Nothing like a "LifeSized Bunker" to get our attention. ;)

Now that's really a nonsense OT .... :-D

Well, it IS the same guy who spends his time posting "Honour to Dux Mussolini" over and over in chat on HL. If he MUST pick a fascist dictator to revere, couldn't he at least pick one who wasn't both extremely vain and moronically incompetent? :confused:

Italian bunker
 

SORRY for size of photo DAIDALUS team but this bunker in italy exist over 4000 postation this buncker is fery famous and is a part of WW2 HISTORY most peoples accused me because i am FASCIST but the fascism is a part of ITALIAN history and i remember non CANCEL and BENITO MUSSOLINI is a ITALIAN MAN a part a ITALIAN HISTORY i respect NAPOLEON HISTORY i respect ENGLAND HYSTORy i respect U.S.A. HISTORY i not accused i RESPECT RUSSIA HISTORY e not accuse for exterme comunism i not acused you for EXTREME COLONIALISM.

Feel free to delete it and replace it by a linked thumbnail:

http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/1739/17283311.th.jpg

That would all sound very reasonable, except that I don't go around spamming "Honour to the British Empire!" or "Take back the colonies!".

Anyway, nice bunker.

Lol
 

The bunker is funny, and lifesized. But that's a good pic though. About the previous posts leading in . . .

Don't need to argue the point if he's a Italian Dictator lover or Fascist supporter. This is a Team D thread.





The points by zaelu and kwiatek are invalid because the IL-2 data used to prove their points that something is wrong comes from a hacked and modded IL-2 . . . hence Bulgarian's reply.

And where that information comes from does affect if its a "fact or not".

Garbage in and garbage out? You can't use flawed data to point out a flaw, because the problem could be with the data you're using .





Team D is right in saying FM's modded / will create unknown consequences / cascade effects in the code.

And its good to nip it in the bud.

The debates with Modded FM's are many: Is it a cheat vs historically vs flies like I want it to (according to my interpretation of the books I've read etc).

Then you got book knowledge vs actual experience. Anyone who has tried to learn martial arts from a magazine and then from an actual master can tell you its different from learning from a video, pages, and from someone teaching you.

Proving something "historically" correct, how would they (mod FM guys) know unless they've flown an actual P-51, and fired its .50 cals?

You could get close if you took what was recorded in regarding the plane, plus the experience of pilots / pilot logs, stats and engineering tests, and test flights if possible. Even then collecting all the data needs a peer review and organization to translate that into the game . . . and you have to seperate this from "your favorite plane" syndrome.

At least with Team D or Oleg n Co, they can request information regarding this, and its good they are doing this (recent threads from Luthier). They can get the research in on it.

They can combine resources, work with the community, and have a team to debate, and organize things so it works with what's been done already in the game and not mess with the integrity of IL-2. After all 8+ years of official work on a game, theres bound to be many details that only the developer is intimate with.


Another issue, is say, pilot skill.

I'll use the P-51. There are other people that fly the P-51 on unmodded servers online and shoot just fine, they rack up kills. They fly the IL-2 P-51 just as well as it can be according to its FM.

Then you have others that say they find it hard to fly or shoot w/out the modded FM? Are they cheating because of lack of skill?

Maybe the oleg quote pilots win dogfights is applicable here?


With Team D and Oleg n Co, the have the final say. They can cut through the BS, the many facets of the issue, and create something workable.


I'm just glad Team D and Oleg n co are continuing to support IL-2. And we should be working with them, not laying down accusations or quoting obscure sources (like unsourced wikipedia articles), or points or using modded FM's to prove a point.

those obscure sources, you are crapping on, are from real pilots who flew the planes, the documents from the desgin, factory specs, etc.. but it seems you know more than those sources..

You would indeed be very likely to get only garbage out if you got something wrong. Anyone who knows what java code looks like could tell if the code was decrypted incorrectly. Have yourself a read all about encryption.
In any case, the best way to check would be for someone to dump all of the class files, unhash them all and then hash them all again without modification. I bet they'd pass CRT=2.
Taking the above into account, I think it's pretty unreasonable to believe that Kwiatek would point out the error if it wasn't in the original game's FM straight from being unhashed, or for that matter that he wouldn't have checked it several times before bringing it to the attention of TD.
I confess that I find myself surprised by the attitude with which Kwiatek's post was received, surely it wasn't necessary to cause such a fuss over the fact that his information comes from modding the game's files himself? Some TD members were previously modders themselves. Seems mighty hypocritical.

Update
 

sorry for the misconfusion, I updated my post.


actually that part was directed at what K was trying to do that FC99 was answering to . . . post #610 11-11-2009, 09:57 AM


I did state in earlier in my post that pilots and documents are valid and I did not mean any disrespect in regards to pilots or any other service members statements.


close = historically correct, I'm stating close b/c exact is being there as the events unfold.