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That's awesome and extremely sweet from you! I propose cichlidfan to deal with the contest. He has been doing so many contests already from his own initiative. He is extremely honest and a very sweet and helpful person for so many years on this forum. Ofcourse only when he wants to organise it :) I already have this wonderful module from LN. It's a Gem!

Those clouds means another year of waiting for the F-18 ... Where is my pint of milk ? ;)

Amen :)

I have got a full blatter now... Listening TLC waterfalls always helps :)

Are you sure it's milk?

I decided to give a few arguments. The reason is that many points are overlooked by the OP and some other posters that propose online DRM for an offline game. I always have taken the problems for granted with DRM, if not, some fun ''while it lasted'' would be missed dearly. But when you are there (steam,origin) you are stuck to it. 'Best selling point ever hence it succes ;D' How can anyone argue with that? It only boggles me when I'm outside my wifi range. Then prices change drastically. Please understand that the argument made is not about the data costs(I didn't say that ) but the obligation to take internet acces, have infrastructure or don't play at all wich then the need to be online for my offline game is a useless product. When all is in place and you don't worry because it's running fine. What you do here is make a point for yourself, while you should look at a bigger picture. Internet offered by providers is about $$ a month with year contracts or mobile internet acces- or satellite. All depending on the availability of internet around the world in all countries. Even some restriction can be aplied to the internet, not to mention quality / service. But do you need to obligate this as a developer/producer and make it a requirement for playing a singleplayer game??In contrary to activate the product only (as copy protection for DCS modules) Now travel for 2-3 months around the world with a laptop and let me know what you paid in total for that 1Kb you used every day to play Single player. Please think about it , you have to rely on others all the time for using these onlineDRM games offline. All for a product that doesn't need it in the first place. 'Steam gives you offline modus'. That is what a good friend does, it gives you a month of liberty? But you are in the hands of a servicecompany. And DRM software-clients often needs an update etc, the chances are high that you can't play without internet. The restrictive online DRM provides the DRM company new benefits and other purposes. Your offline game becomes an online DRM product wich needs another product, and while you are there it gives advertisement it will analyse your behaviour, they use that beneficially and much other stuff is happening you don't know about. A service company is almost never transparant. Like this it is a chain that is profiting from consumers on a bigger scale taking away their initial freedom in exchange for entertainment but mainly good profit business for the DRM-company-store monopolist with their partners. You only need to like it, keep liking it and obey, pay your servicefee one way or another to the servicecompany and swallow their terms and decisions now and in the future after your purchase. If you don't like it, you notice you don't own any of your purchases, as you have decided to rent it for a one time payment in the first place. Eventually a stockmarketcrash, bad decision, bad investment from the online DRM company.. it goes bust. Good times while it lasted with your virtual gamelibrary? Who knows... What stories of old starforce on the steamforum can do to fear the worst. Just feel free , look into things, analyse for yourself and decide what you think is best. Set aside some fears, enjoy the good things of life. Leave the unbearable situation. But, whatever you do, don't propose Online DRM for an offline game. :smilewink: It's not fair to fellow simmers.

Because the OP doesn't seem to care what we say anyway since 2013.

You propose a more restrictive DRM now... I don't want to be online to sim a bit, it will cost me the internet bills :)

''I stopped smoking cigarettes..... it was really bad for my health' . . . *Steaming a big cigar*

You fear the old starforce and have little knowledge about this newer ''starforce pro active 2.0'' that is being used and what is being restricted for DCS serials. Also the company has weighted all ins and outs, and don't need help from your assumptions. As it proved to be good for their business while paying for software copy protection. You can deactivate your key before any hardware change and get back the activation. If you somehow used all 10 activations you get one back every month. If you need support you get it for your product when you didn't abuse the key I suppose. I don't know why you would mention steam when it comes to a request for DRM removal for DCS.

Thank you for your work!!! It's a fantastic result :thumbup:

I think the installation just didn't happen correctly. Maybe an old installation of DCS World/mods left traces. I suggest the following steps: (- Unload any user mods you have installed) -Run Repair DCS World ( click start (windows)-> eagle dynamics->DCS World->Repair DCS World) Then when finished -Run Update DCS World from the same menu. (you can run this again when it's finished to be sure all is updated to the latest version) After that is finished go to the module manager (ingame menu) and check if the A-10C is installed when you are logged in with your useraccount. If all is ok, create a new mission with the mission editor, place the A-10C on the map make it flyable for you and start the mission. Hopefully it works :) I really assume there is an issue regarding the old installation of the module and is/ or was interfering with your newer installation. If you want to check the parameters of your A-10C serialkey go here and log in : https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/personal/licensing/ You can see how many activations you have left, and if the serial is bound to your account. Goodluck! Not gonna give up until it works ;) From your logs: 00002.102 ERROR WorldPlugIns: Can't load plugin module ./mods/aircraft/A-10C/bin/A10.dll :The specified procedure could not be found. 00002.102 ERROR WorldPlugIns: Can't load plugin module ./mods/aircraft/A-10C/bin/Cockpit_A10Common.dll :The specified procedure could not be found. 00002.103 ERROR WorldPlugIns: Can't load plugin module ./mods/aircraft/A-10C/bin/Cockpit_A10C.dll :The specified procedure could not be found.

It could mean that your A-10C module isn't activated yet. Basically when you purchase a module in the E-shop here on the website it's automatically bound to your E-shop / DCS account. (not forum account) The step after installing DCS WORLD is to go to the Module manager in DCS World (In-game menu) and you need to login to that account used for the E-shop on this website. This modulemanager will ask you to download the aircraft you own and installs it too.

http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.co...late_textures/ This should be it

Thank you so much!!! I'm speechless.... and super happy. I can't wait to get home as I'm visiting family at the moment. Just a few days and I'm gonna fill the landingstrip with german parts xD In fact I'm gonna do my best to get in the air^^ I wish everyone a fantastic New Year, best of health and many flight hours in a very soon realeased DCS 2.0! Ivan and diveplane thank you!

That's indeed a bit strange; http://theairtacticalassaultgroup.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14341 Anyway congratz to the winners :)

Thanks for the chance, it's very kind of you! I'm in for the Bf109. :pilotfly: I can't promise I will be helpful in multiplayercombat any time soon, but I'm specially attached to or moved by ED's damagemodels. :smilewink:

Congratulation to the winners! Happy holidays!

:yay: Happy Birthday !!

I want a Hawk :pilotfly::thumbup: Thank you for the giveaway!

Thank you very much!

@Alfa Exactly strong stuff there :) When I translated the russian DCS forum (topic Su-27) with google translate, I found out that Yo-Yo said, he hasn't got a sausage and his samurai skills are to blame hahahhaha. I'm sure google mixed up, with or without advertising!! But who can be sure about that??? :P Edit: found one of the posts https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?act=url&depth=1&hl=nl&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.nl&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php%3Fs%3Dbe528da819d7ab2508c22c25026e32f2%26p%3D2223195%26postcount%3D1592&usg=ALkJrhgJHqbgvw1_b6f4o_FVY9C5BvwpFQ

Happy Birthday :yay:

:thumbup::clap_2: Thank you ED for the wonderful beta update for the Su-27 !! The fixes in the patch as well.

You can always paint tomcat on it :)