensions of the image scaled down to about 1/10 so that nothing is stretched or squashed in the process of being uvw mapped onto the plane. Or if it was scanned from a book and the page wasn't completely flat, the 3 view could have that upward bent even though the real thing doesn't. Not looking to be a rivet counter or anything, just helping get it the best it can be ;)

User friendlyness and additional functionality aren't necessary to make terrain in SF, but are certainly worthwhile to add. The resources to do it are consuming and what keeps him from doing it, but in the long run it saves.

There's a mod here that does it Ejections TK is very opposed to, can't understand why because its a pretty simple thing. The canopy already comes off when the plane is destroyed or the pilot ejects, and IIRC the seat and pilot are a different LOD file. It can't be hard to script those two parts to shoot up on the Y axis and have a rocket like effect on the bottom when the plane is destroyed but the pilot wasn't killed. It's not only satisfaction, its usefull to see if your wingman survived getting hit, and its simply a matter of making the game look more polished (one of the criticisms of WOE I read in PC gamer when they reviewed it)

Well if you notice, its origins and original destination are XXXXXXXX, I would not be surprised if it was a PR person.

It's an inevitable shift in discussion :( Has anyone heard from Marcelo about the state of his computer and projects?

There's no reason to hate the superbugs, they're perfectly good aircraft, I just hate them being used in place of a tomcat for A2A roles which its at a sore disadvantage. We might as well go back to the F-4 Phantom for fleet defense, there'd certainly be more love for her.