Mission 1 Zulu time vs. Local time

[OLD CROW]

 

We're not starting the mission at 03:15 like it is shown in the briefing.... or maybe Local time in London Zulu +2, or Zulu -2.... who knows it?

Edited July 3 by OLD CROW
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[Reflected]

I do

 

[OLD CROW]

Alright, fair enough — I’ll concede that you're determined to stick to historical accuracy by insisting on keeping Z+2, even though you're well aware that DCS has a technical issue with moonlight rendering, and so on. You refuse to change the mission’s start time, yet you’re willing to suggest adjusting the Gamma settings as a temporary workaround until DCS delivers a proper fix… Honestly, I don’t understand you — especially not you — or Eagle Dynamics.

I get that for them, it’s a matter of allocating resources to address a technical issue. But what I can’t understand is why you won’t agree to simply change the time from Z+2 to Z in this mission as an interim solution. Worse still, you've even argued with people who paid for your product — people you couldn’t or wouldn’t help, all because of a historical detail that ends up making the mission unforgetable by been virtually unplayable from the first second.

Well, I suppose you know what you're doing to grow your business.

Oh, and by the way... I guess this is just one more historical technicality among many, right? 

The real question isn’t whether the spoon bends — it’s whether the spoon even exists.  

[Reflected]

What do you mean by the screenshot?

 

I’m not changing the mission timing to something that’s not accurate. If it’s hard it’s not because of my choices or “business decisions”. That has mever been a factor. It was hard in real life - much harder actually. Check this out:

 

the reason I build historical campaigns is so that I can learn from them. If a missions proves to be hard, I enjoy getting humbled and it just grows my appreciation and respect towards those who have done it for real. 
 

not all players think this way. Just because you paid for a history book, you don’t get to decide who won at Waterloo. 

Edited July 3 by Reflected

[OLD CROW]

Listen, Mister “History and Respect for the Fallen,” you have absolutely no idea what really happened there… and you never will — not even if a survivor explained it to you. So please don’t go assigning yourself merits that are far beyond your reach and completely unrelated to the matter at hand, just to distract readers.

This is a simulator — one with its strengths, technical flaws, and limitations, all of which are part of the package.

Disclaimer: any resemblance to real events is purely coincidental — and with your insistence on mission timings and darkness settings, all you’re doing is reinforcing that disclaimer and diving headfirst into a totally absurd loop, where your so-called “reality” collides with the actual reality of this game. (Yes — it’s a game.)

Just because I pay for a book that tells me who won the Battle of Waterloo doesn’t mean I have to believe that the “Royal Scots Greys” charged under Genghis Khan, just because the author was feeling playful that day — even if the final outcome is correctly stated.

If we carry that analogy into a sandbox environment, then we find a much longer list of historical errors and inconsistencies than actual accuracies.

So, as I said before: if you and ED want to keep doubling down — thumbs up.
Seems to me you’re going to have to self-publish a book on Amazon just to feel proud of your historical “rigor”… and of your selective lack of it, whenever it suits you.

[Reflected]

OK, let me try and make sense of it:

First you come here to complain that I did NOT apply selective rigor when designing this mission, because as it is, it's too hard for you. And now you said, quote, "my selective lack of historical rigor"...excuse me?

And the argument you're using to make a point is that 109Ks are flying over Normandy in 1944 (I applaud your expertise!) even though you, me, and everyone else who played 1h of DCS in their lives knows the difference: setting the exact time in the editor is possible, changing the 109K to a G is not. So much for my "selectiveness"

(A sidenote for others reading this: I have tricks to tone down the 109K's performance, by adding weight, drop tanks that they won't jettison, and / or removing their MW50, so the performance difference should be marginal, and in a 30 vs 30 dogfight it matters very little)

I know that nowadays we live in a world where people think if they accuse and attack loud enough, that's enough to win an argument, and they'll automatically be right. All you did was prove that you're one of these people, and I don't want to waste any more time on bullying contests where every accusation is a confession. I'm outta here, off to writing my self published book on Amazon  

Edited July 3 by Reflected

[MAXsenna]

52 minutes ago, Reflected said:

I'm outta here, off to writing my self published book on Amazon  

I'll buy it!  

[Terry Dactil]

4 hours ago, MAXsenna said:

I'll buy it!  

Me too !