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@BIGNEWYthank you!

@Tank Stompersounds good to me! Not everyone needs 4K liveries all the time.

@Jarlerusi think that's a winning idea... each server has a list of endorsed skins, which is limited and curated, to avoid huge downloads and conform to the server's culture. To maintain efficiency, have a fixed size cache of skins and make the whole thing opt-in. Allowing creativity doesn't always mean anime dragon lasers and so on Some really tasteful and cool designs exist out there.

Thank you GGTharos! Like you say, the feature is already coded and it would only have to be enabled in gun mode. I hope ED can make it happen!

Hi ED, The 15 has closure on HUD when a missile is selected, but not in guns mode. This is an important number in BFM (for which the 15 is an attractive choice, given that its flight model is quite accurate despite it not being a FF plane). Displayed as a small number in the radar MFD, it not only is awkwardly located, but it is so small and close to the border of the grid when in typical BFM range that it's extremely hard to read. I understand you guys are busy with a million high priority features and bugs, but if you get a few spare cycles, this would make a big difference for us Eagle fans in the BFM community. Best, LK

Consider also that this would help people feel like they own their planes. If you have VR you know what I mean, you feel like you're there. If you're able to customize your plane it increases the sense that you own it. Right now it feels like we have a license to fly F18s in this virtual world. Nothing uncool about that, but not as cool as owning your own. PS. Alternatively as a shorter term thing, one could allow personalized tail or nose art, pertaining to squadron or personal branding. Those would certainly not be gigabytes in size and would be easy to transfer.

You'd be able to opt out. The size of this problem is 1 bit.

Sure, and some servers could block third party skins, but there are many tasteful third party liveries out there.

1. Servers could choose to enable or disable this 2. You could opt out as a user of course 3. The shared skins don't need to be gigabytes in size

Liveries add personality and creativity to this world, could we make it so servers can allow custom liveries to be 1) Selectable by pilots even in air starts 2) Viewable by everyone in the server? Without having to predownload /preinstall your friends' liveries first. Would be a lot of fun! I'm sure lots of people would love this. Most of us feel like we actually own a real jet when we buy one in DCS. We wanna be able to customize it! Cheers, лk

significant drop in fps too with 2080 ti and 2.5.6

Even after trying the optimizations in this tutorial which includes optimized shaders and Windows, Nvidia, and DCS settings tweaking, my FPS were markedly lower in the 2.5.6 beta than they were in stable. Discussion with other pilots on the r/hoggit discord indicates that this isn't an isolated case, at least another user with similar hardware has had this FPS drop. Hardware: 2080 Ti, i5-9400F, 16GB RAM, Oculus Rift S Data from fpsVR Tested on F15C and F18 Cheers