@SteadfastContracting But I also want to reward those that don't make it fully to the end and atleast get the controls and functions of the plane. So that's kind of tricky. I am trying to make it more clear how to do it and how not to do it in the headline, but everytime I try to edit it, it gives me an error. :/
@JaySto Oh...Damn, that time I missed something I guess. It was 134 back then actually, but I wasn't ready to get the numbers that secretly. :D So tell me your wishes!
@Gg1234 Good! :D But you'll see a lemon pie when I get to upload the rest of them. i'll mention you on it. :) Hope I made things more clear in the headline now. :D
@Gg1234 I did like 10 times now already, to check for errors and to look if someone could actually accidentally misunderstand it, as it seems some people are doing exactly that, but i can't find the issue...It's not a crime to read, guys! :D
@Seeras Ich hab's zumindest den Kommentaren von Andrew Garrison gelesen, dass die auch funktionieren. Nur die dürfen eben nicht zu nahe aneinander sein.
@Supercraft888 Because it's a reward for actaully reading the description and when people comment with all the numbers and say what it is for, other people just copy the numbers, which shouldn't actually be rewarded... @Seraphinium It is allowed in challenges and this is a challenge (It will take you some time to fully read and understand that wall of text) which I thought would be useful to get people to actually read the description and know something about the craft before getting their hands on it, failing on the complexity and then putting it to rest without testing all the capabilities (like many youtubers do). Also it gives you some background information. Reading the description is definitely good for the community, so I'll reward it with points that are for rewarding things that are good for the community. :) The amount of points changes with the amount of information you've gathered.
@Wahoo12 Congratulations, you failed...I mean...for real, those numbers aren't even in the description anymore. Don't try to fool other people. :D If I'd given you an upvote or more at any time before I'd take one away now. @Chemicalau Got it. :)
@Seraphinium Well, sorry, but I mentioned clearly how to enter the challenge properly in the headline of the description. No more failures rewarded. :) And thanks for forcing me to change the numbers again. :)
@MisterMasada First it was just about performing decently and having the right proportions, then I've gone up from that. First not in performance, but in detail and available weapons to put on it. Handling was quite good and everything seemed realistic, even the landing speed and the way it rather "drifted" through the air than strictly following the movements of the plane were accurate. But It was missing something in dogfights when I tried it there, so I tried to overcome the limits the build had by basically ripping everything apart other than the fuselage and find what could be improved for higher pitch-rates without rolling to one side. How? Placed the VTOL-engines more in the back and very low and put more wings on top of the other ones, as there still was enough space in the fuselage pieces which form the hull of the wings. Then I thought about how to add the dual-stage afterburner and tried to seperate it from the rocket boosters with small, highly-modded engines, but they didn't fit in the engine compartment and anywhere else they would've made the agility worse, so I've just gone with making both afterburner stages and the rocket boosters use VTOL-engines and -nozzles. The design improvements came at last then while I was looking for good places to hide the air-intakes which were needed for the new engine and because of me getting distracted by the piece of canopy that was visible right infront of the cockpit when sitting inside there. :) I always try to get things as good as possible if they are important. So, the pointers came while testing the earlier versions over and over again and by looking at them, noticing things that could be improved. :D
@Samwise I already got a pumpkin one. Would you share it with AeroEngineering? I want to keep the uploads of this as low as possible. :D Will upload tomorrow, as I am in the 5 uploads-per-day limit already.
@JaySto I didn't count, but I think I started three days ago. :D The things that took the longest weren't actually the improvements to performance and design, but all the bugfixing in between. I was about to post it yesterday, but then I found out that the pylons were somehow misplaced and caused the Guardians to explode when going full downwards-pitch on high speed while rolling. It took me ~ three hours just to find what caused the issue and fix it. I have gone through everything, I even double-checked all the wings, as they could've wobbled a bit and hit each other. :D Thanks for the compliments! Also to all the other guys! :D
Btw. you guys are pulling so hard I can already see the gold skies coming closer to me! :D
@AeroEngineering The pumpkin pie is one of my best pies so far. You'll love it! :D They're all pretty unmaneuverable, but they don't really have another purpose other than beeing fun to look at and play around with. Of course everyone is allowed to use his pie and create something better with it. :D
@Damian125 You clearly haven't, otherwise you would know that you just failed at entering the challenge... Others shouldn't know the numbers without reading the description, that's why you have to only comment with the last number you've got, so now I have to change them.
Just one last chance. Answer me the question "In which version did landing with bombs and fuel-tanks attached become less of a problem?" :)
@Dstroyer101 If I read that right you want a flying bagel? Shall it be really flying or just lifting off and crashing after some time like this one? :D
@Wakescar @RAF1 @Allstar @Normin4tor @RedstoneArmory @grizzlitn @kaaraabinerFixtures @Supercraft888 @Seeras @Skua @TheGuyWhoFliesToGetHisPie @ChunderDownUndeR @DeezDucks @AeroEngineering @MediocrePlanes @Epembl4 @AndrewGarrison (sorry if I left someone out) Thanks so much for your great support! :D I've got featureeed, woohooo!
Now who wanna be my wingman? :D
@Wakescar I didn't try yours out yet. It has a different balance, so it might even not crash :D I thought about doing similar things on all my uploads with long descriptions in the future, but the restriction of 5 uploads per day makes me rethink that, as it will limit me on the more important stuff. The amount of maximum achievable upvotes will rely on the size and contents of the description. :D This probably makes more people understand the whole aircraft by reading the description and handle it better. That's my thought behind that.
@Wakescar Sadly I've run out of pies (and airplane uploads) for today, so you and others will have to wait until tomorrow. Your's is a pretty detailed one by the way. :D
@Wakescar I know that since my first upload. :D I might un-highlight some of the older ones though. Sorry that upvoting, commenting and uploading Pies is taking a bit right now, the servers are pretty much overloaded as it seems.
@Wakescar Thanks for the big compliments! Which Pie flavour/colour do you want? Never mind, I got it! :D Today I plan to build a better racer/optimize my old one for the tournament to get a stable craft that goes below 1:20 on the Shark Tooth course with 100% reliability, but I am also working on an ISCS (Intertial Stability Control System) as I call it, which is meant for very huge aircrafts (and maybe I'll also bring out a version for ships, though those are pretty much self-stabilizing). It controls pitch and roll to keep the aircraft in level flight, even with highly unbalanced crafts and allow for bombers with advanced user-controlled missiles and bombs to have them used while the aircraft flies stable and get's no control inputs from the user (control inputs to the ISCS and rudder will be turned on/off with AG1) and also airborne aircraft-carriers, the only things I still need for this are some reliable gears. Mine always attach to each other or move through each other, so it would be nice if someone could help me on that one. I also plan to build a replica of the Saab JAS 39 Gripen in the near future. :)
You might have noticed that I gave some more upvotes, because, though they are not too detailed (probably because of using the iOS version), your aircrafts are very nice and accurate. I've also seen you're mainly focusing on mini-planes and you're doing a very great job on them! :)
@Allstar @RAF1 Thanks a lot! I worked hard on it and I've spend several hours of flying and optimizing, as I really love it myself. :D On this version I was mainly focusing on improving dogfighting capabilities, as I had some struggle against other planes with the more realistic but slower turn-rate it had before.
Maybe it will even get featured. I don't want to hype it myself, but I seriously think it's one of the best creations of the last few days.
RAF1, I'll deliver your upvotes in the next few minutes. Also I want to mention that I always try to choose the best of your creations in my opinion to upvote. :D
I don't know if it still works in the current version, but here's something like that. :) Putting intervals, delays etc. with sliders to the code would be easy as pie I guess, but I didn't get my hands on scripting in SimplePlanes yet, just took a short look.
@SteadfastContracting Thank you! :´(
How's the plane for you?
@SteadfastContracting But I also want to reward those that don't make it fully to the end and atleast get the controls and functions of the plane. So that's kind of tricky. I am trying to make it more clear how to do it and how not to do it in the headline, but everytime I try to edit it, it gives me an error. :/
@JaySto Oh...Damn, that time I missed something I guess. It was 134 back then actually, but I wasn't ready to get the numbers that secretly. :D So tell me your wishes!
@Gg1234 Alright then, thanks! :D
@Dstroyer101 The question was if it should be a bagel or something else... :)
@Gg1234 Good! :D But you'll see a lemon pie when I get to upload the rest of them. i'll mention you on it. :) Hope I made things more clear in the headline now. :D
@Chemicalau I guess it's better. Especially on small aircrafts. :D
@Gg1234 Well, if you didn't just copy it from others, then yes! :D Congratulations!
@SteadfastContracting I noticed, but you're not the only one. I'll have to make it more clear somehow. Text formatting doesn't work there sadly...
@Gg1234 I did like 10 times now already, to check for errors and to look if someone could actually accidentally misunderstand it, as it seems some people are doing exactly that, but i can't find the issue...It's not a crime to read, guys! :D
@Seeras Ich hab's zumindest den Kommentaren von Andrew Garrison gelesen, dass die auch funktionieren. Nur die dürfen eben nicht zu nahe aneinander sein.
@Seeras Sieht sehr eng aus mit den Propellern, aber wenn er links läuft, sollte er auch rechts laufen. Ist ja in der Version der Devs gefixt. :)
@SteadfastContracting I give up...Some people seriously fail on reading the headline. :(
@Supercraft888 Because it's a reward for actaully reading the description and when people comment with all the numbers and say what it is for, other people just copy the numbers, which shouldn't actually be rewarded... @Seraphinium It is allowed in challenges and this is a challenge (It will take you some time to fully read and understand that wall of text) which I thought would be useful to get people to actually read the description and know something about the craft before getting their hands on it, failing on the complexity and then putting it to rest without testing all the capabilities (like many youtubers do). Also it gives you some background information. Reading the description is definitely good for the community, so I'll reward it with points that are for rewarding things that are good for the community. :) The amount of points changes with the amount of information you've gathered.
@Supercraft888 When you take some fuel out of the base of the pie and nudge a second rotor on the first one, then yes :D
Ich hab's leider nicht mehr rechtzeitig geschafft meinen Racer erfolgreich weiter zu pushen. Mal schauen wie weit er kommt :D
I wonder why I am the first to upvote it. Another nice design of yours. :)
@Wahoo12 Congratulations, you failed...I mean...for real, those numbers aren't even in the description anymore. Don't try to fool other people. :D If I'd given you an upvote or more at any time before I'd take one away now. @Chemicalau Got it. :)
@Supercraft888 Oh, I thought that's what it was before... :D
@Seraphinium Well, sorry, but I mentioned clearly how to enter the challenge properly in the headline of the description. No more failures rewarded. :) And thanks for forcing me to change the numbers again. :)
@Supercraft888 Happy crashing it! Or trying to make it fly properly. Whatever you're going to do with it. :D
@MisterMasada First it was just about performing decently and having the right proportions, then I've gone up from that. First not in performance, but in detail and available weapons to put on it. Handling was quite good and everything seemed realistic, even the landing speed and the way it rather "drifted" through the air than strictly following the movements of the plane were accurate. But It was missing something in dogfights when I tried it there, so I tried to overcome the limits the build had by basically ripping everything apart other than the fuselage and find what could be improved for higher pitch-rates without rolling to one side. How? Placed the VTOL-engines more in the back and very low and put more wings on top of the other ones, as there still was enough space in the fuselage pieces which form the hull of the wings. Then I thought about how to add the dual-stage afterburner and tried to seperate it from the rocket boosters with small, highly-modded engines, but they didn't fit in the engine compartment and anywhere else they would've made the agility worse, so I've just gone with making both afterburner stages and the rocket boosters use VTOL-engines and -nozzles. The design improvements came at last then while I was looking for good places to hide the air-intakes which were needed for the new engine and because of me getting distracted by the piece of canopy that was visible right infront of the cockpit when sitting inside there. :) I always try to get things as good as possible if they are important. So, the pointers came while testing the earlier versions over and over again and by looking at them, noticing things that could be improved. :D
Very cool designs! You really gotta start building again. There are a lot of new parts now to use. :D
This looks pretty advanced in terms of designing. Good work! Keep it up! :)
@Samwise I already got a pumpkin one. Would you share it with AeroEngineering? I want to keep the uploads of this as low as possible. :D Will upload tomorrow, as I am in the 5 uploads-per-day limit already.
@JaySto I didn't count, but I think I started three days ago. :D The things that took the longest weren't actually the improvements to performance and design, but all the bugfixing in between. I was about to post it yesterday, but then I found out that the pylons were somehow misplaced and caused the Guardians to explode when going full downwards-pitch on high speed while rolling. It took me ~ three hours just to find what caused the issue and fix it. I have gone through everything, I even double-checked all the wings, as they could've wobbled a bit and hit each other. :D Thanks for the compliments! Also to all the other guys! :D
@Damian125 Got it, will send tomorrow. :)
@Damian125 Alright. Which flavour?
Btw. you guys are pulling so hard I can already see the gold skies coming closer to me! :D
@AeroEngineering The pumpkin pie is one of my best pies so far. You'll love it! :D They're all pretty unmaneuverable, but they don't really have another purpose other than beeing fun to look at and play around with. Of course everyone is allowed to use his pie and create something better with it. :D
@Damian125 You clearly haven't, otherwise you would know that you just failed at entering the challenge... Others shouldn't know the numbers without reading the description, that's why you have to only comment with the last number you've got, so now I have to change them.
Just one last chance. Answer me the question "In which version did landing with bombs and fuel-tanks attached become less of a problem?" :)
@Dstroyer101 If I read that right you want a flying bagel? Shall it be really flying or just lifting off and crashing after some time like this one? :D
@DethFromAbove I knew I would be getting in trouble with pie supply. :D Which flavour/colour shall it be?
@Allstar Thanks! I can't say anything else without looking pretentious. :D
@AeroEngineering Will make it ready and upload it tomorrow. You won't have to look for it, I'll mention you on it. :)
@Wakescar @RAF1 @Allstar @Normin4tor @RedstoneArmory @grizzlitn @kaaraabinerFixtures @Supercraft888 @Seeras @Skua @TheGuyWhoFliesToGetHisPie @ChunderDownUndeR @DeezDucks @AeroEngineering @MediocrePlanes @Epembl4 @AndrewGarrison (sorry if I left someone out) Thanks so much for your great support! :D I've got featureeed, woohooo!
Now who wanna be my wingman? :D
@Wakescar I didn't try yours out yet. It has a different balance, so it might even not crash :D I thought about doing similar things on all my uploads with long descriptions in the future, but the restriction of 5 uploads per day makes me rethink that, as it will limit me on the more important stuff. The amount of maximum achievable upvotes will rely on the size and contents of the description. :D This probably makes more people understand the whole aircraft by reading the description and handle it better. That's my thought behind that.
@TheGuyWhoFliesToGetHisPie I just thought about you while looking at my challenge rewards, but this time you don't have to fly to get your pie! :D
@Wakescar Sadly I've run out of pies (and airplane uploads) for today, so you and others will have to wait until tomorrow. Your's is a pretty detailed one by the way. :D
You've got too many great creations to upvote them all! :D
@Wakescar I know that since my first upload. :D I might un-highlight some of the older ones though. Sorry that upvoting, commenting and uploading Pies is taking a bit right now, the servers are pretty much overloaded as it seems.
@Wakescar Thanks for the big compliments! Which Pie flavour/colour do you want? Never mind, I got it! :D Today I plan to build a better racer/optimize my old one for the tournament to get a stable craft that goes below 1:20 on the Shark Tooth course with 100% reliability, but I am also working on an ISCS (Intertial Stability Control System) as I call it, which is meant for very huge aircrafts (and maybe I'll also bring out a version for ships, though those are pretty much self-stabilizing). It controls pitch and roll to keep the aircraft in level flight, even with highly unbalanced crafts and allow for bombers with advanced user-controlled missiles and bombs to have them used while the aircraft flies stable and get's no control inputs from the user (control inputs to the ISCS and rudder will be turned on/off with AG1) and also airborne aircraft-carriers, the only things I still need for this are some reliable gears. Mine always attach to each other or move through each other, so it would be nice if someone could help me on that one. I also plan to build a replica of the Saab JAS 39 Gripen in the near future. :)
You might have noticed that I gave some more upvotes, because, though they are not too detailed (probably because of using the iOS version), your aircrafts are very nice and accurate. I've also seen you're mainly focusing on mini-planes and you're doing a very great job on them! :)
@Allstar @RAF1 Thanks a lot! I worked hard on it and I've spend several hours of flying and optimizing, as I really love it myself. :D On this version I was mainly focusing on improving dogfighting capabilities, as I had some struggle against other planes with the more realistic but slower turn-rate it had before.
Maybe it will even get featured. I don't want to hype it myself, but I seriously think it's one of the best creations of the last few days.
RAF1, I'll deliver your upvotes in the next few minutes. Also I want to mention that I always try to choose the best of your creations in my opinion to upvote. :D
I don't know if it still works in the current version, but here's something like that. :) Putting intervals, delays etc. with sliders to the code would be easy as pie I guess, but I didn't get my hands on scripting in SimplePlanes yet, just took a short look.
Why on earth does it have 16 downloads? The game is broken. :/ :D
Someone please take it, delete the URL out of the XML-file. upload and submit it as tournament entry. :D If no one has already.
@Normin4tor No problem, hope it crashed well! :)
@Normin4tor :)
@ArgentumFen Thanks! You've got your upvotes. :)
@Normin4tor I've changed the rules to be one entry per person now, but that doesn't apply to you yet. :) And thanks! :D Do you wish any flavour?
@RedstoneArmory Mustard right engine and ketchup left engine I guess.