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« on: 03/09/01 at 09:36 PM » |
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Any other fans of the MS Flight Sim on this forum? I just got the idea of gathering some nice screenshots for a web gallery or something... and maybe there could be a discussion group here too? Well, of course it's either PopTop or trains envolved, but... hey, it's a great game for flight nuts like me, so I don't care!  |
Hemos dicho Basta!
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Brian
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« Reply #1 on: 03/10/01 at 02:10 PM » |
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MS Flight Sim was great, except when it came time to land the planes! Also, since it was based on acurate flight, I would usually take off from an airport and within twenty minutes have absolutely no idea where I was or which way I was heading!!
I can't tell you how many times I crashed into the Chrysler Building while trying to land that @*%&@ helicopter in Manhattan!!
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maxim
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« Reply #2 on: 03/14/01 at 04:41 PM » |
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yeah, but the landings are the best part! I've landed every aircraft succesfully now, exept the concorde (safest plane in the world, huh? Not while I'm flying... ) And the scenery is exellent. |
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Brian
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« Reply #3 on: 03/15/01 at 12:21 AM » |
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What the world needs is a 'good' airline simulator. Flight Simulator is an excellent 'flying' sim, but there are no good 'airline' simulators. Airport and Airline Tycoons both stink! We need an airport sim of the quality of a PopTop game!  BTW - I have yet to successfully get the Concorde off the ground. I always crash into the waters off the coast of JFK. At least my planes serve good coffee! |
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« Reply #4 on: 03/15/01 at 05:34 AM » |
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the concorde is a pain in the arse to take off with. It bobs up and down and then it explodes. But when i get it in the air it flies like a fighter, none of this slow rolling sh*t, 8G turns. Yeah  |
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maxim
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« Reply #5 on: 03/15/01 at 09:58 PM » |
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I've never had problems with taking off with the concorde, other than it requires quite a long runway. Not as long as the triple seven, but anyway... So Brian, maybe you could develop a game where you handle the airport and I'll be the pilot?  |
Hemos dicho Basta!
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Brian
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« Reply #6 on: 03/16/01 at 06:06 AM » |
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Give me two years to get a degree in computer progamming, a year to get into a computer software company and move to their offices, a year to promote the idea and find a publisher to support it... we'll be playing Tropico III by the time I could even get started on the idea! |
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maxim
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« Reply #7 on: 03/16/01 at 09:21 AM » |
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hmm... maybe we could just send Phil the idea along with a box of swiss chocolate and blank check? I'll get the chocolate, and you'll make sure the check doesn't bounch, ok? |
Hemos dicho Basta!
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Brian
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« Reply #8 on: 03/16/01 at 09:29 AM » |
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Let me look at my checking account, I'd clean it out for a project like this... Hmmm... you think ten dollars will be enough of a bribe?  |
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« Reply #9 on: 03/16/01 at 09:49 AM » |
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Brian & Maxim -- it looks like you are the only two on this thread. Maybe you shold take this into a closet -- or maybe you could develope the idea and bring it over to the Arena thread "Ideas for new high tech products & Games."
You could call it "Air Traffic Controller." I don't think that name is taken. And you would have to create fantastic graphics for mid-air collisions and landing crashes -- and don't forget the missing rivets causing a side of the fusalage being ripped off!
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robbo
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« Reply #10 on: 03/16/01 at 12:41 PM » |
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hey don't copy my assignments name. the game i'm making at school is called.......you guessed it "ATC" which stands for Air Traffic Controller. |
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robbo
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« Reply #11 on: 03/16/01 at 12:50 PM » |
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does anyone play Combat Flight Sim-i have that-not the baby version
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Brian
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« Reply #12 on: 03/18/01 at 04:57 PM » |
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Baby Version??!! [/b] You try landing a 747 at night, in inclement weather, with no lights (I still don't know where the lights are on that plane) and 241 passengers who know their lives are in my hands and how very scary that concept it!!
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« Reply #13 on: 03/18/01 at 10:19 PM » |
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ahhh yeah brian i was just wondering maybe 'L'  it normally works for me lol lol lol lol lol |
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« Reply #14 on: 03/18/01 at 10:26 PM » |
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or their should be a series of buttons in the cockpit labelled 'Nav', 'Strobe', 'Pitot', etc
these are the like buttons
bottom right hand corner of the cessna
dunno bought the others
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Brian
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« Reply #15 on: 03/19/01 at 06:24 AM » |
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It took me a year and a half to learn that I needed to have the flaps down in order to take off (after I ran off the runway at Newark International three hundred times) and I only learned about the flaps by watching a program on plane crashes on The Discovery Channel"Thank you for choosing Brian Airlines... please make certain that all your affairs are in order before take off! " |
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robbo
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« Reply #16 on: 03/19/01 at 11:17 AM » |
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lol ever flown the Airbus 3xx? |
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maxim
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« Reply #17 on: 03/20/01 at 11:08 AM » |
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the Airbus 3xx is ... ehrm... huge... I've flown it through a thunderstorm, and made a emergency landing in Finland... My favorite big jet is however the classic 737. I fly the American Airlines version. Great manouverability, compared to those bigger models 747, 767 and 777. Otherwise I prefer to fly WWII props. Nothing like cruising through that Grand Canyon with a p51 d Mustang at full throttle. And of course, helicopters... *drool* |
Hemos dicho Basta!
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« Reply #18 on: 03/20/01 at 11:08 PM » |
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landings in thunderstorms, in finland, at night, no lights. SOUNDS GOOD BOYS but ever tried a P51 vs a concorde FW-190 vs Air Force One Air Force One vs a Concorde Air Force One vs a 747 thats what i call fun |
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« Reply #19 on: 03/25/01 at 01:38 AM » |
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What the world needs is a 'good' airline simulator. Flight Simulator is an excellent 'flying' sim, but there are no good 'airline' simulators. Airport and Airline Tycoons both stink! We need an airport sim of the quality of a PopTop game!
I found a game called "AIRPORT, INC". Anybody knows anything about it? It seemed to be kind of a design and run a airport and make money kinda game... SimAirport if you will... Anybody knows if it's any good? |
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« Reply #20 on: 03/25/01 at 02:00 AM » |
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To answer my own question a bit: The Airport Inc is a Take2 game (which might speak in its favor). The graphics seems to be... eh... average. Not impressive, but quite ok. It's seems to be quite a nice sim however, if you're as mad about aircrafts as me. And it's on sale in my local computer shop. Only 129 SEK (a normal game is somewhere 350-500 SEK, not sure that that is in $... 129 SEK is probably around £10). Maybe worth the risk. |
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Brian
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« Reply #21 on: 03/25/01 at 06:41 AM » |
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I've never heard of Airport, Inc? If it's the European "name" for either Airline Tycoon or Airport Tycoon (both of which were lousy) don't risk getting it. In looking them over, neither one of them seems to be a "Take 2" product. Have you checked out the "Take 2" website http://www.take2games.com/? Maybe there's information about it there. If you do buy it, let me know if it's a good game! Maybe it will be coming to America in a few months? |
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« Reply #23 on: 03/25/01 at 08:27 AM » |
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Maxim, I hate to tell you this, but I looked at the screenshots and that game is "Airport Tycoon", they just renamed it "Airport Inc". Everything is identical, although I didn't think Take Two was responsible for it! I wouldn't waste your money on it. And I was hoping there was finally a good airport simulation out there!  |
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robbo
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« Reply #24 on: 03/30/01 at 01:00 PM » |
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I just got the idea of gathering some nice screenshots for a web gallery or something... and maybe there could be a discussion group here too?
is anything being done |
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