posted 12-12- 03:35 AM               

Did the wives get together and pull your plugs?

Spend every night doing the New York to Paris run in FS 2000?

Realize it's easy to shoot down the European Air War weenies?

Discover sex?

Pathetically trying to shoot himself down,

TS

posted 12-12- 04:59 AM               

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posted 12-12- 07:41 AM               

TS: I agree about the EAF weenies though. Never a truer word said

posted 12-12- 07:48 AM               

For your information, even the EAF forum is very unfrequented at the moment.

Seems a nuclear holocaust happened in Europe and I'ven't been warned!

STef

posted 12-12- 08:52 AM               

It's a pity because what we have now is a quantum leap away from the arcadish sim that was originally released some 9 months ago.

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posted 12-12- 08:53 AM               

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Kat out

posted 12-12- 09:58 AM               

Well Mad Dog is here and we are both on one computer now so there can only be one of us online at a time till around jan or feb. Plus we are down to 32 megs of ram until this tuesday and i don't even want to try flying until we get more ram. Then we will be up to 96megs (i can't wait) and also i ordered a new joystick so if all goes well we will be on tuesday or wed night.

About the sim it self i think a patch with the desktop fix and some other issues such as bomb bug could be a real boost to the online situation. Is there not also an issue with hits being registared?

posted 12-12- 11:40 AM               

Will be back on late in March...

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WWI in SDOE!

posted 12-12- 12:05 PM               

Online last night for 3.5 hours, got into only 4 or 5 missions....if I wasn't desktopping or locking up, someone else was. Not a real good incentive to stay, nor probably a good example for new pilots.

I will be around every evening, though, and one of these days...ONE OF THESE DAYS!!!!...I will actually shoot Tailslide down!! ( Ok...let's be honest...I'll settle for just getting a good hit!! )!!

Good question to bring up....I think we need a reminder now and then, especially when things get hectic and 'real life' intrudes on what is really important...FUN!!

Now...back to real life...

posted 12-12- 01:56 PM               

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posted 12-12- 02:03 PM               

By the spring the SDOE servers will be swamped! We will all be recovered - both form Chistmas and any physical ailments. We will also have a ton of new planes etc. to fly from all of our OpenPlane hacking... Maybe MH will get the SDOE beta out and there will be much less crashing to the desktop.

This will be great!

On the topic of the SDOE beta - anyone up to testing this on-line again? Let's see how much more stable it is - I remember it working very well...

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WWI in SDOE!

posted 12-12- 02:54 PM            

I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT ALL THE FUSS IS ABOUT?... whoops caps lock.

Ah well back to my thesis on how the moon is made out of cheese.

Hengist.

Hengist's MiG Alley Site. http://www.wulfhere.freeserve.co.uk/MigAlley/

posted 12-12- 05:03 PM               

I understand a lot of people are waiting for the patch to be released because they are tired of the desktop crash.

Personally, I have only flown online the last two Thursdays which is our squad night. I have been fighting a nasty cold (its back) and havent been online much.

Hope you all have a nice Holidays and hope to see you online soon!

posted 12-12- 05:49 PM               

Also, when not studying like crazy, I'm hard at work rebuilding the BCATP website (frames, javascript... it'll look really cool when its done) and I'm also working with Archy on the Panzers.

See ya sometime after 3:05pm on Dec 17th....

posted 12-14- 10:39 PM               

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posted 12-14- 11:57 PM               

This has advantages for those who want to keep quality up, but disadvantages for those with other lives to lead.

Or have I got the bull by the horns on this?

Perhaps there could be a toggle switch on the game as it is being set up to choose whether others can join or not: a bit like passwording on Red Baron servers.

posted 12-15- 12:10 AM               

Everyone wish me luck, cause if I fail YOU DON'T GET ANY NEW PLANES! LOL :Þ

posted 12-15- 05:59 AM               

Just thought I'd pipe in with my personal feelings about it.

I very much *tried* to get involved with SDOE... imho its the best non-arena sim going. However for me alot can be summed up with the "I caught the OPP bug and I've been spending my time building a new whatzzit". To each his own, but for people interested in flight and combat, being a sort of virtual airplane mechanic NASA scientist physics modeller just doesn't cut it. If these two worlds cohabitated better, then great. But as it was when I stopped flying SDOE regularly, competition was scarce... and I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but, the *level* of competition was lacking.

I don't quite know why this is, but I suspect it is because the killers go where they can do their thing. And that is not in an environment where people enjoy tweaking planes more than they love the end product - air combat. And for guys like me, the latest greatest new plane cannot compensate for the desktop crashes or lack of flyers that hinder me and others from the one aspect of SDOE that we enjoy.

posted 12-15- 06:31 AM               

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posted 12-15- 09:15 AM               

Yep that is exactly right nash, I go online all the time and never see any of the people that build stuff flying. Seems to me you would want to fly when you can and build stuff when theres no one flying. I guess there just not into it but like you said who are they building for? The less people online, the less games to play. The less games to play, the less people online. It all adds up to no one flying, just people making planes and trading them.

Sucks but thats just how it goes, maybe the builders forget how fun it is to shoot down or be shot down.

posted 12-15- 09:37 AM               

Yeah I can see the level of compatition being a problem. I personally suck ass. I would love to get better but i find reading any type of tactics info on the planes a waste of time since they don't perform the way there historical conterparts do.

One thing you flight sim gods can do to get a higher level of ally or opponent is to teach. I remember when i first started playing and i was just doing things all wrong. Tailslide flew with me one on one and told me what to do and what not to do, and he wasn't the only one. I made it a point to ask what I did wrong in combat when I was shot down. Unfortunatly mostly my evasive has gotten alot better but my offensive capabilites still needs alot of work.

So maybe we need some sort of learn to fight and live nights. That would rock i would love to get nash and tail and all the others taking a couple people up and telling them what to do and what they do wrong.

on a side note i am getting a new stick with a hat and rudder control so that could help me out alot for finding and keeping the opponent in view and lining up the shot.

OH boy I can't wait.

So in conclusion when you shoot a guy down tell him what he did wrong and when your shot down tell him what he could have done to do it faster, and congradulate him on a job well done.

posted 12-15- 09:41 AM               

One last thing, does anyone know a good flight combat site that has tatics? Just general ones, not plane specific?

posted 12-15- 10:47 AM               

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Fortunae Nihil
(Nothing to Chance)
OPPs Making SDOE a Dangerous place.
One plane at a time.

posted 12-15- 10:57 AM               

Simple points but hard to actually do! The HDD has the 1st part documented well. The 2nd part is just plain practise.

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Kopper

Fortunae Nihil
(Nothing to Chance)
OPPs Making SDOE a Dangerous place.
One plane at a time.

posted 12-15- 12:21 PM               

Spanky's right about not being able to use historic tactics all the time in SDOE. Most of the planes fly right compared to each other but there are exceptions. The next plane pack has a lot of emphasis on top speeds and climb rates so it should be a lot better in 5.3

Heya Nash, good to hear from you! I join the side with the crummy planes that's outnumbered or fly a bomber and things get challenging enough. The skill level is alot better since you played last but now there's a bunch of new players so it's a real mixed bag.

I like SDOE's graphics, physics, padlock and mission based format a lot more than the arena games, I wonder how B17-2 or TOE will handle online play.

TS

posted 12-15- 12:28 PM               

You shouldn't get into situation #1 in the first place if it can at all be avoided!

..And how you manage to get that Lanc from out of someones '12 and onto their '6 is beyond belief

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posted 12-15- 12:29 PM               

Kopper everytime anyone asks a question you answer with Check the HDD. I have many times.

I'm looking for new and more expansive info.