Re: re: [Flightgear-devel] Combat anti-flame

2003-11-11 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been deleting the combat thread unread, but I got the impression that there was a lot of heated discussion about military stuff. If you would have read it, then you would have got the impression that it was far not that heated as you'd expected it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Combat anti-flame

2003-11-11 Thread Jonathan Richards
On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 10:07 am, Martin Spott wrote: Although I dislike to see combat features in FlightGear I must admit that it's quite some fun to fly these birds - there are no civilian equivalents with that much power and speed At least, now that the Concorde fleet is retired. Alpha

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Combat anti-flame

2003-11-11 Thread Martin Spott
Jonathan Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 10:07 am, Martin Spott wrote: Although I dislike to see combat features in FlightGear I must admit that it's quite some fun to fly these birds - there are no civilian equivalents with that much power and speed At least,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Combat anti-flame

2003-11-11 Thread Matevz Jekovec
Hopefully will not be another shoot'em up, actually doubt anyone would let that happen right? Realism is the name of the game? Why cannot both co-exist? Anyone think of any Flight sim on any platform that is a great Civilian flightsim and also has very accurate warplanes Yeah, I thought on that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Combat anti-flame

2003-11-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Matevz Jekovec wrote: However, Project Phoenix (www.phoenix-project.org) is aimed to be an OpenFalcon style of the game and they are observing our FG work very closely as they will probably take it for the base. They are planning to implement a new 3d heart though (OGRE running on SDL is a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Combat anti-flame

2003-11-11 Thread Manuel Bessler
Hi Martin, On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:46:01PM +, Martin Spott wrote: At least, now that the Concorde fleet is retired. Oh my god, how could I forget the Concorde - and it's counterpart, the TU-144 !?! We have both here in static display at Sinsheim, I can't forget them... I see

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Combat anti-flame

2003-11-11 Thread Martin Spott
Manuel Bessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:46:01PM +, Martin Spott wrote: Oh my god, how could I forget the Concorde - and it's counterpart, the TU-144 !?! We have both here in static display at Sinsheim, I can't forget them... I see them every time I look

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Combat anti-flame

2003-11-11 Thread Martin Spott
Lee Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to say that it's the capabilities of military aircraft that I find interesting, both in terms of aerodynamics and in the weapon systems. Not the use of them. Absolutely not. I think I know a bit about modern military aircraft and their weapons

[Flightgear-devel] Combat anti-flame

2003-11-10 Thread Andy Ross
[Starting a new thread, since the original is getting a little strung out. :)] In an attempt to depoliticize the combat flame war as much as possible, it's worth pointing out that, irrespective of people's opinions on the matter, there are not a lot of combat features we can really avoid

re: [Flightgear-devel] Combat anti-flame

2003-11-10 Thread David Megginson
Andy Ross writes: In an attempt to depoliticize the combat flame war as much as possible, it's worth pointing out that, irrespective of people's opinions on the matter, there are not a lot of combat features we can really avoid implementing: I've been deleting the combat thread unread,

re: [Flightgear-devel] Combat anti-flame

2003-11-10 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 16:17, David Megginson wrote: Andy Ross writes: In an attempt to depoliticize the combat flame war as much as possible, it's worth pointing out that, irrespective of people's opinions on the matter, there are not a lot of combat features we can really avoid

re: [Flightgear-devel] Combat anti-flame

2003-11-10 Thread Bert Driehuis
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, David Megginson wrote: [...] I also (personally) think we're a little heavy on the warbirds (especially U.S.) and would like to see more civilian aircraft, but I'm too lazy to get off my behind and make them, so I guess I don't have a right to complain. Speaking of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Combat anti-flame

2003-11-10 Thread Lee Elliott
On Monday 10 November 2003 23:47, Andy Ross wrote: [Starting a new thread, since the original is getting a little strung out. :)] In an attempt to depoliticize the combat flame war as much as possible, it's worth pointing out that, irrespective of people's opinions on the matter, there are