Why do you like cfs3?

I have always been a huge WWII airplane fan (built many plastic kits back in the day) but never thought I'd actually be able to fly any of them! With CFS3, I can do that, and enjoy participating with a large community of like-minded folks (my wife and family just don't understand what the big deal about planes is).

Quite simply, CFS3 is my Saturday and Sunday morning escape from the stresses of the real world - a place where I can fly free and take out my frustrations on the "bad guys" for the day!

My very heartfelt thanks to all those that have the interest and time to keep this alive for us all to enjoy. :guinness: You're providing more good than you realize!


Michael
 
Great replies and thoughts on the subject chaps, definately encouraging! :applause:

The overriding theme seems to be the hobby and mod-ability factors and of course what a really nice community we have here at SoH. Very few of my RL friends share my interests but there's always someone to talk to here. :) Personally I've learned so much about the WW2 airwar and all of its facets through this genuinly enjoyable pastime.

I don't think CFS3 is doing at all bad for an 8 year old sim!

Clive
 
What I find amazing is that flor a flight sim, I can dabble my naval interests and others can make and drive vehicles whilst there's bunch of oddballs who make buildings and airbases :icon_lol:
 
Why I like CFS3

I learned about computers through the love of CFS1. Windows 98 and the days before Auto-Installers were the Golden Era of sim flight for me. I was an AH-1 mechanic for a time and that spilt into me reading then rewriting countless "Read-Me" files written by developers and modders from all over the world, firstly for myself, so that I could install their wonderful contraptions despite their "hyroglyphic like instructions", and then sharing that information with the hundreds of sim-pilots I came into contact with.

One fine September day whilst posting a single webpage of links relating to CFS some motherless sons of goatherders flew a couple planes into my beloved New York... there is still out there somewhere on the internet a copy of the MSN Zone CFS chat of that day which I helped make... and from that event I created a CFS enthusiast's website that was well over 70 pages of tutorials and explainations with some of my own modifieds for download, etc. which was dedicated to the Heroes and Victims of 911.

From what I remember about the guestbook I helped to open the virtual skies further for many people and somehow I like to feel I replaced some of the loss, hurt, and anger in the world by positively contributing to other people's happiness in a way that I seemed to excell at naturally.

Sadly, I could not maintain the website beyond last year, which is just as well, as change is the nature of the universe, for me at least. Life got busy and I all but skipped the years of CFS2 and IL-2, and even CFS3, which I've only had for the last month, it being the first program I bought for my new Win7 machine. So I dusted off my virtual wrenches and with the help of my fellow "hyroglyphic transcribers" here at Sim-Outhouse have it running functionally and join into the CFS3 furballs posted here.

I had to include this bit not out of pride, but in sharing, we were amongst the first, if not the first people, to Tailgunner Patch submarines and tanks for use in multiplayer gaming back in the days... if you haven't guessed by now I was once "JK_Jupiter"... aka J.John DesChenes, and seeing this sim is still being added to by other innovators, and still enjoyed by true flight sim enthusiasts like myself, has me contemplating learning "GMAX".

So my reasons for liking CFS3 really do boil down to the people involved with it and the generosity of their time concerning all things. Guys like Martin Wright, Bill Potvin, Neil Park, and Ralf Trieble lead the way for me in CFS and there are hundreds, if not thousands, of others whom deserve the credit they never get to hear. A huge thanks to all of you!

Sorry for the "wall of text", but you did ask. Long May We Fly ~S~!

P/S - The graphics are markedly better than CFS1 or 2 also. :applause:
 
I like CFS3 because it was my first flight sim and I have learned to mod so many things. Its fun to play and tinker with. I like SOH because of the great people here.
 
Its quite difficult to think of another original reason why I like CFS3, everything seems to of been covered already. There is something about the immersion factor that sets the game apart from other sims, it does feel like you are flying through a real world. Another bonus is that the bullets arent really. I would love to fly a real Spitfire but the thought of having to fly one and be shot at at the same time is a little scary. I guess the game acts as a memorial and reminded to the people who couldnt hit the refly button.
 
BeauBrummie said:
I'm nor sure what you mean Emile unlessyou mean the way at low level they are hard to discern from the rest of the airfield texture?
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Hello,
Yes that's what I try to say. And it seams that all the runways have the same orientation, no?
 
:bump: :ernae:

Good post Pat,
I concur with everything already said here, CFS3 is like a Pandoras Box. It is infinite and who knows what else you guys have lined up as additions.

My scene is the on-line combat, and we have a great community band of folks in here too. -- ETO--PTO--Korean Skies--MAW, make really fine on-line WW2 scenarios we can sink ourselves into. Obviously, we cannot use all the special downloads available otherwise the "Mis-Match"-ing business occurs. But even so, what is available is great fun to fly in. I just love the PTO stuff, Zeros against P-40's over the islands.

Several of us fly also in Pascal's Missions and Games ( Std. CFS3 as he says ) and look fwd. to him setting up ETO and PTO missions. ( Tailwind is another missions Stalwart in ETO. ) But most guys are quite happy with the Std. CFS3 scenario, as points scoring is the main focus.

It's a way of life now I guess--lol. :applause: :medals:

Bill T.







 
I agree on everything posted here. The CFS3 family here is a Blessing..
Because of the work of many talented people our Beloved flioght sim is as fresh as any new game out there..
And I shall say without question, the men here have been wonderful and their support and help has been a blessing to many, Me included..
Bravo, to all of those who share this "Hobby", which for me is more of a Lifestyle then a Game..
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Yup same here

CFS3 was my first sim which taught me the basics, also because it has been improved so much by our great modders, many thanks to you all:applause:

and not to mention the great community of people :salute:

cheers:ernae:
 
for me it was the beginning of flightsims too, later I got fsx and now I'm going to buy cfs2.
maby I more it than fsx because when I crash here you can see damages on the plane, in fsx it only says 'overstress' or something and it stops.

And now a whole new world is opening for me, cause now I see I can download a lot of things for it.
 
Talking of Swedes... I had two Swedish students earlier this year, and sitting next to them, a German student called Mangold. You couldn't make it up if you wanted to! "Two Swedes and a Mangold...!"
 
I especially like night missions with searchlights, dropping flares etc:engel016:

Also, trying out some of the ground vehicles led me in to wanting to have a go at tank sims like Panzer Elite and Steel Beasts.
 
ndicki said:
Talking of Swedes... I had two Swedish students earlier this year, and sitting next to them, a German student called Mangold. You couldn't make it up if you wanted to! "Two Swedes and a Mangold...!"
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LOLOLOLOL !!!
 
Jon it looks like a corsair but there is something different about it. Ok I give up??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
 
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