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Yes, very weird indeed
Random fact of the day, did you know Handley Page charged 5% of the final sale price for use of their leading edge slots on commercial aircraft?
As you can see in this document from 1931 or so Curtis considered them for the Condor but the price is kinda ridiculous, $4500 is about the equivalent of 92K USD
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My setup is for props, but should be easy to adapt to include radar controls if one puts their mind to it or has an MMO mouse:
CAMERA
- WASD to turn head.
- 1, 3 to lean left/right.
- TAB+W/S to lean forward/back
- RMB to raise head, TAB+RMB to lower head.
- 4 to instantly look back
- X to reset to gunsight.
RUDDER
- Q and E to increment rudder deflection by 3% when quickly tapped.
- Tap twice for 6%, it stays held down like in IL-2.
- Tapping opposite directions decrements (e.g. 0% rudder, you input 4Q3E and it adds up to 3% left rudder).
- Press 2 to “lift foot” from rudder pedals to reset to trimmed default.
- Long-press for coarse adjustments with 1.5 non-linearity (increase to 2 if using spitfires and bf109s).
COMMS
- F6 for “I am at COORDINATE XY and at altitude Z.”
- F7 for “I am at COORDINATE XY and at altitude Z, and I have confirmed hostiles please assist.”
- F8 for “I am at COORDINATE XY and at altitude Z, and I am sorry I cannot assist as I am returning to base.”
- K + 4 + 5 “I cannot assist as I am reloading.”
- K + 4 + 8 “I cannot assist as I am repairing.”
- F6 + K + 3 + 1 “I am at COORDINATE XY and at ALTITUDE Z, and I am on my way to assist.”
ENGINE
- ALT + I to start
- NUMPAD - to enable MEC
- NUMPAD /, * to disable auto radiator and prop pitch.
- NUMPAD 7, 9 to set prop pitch
- NUMPAD 5, 8 to set mixture
- NUMPAD 4. 6 to set radiators AND oil cooler (they’re adjusted together)
- NUMPAD 1. 3 to set ONLY oil radiator (offset relative to radiator)
- NUMPAD + to shift supercharger gear
MISC
- Cursor Left/right for rudder trim
- ALT + Cursor Left/Right for aileron trim
- Cursor up/down for elevator trim
- ALT + HOME for trim fixation in test flight.
- ALT + - for canopy
- . for gunsight
- R to reduce flaps, T to increase flaps
- ALT + G to retract gear
- n to view scoreboard
It works quite well at prop tier even in weird wacky furballs and while flying defensively.
So I started playing GRB again. Felt like tanks + BP.
I just came to a realization.
Every day, you get 5 Universal backups.
This means you can get proper “ODL” statistics for how activity% is calculated without burning backups or actually ODLing. “ODL” statistics means treating GRB like ARB where you only have a single vehicle to match score against playtime with. It’s still more complex than ASB with its 15 minute fixed “useful actions” timer but but much more livable than trying to figure out how to work with lineups properly.
I recommend others to start keeping tally of their:
- End-of-match score (based on game over screen or the replay list)
- In messages, check “Time Played”, hover over it and record the actual time played and the relevant percentage.
- Collect this in a google sheet until you get like 100 or so examples
- Fit a curve to your data on a X dimension is time (s), y dimension is score (-) and z dimension (colour coded) activity% and then a contour plot of the same like so:
Except obviously for GRB.
With enough data from enough players, we could figure out rigorously how GRB rewards work and then figure out how respawning into a new vehicle affects them exactly like in Report on how scores, SL, and RP rewards are calculated
By time played, I refer to this:
0.67 is the outlier
I can tell this is from 1928
You ain’t paid to evacuate from a fire, you paid to engineer unless a superior says to leave
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dress skin for object 279
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A dress skin for the 279? That thing is round like a hippo.
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i agree i always wanted to cover my ufo with roses but there is only 4 decals slots :(
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Well quite an eventful turn to the night. Trying to sleep and can hear shouting from the street behind but think nothing of it because more often than not it’s just some drunk blokes.
That was I heard a police radio go off and the sound of shouting coming from my back garden.
The bloke was being chased from the street behind and he decided to hop the fence into the garden behind and then climb up onto my shed roof and proceeds to then fall off it. Police with a taser then also climbs onto my shed roof and arrest the guy.
Best part of it I think was the police officer jumped down from our shed and stumbled and the bloke being arrested said “oh **** you alright?”
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Update to this spoke to the neighbour behind who’s garden the bloke ran through to get to mine she seen everything that happened and got told by the police.
It was 2 blokes broke into a garage at the top of the street and was trying to steal a car. As the police turned up they made a run for it in the car but somehow crashed it into the wall of the garage it was in. Literally made it about 5 feet in the car before decided to ditch that escape plan and legged it.
Bloke 1 was the one who tried driving the stolen car and crashed it within 5 feet and got caught after going through my neighbours garden and then climbing up onto and subsequently falling off my shed roof.
Bloke 2 got caught as he tried to hide in the front garden of a house 2 doors up from my neighbours. In plain view of the police mind the second guy just jumped into someone’s garden and trued hiding behind the bins.
I’m not sure which one is stupider bloke 1 for crashing a car in the span of 2 seconds and managing to fall off my shed roof and hurt himself in the process or bloke 2 for thinking he could hide from the police by hiding behind someone’s bins whilst being in plain view of the police who were about 10 feet behind him in the chase.
Was quite an eventful night all in all.
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Does anyone know what guns the Prezidentas Smetona has? I’m trying to make a suggestion but the sources I keep seeing don’t name what type of cannons and machine guns it had
Really wish my controls would stop resetting every patch
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omgg i thought am the only facing this issue every week my controls resets it’s so random and sometimes i just login in and find my control reset
