@Irobert55 Yes, I have lots of builds with the guns aligned with the cockpit and roll axis. No idea what everplay is. Didn't know that about lightbulbs, either.
@Irobert55 Luck can account for one success, not for a string of successes. As for throwing every idea at the ceiling to see what sticks, I don't see what's wrong with that. Who will win the race to Mars? I don't really care, as long as someone does.
Edison was a nasty person, I already acknowledged that, but I don't see what that has to do with Musk. Musk doesn't "take money for everything" -- he open sourced his electric car patents, for one thing. "Musk hired the engineers from other groups" -- this is a problem how? "Trump exists" -- SpaceX has been around long before Trump. I didn't say every idea of Musk's is brilliant, I said he executes ideas brilliantly.
You're not really responding to my points -- you just keep throwing new ones at the wall to see what'll stick.
You say his ideas are rewarmed. Even if that were true, having an idea is only the first and the easiest step, and in itself, has no value -- it's just a notion in someone's head, or on a piece of paper, or a computer file. It's developing that idea into something real that matters. If someone comes up with controlled nuclear fusion or cheap interstellar travel, it won't do anyone any good if that person keeps it to themselves and the secret dies with them. Bringing an idea to fruition is where the hard work lies, and Musk has done that with many ideas, over and over, brilliantly.
What other people don't even dare to dream, he makes real. Most, if not all the criticism I hear about him has a whiny, sneering, jealous quality -- little man's envy -- and much of it is plain old lies, like "no beeping forklifts." I admire him, and wish him all the best.
@Irobert55 Re: Edison being the "better person," you're misquoting/misunderstanding him: he said that what Edison did was better (for him and for all of humanity) because he brought his inventions to market. Tesla was definitely the greater genius, but his inventions died with him.
You say "[wanting money for his inventions is] wrong on so many levels." I disagree with that, vehemently. Money is what makes the world go around. Criticizing someone for wanting money is like criticizing a lion for wanting meat, or a deer for wanting grass, or any animal at all for wanting oxygen. Going beyond the individual motive, if a product doesn't make money, it's not going to survive, it's as simple as that. Profits are to business as blood is to a person. So yes, Edison may have been a nasty individual, but ultimately his way was better.
I don't see how wanting money leads to deaths, but speaking of deaths, Musk's stated motives are to save not just individual human lives, but human civilization. While most people don't think beyond their own wealth and well-being, he's thinking about making sure humanity survives in case a catastrophe befalls it. And meanwhile, he's also saving individual human lives with Tesla's autopilot feature and structural safety. (Yes, a few people have died, but many more accidents have been averted, and when accidents do happen involving a Tesla, they're far more survivable for the people in the Tesla than any other car.)
Re: business ability, Elon Musk founded zip2, then x.com, which became PayPal. He made millions from selling those two hugely successful businesses, and either one of those is enough to put him above 99.999% of humanity in terms of achievement.
After making that much money at an early age, he could've retired to the high life, but he didn't do that. He chose to develop the world's first viable (and cool) electric car, and he also made it the world's safest car and the consumer car with the highest acceleration performance in the world, second only to supercars. He also decided to make space rockets and has been hugely successful at that as well. Not making a profit? Neither did Amazon.com for many years.
@Irobert55 Musk open-sourced his electric car patents. That doesn't sound very Edison-like. Regarding the forklift beeping thing, it seems you're reading fake news put out by the Musk haters. Also, I've never heard him claim he invented all that. I also don't believe that developing someone else's ideas is a bad thing -- if we permitted only an idea's originator to develop it, we wouldn't have much progress at all.
@Irobert55 The one thing I know for sure about Elon Musk is that he broke the mould - you cannot label him that easily. Definitely one hell of a man, even if he is super nerdy.
Nope, I don't edit the screenshots at all (apart from resizing/cropping). What you see is exactly how the game looks for me. I wrote some shaders to improve the look of the game, there's a link in my profile. If you're on Windows, you can use them too. @Tessemi
@Chancey21 Plasma cannons are not that unrealistic. Railguns already exist. Not yet airplane-mountable, but the tech is still in its infancy.
Anyway, regardless of how realistic my weapons are, I have my own idea of how I want my planes to handle, and that's what I've implemented. It's easy enough to make a super-maneuverable airplane in SP.
@Chancey21 Almost all my airplanes, and certainly all my recent ones, are highly maneuverable. You need to enable AG2 for high-maneuverability mode, though. Or are you talking about the unrealistic kind of maneuverability, where the aircraft can turn 360 degrees in 3 seconds?
Thanks, @Treadmill103, I was surprised by how well they turned out. I especially like the bit when you cut the rocket engines, and the flame dies out gradually. I wish SP let us create our own effects, that would be fun.
@OhKnights tracerColor="XXXXXX" where XXXXXX is a hexadecimal RGB value, and bulletScale="x,y,z".
@OhKnights Use the tracerColor attribute, it takes a hex value (FF0000 for red, FF9900 for orange, 00FFFF for cyan, etc.)
Glad you like it, @OhKnights
@Irobert55 Yes, I have lots of builds with the guns aligned with the cockpit and roll axis. No idea what everplay is. Didn't know that about lightbulbs, either.
@Irobert55 Sure, I don't see why not. And you can control the point where the beams meet by changing the angle of the guns...
@OhKnights Glad you like it. You should check out my more recent builds, they handle much better.
@Irobert55 Sorry, you're just not making much sense at this point.
@Irobert55 Luck can account for one success, not for a string of successes. As for throwing every idea at the ceiling to see what sticks, I don't see what's wrong with that. Who will win the race to Mars? I don't really care, as long as someone does.
Edison was a nasty person, I already acknowledged that, but I don't see what that has to do with Musk. Musk doesn't "take money for everything" -- he open sourced his electric car patents, for one thing. "Musk hired the engineers from other groups" -- this is a problem how? "Trump exists" -- SpaceX has been around long before Trump. I didn't say every idea of Musk's is brilliant, I said he executes ideas brilliantly.
You're not really responding to my points -- you just keep throwing new ones at the wall to see what'll stick.
@Irobert55
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You say his ideas are rewarmed. Even if that were true, having an idea is only the first and the easiest step, and in itself, has no value -- it's just a notion in someone's head, or on a piece of paper, or a computer file. It's developing that idea into something real that matters. If someone comes up with controlled nuclear fusion or cheap interstellar travel, it won't do anyone any good if that person keeps it to themselves and the secret dies with them. Bringing an idea to fruition is where the hard work lies, and Musk has done that with many ideas, over and over, brilliantly.
What other people don't even dare to dream, he makes real. Most, if not all the criticism I hear about him has a whiny, sneering, jealous quality -- little man's envy -- and much of it is plain old lies, like "no beeping forklifts." I admire him, and wish him all the best.
@Irobert55 Re: Edison being the "better person," you're misquoting/misunderstanding him: he said that what Edison did was better (for him and for all of humanity) because he brought his inventions to market. Tesla was definitely the greater genius, but his inventions died with him.
You say "[wanting money for his inventions is] wrong on so many levels." I disagree with that, vehemently. Money is what makes the world go around. Criticizing someone for wanting money is like criticizing a lion for wanting meat, or a deer for wanting grass, or any animal at all for wanting oxygen. Going beyond the individual motive, if a product doesn't make money, it's not going to survive, it's as simple as that. Profits are to business as blood is to a person. So yes, Edison may have been a nasty individual, but ultimately his way was better.
I don't see how wanting money leads to deaths, but speaking of deaths, Musk's stated motives are to save not just individual human lives, but human civilization. While most people don't think beyond their own wealth and well-being, he's thinking about making sure humanity survives in case a catastrophe befalls it. And meanwhile, he's also saving individual human lives with Tesla's autopilot feature and structural safety. (Yes, a few people have died, but many more accidents have been averted, and when accidents do happen involving a Tesla, they're far more survivable for the people in the Tesla than any other car.)
Re: business ability, Elon Musk founded zip2, then x.com, which became PayPal. He made millions from selling those two hugely successful businesses, and either one of those is enough to put him above 99.999% of humanity in terms of achievement.
After making that much money at an early age, he could've retired to the high life, but he didn't do that. He chose to develop the world's first viable (and cool) electric car, and he also made it the world's safest car and the consumer car with the highest acceleration performance in the world, second only to supercars. He also decided to make space rockets and has been hugely successful at that as well. Not making a profit? Neither did Amazon.com for many years.
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@Irobert55 Musk open-sourced his electric car patents. That doesn't sound very Edison-like. Regarding the forklift beeping thing, it seems you're reading fake news put out by the Musk haters. Also, I've never heard him claim he invented all that. I also don't believe that developing someone else's ideas is a bad thing -- if we permitted only an idea's originator to develop it, we wouldn't have much progress at all.
@Irobert55 The one thing I know for sure about Elon Musk is that he broke the mould - you cannot label him that easily. Definitely one hell of a man, even if he is super nerdy.
@Irobert55 That was my point, that there's a flying tank that actually works well.
@Irobert55 You could call the A-10 a flying tank as well...
@iLikeipads YEAH IPADS SUCK, YOU CAN'T PRESS F10 ON THEM AND CAN'T DO LOTS OF OTHER COOL STUFF TOO.
@KaiserTheKeyboard Good thing I'm not building to please you, then.
Thanks, @grizzlitn
@Rodrigo110 Nothing more fun than a flying tank.
@Irobert55 Now Ibis is a nice name...
@iLikeipads On Windows, you can press F10 for Challenger mode. But you like iPads...
+1@TheFlyingYak I think you missed this part:
+1@BurkeEnterprise OK, I'll see what I can do.
@TheFlyingYak Sure, go ahead. Thanks.
Nope, I don't edit the screenshots at all (apart from resizing/cropping). What you see is exactly how the game looks for me. I wrote some shaders to improve the look of the game, there's a link in my profile. If you're on Windows, you can use them too. @Tessemi
Thanks, @BaconRoll
@CRJ900Pilot Yeah, I based it partly on the XB-70.
Glad to hear that, @Alpha029
@EternalDarkness They're made out of control surfaces, so can't be hooked up to activation groups, or be restricted to swing only one way.
Thanks, @EternalDarkness. This is my first (uploaded) aircraft with a missile bay. The missile bay doors are somewhat unique.
@BurkeEnterprise Can I ask why the sudden interest in what I build? You don't upvote my builds and we haven't talked before, so I'm just curious.
@BurkeEnterprise Not my thing, too slow and boring.
@Irobert55 Probably not, I like aesthetic names for my builds. What's a bin chicken anyway?
Thanks, @Alterra
@Chancey21 Here you go, this maneuverable enough for you? :)
+1@Chancey21 Plasma cannons are not that unrealistic. Railguns already exist. Not yet airplane-mountable, but the tech is still in its infancy.
Anyway, regardless of how realistic my weapons are, I have my own idea of how I want my planes to handle, and that's what I've implemented. It's easy enough to make a super-maneuverable airplane in SP.
+4@Chancey21 Almost all my airplanes, and certainly all my recent ones, are highly maneuverable. You need to enable AG2 for high-maneuverability mode, though. Or are you talking about the unrealistic kind of maneuverability, where the aircraft can turn 360 degrees in 3 seconds?
+2@Kerbango Fair enough.
+1@Kerbango Thanks. How about a juicy steak?
+1@BaconRoll You're right, I should probably use a bit of color more often.
Sure thing, @Texasfam04
@BaconRoll Thanks, I almost went with grey for the external tank.
Thanks, @Cajunking13, you have good taste :)
Thanks, @CRJ900Pilot. All in good time...
Thanks, @Davisplanez
@Rodrigo110 Thanks, but I think you mean the rocket engines... :)
Thanks, @Rodrigo110
Sweet beans
+3Thanks, @Treadmill103, I was surprised by how well they turned out. I especially like the bit when you cut the rocket engines, and the flame dies out gradually. I wish SP let us create our own effects, that would be fun.
+2Thanks, @BaconRoll. One more for the potato users...
Thanks, @RailfanEthan @Roswell