Too bad DCS is dripping with bugs everywhere. Never saw so many bugs posted on a sim game.
DCS certainly has it's share of bugs. I've found a few. I've nailed them down. Documented them, and provided the steps to reproduce (with film or test mission) and reported them. Some they've fixed, some they haven't fixed yet. I used to do the same here. I've documented and reported many many bugs here back in the day. I run the Open Beta version exactly so I can help find and report bugs. Open Beta is expected to have a lot of bugs and the whole point is to find them.
You know what bugs are, Animl? They are evidence that code is being written. Every line of code written by humans has the potential for bugs. If you don't have a lot of bugs, you prolly haven't written code in a while. DCS has a lot of bugs because a lot of code is being written. New code every month. New bugs every month. They are a side-effect like smoke from fire. Find them. Document the steps to repro. Provide supporting logs and film. Prioritize them. Fix them when they when it's their turn. And keep on chugging. The point is to not let the fear of a bug keep you from moving forward.
I don't specifically recall complaining about cost, but who likes to spend money. True, the F4E is prolly going to run about $70 but I think any fair appraisal can see where that money goes. The amount of detail work that goes into one of these modules is really astounding. If you can't look at that and say it is impressive, you are either stupid or lying. Or in some peoples case, an equal measure of both. And when I've bought it, I own it. I don't keep paying for it every month. Nowadays, that tends to be peoples preferred model. I think that and having a strong single player model is what has made IL2 and DCS so much money.
It doesn't mean you can't make a subscription model work, but it means you are already having to work against extra friction. You need to be smart on how you lure them in with FTP subsets and show them their month subscription buys them constant development and new toys and new content monthly. Like AH did in it's hay day (Heck, in it's prime it was literally something major and new every week). Paying for innovation is one thing, merely paying rent has a whole different feel.
You need to unclench Animl. No one is trying to steal AH's player base. No one cares. You could take every player here and double the number and double it again and it would only be a tiny fraction of a percentage of DCS' player base. It's not even a rounding error. Several people have contacted me privately asking about the state of WWII in DCS and I've told them the DCS WWII set is immature and couldn't provide what they get here. IL2 is the direct threat to AH not DCS. AH is currently where you would get your best WWII MP fix. I see nothing wrong about telling people about jets and in my case the most fun thing in the world (well second most fun) HELICOPTERS! We are all fans of flight sims here and other flight sims are going to get discussed and compared. Get over it cult fan-boi. Besides, you mention DCS more here than
anyone. Every other post you make you are squawking about DCS. You've probably driven more people over to try it out just based on, if that tool Animl is so scared of it it must be worth trying. DCS isn't where people like Eagler will go (yet). IL2 would be a better fit. Who knows what the future holds? IL2 and AH better hope DCS doesn't turn it's focus toward WWII, but someday they are going to run out of compelling jets to make that don't have security issues.
Go ahead and go over and try and start your nonsense again. I don't care. After your last post I sent the moderator a note explaining who you were, what community you are coming from, and how you said you were going to follow my account and post harassing messages every time I post something. I sent them the screen shot of your sexual predator PM's just so they know what kind of
thing they are dealing with. We had a good laugh at your expense and he shared the info with the other mods to put on their watch list. So knock yourself out. You are representing this community so well. As usual.
I brought it up, not Trips. Who doesn't want to take a spin in an iconic mach 2.2 Phantom? Anyone interested in flying WWII warbirds is going to have at least some interest in the post war jets.
I had been tempted to post that to Animl to show him how to make a real video.
