Daidalos Team's Room -QUESTIONS AND REQUESTS ONLY on IL2 Authorized Addons

[mkubani]

Hello all,

before the patch is made available for public download, we would like to set up as many mirror servers as possible. Those who can help us and provide such a service, please drop us an email at daidalos.team@gmail.com (if you haven't done so yet )

Thanks a lot.

[mkubani]

I need a quick correction to a French 4.09 readme. Who can assist here please? Drop me a PM with your email. It's urgent. Thanks a lot.

[ramstein]

if the patch was just released with whatever servers that are already available, then people would gladly put it up on Torrents and you wouldn't need to keep asking for servers..

IMHO

Originally Posted by mkubani

Hello all,

before the patch is made available for public download, we would like to set up as many mirror servers as possible. Those who can help us and provide such a service, please drop us an email at daidalos.team@gmail.com (if you haven't done so yet )

Thanks a lot.

[mkubani]

Not everyone uses torrents. We will arrange mirrors first and then it can be put on torrents.

[II/JG54_Emil]

Concerning the change of flight-models:
Is this a I wish to boost my favourite planes session?

If there´s anything to change to to unrealistic modelling please ad a reliable link!

[Hood]

Originally Posted by mkubani

I need a quick correction to a French 4.09 readme. Who can assist here please? Drop me a PM with your email. It's urgent. Thanks a lot.

Was there a problem with the original? Please check your DT email.

[nearmiss]

Torrents?

I've used torrents and had issues. The problem with torrents is all the hackers and crackers that want to cause problems get in the mix with legitimate downloads. They poke in their poison, and you never know what you are getting unless the torrent site allows comments.

There is so much bootleg software on torrent sites. Putting legitimate software up for torrent downloads seems IMO to be an encouragement for software piracy.

I'll download from just about anywhere to keep from using torrents.

I should say... if my only choice is a torrent then I'll deal with downloading that way. I've got a couple spyware scanners and anti-viruse I'll run on the file before I open it. Nuttin' to it.

[ramstein]

well, as long as excuses are put up to not use valid solutions, then I guess we will just not use other valid options..

[FAE_Cazador]

Originally Posted by csThor

Actually I believe the score system is for the dustbin, but I'm afraid it would be pretty far down on the priority list.
BTW never thought anyone cared for those scores.

As an old online air wars pilot, I can say that "Kill Stealing" causes bad feelings, argues, quarrels, and bad words in on line servers. And very frequently, I should say. From the old VEF, VOW and Bellum days to the present =BY= Airwar, ADW etc. I think, this is not so often in normal Coops in which maybe many pilots are friends or they know each other.

"Kill stealers", shooting at burning planes, or planes without pilot, who bailed previously, or shooting at broken planes falling down in pieces or even to planes with a stopped engine, get and unmerited kill.

AFAIK, IL-2 is now giving the kill to the pilot who hits the last impact on the E/A before it is desroyed. This is the root of the problem. Let me know if I am wrong.

IMHO this could be easily solved by:

1) Once a plane caught fire, or had a broken wing or tail, or motor hit and stopped, (not intentionally) or without pilot, or with 3-control lost, no further impacts on it are taken in account to give the kill.

2) If several pilots hit a plane, the Sim could count and store how many impacts or how much damage was caused by every pilot in a 0-100% basis. (I don't know if this is possible, with the Sim Engine, anyway). Of course the damage from of a 30 mm shell or from a 7.62 ball, is not the same and may be should be taken in account (I do no know how, however).

3) Once the enemy plane hits the ground and is officially lost, all pilots who shot to him in "good" condition are credited on the screen by the message "xxxxx was shot down by pilotA and pilotB and ....etc"

4) Regarding points, if shooting down an enemy fighter worths 100 points, every pilot would get points as: 100*(% damage produced).

For instance , if:

Pilot A caused 70% damage, gets 70 points
Pilot B caused 30% damage, gets 30 points

This should be stored also in the Coop.txt file, to allow on line war parsers or dogfight servers to use this info in the best way.

From all said here, I think this could help on line fair-playing and IMHO it should deserve a good order of priority, more than other plane or technical-related issues, as it affects directly people mood and behaviour.

Thanks for your efforts, mates, and sorry for my long speech and not too good English.

[WWFlybert]

nearmiss,

I respectfully disagree .. whoever seeds a torrent has control of the content, and the particular name and it's MD5 hash can be published as the 'official' torrent.

I can almost guarentee 4.09m official will end up on the torrent tracking sites anyway, it's wiser to have a known good version made available, than to risk multiple copies showing up that could conceivably be "poisoned' .. though I can't imagine why anyone would poison a legal and legitimate file.

Once the 'official" torrent is up, and dozens download and seed, from that point another differrently named 4.09m won't attract use anyway.

And no matter what you download from anywhere, it's wise to run a good anti-virus scan on the archive .. btjunkie.org does have "verified by the community" numbers and comments.

I can almost guarentee also, that no matter how many mirrors you set up, I'll be lucky to pull down 100kbs, where through a torrent and sufficient seeds, I get about 300kb/s (2.4Mbits), my maximum download speed.

TD .. how big is 4.09m in a .rar or .zip file ?