Lock On is slowly but surely vanishing from the radar

[Guest ThomasDWeiss]

Personally I don’t have anything to complain – Lockonfiles is doing fine, but one after the other of the oldest forums is dying, the latest one is SimHQ, it is almost dead.:(

[SuperKungFu]

yea i agree, its been very quiet. Hopefully Blackshark will make Lock On look like a blimp on the radar screen again

[GGTharos]

Frugal's is the falconites playground, and SimHQ just had a huge hiccup. Most people know to come here and ubi for LOMAC, and I think it's nothing more than a reduction in duplication and population migration.

[VapoR]

Why are you hitting the panic button? Lomac still has a strong following both in these forums as well as online with Hyperlobby. It does seem that a huge chunk of the community migrated to F4: AF (in fact even in the 504 we were affected). If ED wants to retake the lead they HAVE to develop a DC, if not they will sell copies but will never be in the #1 spot.

[sixer]

hear hear, i am surprised it lasted this long if thare were not squads that work hard to keep it interesting for thare gyes this game would be in the trash a long time ago, and the facked that thay came at a time when modern flight sims are not big helped, as soon as something else comes a long. every one will be gone from here an ED will have wished thay had listened to what we wanted not what thay wanted. a helo come on but ok i gess i can think of 100 other things you could have done.

[Guest ThomasDWeiss]

Perhaps LOBS will help - but there are people that on principle don't fly non-US fighters.

 

Myself I am a Flanker fan - but after LOBS maybe an F-15/A-10 updating with AFM and the A-10B would be a great way to bring back the english speaking bunch.

[VapoR]

A-10B??? I think you mean the C model. Wouldn't fit the timeframe though . . .

[Ice]

Lockon Ru Forums. The proper home of Lock On is doing fine. Maybe people are just tired of seeing the same posts twice.

 

Hyperlobby has more flying now than ever and thats what really counts.

[Guest EVIL-SCOTSMAN]

All other forums are dieing cuz everyone posts here...

[504MrWolf]

the Lockon community cant be doing that bad, http://www.lockonskins.co.uk has had nearly a tera-byte of data transfer this year !!

 

Last year 3500 gig of data was used !

[Pilotasso]

Why are you hitting the panic button? Lomac still has a strong following both in these forums as well as online with Hyperlobby. It does seem that a huge chunk of the community migrated to F4: AF (in fact even in the 504 we were affected). If ED wants to retake the lead they HAVE to develop a DC, if not they will sell copies but will never be in the #1 spot.

 

Not realy, there has been players as it always have been. Its just that there seems to be a fever of servers wich come and go like seasons. I havent seen much about the JaboG32 lads lately. Apart that their site has been hacked (sad) they have been somewhat missing. I miss the huge missions they used to have. I havent seen them training in large numbers either.

 

This is also a bad time of the year with lots of lads here frequenting university and exam season is fast aproaching. As the summer closes there will be less peaople and it will only pick up again at the end of the summer. Hopefully BS will help a bit.

[Guest EVIL-SCOTSMAN]

way to go wolfman, serving teh community since long time :p

[Guest ThomasDWeiss]

If you look at UBI, they are down to a fraction of what they had a while ago, SimHQ is almost dead - yours Wolf is doing fine, so is mine.

 

I forgot - CombatAce. Gone.

 

This forum is almost veterans only, and only a tiny group is posting regularly.

 

There are two english and a german dowload/forum sites doing fine.

 

As I said, we are vanishing form the radar.

[Pilotasso]

UBI has been dying slowly for 2 years and its been like it is now since Flamming cliffs came out and UBI droped ED. Not exactly the same as saying the game is losing te comunity. I remenber reading here numerous times that it was vanishing but instead I have witnessed an increase of players.

[cool_t]

New recruts? USA lomac conventions!

 

New flyers, hummmm?

 

T

[VMFA-Blaze]

Yes the double posts aren't really a necessity..

 

I have seen the amount of guys in this site at one time has begun to grow which includes a lot of new names that I've never heard of before (THATS A GOOD THING).

 

Personally I don't even go to UBI anymore its just redundant...

 

I will post on Simhq on occasion if I'm there reviewing the pit builder thread or something but I never bother posting at Frugles Lockon thread because of things that have occured in the past..

 

I really don't think that this sim will die if anything its gotten stronger...

 

And Black Shark will be here very shortly which will really increase activity here..

 

From what I've been hearing Ed is going to release new sims at a much faster rate..

 

The AFM system has been developed and is now in place..

 

Some of the code will be rewritten and the graphics here are awsome...

 

And as far as new flyables there will be something for everybody ....

 

~S~

 

Blaze

[maxnharry]

I may be bucking the trend, but I am a returning Flanker player who is happy to be in the world of LOMAC.

 

The main issue aside from Russian aircraft is a steep learning curve that offers tremendous realism but an easy route to a flat spin. This is not a high volume game. I think it is alot like X Plane. LOMAC is clearly the best out there.

 

BTW, anyone have an email for lockonfiles? I registered but never got my email back from them.

[Prophet_169th]

BS is going to bring in a lot more people.

 

All the EECH/LB2/whatever else there is, simmers.

 

Not only will it be the best Jet sim, but it will also be the best helo sim.

[Shotsx74]

How can it be the best, when its only a Russian helo... You should of put in the cobra or apache to have an Human oppsition... people are going to get board of just nailing down AI Choopers and ground units... what fun is that when you have no competitiveness... besides F-15C storming over you and AIM-9in your ass... Sorry, but Im going to pick it up just to play on other ppls servers but as far as using the chopper prob wont happen becuase it wouldnt be that exciting since theres no human on the other team starting up there engines waiting to TV missle me...

 

this is my opinion... but i could be wrong, granted it will being in alot of Russian and EU ppl, but as far as U.S.. i dont think it sgoing to bring in anyone... i mean come one we have 2 planes 1 which is supposed to be a multiroll which its not and the other is just a ground unit with aim-9s granted its supposed to be like that but still wouldnt it have been a better idea, to MAYBE incoperate ground capibiltes for the F-15 and maybe put in the F-16 as a Flyable... And then Redue some of the Russian planes so they look a little bit better. This is just all me thinking here... but still... should of thought a little more about putting out a chopper that hasnt seen much combat... let alone flight exp... but i could be wrong on that too...

 

(waiting to get banned for expressing my opinion....)

[Andrew_McP]

> (waiting to get banned for expressing my opinion....)

 

You won't get banned for that, but you might get a clip round the ear for not realising people say the same thing almost every week. ;-)

 

They're still wrong though. More aircraft does not make a better sim. Never has, never will.

 

Andrew McP

[Shotsx74]

You are right, but what is the point of releasing a chopper that has no Human opposition to it in a chopper... They should of gave US the apache or cobra to make it equal... and why would you release a chopper that hasnt seen that much time..

[Prophet_169th]

I dont get the opposition arguement.

 

LB was only the Apache, and it rocked in its day. LB2 added the blackhawk and Kiowa, but still only US.

 

I never played the others.

 

You may wish for there to be a US heli, but its too much time and investment.

 

It is better to get the BS out, a few patches to make it solid, and then move on to code that UBI has no rights to. Plus from what I have "assumed" from what ED has said on the forums, the current code has some limits they wish to be done with.

 

And believe me, you dont realize how small something is when its moving so fast like a jet. When its a heli, down low barely crawling along....... The Air threat will not be as bas as some percieve, especially if there is a jet on your side in the air.

[Prophet_169th]

You are right, but what is the point of releasing a chopper that has no Human opposition to it in a chopper... They should of gave US the apache or cobra to make it equal... and why would you release a chopper that hasnt seen that much time..

 

The Su25/25t and A10 arent really competition to eachother.

 

For A2A you can have real human competition. A2G, well since we only can fly, that leaves the G to AI.

[Pilotasso]

WOuld love to take iron bombs on the F-15 though. That he has a point. I dont care if ED moderators say that it doesnt make sense. It actualy does if you think well. LOMAC uses a screwy time frame with screwy weapons setup for the Su-25 and Ka-50 wich didnt exist when F-15 of this standard used to fly. The Su and migs take Iron bombs, why not the F-15? There should be a fast mover for NATO side with AG capability even if it is to be limited in nature.

[Guest ThomasDWeiss]

The Israelis have the capability to use dumb bombs on their F-15 - so much so that they used them to hit the PLO HQ in Algiers.

 

So, if you look at the main forums like SimHQ, Frugals and CombatAce you will see that Lock ON vanished.

 

Hyperlobby - there we get 1/10 while FB gets 8/10.

 

There are only two dedicated english-speaking sites doing OK, although there are many Sqn sites doing fine.

 

No matter how you try to look at it - Lock On is no longer a thriving community.

 

When FC was released there was a lot of talk about it, LOBS gets very little if any. This does bodes ill for the future.

 

I am positive that if ED released after LOBS an Eagle/Hog AFM package with the Israeli F-15C (which has a ground attack capability and would open a world of possibilities as far as missions are concerned) and the A-10C we would go back were we were.

 

But I am sure this won't happen.