yes maddog... but if you can make a good mission, you can win it.

SimHQ contest announcement, celebrating 10 years of SB coming later today.

(now this is just me speculating from memory and what i think I read... not official... but 25 bucks for the new upgrade... 100 bucks for the whole thing if you don't have it already.)

*cough* ...and the M1A2... *cough*

*looks around startled*

OMG Who said that!?! How dare he mention that! String him up!

I'll be honest with you... SimHQ was determined to do a review of the latest and greatest SB Pro PE way back when... but I being new to tank sims felt I couldn't do quality work so asked for other staff members to do it, no one stepped up... so then we asked a couple of guest writers if they would, we had two start but then say they didn't have time.

IMO, SimHQ really dropped the ball on SB Pro PE... the greatest (and pretty much the only) tank simulation ever made and we did nothing. And pretty much only me to blame on that. But I knew if I wrote a review I would have no clue what I was saying, like I know if the ballistics are true or not, lol... I was afraid of the feedback, yep I admit it afraid, lol...so never did nothing. Was a true injustice to eSim Games and SB, and for that I regret and am sorry for.

Yes I will look into doing something, article wise for the 10th Anniversary...with links from the past SB article... but still, no way am I doing a review.

I've always wanted to start a SB Pro PE night here at SimHQ... just never panned out... like they do on their Friday night games over at steelbeasts.com.

Where's Spoons hiding anyway?

IMO that could actually turn out to be a different but valid approach for a review. Not only are you a novice to tanks, so probably are the majority of your readers. So you could describe your impressions from that point of view. And you can then still do some fact-checking. There's Google, there's Wikipedia, there's TankNet.org that you can use to cross-examine what we did. Plus, SB Pro PE comes with extensive electronic documentation. We think that as simulation designers we owe our customers proper documentation of what we're doing and what our design decisions were (and why).

Not being a subject matter expert is no reason not to review a title about an unfamiliar subject.

easy for you too say. lol.

I would offer my help, but that's probably unethical.

There's still TankNet though, maybe someone there is willing to help you out with his expertise. There's plenty of Leopard 2 and M1 officers and senior NCOs there, military historians, and others. There's the Armor Scientific board on the same forum with the one or other internationally renowned expert.



Just ... uh, stay clear of political debate there, until you acclimatized. :o

Hi Ssnake ;

congrats on reaching the decennium mark ;

Could you please direct me to a faq where i can find some basic information about SB Pro PE (stuff like : has it got besides MP also SP , does it work on a foreign (dutch) XP SP3 , can i stick that dongle in one of my G15 hubs ; can i use my TM Cougar with it (and the TM Warthog when it comes available) , are SB pro PE updates seen as DLC (payware) , ...

I've been playing sims right from the floppy era (digital integration , dynamix , microprose , spectrum holobyte , novalogic ...

But i hate to say , i didn't know that SB pro PE exists

Greetings from Flanders

I thought we had one at the official Fan Site but I can't seem to find it. Anyway, the site has a "game info" section and several search buttons, so I guess you can find out much on your own with relative ease. That being said...:


You bet!


Absolutely.


If it is a powered USB hub, yes. Otherwise it might work, or not.


SB uses whatever joystick input Windows provides. And yes, the programming should work just nicely (at least I have never heard something to the contrary about Thrustmaster sticks.


Not quite sure what you mean with DLC, but we had free updates from spring 2006 until late 2008, and released one update for pay so far (followed by a free update). The new PE version is for pay again. You can however order the current PE version right now from our web store at a reduced price of just $100.- and then get the upgrade for $25.- so that in the end you won't pay more at the moment than the regular price.

Thank you for the answers/information guys.


[quote=Ssnake Not quite sure what you mean with DLC, but we had free updates from spring 2006 until late 2008, and released one update for pay so far (followed by a free update). The new PE version is for pay again. You can however order the current PE version right now from our web store at a reduced price of just $100.- and then get the upgrade for $25.- so that in the end you won't pay more at the moment than the regular price.
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just 1 follow up question ;

base version in your shop is 2.460 CD

recent update version that i found on your site is 2.483 (downloadable file)

can it be that the payware upgrade that you are talking about has not yet been released ?