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  8. Mobile app turn based fighter planes

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    I've got the WWI game -- it's good fun!  I'm showing my age, but the mechanics remind me a bit of the old 'Ace of Aces' picture-book games where in each turn, you and your opponent would each choose a manoeuvre, read off page numbers to each other, and then turn to those pages to give a new cockpit view of the situation: http://maverick.brainiac.com/aoa/aoa1.html.  (There was no board, but there was a kind of hex-grid implied underneath this system.)

     

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    Maus

  10. Post-FIFXX questions

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    I'm in favour of adding a second more European-friendly time, but I realize that some of the possible problems involved therewith have been pointed out by others above, and in the Teamspeak discussion we had a while ago another point was raised: if it's part of the same FiF tournament, that introduces the possibility that, depending on squad allocations and availability of pilots, one of the two times might be OK for balance, while the other ends up noticeably unbalanced.  I don't know how this could be prevented with certainty unless the two events are run as separate but parallel tournaments, e.g. with the possibility that some squads may end up flying Entente on the weeknight and Central on the weekend afternoon, which could get confusing and complex to administer ...

     

    As for swapping sides, I've put 'undecided' because although I'm definitely in favour of squads being willing to switch sides for balance depending on numbers each time the tournament is run (the gift registry is an excellent idea!), I'm a bit hesitant about the idea of making it a requirement that each tournament will be run twice with the sides switched.  Personally, I don't mind doing it at all, but it was pointed out the other night that when this rule was introduced in Ghost Skies, it was perhaps one element that accelerated the gradual drifting away of people and squads.  Admittedly there were other factors involved that don't apply to the situation here (e.g. a burning desire to fly a completely different plane set on a vastly different front at an entirely different period would be futile in the current state of RoF!), but it may be a consideration worth bearing in mind.

     

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    Maus

  14. Rise of Flight: United Edition

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    Yes, it was a puzzling way to go about it, but I think it had something to do with the Russian historical society that was sponsoring the new game -- I guess they thought it would be better PR for them to have their name attached to a new game rather than an expansion to an existing one.  In any case, I'm glad 777 have seen the light and are doing it the right way now!

  15. Rise of Flight: United Edition

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    I don't think pre-orders (or new planes just after release) are discounted in sales, are they?  I suspect they'll have a sale when the Muromets is released but it won't be discounted at that point ... to get it for less than the pre-order price may mean waiting until the sale after next ...

     

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    Maus

  16. 'Ace Academy' from the Canada Aviation and Space Museum

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    A friend of mine recently went to the aviation museum in Ottawa and discovered their free 'Ace Academy' app for phones and tablets.  It's really a kind of tour of some of the WWI exhibits in the museum (including a Shorthorn, JN-4 ['Canuck' variant, of course!], Nieuport 12, AEG G.IV, Junkers J.I and a Camel [shipborne version]) rather than a flying game; there's just one very brief and simple 'mission' at the end, and the whole thing takes no more than about 15-20 minutes to go through -- you can click past some of the introductory stuff and just look at some of the close-up photos of things in their collection.  Might be of interest to those of you with connections to museums looking for ideas for apps etc. to appeal to kids!

     

    http://casmuseum.techno-science.ca/en/whats-on/mobile-app-ace-academy.php

     

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    Maus

  18. Military Aviation Museum Fokker D.VII

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    I can't remember whether I've posted this before, but there's a Fokker D.VII still in its original livery (in fact it's the only one in the world that hasn't been restored at all) in a tiny museum in a small town in Quebec where my mother grew up: 

     

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/battle-over-future-of-fokker-d-vii-divides-knowlton-que-1.938675

     

    More pics at the museum's website: http://www.bromemuseum.com/

     

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    Maus

  25. Il-2 Speedbar increments

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    Thanks Eis! Yes, we seem to have got through this one OK, at least here in St John's -- an awful lot of snow and wind, but for once, the eastern USA and Ontario seem to have got worse than the Newfoundlanders did! But given that this was the third or fourth major storm that we've had since Christmas, we're all getting a little tired of it round these parts ...

     

    Hope all is well in your neck of the woods!

     

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    Maus

     

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