Shadow

Quick Answers: 1) I never got to fly your D-Day and would like to. 2) Interesting Idea. I'm in. 3) Also one I'd like to try Quote: "In regards to doing the next campaign, I have a couple of scenarios I want to work on, one of which is Battle of Britain...or Russian...." I like the idea of a Russian eastern front campaign. Say, the battle of Kursk or Stalingrad. They seem to have a good mix of ground units and plane sets. I think you could create a good campaign around one of these battles. Plenty well documented, so you need not research your ass off to come up with something... Okay, I admit it... I just want to be in a Lavochkin or a Cobra. Anything you come up with will, I'm sure, be a joy to experience. Cheers,

Thanks, dude :thumbright:

Moral: Don't follow an 88 on a low level bomb run. It was a little shaky after that. What with the damaged rudder and all. Barely made it back to base.

I'm wondering if there will be any stats available from the most enjoyable evening of mayhem we had last evening. Thing happened so fast and the missions ended without much info as to why. It would be nice to sit back and do some good ole armchair analysis of how the evening progressed. And yes, I already know I'm anal :roll: But I do enjoy that kind of stuff

Hi Can I get an admin to change my name to Shadow, please. Or some insructions on how to do it? Tried it myself, but no joy. I also tried to re-register but as my email is the same I am denied. Thanks for any help, Shadow

:thumbleft: :thumbleft:

https://www.glenmorangie.com/landing/index.php

I used Spyware Doctor for a year and found it to be a good program. It has realtime protection which can be a good thing, but does use up CPU space. If you are going to go with a payware program, you could do worse. That said, there are plenty of freeware programs that do the job just as well. I use a combo of Spybot Search & Destroy and Adaware now. Not much gets by them. Every once in a while I'll pop over to http://www.trendmicro.com/spyware-scan/ and run a scan. The only thing I don't like is that I have to fire up IE to run it. (Makes me feel so dirty). It takes a while to do it's thing, but is very thorough. It'll even dig stuff out of System Restore if you're one of the few that hasn't yet disabled it. Hope this helps, Freelancer

LMAO...Go ahead...I dare ya!! No... I double-dog dare ya

Allrighty then, I'll go for the change sometime after SS&S night. No sense adding to doubletaps already full plate.

I've had Freelancer for a few years now. Here are a few sigs I've gone through. Then I found a cool font and while fooling around, came up with this one So, now I want to change my name to Shadow. I've established myself as Shadow on a few forums now and am slowly easing into my new persona. Question is; would it be bad etiquette to change my sig in an already established forum? Say, here for instance? I'd change it at the zoo but then I lose my 700 posts and will look like a total n00b again. I'll get even less respect than I do now :shock: Thanks, Freelancer/Shadow

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I should check this forum more often. Here I spent the last four hours trying to get this right: when I could have been having a nice evening of online mayhem. Sheesh :?

Holy Smokes, doubletap! Nice work :thumbleft: After reading the manual, I wanna jump in NOW! Damn, I don't know who I'll have to blow to get that day off work, but I'll be there ~S~ Freelancer

Hi BG, I like those upload speeds! Any idea if your carrier is available down here in the Big Smoke?

I'm completely comfortable with no icons. In fact I prefer it that way. But what I can't live without is my little white plane on the map. Even with my compass rose I'm lost in under two minutes on most maps without my little buddy enabled to tell me where I am. When flying in the online wars, I form up with the guy ahead of me and hope his pathfinding is better than mine :?

I'm not sure that last night was a difinitive test. But it sure seemed to run a lot smoother with everyone at 56k. Freelancer

And I thought I was the only one! My kids are starting to think I have some sort of motor skill disfunction. Even caught myself doing it while playing Oblivion the other day. Or when I'm watching a track and can't figure out why I'm not panning when I should be.

While I enjoy the settings on Warclouds, I'm just not all over the plane set. It never seems to change no matter what map is up. The regular pilots there are logging in a huge amount of hours and are excellent gamers, but not nessessarily good pilots. By this I mean they know how to eke every bit of performance out of the game. Trim on a slider, 109 prop pitch exploit, flying 'in the red' for extended periods, etc. While in my mind these things are not cheats, they are also not realistic piloting skills. I much prefer trying to fly my plane in a somewhat normal manner and living with the consequences rather than looking for quirks in the programming to take advantage of. A df server is all about stats, period. You will see conga lines of shoulder shooting planes trying to get the last bullet into a smoking dead pilots ride for that all important 100 points. Then hit the deck race for an airfield and bang it down for the points. Repeat over and over again and you will quickly become tired of it. You will finally mange to get a plane flaming and he'll disco rather than have being shot down show up in his stats. Sorry, but I've been there, done that, and except for gunnery practice, I pretty much stay off DF servers in general and Warclouds in particular. Freelancer

The more live players the better, to my way of thinking. That said, I ended up sightseeing for the most part last evening as the lag was really bad for me. Every time I patiently set up a shot I would get warp. Even trying to stay in formation became frustrating. My network settings were at cable/xDSL so that may have been the problem. I have now changed to 56k. As for comms, I noticed not everyone uses the Push-to-Talk option. It can be a little distracting hearing every burp, fart and phone call when there is such an easy fix. As nice as it is to admire each others skins, it does use a lot of bandwidth to have them on. And with icons enabled there is no real need. I also think that, as it is the exception rather that the rule to see that many players on, there is no need for a drastic knee-jerk solution. There is plenty of time to get these little wrinkles worked out before 20 player evenings become the norm. And I look forward to the time when 20 player nights are standard. Cheers, Freelancer

Hi Arsenal, I'm going to D/L it anyway, so I can upload it to Usendit for you. Let me know. BTW, torrents can take a loooong time to complete, so don't hold your breath. Freelancer

Well Done! Checked out the site. Nice place. I uploaded a skin (under my top secret skinning name :wink: ) I upload a few more as I finish them. Once again, congrats, Freelancer

Well, I guess that's that then. Thanks Beebop for the info, but the track is already made. Just wondered if there was a way to fancy it up a little.

Hi I'm in the process of making a little clip. What I would like to know is if there is a way to remove icons from an .ntrk? Alternately, as I know you can do it in a .trk file, is it possible to convert, somehow, the .ntrk to a .trk? I'm a movie makin' noob, so no big words, please :wink: Thanks, Freelancer

Any time you have a server that keeps stats, you are going to have unscrupulous (can we install a spell check in the forum, please) players looking for an 'edge'. Human nature. I can assure you that if if the kennel started saving points, there would be the same thing happening here. One of the reasons I enjoy this squad and the mighty 58th with whom I also fly is this very thing. No stats means no need to look good on the leader board. No worrying about K/D ratios, Hit %ages, etc means no need for most of the common cheats (speed hacks, lag cheats) or unsportsman like behavior (kill stealing, shoulder shooting). People will start to 'lone wolf' if there is a stat page. Co-ops will not be so co-operative then:-( It's nice to play on a server with people I've come to have some respect for. If I see a UFO, I can be sure it's just lag and if I'm being shoulder shot I can be sure it's prolly my AI wingman. So, I propose that any future thoughts of having a stats page be quickly quashed so that we can keep this a gentlemans squad. Problem solved before it starts. Freelancer out.