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Title: cloaking device
Post by: caldera on May 12, 2013, 08:39:10 PM
This sure is a well timed vanishing act.  As soon as I pass by, he reappears like magic.   :bhead

What's going on here?  :headscratch:
Title: Re: cloaking device
Post by: wrench on May 12, 2013, 09:13:50 PM
Don't know how it happens but here's similar event.
Title: Re: cloaking device
Post by: icepac on May 12, 2013, 10:09:38 PM
Got one too.

Title: Re: cloaking device
Post by: icepac on May 14, 2013, 08:41:39 AM
This is kind of important and wasn't like this before.

From the films, it looks like a relatively recent update has done away with years and years of tweaking of the "connection code" in that it reminds me of what happens in WB1.1

It looks a lot like the threshold for your plane becoming a drone (for later return to flight) is being seen by your adversary before you, yourself, experience the full disco........and then you are suddenly back in your plane.

As it was before, your plane continued on it's course as last known by the flight sim using the control inputs last seen by the server.

Now, it seems you simply disappear even when your loss of connection is not very long only to reappear somewhere else.
Title: Re: cloaking device
Post by: VonMessa on May 14, 2013, 08:55:57 AM
It's the Romulans.

It's ALWAYS the Romulans, especially when it comes to cloaking devices...

 :noid

(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff107/tymekeepyr/320x240_zps86efd24a.jpg)
Title: Re: cloaking device
Post by: caldera on May 14, 2013, 06:57:51 PM
"Ehhhh, hey babeh.  I see you have pointed ears.  My ears are pointed too."

Just saw that episode about a month ago.  She's not too shabby.  :aok
Title: Re: cloaking device
Post by: thedoom26 on May 14, 2013, 08:14:17 PM
 :eek:
Title: Re: cloaking device
Post by: icepac on May 31, 2013, 11:10:10 PM
It's obvious a recent update undid 10 years of improvments to the connection functionality because I haven't seen planes disappear like this since early versions of warbirds.

It's also obvious people are exploiting the glitch.
Title: Re: cloaking device
Post by: gyrene81 on June 01, 2013, 02:17:46 AM
It's obvious a recent update undid 10 years of improvments to the connection functionality because I haven't seen planes disappear like this since early versions of warbirds.
aaaannd there is no way it would have anything to do with the severe weather through the midwest...nah, impossible for weather to have any effect.  :rolleyes:  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: cloaking device
Post by: icepac on June 01, 2013, 09:37:03 AM
My point has nothing to do with the source of the ping issue that caused the plane to disappear but rather how the program handles it.

Planes didn't simply disappear and reappear until recently...........or back in the 1990s.

Aces high has progressed way past that but something has reverted.

Notice how the pilot disappears from the display on the right when this happens.
Title: Re: cloaking device
Post by: wrench on June 05, 2013, 10:20:55 AM
HA another one! This player was jumping around and every one else was steady. Even went 3000 ft under water before disappearing.

 :confused:
Title: Re: cloaking device
Post by: VonMessa on June 05, 2013, 10:49:24 AM
HA another one! This player was jumping around and every one else was steady. Even went 3000 ft under water before disappearing.

 :confused:

He obviously found the .submarine command...
Title: Re: cloaking device
Post by: Randy1 on June 05, 2013, 12:42:00 PM
I had a plane disappear as I pulled the trigger on it 200 out.  I beat him on the merge and was tight on his 6.  After a couple minutes of searching and wondering what happened, I head home.  Guess who ended up on my 6?