04.08.2009, 08:53
I didn't even know he'd left - busy with work I guess. well it's a real shame cos the aircraft like Spit XII and XIV Mossie BXVI, Beau X etc were in a class of their own; easy to install and faultless with his little patches. His absence will be felt dearly in the future methinks. Has he stopped completely?
We are all grateful to what the modderas are doing for il-2 but;
To be honest I've stopped trying to put some of these other "new" aircraft into my game cos most of the time i can't understand what i'm supposed to do with the blasted things and lose interest. A lot of them are borderline jobs that seem to cause a lot of hassle too; they conflict with other stuff or they won't work in FMB or something. I don't really see the point of having planes with errors in an otherwise good reliable flight sim?
why are so many posts on forums asking for help;
I also wish that somebody good give some clear instructions on how these damned things should be installed. You know, like they used to do in the old days with cfs2 - clear instructions that are consistent and make sense to all - not just the old regulars. I think this would unjam your forum posts with poor sods who are trying to find out how to do it, being told in a very polite manner to basically bugger off and read some other post on another aircraft which runs to 20 pages or whatever is not the answer. LOL
Perhaps there needs to a be a group of expert regulars that band together and test these aircraft for a predetermined period to try and iron out the obvious faults, or at least try the bloody things in FMB, or find the conflicts or whatever, then once done they could be put on genaral release for all, with step by step instructions on how to install them into the game v.4.08 or 4.09.
This should end most of the problems people (other than veterans) are obviously having with installing these aircraft , and would maybe even bring some new talent into il-2 modding.
I've never had to do a reinstall of il-2 yet, but i've cherry picked the maps and planes on offer here and its transformed my game, so thanks guys. from what i've read some must be re-installing the goddam game every other day or searching for the plentiful bugs -! just when do they actually enjoy the game and fly?
what i've dome, and i'd recomend this to newbies, is to follow the posts after a new plane is released. its usually predictable stuff -
first everyone goes all orgasmic because a new plane is out, then after a few similar and semi-grovelling posts the problems start to take-over; crashes at 10%-90%, my other planes wont work, my other maps wont show, there's no cockpit, weapons dont show, wont work in FMB, my campaigns are knackered, everythings knackered, can't get plane or map to save in missions, game locks up and so on and on. shame. it could be so much better. perhaps less haste more care - remember the hare and the tortoise?
i realise i'm not able to help the site by building mods or whatever, and no before you ask i havn't donated either, but i don't think there is an argument in saying that just because you're not building aircraft or maps or whatever or shelling up hard-earned and scarce cash, that you shouldn't have any say (just pre-empting the usual put-down for anyone here that dares to be remotely critical in any way.
We are all grateful to what the modderas are doing for il-2 but;
To be honest I've stopped trying to put some of these other "new" aircraft into my game cos most of the time i can't understand what i'm supposed to do with the blasted things and lose interest. A lot of them are borderline jobs that seem to cause a lot of hassle too; they conflict with other stuff or they won't work in FMB or something. I don't really see the point of having planes with errors in an otherwise good reliable flight sim?
why are so many posts on forums asking for help;
I also wish that somebody good give some clear instructions on how these damned things should be installed. You know, like they used to do in the old days with cfs2 - clear instructions that are consistent and make sense to all - not just the old regulars. I think this would unjam your forum posts with poor sods who are trying to find out how to do it, being told in a very polite manner to basically bugger off and read some other post on another aircraft which runs to 20 pages or whatever is not the answer. LOL
Perhaps there needs to a be a group of expert regulars that band together and test these aircraft for a predetermined period to try and iron out the obvious faults, or at least try the bloody things in FMB, or find the conflicts or whatever, then once done they could be put on genaral release for all, with step by step instructions on how to install them into the game v.4.08 or 4.09.
This should end most of the problems people (other than veterans) are obviously having with installing these aircraft , and would maybe even bring some new talent into il-2 modding.
I've never had to do a reinstall of il-2 yet, but i've cherry picked the maps and planes on offer here and its transformed my game, so thanks guys. from what i've read some must be re-installing the goddam game every other day or searching for the plentiful bugs -! just when do they actually enjoy the game and fly?
what i've dome, and i'd recomend this to newbies, is to follow the posts after a new plane is released. its usually predictable stuff -
first everyone goes all orgasmic because a new plane is out, then after a few similar and semi-grovelling posts the problems start to take-over; crashes at 10%-90%, my other planes wont work, my other maps wont show, there's no cockpit, weapons dont show, wont work in FMB, my campaigns are knackered, everythings knackered, can't get plane or map to save in missions, game locks up and so on and on. shame. it could be so much better. perhaps less haste more care - remember the hare and the tortoise?
i realise i'm not able to help the site by building mods or whatever, and no before you ask i havn't donated either, but i don't think there is an argument in saying that just because you're not building aircraft or maps or whatever or shelling up hard-earned and scarce cash, that you shouldn't have any say (just pre-empting the usual put-down for anyone here that dares to be remotely critical in any way.