Mars Exulte

Choosing your case is the #1 most important part, tbh. They vary a lot on the inside and if they're laid out wrong, or it's too small, it makes the whole process unnecessarily painful. If everything's good, it should only take an hour or two to build one. If everything's not so good....well, I spent 14 hours building this pos I have now because I got a very flashy but poorly designed case and was ready to throw it off the balcony by the time I finally finished. I grew up dealing with manually assigned COM ports, IRQ, and what have you. That was challenging, as were the cases. These days everything is plug and play. Modern windows will usually install your drivers for you if you want it to, if not you just hit the manufacturers website for your main components find your devices and roll on. Barring the occasional fluke of two devices not coexisting happily (which is rare now due to the unified standards we didn't have 20+ years ago) it should go smoothly. I'm from the school of thought ''turn the case on its side and sit on it to smush the cables down, you can't see that stuff anyway''. Although I did overdo it a time or two and the side panel was bowing out so bad I had to rearrange it anyway. Maps make up the overwhelming majority of the game's size. The base game is only 50-60GB I think, if that. Each of those maps adds about 50GB, depending. Nevada is also 60-65 if I remember.

So? Some people are quadrapalegic and can't operate a mouse and keyboard. What of it? Every motherboard has USB slots, and anything made in the last 10-15 years has at least 3.0, anything in the last 5 years is likely to have at least one 3.1, there's also other options as far as that goes. Point is you don't even have to take the panel off your case to expand capacity. I don't really get this ''PLEASE CONSIDER THE UNICORN EXCEPTION!!!'' There are literally a multitude of easy solutions. People choosing not avail themselves of any of them is just... not my problem. As for the specifics of downloads themselves, allowing for ''extras'' like liveries to be selectable is not a bad idea in and of itself, but a lot of this is self inflicted. If you need more space buy a drive or uninstall some other stuff. All there is to it, and all this wailing and gnashing of teeth and ''consider the edge cases'' is silly. If this guy's DCS install was 1/4 its current size, and he was able to install another 5-6 games... he is then in exactly the same situation again: uninstall some stuff or get another drive. There is nothing different now, from 30 years ago when dealing with storage capacity.

We understand you fine. We just think it's stupid.

Do you have anything like Asus SonicWave running? That thing used to cause me no end of grief.

Yeah, prebuilts screw you on HD capacity and RAM. I understand. On that note have you considered an external drive? Then you don't need to fumble around in anything. Some are USB 3.0-3.2 and very fast. Something to keep in mind. They really are, storage space is extremely easy to deal with, even considering what you've said.

No, I can write a batch file to delete the offending directories in fifteen seconds, automating the horrible process of ''it being reinstalled with each update''. If your drive us full, then you can do the same thing everybody else has done for the last 30-40 years of PC gaming: uninstall some <profanity> or get a bigger drive.

Because the point is not for you to have enough time to ''learn'' it. It's to see if it's something you're interested in investing in to learn. It's a demo. You remember how demos used to be? Like ''first three levels'' or ''two hours or the end whichever is first''? It's that kind of demo. Jesus. Give people something free and they complain it's not free ENOUGH @@

Yeah, I understand what you mean O7 I think in some of them you can adjust the seat. Obviously, that doesn't do any good here, though.

I could write a BAT file and do it with a single click. Would take about 15 seconds to do. ''This would require me actually have agency and take a modicum of initiative'' @@ I know, doesn't change the fact this problem is extremely minuscule in general. 4TB harddrive for $50. 1TB SSD for $60. Even if you're on a tight budget, this problem is not that hard to deal with. Storage is stupidly cheap. Stupidly, inexcusably cheap. I'm reminded of a guy who came through here whinging about dropping $2000 on a prebuilt and then his GAMEPORT JOYSTICK from 20+ years ago wouldn't work with it and he was adamant he couldn't afford the $40 for a cheapo made in the last decade. You're seriously going to claim people can afford $40-80 for an imaginary airplane, but $50 so they have someplace to put it is a bridge too far? You can only use one map at a time, if you're THAT tight for storage, you don't need all of them at once. The base game is not some monolithic creature, regardless of how many liveries there are. Nobody stuck a gun to your head and demanded you download their entire library. In fact, that is one of the key advantages of a MODULAR system, you can pick and choose.

The sun won't necessarily come up tomorrow, but statistically, it probably will. Also, in all this, people are continuing to ignore the developers themselves. You know, the people who own it and developed it. Unless they made some grand announcement lately I missed, they specifically said they don't want to because it is expensive, time consuming, legal headache (many people besides just the few currently involved have come and gone, they would ALL have to be contacted, so realistically all this they've done would go in the trash and they'd start from scratch, most mods do NOT make suitable ''professional conversions'' for this very reason), and they don't want to deal with the community demanding crap all the time. The first and foremost reason, legality and ''feasability'' aside, is because *they don't want to*. That is literally the single most relevant point, and that people don't get that reallllly drives home the part about them not wanting to deal with the community.

That's because the gunsight is not aligned with the pilot's eyes. Same thing in the Bf-109. You cannot have the head in the ''correct'' place while also seeing through the gunsight properly because the gunsight is not positioned to do that, period. There is no ''fix'' for that. That is how the aircraft is. It's one or the other.

Besides it being illegal, for the reasons mentioned on the very first page of this thread in the FAQ. -edit Actually, this FAQ is not as detailed as the old one. The short version : because the developers don't want to do that.

Literally no game anywhere does that.

Recently was absent mindedly talking to wife while wearing headphones. Accidentally moused across a bulb and the cracking glass scared me (volume up too high) which made me jump, which made my wife jump

The little I messed with trying to do this, as I remember each ''total'' has its own entry, including the ''general'' tab which requires you know exactly what it is named and do the math yourself. They are not in any particular order (I believe they are ordered according to the order you flew them in) and everything is in seconds. When I ran into the same issues you did, I gave up afterward cause it was quickly becoming a PITA.

Not all mods use an SFM. The ones that do, it's not ''forced'' on them, they choose to use a look up table, typically because of lacking access to the SDK and/or not being sufficiently skilled to code a flightmodel themselves. So, just off that, no, it will not ''replace'' anything. At the very least it would require the developers implement it, which at this point it remains to be seen what that would entail or if it's possible. Mod aircraft is certainly not something that's going to be a priority for ED.

Oh yeah! Good point. And I like the Romanian ones, too! IAR 81 ftw! No idea how readily available those are, though.

Delete the liveries you don't want and it will only use the default basic one. You guys act like this is rocket science or something. And you don't need to install every map you own simultaneously, only the ones you are using. People whinge about the most ridiculous things around here. You can get a multi-terrabyte drive for $50. Instead of dropping $2000 on a scalped GPU or $500 on an elite flight controller, spend a fraction of that on your storage capacity.

You're extremely unlikely to ever get any Japanese stuff due to destruction of surviving aircraft and documents. The Germans didn't have the variety the Allies did, so it would either be earlier versions of what we already have, or possibly a Bf-110 or Me-410, but that's pretty much it, if there is enough data. Possibly a 262.

Probably. The best one to model is the one you actually can get to.

It's not f views, it's centering in random locations. Recentering the view usually fixes it. But that's a good idea to check nonetheless

This game would be as bloated and dysfunctional as Star Citizen if you guys were given half a chance.

It's a video game. The line between us and a twelve year old screeching on Xbox is very thin. Get over it.

I'm sure that was the deciding factor, they were just waiting for that lone man striding from the shadows in a long duster and black hat to remind them about their patch schedule. It's a thankless job, but if it wasn't for people stating the obvious, where would the world be? One step closer to the heat death of the universe, that's where!

Probably. I used to fly the FC3 planes that don't have a break axis, it's not that hard to feather them (because it isn't simply ON/OFF) by clicking the button at intervals.