Sure! @Redlord just give credit :)

@ChaMikey Keep your eyes open for some older AMD Radeon GPUs like the HD 7970/R9 280X. They aged very well and gained lots of performance through driver updates over the years. There's nothing better for 100-130€. And you could probably get an i5 2500K + Z/P67 mainboard for 200€ or less (sometimes 150€), also still great hardware, you don't need anything more than that really. The hardware market is pretty much stuck with the games lacking feature support and not demanding much more performance, so there wasn't much improvement in the past few years. This way you might have enough money left to also get a basic lower-end laptop for mobile use. I hope it helps. :)

@BRuthless holy cow, better take a PC then, but I'm still thinking because I'm sometimes regularly on the move. not playing in public though, probably in a cafe or in certain places.
but if i do have a PC i will make my own fort. I appreciate your advice! thanks!

@ChaMikey A laptop with enough performance would be over 1000€. A PC that fits it would be possible to build with 800€ or maybe less (eventually ~500€ with some used hardware). That's one of the reasons why I'd never recommend powerful laptops over a midrange PC. Also the battery wouldn't last very long, so you'd have to be plugged to the charger most of the time. A friend of me didn't listen, then wasn't satisfied with the performance and the fact that it had to be plugged in during longer gaming sessions and had to pay double in the end (1000€ for the laptop and 900€ for a new gaming-PC). :D

@BRuthless oh jeez what.. gotta wait for a damn long time to get a powerful pc then ;-;

probably because of my posting times :P @BRuthless thanks anyways!

@ChaMikey How the hell did I never recognize your builds? They are gorgeous! :D

@ChaMikey I don't think it will run well on a laptop. :D It needs much RAM (8-16 GB), a powerful CPU (like the desktop versions of an i5 or atleast an i3) and some input devices like a joystick + keyboard. Better would be a HOTAS (throttle + joystick) with lots of buttons and 4-way HATs. It only requires a midrange GPU with atleast 1.5 GB VRAM for very smooth experience at 1080p and 1440p though. And if you really want to get into it, you should also consider getting a PS3 Eye Camera with the CL Eye driver, an IR-passfilter, a pack of IR-LEDs and resistors to build a headtracker for better situational awareness. It's quite painful looking around with the mouse in a dogfight. :D

@Nickasaurus So the Su-25T then? :D If you also play on servers, I might escort you.

@Nickasaurus thank you!

@BRuthless only the free ones ;)

@BRuthless awesome! graphics looks like Arma though, so cool. and yeah, unfortunately not for OS X ;-; will get it when i change laptop though!

@Nickasaurus DCS? Do you fly the F-15C, Su-27 and/or A-10C? :D

impressive cockpit btw

@BRuthless i have that game :)

@ChaMikey DCS:World is free to download and contains the Su-25T Frogfoot and the TF-51D, which is the trainer version of the P-51 + some training missions for them. There are plenty of modules to buy with different planes and helicopters and also the Nevada Test and Training Range map as an addition to the free Caucasus map. It has gotten a huge update with a new game engine some months ago and they are still sorting the bugs out right now, so don't expect it to run that great if you're going to try it. I don't think it's available for OSX though. :D You can also find many skilled pilots on the servers.

@BRuthless ah yes, i do play war thunder as well. I've never heard of DCS though, i'll look it up! ah a Cessna, you could give tourists a ride! that'd be nice

@ChaMikey WarThunder if I just want to have some fun with WWII planes and DCS:World when I want realistic combat action with jets, bombs and missiles. I thought about the Cessna 206 if I can get a not so expensive used one. It's still some years away though. :D (Okay, I just checked prices again, it's 100000 to half a million € right now, so I'm gonna look for an alternative, maybe a 182)

@BRuthless yep! the throttle will be moved to the left in the F18. oh thats awesome! what plane are you planning to fly? and what kind of Military flight sims do you use/play?

@ChaMikey Basically you just have to nudge the parts of the throttle to the other side and it's a perfect cockpit as far as it goes with SimplePlanes parts. And

1.no
2.not yet, but I'm planning to get a license in the future
3.yes

and I'm into military flight simulators. :D

@BRuthless 3 upvotes for you! :D and thank you for the information! I will try and make better and more accurate cockpits in the future. and i'm guessing you are either a pilot, pilot under training, or a big fan of military jets :p

@ChaMikey Military jets always have the throttle on the left directly infront of the radio controls. The stick is controlled with the right hand and normally sits in the middle between the knees. The F-16 has the stick on the right side, as they've been experimenting with completely electronic, force-sensitive flightsticks back then. The shape would fit the Dassault Mirage 2000-5 cockpit, but still I'd say it's going to be an F/A-18. :D

@BRuthless i have no idea where throttles are placed in 21st century fighters ;-; so i just put it there :p i suppose you can already assume what it is :D

F-16 ACE or an F/A-18 I'd say looking at the MFD layout. Though there's not a single military jet on earth with the throttle on the right. And the F-16 doesn't have the stick in the middle. :D

@ChaMikey np. its a nice cockpit

@realluochen9999 @AndrewGarrison thanks for the r8 m8s!