Mars Exulte

The difference is the melting (voluntary or otherwise) of your ships is a normal part of the gameplay loop there, and you having (or not having) a particular ship is a simply a matter of personal will, ie there is nothing stopping you from accumulating all of them via normal gameplay anyway, regardless of whether you spend more past the initial purchase. Those ''ship sales'' have little real world relevance to the player or their gameplay cycle, and are bizarrely akin to NFTs. DCS is exactly the other direction in basically all relevant ways. It's such a poor comparison I don't know why we're even seriously discussing it except I'm bored and have nothing better to do while waiting for this timer to countdown at work.

I'd say not super common as military units fight as a unit typically, formation against formation, but hardly unheard of. Probably be most common after skirmishes when everyone gets scattered and individuals roam looking for easy meat. Dangerous... eh, kind of, but kind of not. A Lone fighter would be hard to spot compared to a gaggle of aircraft, so he'd be able to pick his fights a bit unless he got crept up on by another lone aircraft. But yeah, definitely a thing, if you've got fuel and ammo, you'd look for a fight, regardless of whether you had separated from your unit.

Yesterday everything was fine. Today, can't even get the headset to boot properly. Blue screen flickering in and out randomly, and the tracking pops in and out. It's never done this before, but is apparently fairly common based on a quick search. It's just so damn out of nowhere. It was fine YESTERDAY. Now this crap? I really should have bought an Index...

You will literally always have a bottleneck. That's not a ''problem'' or something to be fixed, there's always some part of your PC that's ''in the way'' of the others. The question is ''how much''. If you're trying to jam a typhoon through a 2'' pipe, that's a problem, and that was the issue we had on CPU side. We had extremely powerful processors that were being choked down to two cores, and it was causing a back up in other areas. Now that those areas are freed up, your primary restriction is the GPU itself, which is the ideal scenario. Again, there is no such thing as ''no bottleneck''. A G2 is capable of extremely high resolutions (several times 2d 4k in pixel count) and a 3080 cannot handle that many pixels easily, meaning it's going all out, which is normal and to be expected.

All good =) I just flipped back a few pages and saw one referencing diecasts with four posts, if that's what you're referring to. I never even saw that one, this is the only ''models'' thread I knew of offhand, and it's just ''a'' thread AFAIK, not ''the'' thread. I did not, but it's not terribly surprising there is one floating around somewhere.

Never said it was Never claimed it was. In fact, specifically said it wasn't a few posts back. Correct. Feel better now? Went to the Dallas museum of aviation a few weeks ago, they've got a B-17 with a 15ft wingspan, give or take. It's insanely detailed like that. Really cool, but takes years to do, I'm assuming. I can't confirm it's plastic, maybe wood, maybe metal. Probably a combination. Just putting that there as a trigger warning for MoW

Heh, yeah. Not judging. I have a lot of bad impulses, according to the bank.

Mirrors are a big pull yeah, and ReShade can be, but I'm surprised TacView would have any impact when not running.

This kind of nonsense usually is. That's what happens when you impulse buy. Not really anybody else's problem. I am 100% certain it got exactly the amount of consideration it needed. Which is exactly why this sort of thing will never happen, incidentally.

Not that anybody cares what I think, but I'd rather a Cobra than the Apache, personally. Any variant with a 20mm

Considering the number of VR companies imploding right now, I'd hold off until the dust settles. HP, Google, Meta, and a bunch of others appear to be either moving away from gaming or closing their VR divisions, and several others are conducting layoffs (like Pico among others). Too many companies and products for too small a market, basically. Valve is probably the best longterm bet, being focused on gaming, tbh. I'm waiting to see what their next headset offering is, hopefully ditching those base stations.

Technically ''zoomed in'' is what gives you realistic scale. Being able to see your whole cockpit on a 24'' screen three feet away is waaaay ''zoomed out'' and makes it a lot harder to spot anything.

China has it's own kettle of issues with all of this, I'm sure. Yep, very true. Also completely irrelevant unless they also make up significant numbers of DCS purchasers. The world also does not revolve around you, ffs. This stuff isn't that complicated and I don't get how you consistently keep buzzing the proverbial tower. I don't need stats, Razbam and ED have the stats, and presumably said stats drive their decisions on what markets to operate in. Nobody has polled me for what I think they should do, we're discussing general principles and likely reasoning for the decision you're bitching about. Again, 30% to ED, 30% to Steam, on top of a 30% discount, doesn't leave much left for the people making the game. So in your own hypothetical, if those sales numbers combined with the increased profit margins = more than the other, then it is of net benefit to the developer. Which is a very simple concept you are consistently missing, and is all I'm saying. You're basically screaming ''Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children'' and I'm saying ''What if there aren't enough children to matter?'' If it's something significant, yes, and more to the point this sort of thing is utilitarian in nature and easily used for more than one thing. Whether it's worth it or not is up to the individual, and whether it's worth it or not to care for the developer is up to them and their projected profit margins. Probably? Depends on currency conversion and relative economics of the people involved. $25 a year isn't noteworthy for me to even consider, might be for somebody else. Individual decision there. Not really something a foreign developer is likely to care about though. They're concerned with like... THEIR monthly bills and economics. Alright, so we've established you are just some guy that harrumphs in the corner by yourself while shaking your fist at clouds. Glad we got that settled @@ Tell me you lack reading comprehension @@ Nothing I've said, not a single bit, has anything to do with how ''the world works'' in or outside USA and everything to do.with trying to get you to understand nobody is pissing on your country just because a decision has a tangentially negative/inconvenient effect on you by explaining possible considerations a FOR PROFIT BUSINESS might take regarding where and how to deploy products and how those decisions can affect their profitability in a way potentially very significant to small developers. If the number of people gained by providing an option does not offset the cost of reduced margins by providing it, it can result in a net loss DESPITE a net gain in number of sales. This is not a difficult concept to grasp, and it is the reasoning behind their decision, whether their decision is accurate or not is debatable, but the idea behind it is pretty simple. I think it's really funny that you complain about me ''making up numbers'', which I literally haven't done anywhere in any of this, while doing so yourself and in your own example proposing numbers that would absolutely be relevant to making financial decisions. You strike me as the kind of guy who has never run a business but absolutely would run one into the ground given half a chance (and blame it on how nobody wants to work!) lol You totally have a future as a Twitter executive

My ''bubble'' probably includes the majority of online commerce and the bulk of the people who actually fund the game @@ Depends on whether I want what's in that store? Would you get in a taxi and ride an hour out of your way to go to ONE MALL?! Probably, if there was a reason to. I'm not insensitive to it persay, I *am* saying that not every business is going to care if you do not make up a significant portion of their income. If the sum total of them being on Steam results in a net loss compared to NOT after accounting for both ED and Steam taking their cut, then no, 99% of people are going to opt for the method that... doesn't screw them irrespective of how many people feel ''offended'' by it. I'm first in line to throw molotovs at corporate hqs, but expecting them to shoot themselves in the foot so ''some people'' feel included is unreasonable, too. Whether I encountered it is irrelevant. It's simple math : If decision = business make more money, decision good. If decision = business make less money, decision bad. That's what has driven this process. They expect it to cost more than it is worth at this time. That's it. Nobody is pissing on your nation and circumstances, it just doesn't necessarily benefit anybody but you to care. And unless those whole countries make up enough sales to make up for the cost of it all, it's a net loss, and nobody cares. I don't care one way or the other.

There's some ''special'' individuals around here that don't get outside much and spend their days obsessing over how other people play ''their'' video game. Fortunately, 90% of the bs they want won't ever make it past this stage :p

There's always a unicorn exception, but expecting the world to stop turning and people to cater specifically to *insert unique situation* is unrealistic. The majority of people around the globe are literally not affected by these ''special circumstances'' and most businesses are going to opt to do what's best for them regardless of whether a few hundred isolated individuals are put upon by it.

More along the lines of ''don't fix it if it ain't broke'' unless there's specifically something in the update you want. I don't scour anything, I just rarely update without cause. Maybe 1-2 times a year, 3 tops. For example, because of you, I now know not to let Windows or Nvidia update for a while until it's been determined whether or not this is a problem and a follow up patch provided In the meantime my computer continues to run perfectly fine.

They're a business, ffs, that just invested a great deal of time and money in a product. The sheer mind numbing idiocy exhibited in this thinking makes my face tingle. They are understandably not interested in heavy discounts or losing an extra 30% on top of the cut ED takes. It's not that complicated, and nobody cares about the handful of snowflakes acting all uppity over the choice of marketplace. The world is not going to end and nobody is going out of business because a 133764M3R is walking away @@

No, that's an unrealistic approach and obviously not what I meant. The way I do it is block auto updates (plenty of utilities available to do so) and monitor the relevant forums. If an update causes problems, it will typically provoke a lot of tears. Doesn't matter if it's Windows, DCS, or GPU drivers. It was just a general advice since you initially mentioned ''Windows updates'' and ''the last few days'' implying you allow it to update whenever it's available, which is, generally speaking, unwise. If you think it's pointless and impossible to do it in a reasonable fashion, can't help you.

Obligatory disable auto updates and only update periodically when you're certain it won't break anything. Your computer will not get hacked or killded if you delay an update.

I won't say this is the dumbest thing I've seen on these forums (I wish) but it's definitely an honorable mention. Also, thanks for selecting my post. I feel appreciated... well, not appreciated but noticed at least. You know what they say, no such thing as bad publicity unless you're Kanye West.

With that system I would stop worrying about it altogether. DCS' issue is not hardware related, it's software. It's not going to get better, and doesn't matter how much raw power you throw at it, until they update the engine (hopefully coming soon).

Didn't even come to forums. Went straight to store, bought. Didn't even notice the stuff people are now melting down over. Vidya games. It's sireeus bidness.

That's the only kind even on the table, and yes, I know people love to count the rivets around here. Improvised is not necessarily exclusive of realistic. The capabilities can be realistic, if not 100% accurate in fine details. Believe it or not, that basic principle applies to literally EVERYTHING WE HAVE. None of these things are 100%, and huge sections of them are either completely abstracted (radar, iff, rwr) or sometimes entirely absent. I see a few very vocal people wheezing violently about a video game, while the majority of people appear indifferent. True They literally make up a lot of this. They use references when able, but yeah. Lots of absolute ''pulled out of their ass'' stuff, too. Like RCS values. No, they're not, but then I'm not trying to be pedantic, either. The approximate capabilities of GPS navigation, mfds, etc, are going to be relatively similar. Details and methodology vary, but an engine page is going to display the usual suspects, a stores page will be approximately similar. You literally can when people don't have a reference to know whether it's right or not. It's the literal point. There isn't enough to do it 100%, so you fill in the gaps. Jesus forgive them for not getting the nerd cred spot on. That's because a vocal minority are wheezing tryhards that give themselves waaaaay too much credit and take their video games (like this one) waaaaay too seriously. I'm largely indifferent to the whole thing, but no it's not a cardinal sin, it is the only way, literally ONLY way, anybody will get the ''equal footing OpFor'' they want, and entirely feasible to do. A relatively accurate systems model with a good flight model will get you 80-90% of the way there. And that's the important part, you're not ACTUALLY flying a fighter jet, you're flying a detailed approximation of one and experiencing the core aspects. The fine details enhance the accuracy of the super specific aircraft, but have little to no bearing on the actual core experience. And 99% of these people can't tell the difference without a direct 1 to 1 comparison handy, and 50% of them just make complaints up on the fly based on their ''feels'' anyway.