fikalaker

I am very sorry Avonlady, I did not think myself and ordered it from Amazon direct. I'll not make that mistake again. I think we should all support you as much as possible because of everything you have done for this game!...If I ever need to know something, I can find the answer at your FAQ. Thank you so much!! (You should be getting paid or taken care of somehow by BIS and/or Codemasters...how much would they have to pay someone to do what you do???) Are you originally from the US? Some of the expressions you use are definitely American(US)..."dagnabit"

Dawdler, I looked at your "Train" mission and I think it shows you have a good idea of how accomplish many of the things a train does using scripts... Do you think it would be possible to enter the "train" and start it and stop it where you want to, but following the waypoint "track" you have laid. Also starting and stopping needs to be very gradual...no fast starts or stops due to the mass of trains.(but of course you know this) Great start!!! Have you talked to any of the modelers for I44 about an engine model and track yet? I know there are huge limitations till you get Oxygen.

Dawdler, I looked at your "Train" mission and I think it shows you have a good idea of how accomplish many of the things a train does using scripts... Do you think it would be possible to enter the "train" and start it and stop it where you want to, but following the waypoint "track" you have laid. Also starting and stopping needs to be very gradual...no fast starts or stops due to the mass of trains.(but of course you know this) Great start!!! Have you talked to any of the modelers for I44 about an engine model and track yet? I know there are huge limitations till you get Oxygen.

Dawdler...That would be great...anything like that would get it started...BIS and others could then see the potential... It would also enhance your MOD immensely!! ----------------------------------------------------------- (Quote from above) "I will ask some modeller on the I44 team to make a locomotive/car and a set of tracks, though it aint exactly high priority so it will take a while. Someone else will probably beat us to it. And I will improve the script enough to at least make it kill you when being runned over And moving sound... Gentle bobbing in sideways... Smoke rising from the locomotive... A man jumping of at each station, walking back and forth shouting "All aboard!"... Oh, oh, and a whistle" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- (How do you enclose a quote?)

Dawdler...That would be great...anything like that would get it started...BIS and others could then see the potential... It would also enhance your MOD immensely!! ----------------------------------------------------------- (Quote from above) "I will ask some modeller on the I44 team to make a locomotive/car and a set of tracks, though it aint exactly high priority so it will take a while. Someone else will probably beat us to it. And I will improve the script enough to at least make it kill you when being runned over And moving sound... Gentle bobbing in sideways... Smoke rising from the locomotive... A man jumping of at each station, walking back and forth shouting "All aboard!"... Oh, oh, and a whistle" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- (How do you enclose a quote?)

Medvidek !!! Yes, it would be asking a lot, and yes you have already given us the greatest game ever...But, you don't realize how much greater OFP would be with trains. It would be perfect for small narrow gauge (3 foot between the rails) trains with steam engines and a few cars...maybe 2 flatcars and a boxcar and a caboose. Just give us the components with curved, straight, and/or flexible track sections...a small steam engine...a flat car...a box car and maybe a caboose. We will do the rest...laying the track between towns and villages(with the mission editor)...assembling the trains...making the missions. WOW !!! I can just see a small train rolling through the picturesque scenery of Everon (or any of the Islands). It would be so great and answer so many peoples dreams of having a model or interactive railroad...but this is even better because it would have almost unlimited space and interacting AI...military or civilian...that would give the railroad meaning and purpose. This really grabs your imagination when you realize it would be possible in OFP....WHAT AN ADDON !!!!! BIS would be foolish to pass up the opportunity to do this...if not in OFP then create a new standalone game or platform ...it has UNIVERSAL appeal that huge numbers of people would go for. Maybe you could make it to merge with OFP like "Resistance " Please present this to the others at BIS...it deserves their attention!!!

Medvidek !!! Yes, it would be asking a lot, and yes you have already given us the greatest game ever...But, you don't realize how much greater OFP would be with trains. It would be perfect for small narrow gauge (3 foot between the rails) trains with steam engines and a few cars...maybe 2 flatcars and a boxcar and a caboose. Just give us the components with curved, straight, and/or flexible track sections...a small steam engine...a flat car...a box car and maybe a caboose. We will do the rest...laying the track between towns and villages(with the mission editor)...assembling the trains...making the missions. WOW !!! I can just see a small train rolling through the picturesque scenery of Everon (or any of the Islands). It would be so great and answer so many peoples dreams of having a model or interactive railroad...but this is even better because it would have almost unlimited space and interacting AI...military or civilian...that would give the railroad meaning and purpose. This really grabs your imagination when you realize it would be possible in OFP....WHAT AN ADDON !!!!! BIS would be foolish to pass up the opportunity to do this...if not in OFP then create a new standalone game or platform ...it has UNIVERSAL appeal that huge numbers of people would go for. Maybe you could make it to merge with OFP like "Resistance " Please present this to the others at BIS...it deserves their attention!!!

Obviously not everyone likes the same thing... What we really need is a PROGRAM that would allow each person to choose the sounds he likes for a particular event and click on it and that would be the sound you hear in the game. Much the same as "Windows" does for the sounds on your computer. It could also make it possible to easily import other sounds into the game (maybe sounds you prefer from another game). This would only work on Single Player games...the official sounds would be used in Multi-Player so that there would not be any conflict on-line. This way, everyone could have their cake and eat it too!!! Choose your own sounds with the click your mouse...wouldn't that be great. Some of you programing "types" out there should get busy on it!!!

I liked some of the sounds from Satchels Mod, but not all of them.I particularly did not like the M-16 and and the Ak-74 which you use the most. For the most part, I think that BIS has done a very good job and if things had been reversed and Satchels sounds had been the original game sounds, then everyone would be saying that the BIS (present game sounds)sounds are fantastic and would be clamoring to get them into the game. Obviously not everyone likes the same thing... What we really need is a PROGRAM that would allow each person to choose the sounds he likes for a particular event and click on it and that would be the sound you hear in the game. Much the same as "Windows" does for the sounds on your computer. It could also make it possible to easily import other sounds into the game (maybe sounds you prefer from another game). This would only work on Single Player games...the official sounds would be used in Multi-Player so that there would not be any conflict on-line. This way, everyone could have their cake and eat it too!!! Choose your own sounds with the click your mouse...wouldn't that be great. Some of you programing "types" out there should get busy on it!!!

I can't believe anyone would complain about the way the helicopters fly NOW... I was amazed at how well they fly...so easy to control (and I use the keyboard)...I did notice that the last 3 feet to the ground were the hardest (in the Cobra) but "NO PROBLEMO!!!" BIS has done an amazing job of continual improvements...I have never seen a company try so HARD and for the most part been sucessful. THANKS BIS FOR THE GREATEST GAME EVER!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe anyone would complain about the way the helicopters fly NOW... I was amazed at how well they fly...so easy to control (and I use the keyboard)...I did notice that the last 3 feet to the ground were the hardest (in the Cobra) but "NO PROBLEMO!!!" BIS has done an amazing job of continual improvements...I have never seen a company try so HARD and for the most part been sucessful. THANKS BIS FOR THE GREATEST GAME EVER!!!!!!!!!!

:p That looks like fun, but what I would like is a single player racing mission from a starting point to the finish, where every car starts at the same time or in rally fashion against a clock...where a winner is declared after the race!! Has anyone made a mission like that, or could it be made??

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from LtCol Saint on 3:23 am on Jan. 4, 2002 well it would be cool if the would just make for some programms a pbo-addon so we could do stuff over other programms like 3dmax etc.. I know they wanna give out tools for making MOD´s but I bet it´s not for free, like golden upgrade which was not worth spending money for. <span id='postcolor'> Why should it be free? Do you work for free? This game and it's code are tremendously valuable. They have worked very  hard on it for several years and have made the best game any of us have ever played ...They deserve every penny they can make from it. (Edited by fikalaker at 5:48 am on Jan. 4, 2002)

I had the same problem...installer said... errors in all those files!!! I finally got it to work by reinstalling OFP. 1st go to the AvonLady's Faq site and get instructions from Faq that says... "I've tried everything except reinstalling OFP!" There you will find step by step instructions on how it should be done properly. Follow that and you won't have any problems ( it's just annoying as #### to have to do it !)... Mine works perfectly now.

I think your mission is great!!!... but you probably lost the competition due to spelling errors. There are quite a few of them. I'm not a very good speller but I noticed them. For example: Helicopter, not "helocopter". There are others....Not important you may say, but when you present your work for others to see and especially judge, you should check little things like that. Otherwise, I couldn't believe how good "Firelord" is! Not what you would call realism (possibly another reason you didn't win ) but really fun to play!!!

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