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AoE3 is great!

Oh sorry I misread it..yes when you're in a fight and it goes vertical,it's time ot pull the belts tight as you're up against someone with training and knowledge of who to fly and fight. Oh yeah..most of the time.The best thing I can say is learn your aircraft,and push it to the limit and maybe a fraction over.Then learn your enemy.Fight to your strength and his weakness.

Not only that,but in the vertical you can cause your opponent to bleed energy faster,but you must be careful as you do the same.If you have the power and energy advantage going into the vertical is a great way to gain an advantage you might other wise have missed.For some reason alot,if not most,of the new guys who fly on-line try to do continuous loops,and this plays into the more experienced pilots hand(not sure why people think loops are so good)This is where knowing your aircraft,and knowing your opponents strengths and weakness comes into play.Also SA is of utmost importance now,a fight in the vertical isn't so much a"turn fight"it's like a dance,you're not really turning as you are spinning on your axis,once energy is lost you'll stall and once this happens unless your bandit has already fell you are a dead pilot.A great example is in the early years of WW2 the Zero pilots would get the F4F pilots to try and pull into a vertical fight with them,once committed to this type of fight the Zero was the winner in the majority of the fights.Why? power and energy,the F-4F was was under powered compared to the zero,it would climb run out of energy and fall,the zero would just wing over and set him up for the kill.This is still taught as part of ACM to pilots today.Will you meet a better class of people in the vertical??Not sure BUT you will be greeted by a much better class of pilot.Loops are best left of the airshows,unless you can turn them into a split S or emmilman.

I had almost forgotten how great this sim is..and it runs like a champ on XP.

Glad you're here,Doc.If I can get enough people interested then yes we can use your scoring method.

While I've never tried to take a WW1 fight into the vertical,I do in alot of WW2 sims,well depending on the aircraft i'm in.Some aircraft have such a power advantage that I love to put it to use in a Vertical fight,power up and if they follow wait for them to stall,if they don't follow, loop over and find my self with the Alt. and speed advantage.

Just watch these and you'll see why! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa_7P5AbUww enjoy them!

are you playing on normal or hard?I play on hard mode and have even been shot down by my wingman when he tried to kill the same target I'm after.

Works fine for me..not sure

Doc it is truely great to see ya here!I'm trying to get some interest back up...I miss the v8th days.Now to get everyone else to show up some and give us a pointer or 2.Great to see you.Navy??ok I won't hold that against you...sorry as an old Leather Neck you know I gotta say something.

Kendo353 has been kind enough to take time to answer a few questions for us about his new WW1 sim thats in development. CA) What made you decided to take on a big project like this and why WW1? Love. when my grandmother passed away, i inherited her library. she was a passionate historian and Somme walker. The game was originally going to be multi-player only, and i had hoped to wrap it up in six months... but the networking code was delayed, and embarked on the single-player side of things. Didn't realize at first what a gargantuan amount of data there was to incorporate (as this is my first game), but I'm up for the challenge. CA)What game engine are you using or did you come up with a new one? Read the rest of the interview HERE?

DOC??from the v8th and BA?

OK a reminder that a post like this won't get anything accomplished except getting you warned.JT and company are doing this sim around real life jobs and in their spare time.Keep that in mind.look at the screen shots and videos..work is progressing well for a small part time team.

once you download it most burn it to a disc for back up.

Welcome,enjoy the site.

Ok I asked at Thirdwire if anybody would be interested in doing a community project.So If anyone would like to work with it post here..the rules are simple1)If you ask a modder if they want to help and they say no..NO flaming or negative remarks,just move on to next modder 2)all work must be origional,All work will be checked.This will be a great chance for some great work to be done,so make your models and add-ons 3)it will be free and it will be fun 4)ask any modder you want,but like I say if they say no then thats it.. so thats the rules..and the challenge.Make a community based mod and work together or don't complain.

well it looks like IF you want theres several planes,terrains,skins,and possibly missions yall have already done.so the start is already there.

check in your control panel and check it out on the calibration...and then go to the options section in the game.I had to do that for my X-45.

alot from what the guys in my clan who have it are saying.Alot of the guys are even saying at times it's unplayable.The word is a patch is in the making to fix alot of the problems,and that the U.S. release will be pre-patched.

http://glewis.us/v7th_Recon/links.htm this is a great site with alot of info on targets.We used it in the v8th AF.besure to listen to the music and check out the short films on the page.click on the movie reel at the bottom of the page or the juke box.At the top of the page are pictures of every target in game.

I got the old girl back up in the air...first mission was ulgy to say it nicel.My Fort got hammered by flak on the way in and the way out(ok ingress and egress for you purists)lost my waist gunners,yes both of them,to a fighter attack,and had 2 engines shot out,fires everywhere and wounded screaming over the headsets all the way home.Won't go back there for awhile.

maybe we should have a screenshot contest..or a bombing contest.

NOBODY is being blamed,and he said it wasn't what we all thought,it was more or less watch out for this guy or that guy...So to put everyones mind at ease..IF you have origional work and want to post it or want to start a community based mod feel free to start a thread about it and everyone jump in.BUT if a modder says no thanks,I don't want my work included then thats it,because if anyone gets mad and posts their drama queen posts I can tell you this..it's not this person or that person you have to worry about ....IT'S ME you have to worry about.

great glad you got it going. Now get back in the air!

Get B-17II and you'll fall in love with the old girl.I can direct you to the patches,or I might even see about uploading them here and the OMF modifier so you can add different skins and nose arts.