Does that make me a mythical being?

Very nice screenies. I can't wait.

Delightful. While I personally haven't had any issues with view distance, it looks like a neat little adjustment. As always, very impressed with the work y'all do, Jason.

What a great thread! First, I now have a great explanation for why I have had such intermittent piss poor internet performance today. Second, we get some great teasers from Jason! That Aldis and the longer view distances look fantastic! Thanks, Jason, for the updates!

I've only had this sim for a week, and just bought all the planes with the new sale, and now I can't go online with my new toys.

I am, however mollifying myself with visions of wild, beautiful women in scanty tiger print bikinis holding the poor Rise of Flight servers hostage at spearpoint.

That, and offline mode trying to learn some of the new planes.


Yes it's true, I broke a decade of lurking to register and post this comment.

LOL, welcome to the community RuhRoh! I would say definately get some practice offline before venturing online!

Yeah, bummer! Had to cancel a bomber training night with the fellas because of Amazon...*grumble-grumble*...


Thanks for keeping us in the loop Jason!

Much appreciated!




...know you're not to blame at all....hope you're not getting flak from others failing to keep themselves in the loop....

It's 5am or so in Moscow now. I hear some of the Amazon based companies are back up, but our guys are probably just now waking up. If our servers can be brought back up I'm sure they will jump on it as soon as they get back into the office. If not possible we continue to wait. Technology at its finest.

Jason

No worries...I got a chance to offline test my two new aeroplanes getting some stick (wheel?) time in the Gotha and HP. Glad I was offline. I sank into Reims on one go, then later in succession pranged the landing gear, a wing, one motor sans prop, entire tail section missing somewhere near the cathedral in Reims. Even managed to side slip into a hangar on another landing attempt. Practice practice...oh look, I'm being transferred back to the Infantry

I hope you're taking well under full fuel, especially with a full ordnance loadout. If you've read accounts of flying the heavies I'm sure you're doing just that.

I still marvel at how well the sense of weight and inertia is represented in these. The only large aircraft time I have in the 3D world was a USAF full motion B-52 simulator for less than an hour. I swore that the tail followed 30 seconds behind the rest of the plane when a turn was initiated! The HP and Gotha certainly are ponderous hunks of machinery, eh?

=MFC=Gunloon

I find it funny how the Amazon store isn't down. Just bought some music from there. LOL.

huh, i thought you could still play online if the servers were not available, jus scores and such could not be updated?

from another thread where i posted the question:

"Originally Posted By: Hammer_RLG

along those lines, what are they doing to fix their drm check service and the crashes i read about earlier in this thread? nothing is more frustrating to have purchased a game but not be able to play it because of a dependency upon a service like that.

The master-server does crash quite a bit recently. But this usually doesn't keep you from playing (neither offline, nor online). It just causes some other problems (score doesn't get updated etc.)"

so it seems one cannot play online when the servers are down? or are these servers just general public servers?

while these servers are down, can one host a server for others to connect with direct ip? or a lan server?

thx.

Hi all,

Not to kick what is most probably a dead horse, but why the deliberate dependance on so many external factors to run this sim? No matter how reliable Amazon may have been, it's not infallible, nor is the infrastructure between it and any particular used. Asked another way, why go this route when several other less intrusive and failure prone methods of anti-piracy (I'm assuming this is the primary purpose of this system) are available? I'll quote two user friendly (IMHO, it is debatable, but both would spare this kind of pain except for initial installation) examples - The DCS series (BS and A10) and Combat mission series. Both are activated once online, tying the install to a particular machine, and can then be deactivated online to be used elsewhere. Once activated (which takes only seconds), no connection is needed at all.

Can ROF be played this way? ie Startup and play completely offline with zero loss of functionality? Not having been able to activate my copy (and now being away for work for a week), I haven't been able to find out Also, I read another post recently where a user, despite playing in offline mode even though he was connected, still got the 'Connection to master server lost' message every 30 seconds when the server went down. That sounds unnecessarily painful.

I'm not trying to offend, just looking for some answers. It has probably been hashed through already so I do apologise if it's a pain to bring it up again (just joined, still busy going through history of posts on the forum). Also, the ROF forums are still down as I write, so I can't ask there.

I have to agree with this. I used to have no problem with the activation system as long as it was never down for any significant period of time. But now what we're experiencing is just showing that we need some more flexibility. I know the master servers have been more than 99% up, but I don't care so much about average statistics when this is my simple story: my best buddy just bought RoF yesterday. I'm going away for 10 days, and we only have 2 days to have some online coop fun with RoF before that, it's been wasted by this event. I'd rather have had a system that didn't waste our time. Please consider introducing more flexibility in the future...

#%&*$# happens they say. Amazon have let 777 down, just like the countless other companies and customers who use their cloud computing services.
On the whole the 777 online component has been fairly robust, it's not 777's fault that Amazon have failed in such a spectacular way. If any blame is to be laid at anybody's feet, it is solely with Amazon.

I'm annoyed as anyone, but I'm not thinking "damn 777 and their online requirement" I'm thinking "WTF are Amazon playing at!!"

Also at the beginning of this thread Jason stated they are looking at relaxing the online component even more. So if Amazon fail so massively again there will be more options open to us.

Arghhh! I finally bought the DL version of ICE from amazon a couple of hours ago and can't activate the game. I have the worst timing.

Well at least my newborn is (finally) sound asleep.

....we're under attack 'n can't take off!

THAT'S SABOTAGE!

Get that resistances 'n on the wall.....


Without any joke:

Best services is no services at all (needed...)

Cheerio

I installed the demo, played it awhile ´till bedtime and now can´t play it for 2 days.
Sure you understand my hasitation of buying the full product, infact it´s not even possible.

I hope you guys get it sorted out soon, btw My first opinion of ROF it self ... I was very impressed

I probably should not say this but under the circumstances, just re register for the demo using a free email provider once the servers are back up, god knows there are enough of them available, but don't kick the arse out of it if you enjoy it, it's an outstanding product and deserves support.

As for the complaints, this is currently the only flight sim available that has not been pirated, everyone you fly against online has paid for the privilege, and this tends to keep out a lot of the dross seen in public servers elsewhere. While it does not stop all the griefing, it would be a damn sight worse should pirates have access, and the potential revenue for 777 could drop off considerably threatening continued development.

Hello,
well i could say "i have said this all the time, online req. is !"§$%&/(!! ... etc.tc. blahblah". but i won't

Chance for me to fly over the Easter days is now over anyway, will visit the family and look for easter eggs - "desperate times - despereate measures" or so someone said here lol.

The Amazon servers are still not up - what is "very funny" is that only 3 out of 30 or so servers have problems, according to Amazon. All others certainly work perfectly. I think they have a very "elastic" idea of marketing, and how to sell their problems to the public

So i'm off, Happy Easter to all of you, and especially to the russian team ! You guys rock !

Greetings,
Catfish/Wels