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Hi all If you have BS1 and would like to upgrade to BS2 but can't afford it then I have 1 licence key for you Reply to this thread, and then on Friday or the w/e I'll pick a post and send you the key (I brought the upgrade for 1 to 2 and then ended up buying the BS2 full anyway so it would work with DCS World during the Beta) The licence key is for the English D/L version Good luck JP Edit --- Now closed - winner shown in post 30

I noticed that the operations of the clock in the cockpit of the Ka-50 have some differencies to the real ACS-1M. I did some research and if the results are accurate, on the base of the operation, the clock in BS seems to correspond to a merge of 'ACS-1M from which it takes the Quadrant with chronometer @30 min, and the ACS-1 (with Chronometer @ 60 min, in the picture below) from which it takes all the function of the needles. The main difference is that the ACS-1M use the main second hand for the seconds of the chronometer, and the small quadrant (30 min) has only one hand just for the minutes. Check this Video, at 2:55 the guy start the Chronometer....

Yes, although I thought it stood for 'Absolutely F... Magic'.;)

I think the reason there is such concern over the direction of DCS is it SEEMS that ED are giving over control of the direction of DCS to third party developers and yet ED are yet to even show the customer what they are working on. The problem seems to be that of a boundary issue; customers love both ED and DCS, and see it as the last bastion of quality modern combat flight simming, as the saviour of the industry. They know ED have what it takes to make a great simming arena, however it seems now DCS has been saturated by third party developers, some of them either unknown or untested, who have the potential to make or break the DCS name. My greatest concern is that of consistency. As we are a smaller community, we all need to be on the same page when it comes to multiplayer, especially now with the development of combined arms and DCS World, which brings the potential for a greater expansion of the multiplayer environment, but at the same time, requires a large proportion of online members to be working in unison. With the development of so many third party products, There will no doubt be different camps developing, playing favourites with certain aircraft and excluding others, which will also create a rift within the community. What we really need is an environment which brings us all together rather than splits us apart, and that is my fear for the future of DCS.

ED & TFC, I am a long time fan and customer of your product. FC1, FC2, DCS:A10C and P51D are among the elite in modern flight simulators. With all of the announcments for third party developers and having knowledge of the process and some projects in progress by various people I am concerned that you are giving licenses to, to put it bluntly, the wrong people and not showing any consistency in regard to quality and potential. From the outside looking in I can't help but feel like maybe favorites are being played behind the scenes in order to get these licenses. I fear that this approach is going to destroy the series that has given the PC flight simulation world two of the best study sims ever made (A10 and P51). Not destroy the quality we expect from the dev team at ED but rather destroy the reputation you have created from years of high quality products. You have created a platform of amazing potential with DCS: World, please don't blow it by allowing sub-par products to be released, you should hold third party developers to a higher standard than your own, and as of right now, I don't think all of them are at that standard. I really hope you can prove me wrong. For the record I have no project, I am not a developer, just a concerned customer.

Russian River Crossing Spotted this over at the Steel Beasts forum,nice video footage.

That will be up to the people building missions. You don't have to make any particular aircraft available wehn you build a map. I think it's funny that people scream for daily updates from ED about projects then whine and complain if they don't like what's provided

"Hawg1-2, Hawg1-1...Engage with Armor at m....Dude, are you NAKED!?"

Everything we all know you won't tell us! :thumbup: And you know exactly what that is.

i think the following process would be good: random 3rd party dev can build which plane, vehicle, campaign, copter or map they ever want at quality they ever want. They can sell it how ever they want. At the end the customer decide if its good or not. But ED should offer them also some kind of certification program (on product base), for example, Iris (<3spanky) is releasing the F-15E, ED is testing the modul and it's quality if it's matching the DCS Quality standards the product should get a "DCS certified" logo, should be added to the ED webstore and perhapes it's basemodel should be added to the DCS World base model collection (for easy multiplayer compatibility). In reverse ED should get some cash for each sold F-15 modul (license costs). But that's just my idea .. sorry for my broken engrish ; )

why don't you wait and see.... ..I mean, what do you think it is the Devs and beta testers actually do?...

I once suggested a KA-50 mission based on the Apocalypse Now movie. Some people were shocked by the fact that it was unethical. I totally agreed. This footage is from the Syrian civil war. Right now people are dying over there. You're talking about how cool the explosion is. Do I need to add anything? Yeah - we're playing war games... or sims - whatever. Pretty please, as stupid as it sounds: refrain from using such examples. Hollywood movies are at least pretty far from reality. This footage is not only real. It's happening right now.

AIDS in DCS ? Oh my, the sim is really getting realistic :D Seriously, though, IADS would be nice

I hope the forum doesn't get too bogged down with a lot of this stuff. I know, you can just ignore threads but more and more threads are getting taken over with a conversation that goes the way of being too concerned about the future direction of ED. I can empathise with a lot of it. I am wondering how it might all piece together, how the battlefield can be coherent when it looks like some time vortex sucked random stuff over the course of 70 years to present day. The fact of the mater is there is nothing you can do about it but wait and see. You all feel invested in it, thats good but when you start to feel too entitled to it then it's time to have a rethink. Would be nice for the board to have the feel it did when we were all having fun and not beating our chests.

Here you can watch some of mine:pilotfly: http://www.youtube.com/user/shamandgg/videos thumb up if you like :)

Why is it that we worry obsessively about something that hasn't happened yet? The dire scenario's that play out in our minds are nothing ... no substance ... just a whole bunch of negative conjecture with no basis on reality :cry: Don't worry, be happy ...

Nuff said here: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=89427 If any 3rd party add-ons turn out subpar I think it will detract from the DCS Series reputation as a whole and although I welcome this new brave world with non-ED devs (as there's certainly a reasonably good chance many good projects will come to fruition from this), I'd still strongly dislike seeing a shoddy add-on with a 'DCS Series' logo stamped on it next to ED's flagship product lineup! My 2 cents.