RedTiger

QFT! I've commented before on the fact that LOMAC/DCS/Eagle Dynamics seems to attract a crap load of knowledgeable people. Between the aerospace experts, science experts, computer experts, real life military pilots and aircraft maintenance people, I think the regular joes might be in the minority! I just started playing because I wanted to fly some planes around and shoot at stuff. :music_whistling:

Economics FTW! Seriously guys, you have no idea how much I have to bite my tongue on this board when it comes to this topic. :smilewink:

This was the wrong forum on which to get into semantics...:music_whistling:

Are trying to tell me I should buy it? :D

You mentioned other things besides JDAMS and the like. I stand corrected, didn't know they can drop those. I'm hesitant to call the ability to drop a bomb out the window that can do practically all the guidance on its own if set up in advanced to be "air to ground", no matter how high, fast, or stealthy you are. I'd also be hesitant to consider the ability to launch a stinger from from the door of a C-130 to be "air to air". Yes, I get it. I'm not dense, this is all semantics on my part. ;) If I install a bomb bay on a stock SR-71, is it now capable of air to ground because I can drop a JDAM from 80,000 feet? If I designate it the SR-71E, paint it a different color and add a second crew member to handle the bombs...what about then? If Manfred von Richthofen tosses a grenade out of his cockpit into the trenches below, is he now a bomber pilot? :smilewink: By the way, GG, opinions can be stupid, foolish, idiotic, and based on poor understanding, but never "wrong". :P

Whoops, I misuderstood. Sorry!

Why not? I pay good money for it. If it doesn't entertain me, even if it is realistic, I'll pass. ;)

I see an article talking about the F-22 using SDBs and JDAMs. I am hesitant to call the ability to launch these weapons to be true ATG capability. A Cessna could drop probably a JDAM if it was programmed before hand, but I don't consider that true ATG. Just my opinion here. TBH, all I really mean is that if I play an F-22 sim, I want to shoot down other fighters and use all the AESA toys. If someone gives me a Raptor sim and I spend half the time flying around dropping JDAMS, I'll pass. And as for the B-2..."strategic" bombers go "tactical" all the time. I cite Every Man a Tiger: The Gulf War Air Campaign for this one. ;)

I second that, very, very cool. :thumbup:

No, the F-22 is totally air to air. I could handle lobbing a JDAM. Using nukes? No thanks. Its not the nukes that bother me, its the fact that I'm dropping them from an F-22. Send the B-2 instead! I'm still tempted by the F-22 one, TBH. The main killer is the fact that I am completely spoiled by TrackIR. I don't think I could go back to hat switches and padlocks anymore.

I just took a look at Steam and look what I found: http://store.steampowered.com/publisher/NovaLogic/ Yeah, Novalogic sims weren't know for being top-notch, and were often arcade. but I'd thought I share. For the record, I think these things should probably be abandon-ware at this point and I think its practically robbery to still sell these, but hey, if you want them, you can get them in a format that will actually run on Windows XP/Vista. The F-22 one looked tempting until I noticed an exploding building in one of the screenshots. Read the description about using tactical nukes. Yeah, no thanks. If you're going to be arcade, at least let me do air to air only. Mud moving in a Raptor is just wrong, so very, very wrong.

Don't feed the troll. That discussion will probably go no where. Besides, what if I wan't a hybrid Honda Civic? ;)

He won't be able to tell you or at least link to it. It was released early; the agreement was that it would be released for FC after DCS: Hog came out. BTW, Google is your friend. ;)

I think you mean "Art of the Kill" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=956634374962818858 Nope, you can't beat Pete Bonanni cuz of his sick 'stache. ;)

I don't believe the UAV stuff. First of all, "swarms" of them might sound like a good idea until someone invents the "fly-swatter" that kills them all. That's already possible of course, but I can forsee their being far more elegant and cleaner ways to nullify the Zerg swarm of UAVs. Second, think about situational awareness. Think about how hard it will be to give a UAV operator the same level of sensory awareness a pilot would have. We're no where near that capability. How would you do this, anway? Lots of cameras attached to the UAV that are controlled by a head tracking device on the pilot? How are you going to convey spacial awareness and depth perception to an adequate degree? I think the choices are going to come down to ass-load of stupid armed UAVs that are little more than Kamekazis or fewer UAVs with better sensors. Either way, I still think a human-driven fighter with something like AESA and lots of ARH missiles or directed energy weapons (when we get them small enough ;) ) is going to pop them all like balloons. I have a book at home that is a reference to US military weapons. IIRC, there was some type of stealth UAV in the conceptual stages -- I don't think it was even beyond drawings and mock-ups at the time of the books writing 5 years ago -- but it was intended to be used in combat in some form.

Its hard to help when we don't know if this is offline vs. online, what you're flying vs. what you're fighting.

:puke: :D

Hey, I just realized that this is in the help desk forum. :doh: You might want to post this in the mod forum too.

Some of you need to buck up and stop being so depressing. No one wants a negative virtual combat pilot. ;) @Bomberro: Working is working. It used to be "perhaps, after BS is done". Then it was something they needed to "hammer out" the details for. Now its something they're "working on". Like I said, I'm happy. :) @golfsierra: no more lame videos and music pls, you are killing my buzz. D: ;)

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=705223#post705223 Wags said "we are working"...not "we will be" or "we are going to". I'm excited. :D

I do not believe there is anyway to have the ground-level advanced haze eye candy on basic. All of that is hard-coded in the game. I feel your pain, I used to have to use basic haze. :( As for CPU...a fast one. As fast as you can get. LOMAC doesn't specifically take advantage of multicores but, IIRC, it does run faster on them. Of course, there's no reason not to get a multicore these days. :)

That's what I was hoping to hear! :)

Sorry, another question (can you tell I'm interested?); will this be a stand-alone mod or part of LRM?

I just ordered a new track IR hat clip (I rolled over my first one in my chair and it broke! :cry: :doh: ) and I'm reinstalling LOMAC (computer got hit by conficker a few weeks ago :cry: ). The Nevada terrain will be my new home. I'm going to practically live there for a while. :D

Too bad...I was going to ask what wing tip light mod you were using. Still a beautiful picture though!