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Supersheep

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  1. Easy as can be. Is there more to it than making them reflective? I'd hate to have nobody thinking of that and someone with a can of high albedo spay paint laughing his ass off as he upgrades the inventory xD
  2. Could it be that we mean different things with the term 'first stage'? I don't understand this idea, to be honest. The first stage is the big rocket engine that is continuously burning, and continues its ascend. The other part is something that does not produce thrust before being jettisoned, as it originates from the top of the missile. The smaller motor quickly fizzles out. If the first stage was dumped, wouldn't there need to be another rocket booster? Anyways, thanks for all the input!
  3. Another thing is that language which resembles Urban's dictionary oftentimes leads to gradual and almost imperceptive (imperceivable? iDunno) shifts in the communicated content. This is far worse on other Teamspeak servers, but might or might not contribute to OPs request. And not only is there nothing wrong with that, but it is also considerate and responsible. Been there, done that x2, and it's a peepton of work even for a smallish group. For the situation that I picture Fakum in, it is just remotely helpful but effective at "guiding" the discussion.
  4. Mine usually pulls a chameleon, stays hot and makes itself noticeable :(
  5. I am also thinking about some sort of fairing, but had assumed that it'd be better blown off after max areodynamic pressure had been reached to protect whatever is under it. Which leads to the question as to why it's blown off in the first place, since it'll be exposed to aero-pressure again later in the flight. My thinking does not seem to plausible to me, maybe we'll get more ideas. BTW I think that it's a land-based, silo launched vehicle. In the first few frames of the scene, the horizon appears to be "land-ly".
  6. Another curiosity, at 52:52 min (link is timestamped): What is the thing at the top of the missile that is blown away, and why does it need to be discarded? It looks like the vehicle gets a good kick out of it, and makes attitude control more complicated. Plus, it wastes some nice thrust. (Sorry, I cannot identify the missile type although I see how that would be helpful) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJxN_2sXuHA&t=52m52s
  7. Cheers. Can't rep you up, so have a +1 for masterly deconflicting a rigged post.
  8. Now see what you did there! I've gotten used to see c0ff being dragged out of his caffeine-flooded cave, but you managed to get the big boss here. Run! :) Side-note (and not intended to annoy): Are "Edge" and "2.0" synonymous or is someone pulling another Duke here?
  9. I didn't read the other nine pages, but doesn't that statement only prove that a) there's no 1.3 and that the 21 will come with 2.0? Now, what if we get a 1.5, a couple minor updates and then .6 - .9? That's not excluded by the statement, as "later, after" leaves a lot of air.
  10. You mean with the loading screen image (the orange background one)? I have that printed out and on the back of my Manual and "stuff" Ringbinders :)
  11. (bumping that other thread from the top, might as well post something useful) Happy birthday and many happy landings!
  12. Delivered today :) Might post a picture tomorrow after Germany has rotated back under the sun.
  13. What you are seeing are rented dedicated servers in a data center, operated by a professional company. However, they are most likely root servers completely administered (Teamviewer etc) by the people running DCS; I don't know of any turnkey DCS servers. While this is pretty expensive (50-120 USD/month?), the upsides are a beefy internet connection and compute power. However, especially the CPU and memory requirements drive the price.
  14. If this is intended to increase the rate of players on voice com, I'm afraid that members of the subset of players that takes the extra step to install the mod also belongs to the subset of engaged players who is on teamspeak already anyways... :( Otherwise, I agree, that'd be a nifty feature. Also: Cheers Ian!
  15. Aye thanks. Looks like I'm not active enough at all to follow the issues and fixes. Changing the settings isn't a big deal at all, but having to constantly monitor and instruct and nag people to set it makes the MP part much more complex than it needs to be IMHO.
  16. Haha! My neighbor was a telco engineer (retired) and when he build his home in 1990, he installed ethernet lines in his home, in every room. Said the contractor: "Those are some expensive speaker wirings..." Is there a system behind the changes of the DCS network setting? I remember LAN being the recommended one, and then, IIRC, 1024. I'm glad that some people have enough data to figure out the most stable setting, but having this change arbitrarily with every other patch seems both arcane and inconvenient. Edit: for lack of attention and spelling.
  17. Before I saw the video in the first post, I was rewinding it over and over to see what the flas might be. Now, I don't think it's guidance at all, as has been said. More like a distance measurement, fuze indicator, video time stamp or equipment calibration. @dok: I really do dig your avatar.
  18. The one flash at 2:14 (approx) looks more like 10 - 20 cm indeed. In the video desc it says that the distance was 3,x and 6,x kilometers, so it is definitely comparable to the slant range of the C-130. I wonder if it is unrelated to a laser as above and has to do with the weapon/fuze because it is only seen with the Hellfire, but not the other missile. Different purposes might explain the difference in diameter seen here. Additionally, there's an AH-64D doing some work in the test here, throwing in another variable... Edit: My edit got lost. Standby. Edit edit: Edit is edited back. Right now, I only know that I know jack :book:
  19. This video gives the impression that either the beam is not particularly focused from the beginning or it gets disturbed by the air and what is in it. Since it is visible in NVGs, I assume it has to be IR, which might not be as focused as an actual invisible laser. Is this still useful for guiding whatever would be used or is it a more general illumination/tracking/marking device? Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBPigVpPy0
  20. Ich bin glücklicherweise nicht betroffen, aber ich hänge mich hier mal rein, wenn ich nicht störe. Ist es in solchen Fällen sinnvoll, zusammen mit der Bank zu versuchen, die Überweisung zurückbuchen zu lassen? Meine marginale privatrechtliche Ausbildung sagt mir, dass ich immer noch an meinen Teil des Vertrags gebunden bin und durch eine Rückbuchung selbst in Verzug gerate, schlimmstenfalls gar im StGB wiederfinde (!?). Ab wann, wenn überhaupt, ist eine Rückbuchung eine gute Idee? Schönes Wochenende! Sheep
  21. Well said, and describes myself quite well, too. Greetings to Highway :thumbup:
  22. Interesting read here. Playing DCS feels like living in an echo chamber to me. Every group is distinctly individual, and (in most communities) at some point, you've seen it all - for various reasons, this is not a singularly deterministic path. That might also be a reason why cooperations between groups are so rare. I've seen multiple such cooperations, but they were mostly one-sided and of limited use to the majority of the people involved, or short-lived. Which is sad, because they established a window out of the echo chambers. Which also brings up the question as to why this self-reinforcing structure exists, but if we knew that we wouldn't be discussing here I guess. At least this thread proves that it exists... Edit Clarification: "Seen it all", in this context, does not refer to the sim. @Blaze: Did you hear from Highway or Raven lately? Cheers :)
  23. This one by Tyger will help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqDPo3pcYrI
  24. Might be my dorm's firewall then, it says "no data received". Edit: That's likely what's going on. I'm accessing it via the university VPN now, and that works. Thank you for the album!
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