Whatever happened to Fighter Ops?
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It was the Angola theater. Indeed promising, but never released.
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I had won a competition back then and earned a 1-year free access on the area 51, not bad for hoping something good might come after all sooner or later. But it seems that serious software development in free time with no monthly payment takes years and requires much more free time and effort than any plan can predict. Most valid example is EMF, 10 years now and it is only a theater within a simulator build with professional standards. BTW remember an older theater somewhere around Africa; cannot recall name etc. They had a dedicated site and started very good development, new aft models etc, but later on vanished…
We are all lucky enough to have the benefit of BMS, no words can describe the love, passion, time and effort behind all these…
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Speaking from the inside out, what drove me away was the lack of anything being done. Yes, there was pretty pictures, but no real progress. Every week it seemed that everyone rehashed the same thing, over and over again, but doing little to nothing to accomplish any main tasks. It got very frustrating. Pretty pie charts and flow charts are great, but needed to get the main code ready to implement each of the modules it was intended to have. People (good people) started walking away. After I hammered out Cl/Cd, torque moments for some aircrafts, only to find they already had from direct sources pissed me off! Another waist of time! I purchased new fluid dynamics software. The entire DATCOM library and was just about to get a piece of software called PANDA that can create wind tunnel data using NACA/NASA and base formed aero structures to produce all the needed Cl/Cd T, Rt, ect. at all angles and all alpha. That would have set me back $6000+ USD (1 year license). It is an awesome tool and would have accelerated basic aircraft FM construction down to weeks instead of months. Thank God I did not go and do that! I spent hundreds of dollars already on what I had then (not to mention loaning money to other FO members :evil:). I invested a lot of time and money. Walked away because I simply saw where this was going. Nowhere!
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Alot of great concepts… alot of great people… intelligent approaches… alot of money… unfortunatly, it never came together. Why? …who knows, blame it on the lack of proper project-realisation or management if that helps afterwards. But it wasn´t a scam… it was just a failure, and that´s sad tbh. Payed (supported) 4 years the A51 …and don´t regret it a second. Why? Because you guys deserved a chance and just cigarattes cost me more a month, so **** it. On the other hand, i don´t think, the A51 contributions really stood in any relation to what some of you guys blew out on cash. Still have all the DevDiaries and A51Vids saved - nostalgic. That “bottom-feeders” bitch about it as “was a scam” or “i knew it would fail” … is just normal… we have heart the same about BMS before, haven´t we?
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@A.S:
Alot of great concepts… alot of great people… intelligent appoaches… alot of money… unfortunatly never came together. But it wasn´t a scam… it was just a failure, and that´s sad tbh.
That is correct. I never said it was a scam. But it was dysfunctional at best.
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That is correct. I never said it was a scam. But it was dysfunctional at best.
Should have called Gordan Ramsay from Kitchen Nightmares to “fix the restaurant” :mrgreen:
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@A.S:
Should have called Gordan Ramsay from Kitchen Nightmares to “fix the restaurant” :mrgreen:
Knives being thrown at everyone, I could see that!
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I have a dumb question - what was Fighter Ops?
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I had won a competition back then and earned a 1-year free access on the area 51, not bad for hoping something good might come after all sooner or later. But it seems that serious software development in free time with no monthly payment takes years and requires much more free time and effort than any plan can predict. Most valid example is EMF, 10 years now and it is only a theater within a simulator build with professional standards. BTW remember an older theater somewhere around Africa; cannot recall name etc. They had a dedicated site and started very good development, new aft models etc, but later on vanished…
We are all lucky enough to have the benefit of BMS, no words can describe the love, passion, time and effort behind all these…
:headb:
I remember that one - it was a South African theater of operations. It really did look sweet - that new Buccaneer was absolutely lovely, they had a new Gripen in the works, etc., etc. This was on the old FF site before it just up and vanished. Maybe Aragorn could fill us in a bit more on that one?
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I remember that one - it was a South African theater of operations. It really did look sweet - that new Buccaneer was absolutely lovely, they had a new Gripen in the works, etc., etc. This was on the old FF site before it just up and vanished. Maybe Aragorn could fill us in a bit more on that one?
You mean this one?
http://combatace.com/topic/8585-jet-thunder-angola-any-chance/ http://www.checksix-forums.com/viewtopic.php?f=314&t=110921&sid=c1669d167fdcb86e240f367af5e17e36
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I have a dumb question - what was Fighter Ops?
An unfortunatly abandoned flight-sim project or developement.
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You mean this one?
http://combatace.com/topic/8585-jet-thunder-angola-any-chance/ http://www.checksix-forums.com/viewtopic.php?f=314&t=110921&sid=c1669d167fdcb86e240f367af5e17e36
Yeah, now I feel a bit like a fool. That was already mentioned in part/in passing just a few posts ago, but I seemed to have just looked over it. It really is too bad they never got that to work. It really did look very cool.
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FO could have been the next gen sim for all of us F-16/jet combat sim fans to fly and it could have replaced FSX had they managed to make it. I think DCS is sort of filling that gap now with Nevada and EDGE would have a similar capability to what FO would have had. The main advantage of FO was the Global map though.
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Well okay so what’s the word on FO?
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3-4 weeks lol.
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Well okay so what’s the word on FO?
Forget FO, what’s the word on FSX@War? Aren’t you a tester on that? Is this going to be the next big thing or wot?
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So that’s why there no WHERES MY FSX@WAR THONG THREAD lol.
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Seven G
http://seveng-f18.com/7 - 8 weeks!
This looked good. Too bad it’s apparently gone.
Also, I remember some rumours about Lead Pursuit and their next F/A-18 sim.
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This looked good. Too bad it’s apparently gone.
Also, I remember some rumours about Lead Pursuit and their next F/A-18 sim.
Gone? I heard some 7G news not too long ago, so I’m not too sure what you’re on about.
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Gone? I heard some 7G news not too long ago, so I’m not too sure what you’re on about.
Isn’t it in development hell? I’d be happy to be wrong.
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I think 7G has been at 93 or 97% complete for like 5 years or something.