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From france Thx for the proposals so far, the logitech 3D pro could be good but has no throttle. as for the saitek X-55, i had took a very close look at that one yeah, but apparently i've heard many stories of throttle block not working right out of the box, and it has the Saitek spring-plate system (which i really don't know if it's that bad or not since my old Aviator has it too, and i've never really flown on something else much, but everyone does seems to believe it sucks for prescision flying and wears out quickly)

i am just an avereage DCS player and i need a new, simple and cost-effective flight stick and i have no idea which one to get... any advice whould be appreciated. theses are the only requirements i absolutely want from it: -dual thrust -ability to twist (for rudder without pedals) -i'd prefer if it's HOTAS but i can live without it,i don't care if it has christmas lights or not, i don't care if it's made of metal or not, i just want something that feels good and is accurate to control, for a reasonnable price, not friggin half a thousand dollars... i tried to look around on all the different ones, it seems basically you can only get really good ones for 500 dollars (Warthog and the like) that's made of metal with lights and everything. or a really shit one for 100 dollars or less, and nothing whatsoever in between... to top it off even for all the expensive ones (exept for the Warthog) i still see a few reviews who say they are shit for X and Y reasons... it seems as it's impossible to make the right choice if you haven't been following the market for years; and the reviews are useless because on just about any stick i checked, i see people who say it is the best ever, people who say it is the worst ever, and all the continuum in between... i have been using a Saitek aviator-01 for years now and i used to really like it for what it was, but now it's mostly busted (spring doesn't respond with same amount of force on right and left, it doesn't center anymore, it has a big dead sone on the left, ect...) and i desperately need something new and, at least a little better... any advice whould be welcome!

*UPDATE* nevermind, i found the way. i'll post the solution here in case it can help someone: /!\ FIRST OF ALL, MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR "LOGBOOK.LUA" FILE!!! -for the general stats: find these lines, around line No. 350: statistics = { agKills = 0, killRatio = "0/0", missionsCount = 0, ejections = 0, totalScore = 0, flightHours = 0, daytime = 0, commissioned = base.os.date('0/0/0'), campaignsCount = 0, static = 0, faaKills = 0, landings = 0, fagKills = 0, nighttime = 0, aaKills = 0, naval = 0, deaths = 0, refuelings = 0, }, -- end of statistics and edit them with the values you want, don't forget to put quote signs between the numbers for all the stats you edited or it won't work! -for the flight hours, apparently the game only counts time in seconds, so all you have to do is multiply by 60 two times your flight time, in hours. for example, for 53hours 30mins: you type: - flightHours = '53.5*60*60' - -and then, to update the values for a specific aircraft, and not just the general stats, scroll down to around line No. 1000 and find these lines: if (playerUnit ~= nil) then local typeLA = base.me_db.getNameByDisplayName(playerUnit.type) if ((availableType ~= nil) and (availableType[typeLA] ~= nil)) then stat[typeLA] = stat[typeLA] or {} stat[typeLA].ejections = stat[typeLA].flightHours = stat[typeLA].daytime = stat[typeLA].nighttime = stat[typeLA].landings = stat[typeLA].refuelings = stat[typeLA].totalScore = stat[typeLA].deaths = stat[typeLA].agKills = stat[typeLA].static = stat[typeLA].naval = stat[typeLA].aaKills = end end and edit to the values you want like before. once it's done, -load a mission with the aircraft you want to update those values to. -once you're in the mission, quit immediately. -and that should be it! :-) -check your logbook to see if it worked, if it did quit the game and restore your original "LOGBOOK.LUA" file, and you're good to go! BEAWARE: YOUR STATS WON'T UPDATE WITH EVERY NEW FLIGHT YOU HAVE IF YOU DON'T RESTORE YOUR ORIGINAL FILE AFTER THIS MANIPULATION! hope this helps!

hum... that worked ALMOST perfectly: it didn't worked just for the flight hours (TOTAL, DAY and NIGHT, all 3 are still at 0). what format are you supposed to enter them as? in number of hours, as "Xhours Xmin", or something else? i am currently entering them like this: for example, for 53 hours 30min: - flightHours = '53.5' - is this right? or do you have to enter it another way, i tried several format, but all of them still result in "0h 0min"on the in-game logbook...

OK, so i recently got DCS WORLD, and so i had to re-install the DCS WORLD version of A-10C (i had the STEAM version before), so my pilot logbook got reset to 0. i want to edit the values that are in my LOGBOOK.LUA file to recreate my old A-10C logbook in DCS WORLD. so: -i opened the LOGBOOK.LUA file with NOTEPAD++, -found all the relevant lines in the file ("AG KILLS", "FLIGHT HOURS", ect...) -edited the values from 0 to what i wanted. but when i save changes, close the file and launch DCS WORLD, NOTHING HAPPEND in the game: all the values are still at 0, why? any help whoud be very appreciated, please! is it related to the fact that the DCS world logbook have to track your stats for various aircrafts and hence, there is a different place in the LUA file that you need to edit? or something like this?