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Disabled, but maybe there should be separate shortcuts for the launcher & the .exe? As someone said it's probably useful for maintenance of modules without waiting for the sim to load & unload & load again - & for those that swap between VR & flat & want to arrive at either in the correct state - but I can't see why you'd want to add that step every time you launch the SIM. I haven't looked - is there a way to re-enable it without entering the SIM (is there any way?) if you wanted to? (I was a bit 'what was old is new' when I saw it - ED where quite invested in getting rid of the launcher not that many years ago..) Edit - A bit like Microsoft putting Unicode text back in the formula bar of excel - it doesn't make it easier to read or parse formulae & there was a reason it was dumped in the first place.

One would assume that only if one didn't read any of the notices on the download page:

They probably won't, and neither will I, and as a simple customer & can easily see that the old maxim "the customer is always right" is a crock and the reality is a lot of customers are entitled whingers - & that a lot of them don't read the product description before buying

& why would you expect any of it to be perfect, when it's all clearly labelled as an unfinished WIP?

These are all the way over in China, never mind the parts of the map that are theoretically more developed.

I tried to find lots of ways to phrase this that were more polite, but it boils down to - why the F*** do people keep buying early access products - that are clearly labelled as unfinished - then go into emotional meltdowns and paroxysms of forum post rage when they discover the unfinished product they bought is ... unfinished? All the maps were of poorer quality when released than they are now - ALL OF THEM. Frame rates on the Mariannas map were so poor when it was released that after trying the day I downloaded I didn't even bother looking at it again for months & until it had been patched a few times. It's a nice map now, but wasn't when released. Afghanistan is in its first day of Early Access & people are complaining that it's not as polished as maps that have been being patched and de-bugged for years - in some cases a decade or more. After the tsunami of whingeing that appeared on the map's release, I downloaded & started it with a heavy heart, but I'm pleasantly surprised. There are some rough bits but on the whole - it looks an interesting map & geographically varied (even the north-east part of the initial release is far from being 'another desert map'), the frame rates are good, bits of the map are beautiful, and at 0m to 50m altitude, and from a couple of thousand m AGL it looks very nice. In between there are a few things to work on - but that's why they repeatedly, all over the forum, all over the download page and all over every social media channel and internet site it's mentioned on, say 'IT'S NOT FINISHED" If, when they say it's 'finished', you think its's not up to scratch - complain then. If it takes too long to get to 'finished' complain about that (but please wait at least a week from today) But for God's sake please stop complaining that the product you consciously bought in the full knowledge that it is unfinished, is unfinished, & do the rest of us a favour by not buying any more early access products. Please. We'll all be happier

If this didn't count as a "stopper", it'd be interesting to know what did... Or maybe just everyone that's a tester had FC4 installed :-)

They did what they said they'd do - they planned for a date, but had to change those plans. Bignewy, July 3: "correct planned for 4th of July now" Do I think this happens too often - maybe... Do I think they deliberately mislead us - definitely not... Responding to your very OT question: The world is the way it is because people have forgotten that society is the actual building block of humanity, and fetishised the individual. Want to see what true individualism divorced from society looks like (?) - watch 'Naked and alone' We have become like ants that at one and the same time expect the benefits of the community, and the right to ignore the community's needs when it suits their individual desires. Our hubris makes us forget that we are each just part of a larger interdependent system, & treat everything and everyone as if they existed only for our exploitation. That is why the world is the way it is.

Which Zaranj airbase are we getting, the old Soviet one in the center of the city, or the new one 20km to the east of the city?

Hopefully the Devs are looking at that example and building the housing for an NS 430 GPS as a selectable option into their model from release

secret and classified are not the same thing. There are flight manuals all over the internet for all kinds of aircraft, and you can compile an accurate startup check list from one of those. While they are no longer "secret" many are still classified, and as a Russian owned company E.D. has to be particularly careful about avoiding classified data. I'm petty sure a couple of years ago an E.D. employee was detained and questioned for being in possession of a manual that was freely available on the internet. Reproducing a checklist verbatim from a manual would imply that they had access to a manual, or that someone with access to what is still officially classified material had given them that data. From their point of view it's probably simpler to just make up their own list that they know differs from SOP, but that works and isn't confusable with the 'official' list. Or maybe you're right & they're just to lazy to copy and paste from official documentation. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

To the original post - wouldn't it make more sense to just have E.D. implement AutoStart in a way that it's no quicker than starting yourself ? Perhaps they can't use the real list order from official documents because then it would look like they were using official documents & they can't be seen to be using classified data (which is why we can't link actual manuals on the forum)

He means it's like when my boy was little & insisted on using the Camaro in Age of Empires. You don't have to good, you just win,

I think they're waiting until they can auto-translate red transmissions to Russian for blue eavesdroppers & blue to Norwegian for Red. That would be more realistic wouldn't it?

The E-shop currently says the supported maps are : The device supports navigation on next maps: Caucasus, Nevada, Normandy 1944 and Persian Gulf Did the newer maps ever get added ? Syria for example ?

I did that with black shark 2 - I guess it's the same for 3. If you look at the cockpit in the model viewer you can find the argument for the door & use the cockpit argument in range X:Y trigger

There were 2 bugs reported in this thread. If you read the rest of the thread you'll see what they were: the first was that the cursor moved erratically when locked even if the plane was still. That got fixed. the second was that the laser designator drifted if you tried moving it after it was locked. That's not a bug. The laser is gyroscopically stabilised, but not very well while you're moving the piper, so while you move it after lock it does effectively move with the glass not the ground. The way to counter this is to not move the designator while maneuvering. Fly the designator onto the target & lock. Maneuver - if you have to adjust the aim point hold the aircraft steady while you do so, move the designator, maneuver.

But then you wouldn't be the one trying to keep track of bugs (& complaints) across 3 sections of forum (& code, which would be the bigger issue) instead of only 2 would you ?

It is, in the next sentence: "To improve efficiency of CPU resources usage, we have reworked the core of our engine. First, at the architectural level, it has been divided into two main threads: graphical and logical. This opens up new possibilities for further thread parallelization of calculations in both the logical and graphical parts of the engine independently." Taken with the paragraph before the one you quoted from (in which E.D. make all the points you contain in your paragraph after the quote above) they have said: CPU manufacturers have focused on multi-core as an approach to performance improvement rather than single core clock speed / throughput. To date (with the exception of some audio) DCS has run as a single threaded process, and so could only use a single thread on a single core at any given time. Individual cores are not increasing in performance, so the only way to improve DCS performance is to pursue multi-thread parallelisation. As a first step the SIM has been split into 2 main threads. One dealing with 'logic' and the other with graphics. If there are 2 threads running in parallel, the game is multi-core capable. (actually, 1 for graphics, 1 for logic and 1 for audio means the game would be capable of using at least 3 cores) Having split the logical and graphical parts of the engine, E.D. are free to pursue further parallelisation of either one of, or both of, the 2 main processes - presumably depending on where they see the easiest performance wins coming from. There isn't really much news in the statement other than that the initial split will only be into two threads & that these will be logic and graphics. the change is already in internal testing.null 1 might seem disappointing to those that were hoping to see all 88 threads maxed out, but expecting everything all at once is a curse placed on our times, and this is a realistic first step. 2 is good positive news of progress ! As for the rest of the message -They've been saying they're working on multi-threading for a long time, it's more of an expectation setting message than anything else. I had some comments about shirt poosters, but I'll keep them to myself...

Where are you comparing to ? The amount of dusk you get depends on where you are in the world and the time of year

¿ The 23×115mm round is used in Soviet (USSR)/Russian/CIS aircraft autocannon. Weapon platforms : (...) SPPU-22 gun pods. https://international-armour.com/catalogues/pdf/ChinaAmmo.pdf 23x115mm Aircraft Auto Cannon Ammo : 23x115mm HEI Self destruction time 4-14s

Your question is like someone asking "how long is a piece of string ?" It's impossible to answer without providing more background and detail to the question. If you want some answers you'll have to give examples of what (precisely) do you think is irrational about the behaviour of the planes. You'll also want to give an explanation of why you think that behaviour is irrational - preferably with some real life documentation that demonstrates the behaviour in game isn't as it should be in real life. Lastly you'll want to provide a track where the behaviour you believe is irrational is exhibited. Until you expand on your question and provide examples, no one will know what you're talking about, and if they don't know what you're talking about they can't provide answers.

Only in the same way that we're (mostly) still using intel processors ...

They charge what the market will bear. As Dwight D. Eisenhower* suggested might happen, the military–industrial–congressional complex has become the backbone of the US economy, and the Govt (congress) will pay what is necessary to keep it in business. * Dwight D. Eisenhower used the term in his Farewell Address to the Nation on January 17, 1961 : "A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction... This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence—economic, political, even spiritual—is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military–industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together."

About 2057 that turbine noise is going to give the DCS sound engineers something to play with.