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Naja, laut VKB soll sich ja an der Verfügbarkeit bald was verbessern. Zum einen planen die auch in Europa dauerhaft bestückte Lager an den start zu bringen damits nicht diesen ewigen Kampf um die 'batch' Produktion gibt. Außerdem wurde doch heute erst erwähnt, das ein voller Kontainer nach EU unterwegs ist, der alle Preorder sowie ''erwarteten Absatz'' der nächsten sechs Monate decken soll. Ob das nur für den MCG oder auch Gunfighter Basis gilt, kein Plan. Die wären einfach blöd wenn alle heiß auf deren Produkte sind, und sie immer einfach nur zu wenig produzieren. Zumal der MCG ja als VKBs Standardgriff für lange Zeit (Immer?) bleiben sollte, vielleicht komplementiert durch einen mit westlicher Anlehnung und halt speziellen derivaten ala F-14 etc.

about the slider vs tilting one: i have the TM TWCS and it certainly has a good amount of stiction which i as of yet still have to remedy with Nyogel. So i guess sliders are generally more prone to stiction than other designs. But, i always wondered, how a tiling throttle actually is set up internally?

What they (if feasible) should do, is to design input devices where you have generic, empty 'sockets' instead of already pre-installed buttons, hats and switches. The customer then orders the throttle and with it as many hats, switches, buttons and places them in whatever conifig he desires into those sockets. And, if one day a hat or so goes south, you simply install a new one without even having to opening up the entire device. For instance with the TECS, i personally would probably install another 4 way head where that grey lower thumb button is installed, and the same with the grey front button on the right throttle.

Hrm...the TECS looks promising. But in my book, not ''overloading'' the throttle with hats and switches sounds 'reasonable' at first, but i have just imagined how to assign the A-10c throttle functions on this one. And, it seems to me we would be missing at least two more 4 way hats for good measure (one in front and one on the right side). Yes, the MCG grip series has enough to transfer the missing inputs from the throttle to the stick, but i honestly prefer to keep it bound to the correct input device. Could you post an image of the left side of the throttle? Is there some switch or hat or something like the A-10c's pinky switch? Again, would be kinda the same wasted space like Virpil seems to forgo with their throttle design. And yeah, especially if you mention 'VR potential' as one deciding factor, then there should definetely be as many hats/switches as ergonomically possible on the throttle so you need to fumble around blindly only for very exotic functions. Anyway, looking forward to this throttle! BTW; is that black circular thing on the left throttle a rotary axis for zooming for instance?

Wags, Thank you for updating us on ED's current thinking on this one and i welcome this idea very much. Looking forward to a proper explication of everything related to the new protection system. Makes me anticipate the F/A 14/18 much more :)

Just watched Top Gun this evening with my brother in anticipation of whats to come in 2018...we only need to figure out whos gonna RIO and whos gonna flaaaaaaay!

hrm on that note. Does the chatter extension contain actual 'in contact' combat chatter, or just general day to day operations overnet talk?

Hey mate, looks great. Two things, is the chatter extenseion completely new or something that you feature in a video somewhere? I'd like to get an impression of it first, before i decide whether i go with the full package or not. Additionally, i'd make an additional mention in the faq section on the website about this being build with Voice Attack in mind. Its listed on the main page, still some people might overlook it there.

Yeah those vouchers look tempting! I just hope ED is resolving that whole issue with the new protection system sooner than later (hopefully before the fist of January that is), cause i don't really feel comfortable buying full priced modules with the current implementation of said protection system.

Looking forward to it. Way to few missions for the Gazelle around, much appreciated!

As always....crunch time should not even be a term when it comes to luxury goods like PC games! Personally, knowing the devs did not compromise their everyday lives and health in such an endevour, is actually a selling point for me. Buying a product from a big publisher knowing their employees spent a couple of months in crunch time is rather detrimental to everyone involved...and quality of siad product more often than not! Anyway, looking forward to whenever this bird lands...or takes off!!! One more thing: one gets fairly quickly accustomed to screenshots looking incredible nowadays, yours are no exception! BUT, let me say this: when i read your post and saw those first two screenshots of the seats...i was a bit irritated.......why would they post photographs of the real thing in here? Took a bit of time inspecting screenshot two to confirm those are indeed renders. So if these attest to the overall quality of your upcoming F-14, you shall gladly have my money. cheers

give us a price estimate before Christmas so we can start dreaming!

Late January, right around my birthday, equally fitting as having it for Christmas! Anyway, health and well being of employees must always take precedent over all other considerations, whether its software dev. or any other industry. Crunchtime should not even be a word unless its a matter of life and death, wich software development seldom is. But damn it, lost my bet with my brother and now i need to cook nepali chicken for him...and that ''release in the coming weeks'' was putting me on the winning street! :)

''We are establishing storehouses in all major markets starting early coming year, which will put the end to delays and out-of-stocks.'' Thats great news...and this would put a lot of tention and frustration behind us all. Everyone can order whenever they want without the constant need to watch out when the next batch will be available, and then jumping on board and preordering just to wait variable amount of months.

Best wishes to you as well and i am looking forward to what Polychop will bring to the DCS table next year! I think that is a good choice to go for the mini gun version at this point in time, it sure has a bit more applicability for some time to come, at least until DCS world simulation has advanced some more. Concerning the periscope: sorry to hear this won't be available! All i would ask for; please don't say 'never' and scrap the code for this feature! DCS world is in constant development and Wags mentioned their work on implementing Vulkan API at some point in the future. Thus, what might be a resource hog in 1.5 beta and 2.2 alpha, might be a perfectly viable option some time in the future. I reckon it would be a nice addition later on, and maybe get you some more sales at later stage in the Gazelles DCS life cycle. Same goes for the eventual Sniper version of course. And, its good for building a company name in the sim world as well. When customers konw a company keeps there already released products in shape and adds something new every now and then, you are much more inclined to buy stuff. Anyway, thx for all the work on the Gazelle over the last months! Btw, you said earlier you were gonna make an intro video about a new feature/way of measuring coordinates with the viviane. Is that still planned or was that related to the canceld periscope feature?

ok, googled BRD and stuff. I am not too knowledgable on designing and cutting metal parts, but from the notion 'laser cut', one should think its very precise. Having looked at the pictures linked by Sokol, it seems the main limitation of laser cutting lies in that you cannot work thicker, whole pieces, but have to cut all your pieces from metal plates and layer them up for bigger/fatter pieces when you need to. Where as with CNC you can design solid, complex pieces as long as your drill/router bits can reach each surface. Except for size and weight, i would expect both ways of building a metal gimbal should provide pretty much the same precision, quality and feel +longevity.

I have not read the entire thread, but i still miss a three position pinky swtich or something on the left side of the left/outer throttle (like with the A-10). Something should be there for maximum adaptability, its wasted space and opportunity i reckon.

fully Warthog grip compatible? Yeah, and i sure would like to understand the differences to the T-50 base besides the missing freely accessible tension springs srews. And for the uninitiated; what is WarBRD and its cam design? Does this mean the actual gimbla is not a Vripil design at all but only the electronics?

mid thirties.

Das Teil ist jetzt auch nicht gerade meins, aber wenn das ein Schritt in Richtung einer ''umfassenderen Weltsimulation'' ist die dann als Editor assets allen zum Missionsdesign zur Verfügung stehen, dann begrüße ich es. Stellt euch doch mal vor, wenn NTTR wirklich in vielen Belangen standardmässig simuliert wäre, bspw. ziviler Luftverkehr den nicht jeder Missionsbauer in aufwendiger Handarbeit für jede Mission erstellen müsste. Man müsste dann bei einem Trainingseinsatz diesen Luftverkehr beachten, dann gäbe die Startfreigabe vom ATC auch endlich mal Sinn. Jedenfalls klang das M3 statement nach mehr als nur 'wir machen mal nen zivilen Flieger'.

''Together with Eagle Dynamics SA and The Fighter Collection we introduce one beautiful civilian airplane to this world, opening the door for new things to come.'' Sounds like there will be a great 'Road Ahead' for DCS World reveal coming sometime after 2.5 is out! ''We imagine future of DCS as a general world simulating platform where almost anything could be simulated'' Now we are talking! Lets see where this leads...

Come on guys, we all new Starforce did not lock anybody out for good. If that would have been the case, those of you who really need the offline mode would have experienced that and said so. Sith stated himself that he is not completely sure how Starforce works, and that Wags responded again and cleared things up clearly means, that ''phone home'' thing every x number of days is a change and new compared to Starforce. Besides, trying to phone home and disabling modules if that fails, does not necessarily need to go together. Besides guys, a community manager can only say what he knows and has been cleared to say. Again, lets keep calm and wait whether friday news bring some clarification on this entire matter.

First i'll have my Tomcat for 1 to 2 years, than a shorter infatuation with the Harrier, then i go for the Hornet! Other distractions are welcome in between :)

True, its a tiny amount of registered forum users. Nontheless, you don't need a very high number to get pretty accurate results. ATM 313 people have voted and if i recall my statistics training correctly (and didn't mess up the statistics calculator) at a confidence level of 95% and confidence interval of lets say 5, we needed only 382 votes to be fairly accurate. The 44.03% for 90 days would then fall into a margin of error of -5% to +5%, thus we could be 95% certain that of those 60.000 users, between 39.03% and 49.03% would have voted for 90 days. If we wanted a slimmer confidence interval of say 2%, we needed 2309 votes. Anyway, most scientists go with 95% confidence level and usually n=500 is accurate enough, whether you're sampling 100k or millions doesn't really matter, if you don't mess up your sampling cohort that is. Yeah, some visibility was lost due to moving the thread down from the news section, so mainly people that saw this within the first 2 days and those actually interested in the Harrier did vote. Lets see what ED comes up with:music_whistling:

Haha Sith, you are doing a very good job at managing people's expections :) ....and one day boooom...before we expect it, there it is...2.5 out in the wild!