PC/Laptop hardware is extremely situational. To get the best deal you have to decide what is not important to you, and set aside money for what is.
Set a hard price limit, don't go over it. Then compare prices on everything for a few weeks or a month. Don't be fooled by cheesy gimmicks like fancy looks (Alienware, lol) or free beats headphones (double lol). Just look for the best CPU, GPU and RAM within your price range, but take your time and get a feel for it first.
@XjayIndustrys Why not? With xml modding you can do all kinds of crazy stuff.
I'd just scale some gigantic flat-bottom wings down to the size of dinner plates and hide them. Hell, I've made a biplane that lifts off the ground under 20mph.
@Aspire Why use guns? At interplanetary speeds their range would be useless, a collision or a nuclear explosion would be ideal.
Lasers would be a good solution, but getting them to work over the necessary distance would be improbable. Not to mention the added mass for a necessary power source would drastically reduce the mneuverability of the vehicle.
@Aspire A real fighting vehicle for space would probably consist of little more than a missile.
Humans can't cope with the G-forces that machines can, so why limit a spacecraft by putting a person in it? Why bother with a self-interested human that doesn't want to die when you can use a computer that will attempt to complete its mission at any cost?
@randomusername That would not tell him anything useful. It would give him information about the performance envelope of that specific vehicle and nothing more. As soon as he changed anything, all that information would become irrelevant.
New guys game crashes after he "edits" a few things, suggests the game must be broken.
Hmmmmm, do you think this might have been the "I increased the rate of fire beyond what my mobile device can handle" bug? Because that's not actually a bug, that's just you breaking the game.
In real life, the entire horizontal tail can rotate tiny increments in response to trim input. I would recommend you design your plane to do the same. Use a rotator with the unput set to "trim" and then set the range to something small, 5° or 10°. In real life, supersonic wings are symmetrical and generate no lift at all unless the tail is pulling the nose up a bit. If you're going above 300mph and 10° of pitch trim isn't enough to keep the nose from drooping, consider enlarging the main wings.
I would also recommend that you review the layout of the rest of your plane. Is the COM too close to the COL? Are the wings set to "semi-symmetric" or "symmetric"? Make sure your plane can land at a safe speed (preferrably under 150mph).
@Chancey21 If you intend to tilt the wings, I'd disable control surfaces on the wings while the wing is in the "upward" position and then enable them during normal flight.
@Chancey21 I think you should go for it, but I also think you should spend extra time getting the handling right.
Unlike most planes on here, this thing is all about low speed handling and the takeoff/landing phase. People usually ignore this stuff, often to the point where the plane can't be landed safely.
Furthermore, tilt-wings are much more difficult to get right than fixed wing planes. For example , the F8 Crusader was an excellent dogfighter but often crashed on landing. The problem: the tilt-wing changes the AOA and adds lift to the wing, but that same change in AOA drastically changes how the ailerons work, resulting in poor (and sometimes reversed) control.
I recommend you have tailerons and maybe a gyro to help keep the plane stable and controllable at low speed.
@Wahoo12 Mig 23 was a solid design, considering how difficult swibg wings can get. But yeah, the stripped export model was an example of politics ruining a design.
It is my duty to inform you that you have been declared a bourgeois class enemy, a puppet of western imperialism and a traitor to the Motherland. Gulag, 10 years.
@jamesPLANESii I have and it does, mass scaling any moving parts is a bad idea that often leads to unintended consequences. Simply because you haven't noticed any does not mean it doesn't happen.
@asteroidbook345 remove the S from https
PC/Laptop hardware is extremely situational. To get the best deal you have to decide what is not important to you, and set aside money for what is.
Set a hard price limit, don't go over it. Then compare prices on everything for a few weeks or a month. Don't be fooled by cheesy gimmicks like fancy looks (Alienware, lol) or free beats headphones (double lol). Just look for the best CPU, GPU and RAM within your price range, but take your time and get a feel for it first.
Here's a list of graphics cards, organized so you can compare price vs performance.
+1@asteroidbook345 No, it's busted. Use 
@JunkyardLeader I think I found it. T2 Buckeye
@JunkyardLeader Been trying to figure that one out myself. Looks like a Northrop F-89, but I don't think the Navy ever flew Scorpions.
@FastDan Sometimes its ok to mess with the mass a bit, but it often makes moving parts buggy or floppy.
+2@XjayIndustrys Why not? With xml modding you can do all kinds of crazy stuff.
I'd just scale some gigantic flat-bottom wings down to the size of dinner plates and hide them. Hell, I've made a biplane that lifts off the ground under 20mph.
I don't think guns can work like that. If they can, it's news to me.
All parts need to be set to "disableAircraftCollisions=true"
Do not mass scale any of the parts. Disable suspension on the wheels. Do not bother using shocks. Good luck.
@Aspire Why use guns? At interplanetary speeds their range would be useless, a collision or a nuclear explosion would be ideal.
Lasers would be a good solution, but getting them to work over the necessary distance would be improbable. Not to mention the added mass for a necessary power source would drastically reduce the mneuverability of the vehicle.
@Aspire A real fighting vehicle for space would probably consist of little more than a missile.
Humans can't cope with the G-forces that machines can, so why limit a spacecraft by putting a person in it? Why bother with a self-interested human that doesn't want to die when you can use a computer that will attempt to complete its mission at any cost?
Interesting question. I'm assuming you would consider post-stall thrust vectoring like the Mig-35 to be "VTOL" despite the technical differences.
I would imagine such a plane would be some sort of enthusiast bush plane. @JamesPlanesII might be able to hazard a guess.
@pavthepilot V engine fighter addiction. Symptoms include violent arguments over Rolls Royce versus BMW.
@JelloAircraftCorporation Yeah, it's him. I liked his channel, back in the day. Oh well, he wasn't even a real Russian anway.
@randomusername The only way to make good planes on here is to test them, fix them and test them again.
+1@pavthepilot Heaven forbid we go 7 or 8 minutes without another Messerschmitt/Spitfire/Mustang.
@randomusername That would not tell him anything useful. It would give him information about the performance envelope of that specific vehicle and nothing more. As soon as he changed anything, all that information would become irrelevant.
@atgxtg Always test to be sure. So many crap planes on here that coulda been good if someone bothered to test before they uploaded.
+1PZL M15 "Belphegor"
"Realistic space vehicles"
I've seen dozens of Shuttles, Soyuz and Apollo builds, even plenty of unmanned craft like Sputnik and Voyager.
That guy got busted for drugs and had all his guns confiscated. True story.
+3@atgxtg You're correct, it's not a precise model of drag coefficients. Think of it more like a rough indicator.
@randomusername In front of the roundel, on the right side of the photo.
+1@RailfanEthan Then why comment at all, other than to draw attention to yourself?
Nothing political about it, the man was an aviator long before his political career.
+3Welcome
You should read more books.
+1Looks good, but maybe change the color to hot-pink?
+1New guys game crashes after he "edits" a few things, suggests the game must be broken.
Hmmmmm, do you think this might have been the "I increased the rate of fire beyond what my mobile device can handle" bug? Because that's not actually a bug, that's just you breaking the game.
For best results, spawn in the air.
+4In real life, the entire horizontal tail can rotate tiny increments in response to trim input. I would recommend you design your plane to do the same. Use a rotator with the unput set to "trim" and then set the range to something small, 5° or 10°. In real life, supersonic wings are symmetrical and generate no lift at all unless the tail is pulling the nose up a bit. If you're going above 300mph and 10° of pitch trim isn't enough to keep the nose from drooping, consider enlarging the main wings.
I would also recommend that you review the layout of the rest of your plane. Is the COM too close to the COL? Are the wings set to "semi-symmetric" or "symmetric"? Make sure your plane can land at a safe speed (preferrably under 150mph).
@Chancey21 If you intend to tilt the wings, I'd disable control surfaces on the wings while the wing is in the "upward" position and then enable them during normal flight.
+2@Chancey21 I think you should go for it, but I also think you should spend extra time getting the handling right.
Unlike most planes on here, this thing is all about low speed handling and the takeoff/landing phase. People usually ignore this stuff, often to the point where the plane can't be landed safely.
Furthermore, tilt-wings are much more difficult to get right than fixed wing planes. For example , the F8 Crusader was an excellent dogfighter but often crashed on landing. The problem: the tilt-wing changes the AOA and adds lift to the wing, but that same change in AOA drastically changes how the ailerons work, resulting in poor (and sometimes reversed) control.
I recommend you have tailerons and maybe a gyro to help keep the plane stable and controllable at low speed.
+3Test it before you post it. If it doesn't fly like wet dog excrement it'll at least be an improvement over the other 700 Messerschmitts this week.
+3Long may he reign!
+2@salisbey I understand. I like the plane, too. Just be careful, ok?
@MasterShi @worldplanes The mods choose what gets featured. There's no system and there's nothing worth complaining about.
@RailfanEthan Its the actual name of a real plane. Most of those Reno Racers have corny names like that.
+1No sympathy or memorial posts.
Unfortunately, you didn't properly auto credit his car so he won't get any points. Next time, import your parts into his car instead of the opposite.
@Wahoo12 I have the Fishbed and the Huey. Helicopters are scary.
Yep. That's the way to do it. All those slider-controlled turrets are for the birds. Pitch and roll are the way to go.
@Wahoo12 That's actually rhe only hardcore sim I own. I don't play it very much, but it is beautiful.
@Wahoo12 Me too. Especially the Fishbed and the Foxbat.
@Wahoo12 Mig 23 was a solid design, considering how difficult swibg wings can get. But yeah, the stripped export model was an example of politics ruining a design.
@CruzerBlade Yeah. Tupolev is unfortunately all over this list, mostly against his will but that Tu-22 was all on him.
@MrSilverWolf Agreed. But I have Douglas bias, big time. I was also a bit miffed about the guy below him bad mouthing a Grumman plane.
@RailfanEthan
It is my duty to inform you that you have been declared a bourgeois class enemy, a puppet of western imperialism and a traitor to the Motherland. Gulag, 10 years.
+2@GritAerospaceSolutionsLTD Лол
@randomusername Yeah, but at least the cabin was roomy.
+1@jamesPLANESii I have and it does, mass scaling any moving parts is a bad idea that often leads to unintended consequences. Simply because you haven't noticed any does not mean it doesn't happen.