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I'm with Killer - second maxim of air combat is "You fight the pilot, not the plane." Every air engagement in history has been unbalanced - there is no even ground. The only difference we have as virtual pilots is that there is no development of armament.. If you'd got back to home plate in reality and said "Those [insert country here] pilots have got a new missile, got my wingman and nearly smoked me." then I suspect that a team of developers would start working on countermeasures and better armament for your kite. Don't worry about being shot down - that's part of the head game. If you believe that you are at a disadvantage, then you are.

Most folks here I would think will be sticking by one brand or another - or steering clear of one because of previous bad experience.. and I think fewer than one in a hundred users are going to own equal cards from both manufacturers to run a true comparison. Unless you're studying human psychology, I don't think you aren't going to get any real answers here.

Would the 1.02 addon work with Hamachi or other VPN software in LAN mode do you think?

Hmm. I would have thought that such data could be extrapolated from the RWR. After all, when you're painted we've got the angle and amplitude of their pulses and could then triangulate the origin from that data to reasonable accuracy over a few seconds. 'Course, I don't know if that's technically feasible or acheived in the 27 or 29, but I'm sure someone here does. :P

Hehe - Ironman, thank you, you have control.. You're a bit of a don. :thumbup:

If it wasn't a looong way before the release date of the product, I'd like to get my greasies on the manual before launch day. Not so much for operational stuff or learning, just for the atmosphere... Just heightens the anticipation!

Because that's how it stops you making copies! Dipping into the driver level (and in some cases below in the OS into direct memory management) is the only way that any copy protection technique can remain secure for over a day. Due to the extreme skills that some crackers display, such techniques as polymorphic and masked code have to be used to slow the process. Any protection is breakable with enough sweat, so the current aim of protection mechanisms is to allow the software to pass into obselence before it is cracked. I'm far from saying that starforce is perfect, or that it is right for every situation - but I wouldn't let it stop me from buying something I wanted a bash on! Interestingly, CDilla's solutions are becoming as invasive as starforce - they just keep quieter. :smilewink:

I've had five machines, five lots of starforce - never had any issues, while of course I sympathise with anyone who believes it has damaged their machine. While I think you put you point across well, ED do have a right to protect their intellectual property and their investment - there may be decisions, deals or contracts in place that make starforce the only choice at the moment. I did find it funny that UBI dropped starforce online protection for Boonty - something that managed to become more vilified in 24 hours than any copy protection mechanism before.

Hi, For quick and dirty get yourself a copy of Goldwave and apply a bit of blare through the non-linear amplification tool, then squash using a comb filter. Hope that helps.

Sorry - but this made me chuckle. I too would cancel on a whim a project that has (at best guess) cost 5500 man hours in research, development, planning and coding. Just for a giggle. ED is a commercial entity, and while patching existing products is satisfying it doesn't generate revenue. The sales of Black Shark will doubtless fund all of the fixes that GG_Tharos has patiently explained are in the pipe. Relax, be happy - things will change.

Hmm, form an orderly queue! (Someone's bandwidth bill's gonna hurt today.) Never doubted you for a moment GA.

I agree with Bendak. I've tried out FSX, and although I appreciate all the new features and tweaks I still feel that for general ambience LOMAC still spanks it. And when I setup FSX to run at the same FPS as LO, it actually looks slightly worse than FS2004 did. (Besides, in LO you can stack a kite into the deck and watch it fold oh-so-prettily instead of getting the green 'crashed' notification in the top left!) Oh, and by the way a big 'HI!' to all those on the forums. :)