@Awsomur Thanks. There's always a lot more I would like to have done with any build of mine, but part count is the limiting factor. I want to keep my builds playable.
And I am gratified to hear that I am "a long-time supporter and not rude or obnoxious".
Why, didn't you know that already? That's not my opinion, it's fact :) You've upvoted plenty of my builds, which means that you respond to good things with positivity instead of jealousy and resentment. And while we've disagreed in the past, you've never been rude or obnoxious.
some people write things for others that they don't want themselves.
Well, why would they do that? This idea that every opinion is valuable needs to die. Opinions that are intelligent and founded in good faith are valuable. Opinions like "You're a cheater lol how much effort does it take to write scripts lol" are less than worthless, as are the people who hold them.
I, too, love diversity in opinion, but again, only when it comes to opinions worthy of respect.
@KSPFSXandSP Err, I'm the person I wrote it for, why wouldn't I be using it? As to whether you're blocked, obviously not. Note that it's not a blacklist where I block selected people -- it's a whitelist where everyone is blocked by default, and I have to explicitly add people whose comments I want to see. Everyone who's been a long-time supporter and not rude or obnoxious is whitelisted.
Thanks, @Mustang51. It was sorely needed :) I can finally view my posts without that feeling of apprehension you get when you're walking down a dark tunnel and wondering whether you'll step in something nasty.
@PorkyClown3 Exactly -- these people think -- and have actually said -- things like "how much effort is it to code a script?" Well, if it's that easy, why can't they do it?
Note that I originally intended to make my scripts public. It was only after all the insults, mockery and drama that I went "Hey, why should I help these people?" I'd love to help my long-time supporters, but there's no way to do that without also helping the haters, so...
@Mustang51 If you don't mind, I'd prefer to remain an international man of mystery :) Just because I'm extremely skeptical of releasing personal info online, not because I don't trust you. If we ever switch to a private communication forum like email or something, I'll be happy to tell you.
@Mustang51 Of course. If you look at this page, all the builds prior to Metabomber were made by hand. I'm actually a little embarrassed that I didn't get off my butt and start writing scripts sooner. I guess I'm just lazy :)
@Mustang51 I just live here. The water is drinkable and the electricity works, it's not bad at all :) It has its share of idiots and the dominant culture is something shocking, but if you can stay away from those people/things it's quite nice.
You sound much more mature than 19, congratulations :)
@Mustang51 What they don't understand is how much enjoyment I get out of getting a rise out of them without even trying. There they are, all together, trying to get a rise out of me, trying to engage with me, and I just don't care... meanwhile, here I am, just doing what I do, not thinking about them at all, and still managing to keep their feathers perpetually ruffled. Feels good to be me :)
@Alpha029 Er, I think I didn't explain properly. You replace whatever text you like with what you want the text of the link to be, and the https://website.com/page/ with the actual link. But don't worry for now, I copied and pasted the link.
@Mustang51 That's your average classy individual showing his class :) It refers to a rumor popular among the less educated that certain celebrities had their ribs removed so they could, ah, perform fellatio on themselves. You see the kind of imagination a certain class of people have :)
@Mustang51 Exactly :) Man, I love my life. I cause losers to throw tantrums without even trying, everywhere I go :) One particularly smart individual was in such a huff yesterday that he went through all my posts, removing all his upvotes... except he was so blinded by rage that he upvoted the builds he hadn't already upvoted hahahaha. Can you imagine him opening post after post, too angry to even note whether the button says "Upvote" or "Remove upvote"? Hahahahahahaa......
@Alpha029 Another cool fact: the incredible heat caused by travelling at Mach 3+ over and over again actually had an annealing effect on the metal of the airframe, meaning that the aircraft got better structurally with time.
@Jetpackturtle I thought that was well in the past, but OK. Let me state that someone who sees a build like that -- a Blackbird with curves never seen before in SP -- and their reaction is anything other than "holy crap, that is freaking awesome," and is in fact a criticism, is an amazingly negative person.
It's the thoughtlessness that annoys me -- how does a person see a build like that, and not understand that this is a person who knows what they're doing, who doesn't need to be told that the cockpit doesn't match the real thing? What about the fact that it has a freaking plasma cannon, did that not tip them off that it's not a replica? What about the "v02," did that not tip them off that this is one in a series of progressive enhancements, or at the very least not a replica?
How does a person fail to understand that when someone builds something of that quality, everything about it is intentional? It's the lack of thought and blithe arrogance ("Oho, let me correct this person, even though I couldn't do what they do, not in a million years") that makes me lose respect for a person like that. It's like a philistine looking at a renaissance painting or sculpture and going, "Ha, real people don't look/pose like that." Or reading Shakespeare and going "Hurr, 'methinks' is not a real word!" That person is missing the point by light years.
Furthermore, there was history between us prior to that incident. I knew that that person was one of those who consider my scripts cheating, so that also influenced my reaction.
Note that this is not an invitation to reopen that debate. If anyone posts that person's response to this on my post(s), I will block them as well. When I block someone, it means I don't want to hear from them, the least people can do is respect my wishes.
@Alpha029 OK, no problem. I wouldn't call it a hunk of junk, it's an original design and looks pretty cool. The only problem with it is that the center of lift (CoL) is ahead of the center of mass (CoM), which causes it to flip over in flight. To be stable, an airplane needs to have its CoM in front of the CoL. This causes the airplane to continually tend to fall forward, and the elevators balance that torque, creating a stable configuration.
The further ahead of the CoL the CoM is, the more stable the airplane will be in flight, and the closer it is, the more it will tend to depart from stable flight. You need to find the placement that suits you.
To understand the basics of flight, I'd recommend not starting out with fancy designs, instead building a very simple airplane with a plain cylinder for a fuselage, and rectangular wings, elevators, rudder, etc. Literally the kind of airplane you'd build in real life by sticking a ruler crosswise on a pencil or something. Keep wing loading between 25-50 lb/sq ft. Then, just experiment with moving the wings forward and backward, elevators in back, elevators in front, etc. Keep the mass of the plane realistic, if you make your airplane too light its flight handling will feel wrong. See how changing the mass while keeping the wing loading the same affects handling. Things like that.
Once you've got the basics of flight handling down pat, then you can proceed to design fancy airplanes that fly well.
Thanks, @Alpha029, you're too kind. Although I only developed this kind of chine starting with the Stiletto. I have to agree, chines make an aircraft look very cool and predatory. Did you know that the chines on the SR-71 were designed purely as a stealth measure, but it turned out they're also really beneficial for supersonic flight?
If you think the opinions, actions, or upvotes of people like you matter to me, you give yourself too much importance. Just take your upvotes and opinions and go away :)
@Tully2001 Yes, that's exactly what I'm telling you. Is English not your first language, by any chance? No offence intended.
@Tully2001 But I did:
(Emphasis mine.) I didn't say "upvote my build(s)," I suggested/urged that people should upvote good builds.
Also:
Isn't that the opposite of demanding upvotes?
@Awsomur Glad you think so. I'm a reasonable man :)
@Tully2001 Well, the rules say that you're not allowed to demand upvotes. I would always suggest that people upvote all good builds, not just mine.
@BaconRoll You're welcome. Concerned how?
@Awsomur Thanks. There's always a lot more I would like to have done with any build of mine, but part count is the limiting factor. I want to keep my builds playable.
@Tully2001 How is that breaking the rules? I'm not demanding or even asking for upvotes.
@AdlerSteiner I'm keeping my whitelist private, for obvious reasons.
Yeah, there's a resemblance, I suppose, though the nose is more like the F-22. @Mordex
Thanks again, @Mordex
Thanks, @Mordex
Thanks, @ChristianFennell
@Tully2001 All good then. Thanks for your help.
@Tully2001 Really? So comments asking me how many ribs I've removed so I can auto-fellate aren't against site rules?
@Tully2001 Is something going on? What's going on? I'm posting builds as usual, blocking people I don't want to hear from as usual.
@KSPFSXandSP
Why, didn't you know that already? That's not my opinion, it's fact :) You've upvoted plenty of my builds, which means that you respond to good things with positivity instead of jealousy and resentment. And while we've disagreed in the past, you've never been rude or obnoxious.
@KSPFSXandSP
Well, why would they do that? This idea that every opinion is valuable needs to die. Opinions that are intelligent and founded in good faith are valuable. Opinions like "You're a cheater lol how much effort does it take to write scripts lol" are less than worthless, as are the people who hold them.
I, too, love diversity in opinion, but again, only when it comes to opinions worthy of respect.
@KSPFSXandSP Err, I'm the person I wrote it for, why wouldn't I be using it? As to whether you're blocked, obviously not. Note that it's not a blacklist where I block selected people -- it's a whitelist where everyone is blocked by default, and I have to explicitly add people whose comments I want to see. Everyone who's been a long-time supporter and not rude or obnoxious is whitelisted.
Thanks, @Mustang51. It was sorely needed :) I can finally view my posts without that feeling of apprehension you get when you're walking down a dark tunnel and wondering whether you'll step in something nasty.
@PorkyClown3 Exactly -- these people think -- and have actually said -- things like "how much effort is it to code a script?" Well, if it's that easy, why can't they do it?
Note that I originally intended to make my scripts public. It was only after all the insults, mockery and drama that I went "Hey, why should I help these people?" I'd love to help my long-time supporters, but there's no way to do that without also helping the haters, so...
Thanks, @Alpha029, my aim has always been to create builds that people can have fun with, not to compete with anyone.
@Alpha029 Yeah, 400 seems to be the magic number for a lot of devices. Can you run this one? It's only 375 parts.
Some other builds of mine that have a low part count and are a lot of fun:
@Mustang51 If you don't mind, I'd prefer to remain an international man of mystery :) Just because I'm extremely skeptical of releasing personal info online, not because I don't trust you. If we ever switch to a private communication forum like email or something, I'll be happy to tell you.
@Mustang51 Of course. If you look at this page, all the builds prior to Metabomber were made by hand. I'm actually a little embarrassed that I didn't get off my butt and start writing scripts sooner. I guess I'm just lazy :)
@Mustang51 I just live here. The water is drinkable and the electricity works, it's not bad at all :) It has its share of idiots and the dominant culture is something shocking, but if you can stay away from those people/things it's quite nice.
You sound much more mature than 19, congratulations :)
@Mustang51 Well, I'm mid-30s. How about you?
@Mustang51 Well, I'm glad I could do that for you. Thanks for looking through my earlier posts :)
@Alpha029 Absolutely. There's something I have to do first, but I'll get around to downloading your build soon.
@Mustang51 What they don't understand is how much enjoyment I get out of getting a rise out of them without even trying. There they are, all together, trying to get a rise out of me, trying to engage with me, and I just don't care... meanwhile, here I am, just doing what I do, not thinking about them at all, and still managing to keep their feathers perpetually ruffled. Feels good to be me :)
I live in Australia. As for age, does it matter?
@Alpha029 Don't worry, it's not that easy for someone who's not already familiar with web stuff. To recap, what you should have used is this:
[Here is my build Claymore](https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/F6YQs3/Photon-industries-VF-81-Claymore).@Alpha029 Er, I think I didn't explain properly. You replace whatever text you like with what you want the text of the link to be, and the https://website.com/page/ with the actual link. But don't worry for now, I copied and pasted the link.
@Mustang51 That's your average classy individual showing his class :) It refers to a rumor popular among the less educated that certain celebrities had their ribs removed so they could, ah, perform fellatio on themselves. You see the kind of imagination a certain class of people have :)
@Mustang51 Exactly :) Man, I love my life. I cause losers to throw tantrums without even trying, everywhere I go :) One particularly smart individual was in such a huff yesterday that he went through all my posts, removing all his upvotes... except he was so blinded by rage that he upvoted the builds he hadn't already upvoted hahahaha. Can you imagine him opening post after post, too angry to even note whether the button says "Upvote" or "Remove upvote"? Hahahahahahaa......
@TheMutePaper What will it take for you geniuses to understand just how much contempt I have for you and your opinions? blocked
@Alpha029 Just copy this text:
[Whatever text you like](https://website.com/page)and replace the text and link with whatever you want.
@bjac0 Here comes groupie-boy again. I'm simply not interested :) blocked
@Mustang51 Why should it offend anyone, aren't my builds crap, according to most people here? So why would anyone be reading my comments? :)
@BaconEggs Always knew you were a class act :) blocked
@Alpha029 Oh right. This is how:
[Whatever text you like](https://website.com/page)To post images in descriptions (not in comments):
To make headings:
#Level 1 headingLevel 1 heading
##Level 2 headingLevel 2 heading
###Level 3 headingLevel 3 heading
####Level 4 headingLevel 4 heading
#####Level 5 headingLevel 5 heading
######Level 6 headingLevel 6 heading
*italic text*italic text
**bold text**bold text
***bold italic text***bold italic text
@Mustang51 Yeah. The only downside of a cheap game is that it attracts cheap people...
@KillerDread Yeah, here you go.
@Alpha029 Well, post a link already :)
@Alpha029 As much? More :)
@Mustang51 Well, I did warn you...
@Alpha029 Yep. I doubt there's a single publicly available fact about the Blackbird that I don't know :) I've loved that aircraft since I was a kid.
@Alpha029 Another cool fact: the incredible heat caused by travelling at Mach 3+ over and over again actually had an annealing effect on the metal of the airframe, meaning that the aircraft got better structurally with time.
@Jetpackturtle I thought that was well in the past, but OK. Let me state that someone who sees a build like that -- a Blackbird with curves never seen before in SP -- and their reaction is anything other than "holy crap, that is freaking awesome," and is in fact a criticism, is an amazingly negative person.
It's the thoughtlessness that annoys me -- how does a person see a build like that, and not understand that this is a person who knows what they're doing, who doesn't need to be told that the cockpit doesn't match the real thing? What about the fact that it has a freaking plasma cannon, did that not tip them off that it's not a replica? What about the "v02," did that not tip them off that this is one in a series of progressive enhancements, or at the very least not a replica?
How does a person fail to understand that when someone builds something of that quality, everything about it is intentional? It's the lack of thought and blithe arrogance ("Oho, let me correct this person, even though I couldn't do what they do, not in a million years") that makes me lose respect for a person like that. It's like a philistine looking at a renaissance painting or sculpture and going, "Ha, real people don't look/pose like that." Or reading Shakespeare and going "Hurr, 'methinks' is not a real word!" That person is missing the point by light years.
Furthermore, there was history between us prior to that incident. I knew that that person was one of those who consider my scripts cheating, so that also influenced my reaction.
Note that this is not an invitation to reopen that debate. If anyone posts that person's response to this on my post(s), I will block them as well. When I block someone, it means I don't want to hear from them, the least people can do is respect my wishes.
@Alpha029 OK, no problem. I wouldn't call it a hunk of junk, it's an original design and looks pretty cool. The only problem with it is that the center of lift (CoL) is ahead of the center of mass (CoM), which causes it to flip over in flight. To be stable, an airplane needs to have its CoM in front of the CoL. This causes the airplane to continually tend to fall forward, and the elevators balance that torque, creating a stable configuration.
The further ahead of the CoL the CoM is, the more stable the airplane will be in flight, and the closer it is, the more it will tend to depart from stable flight. You need to find the placement that suits you.
To understand the basics of flight, I'd recommend not starting out with fancy designs, instead building a very simple airplane with a plain cylinder for a fuselage, and rectangular wings, elevators, rudder, etc. Literally the kind of airplane you'd build in real life by sticking a ruler crosswise on a pencil or something. Keep wing loading between 25-50 lb/sq ft. Then, just experiment with moving the wings forward and backward, elevators in back, elevators in front, etc. Keep the mass of the plane realistic, if you make your airplane too light its flight handling will feel wrong. See how changing the mass while keeping the wing loading the same affects handling. Things like that.
Once you've got the basics of flight handling down pat, then you can proceed to design fancy airplanes that fly well.
Thanks, @Alpha029, you're too kind. Although I only developed this kind of chine starting with the Stiletto. I have to agree, chines make an aircraft look very cool and predatory. Did you know that the chines on the SR-71 were designed purely as a stealth measure, but it turned out they're also really beneficial for supersonic flight?
If you think the opinions, actions, or upvotes of people like you matter to me, you give yourself too much importance. Just take your upvotes and opinions and go away :)