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Offline jack666

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« on: November 19, 2007, 02:25:17 PM »
Last night I decided to see if I could get my B-17 to produce contrails
behind it (the engines exhaust condensing and making white trails)
like this picture

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but nothing happened, it would be helpful if Aces High would make an authenticating patch to fix to any errors in the game or to add any useful thoughts by current players of the game.
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Offline Cypher

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« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2007, 02:30:17 PM »
If i remember right we don't have this due to frame rate issues.
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Offline PanosGR

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« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2007, 02:45:02 PM »
There are contrails in IL2 :o


Ooops sorry forbiden word. I mean there are contrails in other flight sims
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Offline Karnak

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« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2007, 03:03:06 PM »
Il-2 is in no way a forbidden word or reference.

Yes, other games have them and they'd be nice to see.  HTC aims to include lower end computers than Maddox does though.
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Offline dBeav

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« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2007, 03:09:02 PM »
European Air War has them  (circa 1998)
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Offline Toad

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« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2007, 03:19:24 PM »
They are actually a function of temperature rather than just altitude. So, do you want an entire weather aspect to the programming? Because contrails will form at different alts (temperature will vary at a given altitude from day to day for example) depending on the temperature at various altitudes on that day.

What does it really add to the game? IMO, not much. It'd be a waste of bandwidth IMO, especially considering we mostly have radar.
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Offline Nilsen

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« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2007, 03:32:34 PM »
If buff drivers want to go to 25k then they have earned the right to be somewhat harder to spot. Ill still climb and pluck them down though.
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Offline Motherland

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« Reply #7 on: November 19, 2007, 03:37:32 PM »
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Originally posted by Karnak
Il-2 is in no way a forbidden word or reference.

Yes, other games have them and they'd be nice to see.  HTC aims to include lower end computers than Maddox does though.
:rofl
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Offline TwentyFo

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« Reply #8 on: November 19, 2007, 06:03:16 PM »
So if you bomber pilots get your contrails, then what?
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Offline 1Boner

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« Reply #9 on: November 19, 2007, 06:21:40 PM »
Noooooks!!

Indestructable bombers!!

Easier bomb sights!!

And fighters that can only shoot marshmallows above 15k.





Am I asking for 2 much?

Boner


oh yeah--and a B-58 hustler
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Offline sgt203

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« Reply #10 on: November 19, 2007, 06:29:46 PM »
:rolleyes: :rolleyes:
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Offline ded

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« Reply #11 on: November 19, 2007, 08:16:18 PM »
I would be happy if we could get some better bomb load outs for the mossie.
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Offline lagger86

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« Reply #12 on: November 19, 2007, 08:31:04 PM »
you know the government uses contrails to rain down mind control chemicals. This has not been proven, but one time a jet flew over my house leaving a nice stream and I went inside and made some nachos.
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Offline Nilsen

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« Reply #13 on: November 20, 2007, 01:11:44 AM »
Must have been Mexican Airways flight then..
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Offline sgt203

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« Reply #14 on: November 20, 2007, 01:39:16 AM »
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Originally posted by lagger86
you know the government uses contrails to rain down mind control chemicals. This has not been proven, but one time a jet flew over my house leaving a nice stream and I went inside and made some nachos.


Nilsen: Must have been Mexican Airways flight then


:rofl :rofl :D
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