15.05.2009, 16:35
md_wild_weasel Wrote:i wasnt misleading any kind of anger in any direction, i was purely acting on "It is almost has if the in-game MkV is a 1941 version (or a Russian 87 octane fuel model) but with less weight than in RL, therefore the incorrect optmistic climb rate."andWhat I refered to was exactly the kind of conclusions I read in those forums. I admit I might have sounded definitive in that post, but I was just being "graphic". And didn't I say "...I made generalizations to get my point across..."?
"To have any historical accuracy, we would need two new slots for a 1941 (or Russian 87 octane fuel) and 1942 (British 100 octane fuel) Spit MkV.".
Besides, I wasn't even the one (or ones) that came to those conclusions. I observed and read those threads extensivelly when those guys were throwing data back and forth. It was not just one person that pointed that behaviour but several. And from what I saw in the comparative charts for the MkV I came to agree with them.
Please don't ask me to post them here. I would spend days just trying to find some of them. You'll probably smirk at that, but I'm really not inclined to do it.
md_wild_weasel Wrote:no bad feelings mate, just conflicting opinions on whether we should mess around with FM or create Fm that is suitable to peoples personnal pallette(can you imagine it?" Oh i cant beat that la7 so its Fm must be wrong") Thankfully not many people are able to mess with this, otherwise we`ll end up with Foo-fighter Doras and spitfires that handle`s like a garage door.Confliting?! Hardly. I think "not many people" or a "lot of people" being able to change FM amounts to the same. A UFO mod would never get across AAA quality control or am I wrong? And such a mod would be shunned in every server but the modder's own, right?
Please don't play the "Oh I cant beat that La7 so its FM must be wrong" card since I am a sucker for all propeller planes and only make comments when I see things steering away from the accuracy of reports and data (BTW, the vanilla La-5FN we have has the performance of the 1944 model and not of the 1943 one >>> we need another two slots :wink.
I also must refer to you that I am and always have been exclusivelly an offline IL2 player. I've never played IL2 online and never will because I had personal and professional problems when I did so in other games. In my offline campaigning I fly every available fighter (bomber missions are boring) for every carrer (allied or axis) in each of the historical settings, so I cringe if I know there is innacuracy. Call me obsessed...
And, "Foo-fighter Doras and spitfires that handle`s like a garage door" ? Please... :roll: That would make me cringe too. That was not what I was talking about. Remember the LaGG-3 300Kg lapse? That was a vanilla problem that got corrected. In the case of the Spit MkV I have no idea what the discrepancy might be, but surelly less than 100Kg.
BTW, when I say "correcting" I always refer to a new slot plane, not in to altering vanilla FM. No harm in that, right?