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All skins lay on a site www.lockonfiles.com http://www.lockonfiles.com/modules/Downloads/imageuploads/ScreenShot%20Mig-29.jpg Section " other skins " Section "SkinPack"

Careful, foul language will get you a warning. :smilewink: Either I don't have a good grasp of what the problem really is (and if that is true, someone please speak up) or that long post really doesn't address the problem. When you say the ED site going and staying down for as long as it was is no big deal ignores the fact that for those that needed a Starforce activation the software was unusable. ED had no back-up plan to support its customers in the event of that forseeable possibility. That's was why people were angry/frustrated and said so. Do you think that was uncalled for? The second prong of this current situation is what is viewed by some as heavy handed modding. It appears that Alfa has banned Hitman over a signature file that he saw as oversized. Or maybe it was oversized, I don't have a time machine to prove it. But I will tell you this: I recently made my sig and had it removed by a mod too. When I made it I chose the compression for the jpg in PS. It told me that it would be under the filesize limit. So I attached it without checking the size. It turns out that PS was wrong and my sig WAS oversized. I redid it, checked it, put it up in Photobucket and attached it again. This turned out to be the same sig I had before that was oversized. It must have been a cache issue or something. (I used the same filename) Eventually, I got it to be undersized. The point of all this is that at no point did I knowingly put up an oversized sig. Was I close to getting banned for it? Maybe, I don't know. That was something that any mod may have viewed as repeated disrespect for a very clear rule. But it was not in any way. Also, anyone policing sig sizes should know that the stated limit is 51200 bytes. It appears that that may have been a problem in a case or two, but not my case. Based on what I've read about this, the real problem seems to be a lack of communication and civility. Both necessary traits for a forum, IMO. But I will readily admit I have only heard one side of the banning story. If Hitman called Alfa a &$^(&%^%ucker for deleting his sig, then that's another story. And I miss your point about mods being beta testers. Both are by choice. Neither excuses anything. One thing is for sure, tensions and frustrations are high. I suggest we all blow the heads off some zombies. :thumbup:

A big thanks to Alfa for converting me the model! And a big thanks to 666th Birdy for using it in his new scenery mod!

Pilotasso i see you are very very interested, so i will upload some more especialy for you :music_whistling:You can save the one with me in the cockpit of a "real" typhoon, lol...BTW it's so interesting if you have a job in the airforce and working in the crewreception..:lol: Somebody know this team?? Very gently but also niccceeee peoples... Enough pictures pilot?? Grtz...Ross....

:thumbsup: ...how bout that! Didn't even know that was an option... this makes the 50Kb argument seem even more silly.

Or just turn off sig display in your own control panel & quit cryin'. :thumbup:

All this talk about sigs...theres not one mention on the length limit. Theoretically, I could make a sig thats 2 pixels in width and 9000 pixels in length and not get busted for it unless it goes over the kb size. And sometimes Im sorely tempted to test this too.

Here are some edited screenshots that I made. And some more extensive photoshopping...

Done! A quick overview :P The basic background Lines, stencils Tire marks Final weathering touch-ups I'd like to thank my dogs for giving me support through the time of making the skin...hm...and yeah, the people that tested the texture during the making of the skin :D And you guys for the comments :smilewink: I'll pack both versions up and upload to LOCKONFILES tonight.

I do not know as to decide(solve) this problem. It is necessary to ask of advice(council) at ED???

Hell I'd move to lock this topic. It's going nowhere and what's the point of it all? Granted I've been doing other things so I haven't been really too active (well okay, a little more than usual) but what I've gleaned from the Ubi board is that the mods are getting extreme... or the posters are getting extreme, so it seems really unclear (to me anyways) just what the problem is. So I guess I'll take a stab out of the dark. Lo.ru site goes down, cats and dogs start living together, and nobody is happy about it. Mods.... I think take a preemptive strike and try and quell the riots, but it excites the rioting, and here we are, Page 8 on another "Why is this?" topic. I mean I guess in retrospect it's a little of both. Nobody expected (hell I don't even ED) the site to go down, okay, the world is still turning, and gravity is still present. So in essence, I think everybody seems to be overreacting because the site was down, and nobody got information, but wanted it NOW! Mods overreacted and we are at this juncture. So in essence, we're all to blame as the small community we are, because we all want to see BS, but not have to deal with alot of bs. But nobody realizes that at it's heart, LO is a freakingly complex simulation. Back in the day, we'd find and fix a problem, then something else would mess up. And we'd be back before Square 1 even is considered. So I think the reason is, that ED is at a juncture. Getting BS stable or workable is a real pain in the ass and they've hinted at, but not overly stated it, but duh, that's why it's taking so long. So people get stupid, and think ED isn't telling all, but then again, it's a product, they don't have to, the sim market, while small, is a tight market, and ED wants to be first. So while I don't think I could look at the mods and say they're wrong, or right, or maybe it's what they feel is making the best out of a bad situation. And it just spirals out of control, and continues until somebody finally has to say STOP! But the site going down? Whoopdee doo really, I mean most of the information I get comes from here, so why is it such a big deal? Does the main site have to be the hub? Which is why there is the forums here, to facilitate the information as best as possible. We dealt with this with Lock On when it first came out, and we had the same spate of locks, deletes, bans. Matter of fact it still annoys me even though years past. From my point of view as still an active moderator on four sites, is that while the STFU attitude isn't always the best method I agree, but sometimes take a step, look at it again, before you start hammering away saying that ED is failing it's customers. And did you ever pay attention to the tags? All the moderators are currently also beta testers. Beta testing, is a royal pain in the ass. It seems cool and spiffy that you get to play with the new software, toy, etc. before everybody does, but you have to take an extroardinary amount of time to just look at EVERYTHING, from a bush looking stupid, textures, coding, programming. It's called a Fine Tooth Comb, and it can really stress you out sometimes, especially with deadlines, and oh by the way, I do have a life and job to lead too... And while people assume it's like The World is not Enough, from my experience, the only people who've done a pathetic job as far as execution was the GRAW2 MP test I participated. No direction, no accountability, just "here, play with it and we'll.. ask you about it sometime." That's pathetic. The LO team when I was part of it, is a bunch of people who nitpick every square centimeter of the sim, and it's shown through Lock On. As again, like a broken record, this simulation is so complex, is that people aren't thinking of that. Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither can BS or even LO itself, ever. Sure it's annoying that it's not out, as I'm excited, but if you were in the devs shoes, how would you act any different? Or maybe more simply, the mods are getting tired of the constant complaining when realistically, they can't do anything about it, and trying their best, and its not working out right?

No, not yet. This mod will be ready in this weekend or next, I guess. Here is another shot from the early test. (Sorry for the size.)