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Get a download manager (if you haven't one already).  I had problems before, with DSL and I'd get 224 BYTES/Second DL rate.  Now, I start out at about 20k and when it goes down to 1k or less, I just pause the DL and resume it later. They've paid for Bandwidth  of 100 GB per month, and at the rate they've been 'raped', it was going to be close to 300 GB for this month alone.  But now they've capped it so they won't be anymore 'problems' Oh yeah, whatever you do, DON'T EMAIL THE ADMINS AND COMPLAIN ABOUT THE SUCKY DL RATES YOU'RE GETTING just relaxe and wait a bit, don't get those good guys at OFPEC all pissed off and crazy, they've got lot's of problems to take care of, just let it go. -=Die Alive=-

I'm not knocking your thread, Redstorm, I'm sure it was a lot of fun. I also liked reading the Trivia thread, that was fun. Â It's just that this thread got a bit too much for me, with all that flamming by Slick and all that back when. Â I just think that some threads out-live their usefullness, and should be put down. -=Die Alive=-

I wish this thread would go the way that the cereal tread went. -=Die Alive=-

On some files, I'm downloading at 224 BYTES/Second. On others, I've got up to 35k/s -=Die Alive=-

The OFP Editing Center Addon Depot is now back online. Â Go to http://www.ofpeditingcenter.com/. -=Die Alive=-

Personally, I'd like to see the hovercraft, since they've been in operations since vietnam war (these 2 pics are from that era) and both the Soviets and Americans use them. -=Die Alive=-

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from Treehead Woodfist on 9:13 am on Dec. 7, 2001 I think they´re lying on a beach somewhere in the caribbeans and laughing their asses of about us <span id='postcolor'>What makes you think this?  There is a new patch coming out in a couple weeks, maybe even next week, so they're working on fixing problems, like the should be. -=Die Alive=-

I'd like to see helicoptor's with more realistic damage, like if the engine is hit, then maybe you'll lose power and start to fall or if you keep the rotar at full speed for too long with an overheating engine, it will die.  Or if the instuments are shot in an aircraft, you don't know how fast you're going, what's your altitude or how much fuel you have left.  Or weapons systems are destroyed, making your weapons stop working, or if you're controlls are hit, then controlling you craft is much harder.  All these can be made by making 'hit locations' for each aircraft.  Like if the crew compartment is hit, a passanger dies.  Well, if the engine area is hit, then there might be a hydrolic fluid leak or even and engine fire!  Everything could be randomized, and depending on the caliber of bullet and the armour around the hit location.  For example, a AK round might just cut an oil line of a blackhawk engine, and that might over heat your engine.  But if a large .50cal hits the same spot, then there might start a fire.  Right now, the helicoptors are just flying targets with AI and/or player units in them, meaning if any part of the craft gets hit, it lowers the amount of 'health' it has.  But with hit locations effecting specific flight systems, then there would be lots more "targets" to be hit in the air.  This all wouldn't added to OFP as of now, so I just more or less wasted  a couple minutes typing this anyways.  I would still like something like this to be added, if it can. -=Die Alive=-

Just wait and see. Â I don't want to demand anything from BIS, just their on-going support of the game and it's community. Â New vehicles is always welcomed, but I think there's a few more issues to be adressed first, like some of th bugs and netcode, even though these have been fixed and tweaked since 1.00, there still remains problems. Â I'm happy whatever BI gives up to play with, and whenever they do it. -=Die Alive=-

That's what I thought would happen. Â It's just like try shooting the scud, nothing happens because there' s no explosive in it, It's just a hollow rocket. And why would someone want to fire a scud pointed at ground level. Â It says on it "AIM AWAY FROM FACE," does it not? -=Die Alive=-

You know that area on the west coast of Malden with the steep cliffs around this inlet of water? Â Well, if you get a scud on one side of the steep cliff, near the bottom at the water, witht he launch truck pointing to the side, you'll see if the scud explodes when it hits something. Going to try it tonight. -=Die Alive=-

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from BlueJames on 10:09 am on Dec. 5, 2001 how'd this post get so long?<span id='postcolor'>We all agreed to disagree on this subject. Â That's how it got so long. -=Die Alive=-

With a SCROUNGE command, will the AI units look for ammo from dead men from their side of from enemy sides? Â Are they going to take enemy weapons if they cant find any ammo from dead comrads? Â I'd like to see ammo sharing and a scrounge command, but I don't see how it could be added as of now. -=Die Alive=-

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from Julie Holland on 2:24 pm on Dec. 4, 2001 Congratulations, you just made the dumbest suggestion ever :-)<span id='postcolor'> I thought my Ewok suggestion was the dumbest ever. </span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I'm still waiting for my Ewok Resistance fighters. Â They'll make some crazy s**t contracptions to destroy a T-80 tank with logs or rocks. Â Or they'll use a stone and a sling to take out a Machine Gunner from like 300m away. Â Or how about the Ewok Air Force, a hang-glider that drops 5 pound rocks on tanks. I want my Ewoks!<span id='postcolor'>

I bought it because the store I buy games at, here in Cananda, must of made a mistake and priced it very low. So I bought it but it's still in the box and I won't open it until I finish Red Hammer, maybe even later. I also read in the latest PCGamer (US version) that they give GR a 93% while OFP got a 70%. Â Sure they based the 70% on v 1.00 with all its bugs, but it's not a 70%, it's a 85% at least. Â And they say in the GR review:"It's Red Storm's best game yet, and easily beats Operation Flashpoint". Â Total BS. Â I gotta stop buying/listening to these magazines. -=Die Alive=-

I fly the civ plane when I want to check out the battlefield when I'm making a mission. Say if I got a NATO tank platoon vs a Soviet tank platoon, and I want to see it from the air, I fly the cesna over the battle and see it from the air. I wish there was a civie helicoptor because the plane is harder to fly than a helicoptor. -=Die Alive=-

I agree. -=Die Alive=-

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from Eviscerator on 5:09 am on Dec. 1, 2001 ok i only read the first 6 pages so i dont know if this has already been said, but if there were bombers wouldnt there have to be interceptors? and then bomber escorts<span id='postcolor'> OK, this is where the ground air defence comes to play. Â Right now, it's lacking almost everything. Â Yes the vulcan and shilka are ADA, but it's not real enough. Â I'd like to see some more stationary AA guns sites, maybe another mobile one for the russians (since the US has so much more aircraft). Now you might want to see fighter/interceptors in the game. Â It's not necessary if there's enough ground based anti-aircraft weapons. Â Take for example the Vietnam war. Â The US had the overwhelming air-superiority. Â How many US aircraft got shot down? Â Over 3000 from combat, and around 300 from operational accidents. Â Losses from Migs were 76. Â The US lost aircraft to all sorts of AA guns and SAMs, but mostly AA guns. I'm not in favor of adding large scale SAM sites, they'd cover the whole island and would control the skies unfarely. Â I'd like to see more AA guns, just to make stuff more interesting than these shilkas and vulcans. Â But's it's up to the mission makers to make the sides ballanced. Â If bombers were added, and one side had bombers, then the other side should have alot more AA guns to shoot them down. Â If one side has all the firepower, then yes, the game will be more or less unfairly one-sided. -=Die Alive=-

I don't know, I don't have Red Hammer... yet. -=Die Alive=-

If you had the beta updates, and then install the 1.30, there's going to be problems. You must uninstall everything and then install OFP clean (then any updates that you might need, such as 1.20 before 1.30) -=Die Alive=-

Just got back from the store here in canada and nothing, not even OFP or anything on the shelves. I did pick up Ghost Recon for $40 Canadian, that's a big bargin since it's price tag says $65 but an advert in the flyer says it's $35+tax. I'm not going to open it until I finish Red Hammer, I prommis. -=Die Alive=-

I'm going to go with another Kubrick war movie and say PATHS OF GLORY as my favorite war movie. -=Die Alive=-

So maybe they'll release more units from VBS to the OFP world, or release it as a sequal or something. BTW, who's armies are using VBS? I'm too lazy to go to the site and find out, if it's there. -=Die Alive=-

There's the RTS game, Real War out now, that was developed for the US Military, and now it's out for the public. Â It's not exactly the same as the military version (I think Real War has more units or something), but it was released none the less. VBS could be the same, maybe in a few years, after the military finds some new simulator to use, then maybe it will be turned into a commercial product. -=Die Alive=-

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from DoubleTap5thSFG on 1:16 am on Nov. 30, 2001 I want to see one of those Daisy Cutters, plink it out the  back of a C-130 and never look back. I been watching outbreak alot lately =)<span id='postcolor'>Like the one I posted on page 2 of this thread? -=Die Alive=-