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> I intend to zoom with it, but something strange happens and the helo starts to take off by itself and get out of control. you have the slider mapped as collective. if you press rctrl+enter when waching the track you'll see what axis input was passed on to the sim. > Unfortunately this does not work either, hitting space or pressing the joystick trigger button does nothing. Using the cannon works fine. you release rockets/bombs with a different trigger than guns - the default key combination is right alt + space. edit: ah, 159th_Viper beat me to it :).

in case you've missed it: jim kindly offered replacement manuals to those that got their copies ruined. the problem is that no one has much control over the delivery process (except in the form of over-protecting the package) and delivery companies don't really care about what happens to the packages they're supposed to deliver. i think that they (posts, delivery companies) have calculated that it costs them less money to deliver the packages the way they do, than to slow down the process with careful handling.

a friendly suggestion for ed/tfc: don't ship the manuals in just a padded envelope, at least not to non-uk customers. while mine was not outright torn apart it is quite bent. the binder and pages can probably be straightened out with a bit of work, but still. in that, i think, amazon's higher shipping charges are justified - they ship books in some sort of box (when they have them in stock :D). edit: a couple of pictures, if anyone's interested :):

bs is already on sale on direct2drive and is sold for less than ed is selling it in their own store ($40 vs. $50). it's still the same price as the boxed version, though.

i see no reason why it shouldn't.

> So is there a way I can manually get 200% saturation so that 50% physical movement is 100% in game movement? sure - you just set saturation x to 50 - that way you'll get 100% in-game deflection in only half of your physical joystick's movement. when you decrease saturation x the sensitivity of the axis increases. when you decrease saturation y the sensitivity of the axis decreases.

> By setting it to 50%, does that mean 100% physical movement of the stick will only result in 50% in game movement? that's correct, as far as i understand it. i decreased the saturation to ~15 on my ch pro throttle's analog hat's axes (axises? axii? wth is the plural of axis? :P) to make the shkval's slewing more manageable.

he just needs to click the "activate with cd" button (the middle one):

in fc and bs you generally don't need to select an axis; you just double click where you want it to be assigned and move the axis through it's full range of motion, so that the game recognizes and assigns it.

i've recieved my order after ~24 days. i ordered my copies on 1. 11., my card was charged on 7. 11. and the order was dispatched around 20. 11...

i think what shemi is trying to point out is that the moon is shaded (lighted?) incorrectly. its western hemisphere should be in shadow, not the eastern.

first: run the setup as administrator, from the looks of it you're trying to install in program files, which requires privilege elevation. second (if running as administrator doesn't work): go to start > control panel > regional and language options (assuming you have control panel's layout set to classic). click the administrative tab > change system locale > acknowledge the uac prompt > from the drop-down menu select russian (russia). click ok and reboot when prompted. re-run the setup (it'll now be in cyrillic instead of random characters) and post a screenshot of the error. be sure to set the system locale for non-unicode software back to its original setting so it wont mess up any other non-unicode software you may have. edit: ekfly> I mean the account that I have now has admin privileges right click on setup.exe (or whatever the installer executable is called) and select run as administrator.

an easier method of setting the processor affinity would be the use of task assignment manager from tom's hardware. it may not be the best piece of software (no minimize, doesn't save application profiles) but at least you don't have to alt-tab out of the game.

nice. so my copies shouldn't be too far away, hopefully :). they were shipped yesterday or today, according to the site.

wonderful :/. has anyone at all here received their order from qpig.ru? i would've bought the download version in the first place, but webmoney apparently doesnt want me to be a registered member - i haven't received a single reply text to my mobile. meh, at least i have fallout 3 :P...

i've ordered from qpig.ru on 1.11.; my card was charged last friday (7.11.) and the status of my order changed today to Комплектование (completed/completing or something like that, if i understand correctly). hopefully they'll ship my four copies sometime this week. i wonder how much the import duties and taxes will be...

mikoyan: after you click on complete purchase on the last screenshot of grave's guide the store should take you to a screen like this. you have to click on the first link (oplatit zakaz), which should then take you to cyberplat's processing site, where you enter your card number. you can also access all your current orders on the right side menu: the link takes you to a page similar to this: the top button (otkaz) lets you cancel your order and the bottom one (oplatit) lets you pay for it. all this assuming you have your payment method set to credit card, of course.

they handle credit card payments via cyberplat, which looks legit enugh to me...

now that there'll be activations on both the dvd and download versions it seems kind of pointless to sell two different versions of the game, imho. one version sold via download and on dvd would simplify things somewhat, i think. instead of activating the game via a key with limited activations the user could activate it via a master accout to which the key was tied (same as it's done with the digital-dl version of flaming cliffs). the account would be either the one used on www.digitalcombatsimulator.com or a new account, created when the game was installed. one account could be used to activate all the games in the dcs series, when their keys would be tied to that account. the digital-dl version of armed assault uses a similar protection and it works nicely, imho. a steam-sans-steam approach :P. i don't know if starforce supports that kind of activation, though. and implementing such a protection would probably be impossible this late in the game...

i've uploaded doggy's ppt to my dropbox. it shouldn't have any download restrictions...

> You only make people get false hope when saying yes one day, and no the other. damned if you do, damned if you don't. it would be the same if they hadn't said anything, imho.

you can test it for yourself, unfortunately. and that's as far as i'm willing to go into it. so would i. i've been waiting for the russian version since the imminent release was announced. it doesn't matter if my russian is pathetic - i just want to buy the game already. and then buy the english version, because let's face it: if the russian version is sold to us at 16 eur (as it is priced on ozon.ru) they're giving it away for free. but i think people that would buy games like that are just a (more or less) vocal minority.

at the risk of being frowned upon: my guess is that there won't be a russian digital download version anytime soon. or if it will be, it will not be for sale to people outside russia/cis. the reason being that you can easily change the language from russian to english of (most of) Black Shark by deleting/renaming a single folder. ed won't risk compromising their market by letting westerners buy black shark cheap if they can charge much more, imho. hope i'm wrong, though.

please refrain from spamming with such irrelevant comments. thank you.

As per the topic title: is there anyone here that's using Beta Innovation's Plasma V2 with Flaming Cliffs? Leo Lacava from Beta Innovations pointed at some problems with this device and Lock On; namely that Lock On doesnt support two controllers with the same name (which the Plasma controller acts as in dual mode) and keeps overwriting the axis settings of controller 2 with those of controller 1 (not the button settings, apparently). Any information on this problem or any suggestions would be greatly appreciated :).