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News from the Pacific

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O-1Driver

Charter Member 2011
Gentlemen,

We will be doing an update to the PTO this year hopefully with a release date of Summer or early Fall. Below is an overview of what we hope to accomplish with the update.

1. Aircraft - Numerous new skins by Bravo4 for the aircraft currently in PTO. With Teds approval we hope to add the new PBY with a variety of new skins. We are also seeking approval from the AvHistory team to add the 2nd Zero and Kate to the base install. John is providing new skins for the Val, Kate and both Zeros.
2. Enterprise Night Operations - Talon (Al) is building a new set of missions featuring our new lighted Enterprise with night operations missions based on historical data. We will have several new US Navy aircraft with night paint schemes for these missions.
3. New airfields - The ACC team has kindly agreed to build a couple of new airfields for us starting with a historical recreation of Henderson Field. We would also like to see Rabaul done in time.
4. Ships update - Ships will be updated with the new 20mm and 40 mm golf ball tracer flak. The new 5" large flak will also be mounted on Destroyers, Cruisers and Batle Wagons.
5. Shore batteries will be added that will include the new 5" AA gun.
6. Facilities and airfields will all be updated with the ETO flak.
7. New weather and effects will be included in the update.
8. Several new weapons will debut with the PTO update including Al's new skip bomb.
9. The new incendiary and ball ammunition will be retrofitted to all PTO aircraft.
10. We have a new and more realistic depth charge effect for that weapon.
11. As always we know we can count on Talon for an outstanding set of new missions for our enjoyment.

Kasey who has done a great job with ETO 1.3 has been drafted to put together a cummulative installer for the PTO update. All previous updates will be rolled into the one new update.

We greatly appreciate Rob and John putting together the new aircraft for us. Special thanks also go out to the rest of the ETO team that will be helping with the project including Bob who we know we can count on for advice on format and building the installer.

We hope all of you Pacific fans are as excited as we are about the 2010 update.

Best Regards

O-1
 
You can count me in for some missions mate. I've been dying to dip my toe into the Pacific.

Don't forget to let me know when you want to put some announcements on the PTO/ETO website. :wavey:
 
:kilroy:Ya know I'm with ya, Steve.

Well, come aboard, Jeff. We have GOT to work on getting PT boats into this one, if possible. LOL

And, Ted, uhhhh, YEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWW!!!!!

Thanks, guys.:d
 
BeauBrummie said:
You can count me in for some missions mate. I've been dying to dip my toe into the Pacific.

Don't forget to let me know when you want to put some announcements on the PTO/ETO website. :wavey:
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Thanks Jeff it is going to be great having you involved in the Pacific. You know what they always said...
"The Atlantic is a pond compared to the Pacific".

Steve
 
May I suggest that you include things like the Reg's Hanger searchlights and the Av History Oscar (AvH_JP_Ki43II_77th) which when you go to download it, requires that you go get another file, which requires that you go get yet another file from somewhere. In other words; make a complete install package like ETO so people don't give up on chasing files and quit the whole thing like I did. PTO in this respect is a very unprofessional approach to an add-on.
 
:kilroy:Vogelscheuche, I believe that is exactly what we will do.

I understand that there were some omissions to the original PTO series due to what reason or reasons I cannot fathom, as I was not part of the team then.

There will be plenty of fixes, additions, and modfications to PTO, I can assure you. Just what, I cannot say, because I do not know. Most of us on the team don't know right now.

There will be a number of people working on many different things, I am sure.:d
 
grizzly50 said:
:kilroy:Vogelscheuche, I believe that is exactly what we will do.
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That's good to hear. Will the new version go back and install the stuff that should have been included in 1.54 (searchlights and the Oscar and the extra files that the Oscar requires)? I will keep an eye on the next release to see if it is indeed complete. I really wanted to fly this expansion but I'm not willing to chase down any more files to do the install.
 
Vogelscheuche said:
May I suggest that you include things like the Reg's Hanger searchlights and the Av History Oscar (AvH_JP_Ki43II_77th) which when you go to download it, requires that you go get another file, which requires that you go get yet another file from somewhere. In other words; make a complete install package like ETO so people don't give up on chasing files and quit the whole thing like I did. PTO in this respect is a very unprofessional approach to an add-on.
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At first PTO was never meant to be a major addon like ETO, rather it was designed to be a sandbox for everyone to play with and use it to develop add ons.

We designed ETO from the very start to be a comprehensive add on.

We have made some minor fragmented updates to PTO but this next one will be comprehensive and we will try to make some improvements in the aircraft selection and bring it up to the level of ETO.

Thanks for your patience while we try to make it better. Many of these guys have full time jobs that get in the way of this hobby.

Steve
 
Vogelscheuche said:
May I suggest that you include things like the Reg's Hanger searchlights and the Av History Oscar (AvH_JP_Ki43II_77th) which when you go to download it, requires that you go get another file, which requires that you go get yet another file from somewhere. In other words; make a complete install package like ETO so people don't give up on chasing files and quit the whole thing like I did. PTO in this respect is a very unprofessional approach to an add-on.
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Vogelscheuche

1) We are not professionals and do this as a hobby.If it weren't for the PTO team you'd just have a basic install with limited planes,facilities,no enhanced effects and so forth.

2) We can't put in things we don't have permission to put in.Examples-AvH_JP_Ki43ll_77th and and the Reg's Hanger searchlights.I believe permission was given to use the search lights in ETO which came out after the last PTO update.So as you can see we can't include everything we'd like.Everyone else seems to understand this and they don't complain.

3) Countless hours go into doing the best we can and it's FREE.That's right FREE.

Next time before you complain know the facts.

"You can please all the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time".

"But than again there's no pleasing some people"


Talon
 
Talon said:
Vogelscheuche

1) We are not professionals and do this as a hobby.If it weren't for the PTO team you'd just have a basic install with limited planes,facilities,no enhanced effects and so forth.

2) We can't put in things we don't have permission to put in.Examples-AvH_JP_Ki43ll_77th and and the Reg's Hanger searchlights.I believe permission was given to use the search lights in ETO which came out after the last PTO update.So as you can see we can't include everything we'd like.Everyone else seems to understand this and they don't complain.

3) Countless hours go into doing the best we can and it's FREE.That's right FREE.

Next time before you complain know the facts.

"You can please all the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time".

"But than again there's no pleasing some people"


Talon
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Sure it's human that you want to lash out at me for bringing you bad news. Historically messengers are often shot when doing this. This is why I no longer report bugs to any developers. It seems it's taken as a personal attack and the denial is ugly. I know this is a labor of love for you guys, just try to see another point of view: a lot of people just won't go chasing file after file after file that could be included in the installer. I find the install instructions for these other files to be somewhat sketchy and lacking in clarity. Dropping them manually into the wrong place and there begins the problems.

Just ask permission from the developers of these "other" files to include them in your product. Most are only too happy to have their work recognized.

Be professional and listen to people with different opinions. Just because someone complains about something doesn't mean that they are the only one with that problem. How many other people have simply gone away after being frustrated with the install? Try to improve the quality of your product, not the quantity (of aircraft). My only hope is that you succeed with a reasonable install so that one day I might try this out.
 
This is GREAT, will there be any Real Japanese ships?
You Know, Kongo or Yamato, or some of their great Cruisers and destroyers..
Maybe a "Lily"or a "Sally" bomber maybe a "Judy" thrown in..
too..
My head is spinning.. Let me Know if I can help..
 
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