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#378953 - 02/16/01 05:08 PM Lock on: Modern air combat  
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i am SOOOO glad there's no ! in the new title... *shudder*


What WW2 Fighter pilots say about Angels and Airspeed:

"Nice job of getting down to the basics - love your choice of a cover!" Col. Clarence 'Bud' Anderson

"I have enjoyed reading angels and airspeed, it should prove good reading for all interested in combat tactics and their application related to the fluid air environment and state of technology in WWII years. All the best as you make it available." - Col. Charles McGee - Tuskegee Airman

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#378954 - 02/19/01 09:00 AM Re: Lock on: Modern air combat  
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I shouldn't really say anything but that has to be the stupidest name I have ever heard for a game.

FLANKER x.x Now that said it all.

They shoud have at least had Flanker in it somewhere, I mean that's its lineage.

Lockon: Flanker 3.0 or something like that would have been much better IMHO.

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#378955 - 02/19/01 09:06 AM Re: Lock on: Modern air combat  
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Whatever Tom...

Although Lock On WILL have the content to please the "hardcore" flight crowd, it will be more heavily marketed to the casual, broad-market consumer. We must increase its market appeal if this line of sims is to continue. I believe our title will help do just that. I'm afraid that using a title that some would consider "serious" turns off many more potential consumers than it would attract. Unfortunately, this is one of those cases where we'll never be able to please everyone.

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#378956 - 02/19/01 09:19 AM Re: Lock on: Modern air combat  
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Check out this link:
http://www.modelair.co.nz/~rc45wsb/books.htm
Verlinden Products thought it sounded good too.
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#378957 - 02/19/01 09:49 AM Re: Lock on: Modern air combat  

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Come on guys, let's not start nit picking about small things like the title. They could call it "Barbie Does the Crimea" for all any of us should care. The feature set is what's important and from what I've seen of it so far, it looks very promising.

#378958 - 02/19/01 10:00 AM Re: Lock on: Modern air combat  
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Would probably be easier to smuggle yet another flightsim past my wife if it was called "Barbie does the Crimea"
Have a stack of flightsims nearly 2 meters high in my study. This is one flightsim junkie in need of therapy.But I'll buy this one too when it is published.
Grem

#378959 - 02/19/01 10:30 AM Re: Lock on: Modern air combat  
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They could call it "Barbie Does the Crimea" for all any of us should care.



Sounds like an East meets West porno movie

#378960 - 02/20/01 12:01 AM Re: Lock on: Modern air combat  
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I voted for "Snipers of the Sky, Hogs v. Frogs." Oh well.

"Ilyushin"
"Target Korea"
"Lock On": Flyable old school Flankers, Fulcrums, and Frogfoots.

Does life get any better?

#378961 - 02/20/01 01:04 AM Re: Lock on: Modern air combat  

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"Although Lock On WILL have the content to please the 'hardcore' flight crowd, it will be more heavily marketed to the casual, broad-market consumer."

Actually, the name sounds okay to me. Matt, I was just wondering though. Will Lock On have a setting equivalent to the difficulty level of Flanker 2.0?



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#378962 - 02/20/01 02:17 AM Re: Lock on: Modern air combat  

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Hi all.

It's a fine name. It's the sort of name that a casual buyer might be excited about. After all, it was a wet-behind-the-ears casual buyer who went out one day, and returned something to the virgin megastore in Dublin, and picked up a nice little game called "Advanced Tactical fighters," which is also a sort of mild, neutral name.

And i bought it, and now i am a gibbering addict. A gibbering addict, who buys almost every fast jet sim out there.

So, in other words, I approve.

However, i have on caveat. The hardcore crowd have got to, got to, be informed that this is indeed Flanker: Attack. They have also to be informed that this will be one hell of a sim.

Gaviin

#378963 - 02/20/01 03:01 AM Re: Lock on: Modern air combat  

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I also approve of the name, not that it makes any difference!

"Lock On: Modern Air Combat" is (as already stated) a neutral name which doesn't require specialist knowledge other than that the consumer has an interest in fighter jet airplanes ... and who doesn't ? .

It has the same visceral connotation as the movie "Topgun" which is I believe a perennial favourite at the video stores.

It's probably in our interest (as hardcore simmers) to suppress our puritanical sensibilities ( )for a bit and acknowledge that if SSI/ED succeed through this marketing ploy, it will benefit our hobby as well.

I hope it will be good for them, be good for us and most certainly it HAS to be good for the neophyte simmer who is attracted to LOCK ON : Modern Air Combat, but would probably have walked right by Flanker Attack.

Hehe Grem, we should compare titles some day .

Cheers
Teapot

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Just noticed all the smileys ... LOL

Soooo .... here's some more for good effect ....

Cheers
Teapot

#378965 - 02/20/01 02:04 PM Re: Lock on: Modern air combat  
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Knew that would get a rise out of someone, didn't think it would be Matt.

Well, since I am still buying it, I guess the name doesn't really matter.

Still wish my title "Hunka Hunka Mig Bashing Funka" would have won.

back to lurk mode.



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#378966 - 02/20/01 02:07 PM Re: Lock on: Modern air combat  
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Is it going to be ssi's version of Janes usaf , albeit with a flight model? No offence, I found usaf fun in an arcade blast type way, but I loved flanker 2.0 for it's all round...I can't think of the word...competence? For me it comes a close second to DI's Tornado in playability terms.
Seeing as your modeling a european hotspot where are the R.A.F and Fleet air arm? surlely our little trampsteamer carrier would have made it to the area, well, possibly, I mean it made it to sierra leone...just......

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#378967 - 02/20/01 02:19 PM Re: Lock on: Modern air combat  
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They can't take our carriers up north of the arctic circle, it freezes the clockwork.he he

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#378968 - 02/20/01 05:28 PM Re: Lock on: Modern air combat  
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Originally posted by SimHQ Tom Cofield:
Knew that would get a rise out of someone, didn't think it would be Matt.

Well, since I am still buying it, I guess the name doesn't really matter.

Still wish my title "Hunka Hunka Mig Bashing Funka" would have won.

back to lurk mode.


So what happen saddest?
Just so you decide to jump in our nice little Flanker 2.0 forum and diss the name of the only serious Combat Jet Sim in development?

But wha the jail is this.

Yuh looking for a Lock Neck to go with that lock jaw you have or what?

I mean with anachronistic views such as yours one should be Locked up..or at least locked out of conversation involving polite criticism.

Perhaps we were just un-locky and you were having a bad day?
What? Is life sort of hitting you in the tumblers?

Go check the Flanker 2.0 official forum and see if you can get a clasp on the situation instead of making peurile picks, as though your sim has no skeletons on it's chain.

*smirk*
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#378969 - 02/20/01 11:15 PM Re: Lock on: Modern air combat  
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Just sittin around trying to figure out what the Ruskies new catchy sales pitch will be...

Lockon: Modern Air Combat...also known as "Get Your Hands Off My Jets" or "Get a Hardon for Lockon!"

Lockon: Modern Air Combat...Die Gorby Die!

Lockon: Modern Air Combat...I've got that Folkker in my sites.

Lockon: Modern Air Combat...This is hardcore, really.

Lockon: Modern Air Combat...The flightsim formally known as Flanker.

Lockon: Modern Air Combat...Be All You Can Be, with Improved ATC!

Do I hear a ROGER from the Techogeek Choir?

#378970 - 02/21/01 02:36 AM Re: Lock on: Modern air combat  

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Gel ... what brand of glue have you been sniffing?

I have NO idea what you're trying to say ... is it good or bad ... or are you joking?

BTW .. Tom is one of the good guys .

Cheers
Teapot

#378971 - 02/21/01 02:39 AM Re: Lock on: Modern air combat  
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Do I hear a ROGER from the Techogeek Choir?


No you don't..what's your point?

Is that the best Catch phrases you could come up with?

If so its a good thing that you're not involved with any form of marketing because, judging from your posting, you decidedly lack the creativity and good sense that such a responsibility demands.

Or were you simply trying to be facetious while venting your spleen in a semi-jocular manner befitting your display of quite limited wit?

As far as I know Lock On: Modern Air Combat will be published by an American company and include several American aircraft, including the venerable A10.

Your mention of 'Russkies' is therefore not cogent to any musings you might have as to the slant that SSI's marketing may take.
You would have done far better to wonder what the Yankees will come up with.

It's nice that you actually fired off some synapses to think of all this though.

Now if you could just manage to get them in some sort of lucid order for your next trick...


heh heh heh.
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Lock On: Modern Air Combat by SSI.
'nuff said.

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#378972 - 02/21/01 04:19 AM Re: Lock on: Modern air combat  
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No you don't..what's your point?

Is that the best Catch phrases you could come up with?



If so its a good thing that you're not involved with any form of marketing because, judging from your posting, you decidedly lack the creativity and good sense that such a responsibility demands.



Or were you simply trying to be facetious while venting your spleen in a semi-jocular manner befitting your display of quite limited wit?



As far as I know Lock On: Modern Air Combat will be published by an American company and include several American aircraft, including the venerable A10.



Your mention of 'Russkies' is therefore not cogent to any musings you might have as to the slant that SSI's marketing may take.
You would have done far better to wonder what the Yankees will come up with.



It's nice that you actually fired off some synapses to think of all this though.



Now if you could just manage to get them in some sort of lucid order for your next trick...




heh heh heh.
-Gel



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Lock On: Modern Air Combat by SSI.
'nuff said.

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