Putting memes aside, this actually made me wondering from a game developer pointo of view. If Mojang made a Minecraft 2, what kind of improvements, new ideas could they possibly put into it, that original doesn't/couldn't have, to make it new and fresh? The original game's almost full potential has been exploited throughout the recent years by updates, mods, etc. so Minecraft 2 would have to take a huge turn to bring something new, imo.
@Strikefighter04 exactly, and others dont even get a chance to at least buy it for golden eagle or something, only mayve get it during events. Damn gaijin
Be creative, think of a vehicle you always wanted to drive, or a vehicle you really really like. I can't really understand people who "run out of ideas" in simpleplanes, while I'm standing here with 10+ unfinished projects and ideas I haven't started building yet. Is it really that easy to not to know what you want to build in a game where you can build literally anything? But if you really can't decide, here's an idea:
Turn on the TV and build the first vehicle you see in it
Good luck! ;)
Awesome! Congrats to WNP78!
Also you should pick more modders into the team because some of them are making god level mods that should be in the vanilla game
Dude at least give some credit in the description to Weaverfish because he made the original plane
https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/5FE6P3/B-17-Fortress-w-Incendiary-Canister
Holy Morgan Freeman. This is awesome! All those new features. Gosh... aaaaand looks like I gotta remake the USS Beast again * sigh *, but hey it looks fantastic and has new features! Amazing job guys! 😀
@Irobert55 actually, this isn't an RPG. The term 'RPG' (rocket propelled grenade) is only used to handheld weapon systems (e.g. Panzerfaust, RPG-7 etc.) This tank is officially a "Sturmmörserwagen" (assault mortar vehicle) and it's gun is designated as a Raketen-werfer (rocket launcher)
So yea this isn't a panzerfaust because that's the name of a handheld device.
@Jetliner101 The LVT-4 Water Buffalo was an amphibious tracked vehicle (LVT = Landing Vehicle Tracked) used mainly by the USMC (but the US Army used it too) during WWII. The LVT was able to carry troops, supllies and even smaller vehicle such as Jeeps. My build tries to represent the latter one. So yes, it a tank that swims and carries a Jeep which it can unload on land.
@JamesBleriot Yes, I hid seven types of viruses into this build, your device is full of malwares now.
Putting sarcasm away, what do you think can be the problem on my end? Or what do you think did I do wrong here? It's really funny that you blame me because your device is too weak to run this. Btw part count is not always a determining factor, size can be too. A 50 part build can crash a game too if it's big enough (I tried building a real size Statue of Liberty once and when I was at somewhere around 50 part, the game crashed cuz it was so big) so no, the problem is on your end, your device simply can't handle big stuff with many parts, that's it.
@ThePilotDude I fixed it now, the original sentence was supposed to be a small reference to the game 'Rising Storm 2: Vietnam' (which inspired me to make this) as in the game when a vietnamese soldier taunts he often shouts this.
@urlocalgorillawithaspork I made the screenshots on two separate mod maps: Forest demo by Kennneth and Normandy by MisterT (the latter only works if you set the game version back to the 1.12 beta in steam)
@LunarEclipseSP Thank you!:) Im hesitant about releasing it because I just feel like it's not perfect enough lmao I've built about 3-4 islands throughout the years but none of them got released for this same reason. I'll think about releasing this one, maybe it doesn't have to be perfect, just good enough
@GabrielFangster70 If by deleted parts you mean things such as the old prop engine part from the early versions of SP1, I have no idea if the devs intend to import those into SP2 as well. They might do it just to make sure that even very old SP1 builds would be compatible with SP2, but we have no confirmation of that yet.
@LunarEclipseSP Monitor is a type of warship (the same way how "destroyer", "battleship", "aircraft carrier" etc are also warship types), that has disproportionately large guns (they also often have low freeboards and low drafts). A sub-category of this is the river monitor, which has even lower draft to be able to traverse rivers.
Ironclads are early steam powered ships with iron armour, built mostly in the second half of the 19th century. Later ships that were started to be built by the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century were not called ironclads anymore to signify that they have been more advanced than their predecessors.
A ship can be both a monitor and an ironclad (such is the case for USS Monitor, or SMS Leitha, the latter is a river-monitor to be specific) but they are not necessarily connected. HMS Warrior is an ironclad but not a monitor, whereas HMS Erebus is a monitor but not an ironclad, just to mention a few examples.
@LunarEclipseSP Yes, USS Monitor was an ironclad and it is the namesake of the "monitor" type ships. But monitor type ships have continued to be built beyond the era of ironclads, that's why not all of them are ironclads
@LunarEclipseSP This is not an ironclad though 😅 It looks like a much later design monitor, especially with the design of the turret (which strongly reminds me of WW2 Japanese destroyer turrets) and the modern looking superstructure. Not all river monitors are ironclads, some of them were built and used even during the vietnam war which was much later than the ironclad era (some more modern monitors are even in service to this day in some navies)
You've got things mixed up a little here:
There is no open beta for SP2 yet, only closed playtesting. Dorian's post is talking about a small update for SP1 (which only includes small quality changes, no new parts or anything).
As for the deleted posts, Dorian and the other moderators have been cracking down on rule violations and some users decided to go to his post to complain about it because they feel like their posts have been unjustly removed. It's not related to the SP1 beta or SP2 beta at all. Also, I'm sure the blocky planes you mentioned will be fully compatible with SP2, the devs have stated it numerous times that SP2 will be able to run all SP1 builds, so that includes blocky planes as well.
for the record: it is possible to filter forums and search only for questions if that's what you are looking for (though imo that feature should be extended to be able to filter for multiple tags at once, for example to filter for "Screenshot" and "Teaser" at once to see only teasers than include screenshots, you get the idea), but yes, an inverted filter where you can block certain tags while keeping te rest visible for yourself would be also be useful
The Ocean mod is somewhat affected by the update: when looking underwater, the underwater background is pitch black. screenshot (it is not visible from above the water, only when you move the camera underwater)
I haven't noticed any other issues besides this yet.
Just letting you know since you are relatively new, that posts with misleading thumbnails are not allowed. The first thumbnail of a post has to be an ingame screenshot (small edits like adding text and such are allowed, but the base image has to be a screemshot from SP) so the moderators might remove this post if the see it. Nice job on the bus tho!
@Lwillswith2sentryguns thanks! to limit the speed, click on one of the wheels that are powered by the engine, open Overload and go to the ResizableWheel tab. there you will find a value named "maxAngularVelocity", you can use that to limit speed. Make sure to repeat this on all the wheels that are connected to the engine (you don't have to do it on wheels that are not powered)
Those comments are gone now. The website recently has become slower at removing content (probably a measure to make it less hard on the servers or something), I have seen several cases of plane- and forum posts recently where they were still accessible but already had the "Removed" label on them (and these posts were certainly removed by human moderators because I even saw the comments that the moderator left on them). Then a few minutes later, they were inaccessible.
So no, this is not the automoderator's issue (Andrew and the devs even explicitly stated that the automoderator will not remove anything, it will only flag potentially problematic content, but it's still the actual human moderators who do the removing), it's simply the website working somewhat slower (Im assuming it's by design, because otherwise everything else would be slower as well)
Edit: looks like it wasn't by design but an actual issue, my bad there
@RamboJutter Thank you! I'm glad you like it. I put a lot of effort into this and since this was a very small ship, I could affort to put even more extra details (check the kitchen below the bridge hehe). Many of the features like the walker guy are actually the result of small improvements over multiple projects in the past (for example the walker itself was first introduced on my Titanic Museum and then I kept adding small improvements to it on later builds. The idea to make figures that actually move like they are doing something is also a thing I first did many years ago on my Willy's MB and my Bf-109 builds). The book was necessary becuase this ship doesn't have a traditional engine order telegraph like other ships do so I had to find a creative way to allow the player to use the engines without actually having to use the VTOL slider because I'm aiming to make all my recent ships to be completely usable without needing any of the game's UI. If you turn off the UI with F9, you are still able to use all the features of the ships. Thanks for the support mate:)
Putting memes aside, this actually made me wondering from a game developer pointo of view. If Mojang made a Minecraft 2, what kind of improvements, new ideas could they possibly put into it, that original doesn't/couldn't have, to make it new and fresh? The original game's almost full potential has been exploited throughout the recent years by updates, mods, etc. so Minecraft 2 would have to take a huge turn to bring something new, imo.
+2@Strikefighter04 yep. not to mention that gaijin is getting lasier. See the "new" chinese tech tree. Ridiculous.
+2@Strikefighter04 exactly, and others dont even get a chance to at least buy it for golden eagle or something, only mayve get it during events. Damn gaijin
+2Awesome! I wish I could give more than one upvote to this beauty! Great job!
+2Be creative, think of a vehicle you always wanted to drive, or a vehicle you really really like. I can't really understand people who "run out of ideas" in simpleplanes, while I'm standing here with 10+ unfinished projects and ideas I haven't started building yet. Is it really that easy to not to know what you want to build in a game where you can build literally anything? But if you really can't decide, here's an idea:
+2Turn on the TV and build the first vehicle you see in it
Good luck! ;)
Awesome! Congrats to WNP78!
+2Also you should pick more modders into the team because some of them are making god level mods that should be in the vanilla game
Dude at least give some credit in the description to Weaverfish because he made the original plane
+2https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/5FE6P3/B-17-Fortress-w-Incendiary-Canister
Holy Morgan Freeman. This is awesome! All those new features. Gosh... aaaaand looks like I gotta remake the USS Beast again * sigh *, but hey it looks fantastic and has new features! Amazing job guys! 😀
+2Omg this is awesome! Is that Bumblebee's head on the backseat? I'm only guessing from the screenshot cuz I'm away from computer right now.
+2dude this isn't an UH-60, it's just a repainted UH-1 Huey. Also, you should give some credit to the original author.
+2@Irobert55 actually, this isn't an RPG. The term 'RPG' (rocket propelled grenade) is only used to handheld weapon systems (e.g. Panzerfaust, RPG-7 etc.) This tank is officially a "Sturmmörserwagen" (assault mortar vehicle) and it's gun is designated as a Raketen-werfer (rocket launcher)
+2So yea this isn't a panzerfaust because that's the name of a handheld device.
@metallicplanes The more features there are, the more controls needed ;)
+2@Jetliner101 The LVT-4 Water Buffalo was an amphibious tracked vehicle (LVT = Landing Vehicle Tracked) used mainly by the USMC (but the US Army used it too) during WWII. The LVT was able to carry troops, supllies and even smaller vehicle such as Jeeps. My build tries to represent the latter one. So yes, it a tank that swims and carries a Jeep which it can unload on land.
+2@JamesBleriot Yes, I hid seven types of viruses into this build, your device is full of malwares now.
+2Putting sarcasm away, what do you think can be the problem on my end? Or what do you think did I do wrong here? It's really funny that you blame me because your device is too weak to run this. Btw part count is not always a determining factor, size can be too. A 50 part build can crash a game too if it's big enough (I tried building a real size Statue of Liberty once and when I was at somewhere around 50 part, the game crashed cuz it was so big) so no, the problem is on your end, your device simply can't handle big stuff with many parts, that's it.
@EternalDarkness Thanks :D
+2What is the name of this designer mod? Nice ship btw
+2No offense bro but this looks nothing like the zero. Keep practicing dude 😉
+2@FastDan you're welcome!
+2@ThePilotDude I fixed it now, the original sentence was supposed to be a small reference to the game 'Rising Storm 2: Vietnam' (which inspired me to make this) as in the game when a vietnamese soldier taunts he often shouts this.
+2@Marschall https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/ME7U9f/AC-47-Spooky
+2Stay Cheeki breeki and drink vodka Tovarisch! oi Blyat!
+2@urlocalgorillawithaspork you're welcome
+1@urlocalgorillawithaspork I made the screenshots on two separate mod maps: Forest demo by Kennneth and Normandy by MisterT (the latter only works if you set the game version back to the 1.12 beta in steam)
+1@ivan6uy the Normandy map doesn't work on the latest versions. I took these screenshots by reverting the game back to an earlier version in steam
+1@LunarEclipseSP Thank you!:) Im hesitant about releasing it because I just feel like it's not perfect enough lmao I've built about 3-4 islands throughout the years but none of them got released for this same reason. I'll think about releasing this one, maybe it doesn't have to be perfect, just good enough
+1@LunarEclipseSP nah, just a random island, not really based off of anything. But I did build the battelship row from Pearl Harbor once:)
+1@GabrielFangster70 If by deleted parts you mean things such as the old prop engine part from the early versions of SP1, I have no idea if the devs intend to import those into SP2 as well. They might do it just to make sure that even very old SP1 builds would be compatible with SP2, but we have no confirmation of that yet.
+1@LunarEclipseSP Monitor is a type of warship (the same way how "destroyer", "battleship", "aircraft carrier" etc are also warship types), that has disproportionately large guns (they also often have low freeboards and low drafts). A sub-category of this is the river monitor, which has even lower draft to be able to traverse rivers.
Ironclads are early steam powered ships with iron armour, built mostly in the second half of the 19th century. Later ships that were started to be built by the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century were not called ironclads anymore to signify that they have been more advanced than their predecessors.
A ship can be both a monitor and an ironclad (such is the case for USS Monitor, or SMS Leitha, the latter is a river-monitor to be specific) but they are not necessarily connected. HMS Warrior is an ironclad but not a monitor, whereas HMS Erebus is a monitor but not an ironclad, just to mention a few examples.
+1@LunarEclipseSP Yes, USS Monitor was an ironclad and it is the namesake of the "monitor" type ships. But monitor type ships have continued to be built beyond the era of ironclads, that's why not all of them are ironclads
+1@LunarEclipseSP This is not an ironclad though 😅 It looks like a much later design monitor, especially with the design of the turret (which strongly reminds me of WW2 Japanese destroyer turrets) and the modern looking superstructure. Not all river monitors are ironclads, some of them were built and used even during the vietnam war which was much later than the ironclad era (some more modern monitors are even in service to this day in some navies)
+1You've got things mixed up a little here:
+1There is no open beta for SP2 yet, only closed playtesting. Dorian's post is talking about a small update for SP1 (which only includes small quality changes, no new parts or anything).
As for the deleted posts, Dorian and the other moderators have been cracking down on rule violations and some users decided to go to his post to complain about it because they feel like their posts have been unjustly removed. It's not related to the SP1 beta or SP2 beta at all. Also, I'm sure the blocky planes you mentioned will be fully compatible with SP2, the devs have stated it numerous times that SP2 will be able to run all SP1 builds, so that includes blocky planes as well.
for the record: it is possible to filter forums and search only for questions if that's what you are looking for (though imo that feature should be extended to be able to filter for multiple tags at once, for example to filter for "Screenshot" and "Teaser" at once to see only teasers than include screenshots, you get the idea), but yes, an inverted filter where you can block certain tags while keeping te rest visible for yourself would be also be useful
+1That Chevy looks wicked cool mate! T for that!
+1The Ocean mod is somewhat affected by the update: when looking underwater, the underwater background is pitch black. screenshot (it is not visible from above the water, only when you move the camera underwater)
+1I haven't noticed any other issues besides this yet.
Looks really nice! It kinda makes me want to build a bus next too.
+1Just letting you know since you are relatively new, that posts with misleading thumbnails are not allowed. The first thumbnail of a post has to be an ingame screenshot (small edits like adding text and such are allowed, but the base image has to be a screemshot from SP) so the moderators might remove this post if the see it. Nice job on the bus tho!
+1@Lwillswith2sentryguns thanks! to limit the speed, click on one of the wheels that are powered by the engine, open Overload and go to the ResizableWheel tab. there you will find a value named "maxAngularVelocity", you can use that to limit speed. Make sure to repeat this on all the wheels that are connected to the engine (you don't have to do it on wheels that are not powered)
+1@Solent @WinsWings Thank you!
+1very nice little DD, great job!
+1Amazing work!
+1@ShirakamiShimada Should I find the time for it, I'll try to do my best mate o7
+1@WNP78 Oh I see, understandable.
+1@YarisHatchback Yes his and TheLatentImage's moderator badge was removed around the time when crazyplaness was promoted to moderator.
+1Those comments are gone now. The website recently has become slower at removing content (probably a measure to make it less hard on the servers or something), I have seen several cases of plane- and forum posts recently where they were still accessible but already had the "Removed" label on them (and these posts were certainly removed by human moderators because I even saw the comments that the moderator left on them). Then a few minutes later, they were inaccessible.
So no, this is not the automoderator's issue (Andrew and the devs even explicitly stated that the automoderator will not remove anything, it will only flag potentially problematic content, but it's still the actual human moderators who do the removing), it's simply the website working somewhat slower (Im assuming it's by design, because otherwise everything else would be slower as well)
Edit: looks like it wasn't by design but an actual issue, my bad there
+1Amazing work as always!
+1@Fiat133 I specialize in ships, you mostly build cars and trains, I don't think I can provide valuable feedback for those.
+1@50CalChicken Andrew's pinned top comment here says the mobile release will come in 2026
+1I have been using flickr for years now, I had no problem with it so far so maybe give that one a try
+1@PapaKernels I can tell by the screenshots that it was certainly worth it.
+1@RamboJutter Thank you! I'm glad you like it. I put a lot of effort into this and since this was a very small ship, I could affort to put even more extra details (check the kitchen below the bridge hehe). Many of the features like the walker guy are actually the result of small improvements over multiple projects in the past (for example the walker itself was first introduced on my Titanic Museum and then I kept adding small improvements to it on later builds. The idea to make figures that actually move like they are doing something is also a thing I first did many years ago on my Willy's MB and my Bf-109 builds). The book was necessary becuase this ship doesn't have a traditional engine order telegraph like other ships do so I had to find a creative way to allow the player to use the engines without actually having to use the VTOL slider because I'm aiming to make all my recent ships to be completely usable without needing any of the game's UI. If you turn off the UI with F9, you are still able to use all the features of the ships. Thanks for the support mate:)
+1