I need to clear my head a little. This SC issue wound me up a lot tighter than it should have. I will come back to the Combatsim forum in four weeks.

I WILL keep working on the cockpit though. V6 should be out in four weeks. The solution to a bug or two in the v5 cockpit that is affecting a small number of you should be solved in a week.

Thanks friends.

I want to be optomistic. I'm sure Hasbro will do the right thing.

His attention to detail on his cockpits have earned him a great deal of well-deserved respect in this community. His reputation is so highly regarded that he is the front runner candidate for fligh sim developers that need a cockpit artist.

Paul I think you could make some decent money by selling advertising ads on your website and in your distributed zips. I have a business that I would pay to advertise on your page (if it didn't crash my browser ). Or in your distribution zips. How many here would pay Paul $30 a month to put a banner on his web page (one month or more). SPEAK UP!

You know the unauthorized release of the source code was wrong but your strong desire to see Falcon live up to its potential and be developed further ALMOST justifies it.

If the truth was to be known, most of the die-hard Falcon fans here probably feel the same way...I know I do! Don't be too hard on yourself and hurry back. You will be missed.

Anyway please post your snail-mail addy somewhere on your page b4 you submerge in the Deep Blue. Pleeez!

Take care and relax, you are one of my fav. F4 GODs from now to eternity...

I once was in your situation, and i understand you, but don´t go down. beeing depressive is the last thing you want to do to yourself. Your work is graet, i have choosen your cockpit to stay in my hard drive well before this issue.
You have talent and should not listen to people like DEREK, doesn´t he himself state that he had the code in his hand and would tweak it ,and try to make profit with it!!!!
He´s only a scumbag, not at your level.
Even if he his a know developer in the comunity this doesn´t mean he isn´t a SOB and his statement about you his HIGHLY hipocrite.

But Above all do what you feel and what you like....

Best wishes and best regards....to a truly talented one.

Do what you feel you have to do. I sometimes think we all spend to much time on this forum and that can drag you down. But I really get a lift reading your post and having an exchange with you. We had a good intelligent discussion about landing and I really enjoyed it. I will miss that and wish you would not do this. But if you do, I hope to be here to welcome you back. you have a lot of friends here.

Do what feels right for you!

I just wanted to say (guess i´m repeating myself) that i truly appreciate what you´ve done for us dedicated F4-simmers!

Take care!
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I don'yt know what else to say....I believe everyone here will miss you. But as someone already said, if you need a break, go ahead, take it....you deserve it very much. Just let us know when you are back and remember that you have a lot of friends that even if we don't know you personally, we love, respect and appreciate your work for F4 very much and we'll hate loosing you as part of the F4 community.

Keep in touch amigo!!!!!!!!!

I made an innocent comment and offered some advice, albeit unwanted. I don't regret either action and they were certainly not written with the intent to offend anyone. So, lets all grow up shall we?

I'm not going to post about the source code issue again - ever. But, I didn't want Paul getting unwarranted attention over this farce, when in fact, most don't even have a clue as to what the problem with that issue was in the first place. The thread with my comment and Paul's response, is below.
http://www.combatsim.com/ubb/Forum21/HTML/003181-4.html

I am saddened to read, even though it is from an anonymous hypocritical minority who don't even count for much, that my efforts to legitimize the F4 source code and make something positive of this farce, has people thinking that I'm doing this for selfish reasons. For crap sake, get a grip folks - being probably the only industry vet here, not posting under an alias, as a gamer first and a developer second, I was merely trying to bring some reality to this whole farce, while at the same time trying to steer this whole SC discussion into legal ground.

Without a legitimate stance, F4 will go underground, the talented few will illegally use the SC to release patches of their own, and the whole patching process will be a farce. Imagine what would happen if several people with the illegal source code, fix something that you want to have. Then iBeta, using, yet another illegal method, albeit an acceptable one, sanctioned by Hasbro (hex editing), releases a patch that fixes something that you also want. Naturally, both will be incompatible. Then what are you going to do?

Anyway, my apologies for taking this thread off topic, I just wanted to pitch in my 100% support for Paul's work on the F4 cockpits and separate it from our disagreement over the F4 source code.

Good, bad or ugly, a righteous roasting or a pat on the back, I stand by my stance, as always. I can take the heat.

I agree with everything you said on the SC issue; I certainly understand why you would want to legally obtain it and fix it, and I would be one of the people who would actually pay for add-ons were you able to pull this off. But this was just too much for me to ignore. I tried. I read this and went to another thread, thinking my gut response would blow off, but I came back just to post this I was so p**ssed.

Paul NEVER is his posts on the topic condoned the ripping off of the sourcecode. All he stated was that he knew it was illegal yet despite that it was still a difficult decision for him to make as to whether it should be used. There were a lot of others who were much more vociferous in the matter, and you let that slide. Instead you jump all over him, and decide to administer a kick while the guy is down.

Now, he lets people know he's going to be out for a bit to cool down as it were, never once mentioning you or the disagreement you had, and admitting that he got more worked up over the issue than he should have, and you have to take it upon yourself to deliver this parting shot. You have got to be the most arrogant A** I have ever seen on this or any similar forum. Maybe you ought to consider taking a break from the board for a while and consider if maybe you got too worked up about this issue. Waiting with baited breath to see where you're crystal vision takes you next.

(Turns around, flips switch on flamethrower, WHIIIIINE sound like in Ghostbusters...)

Oh...and Derek?
Derek? Or is it Dr. Smart? Captain Smart?
Commander Magnifico?

Maestro?
Oh...erm....Maxwell Smart?
No..er...sorry: Lord of Creation Smart.
Uh...why is it I don't have BC3000AD on my drive?
Oh...jeez..that's right....you got shafted by the mean old corporate suit publisher bullies.

What? Oh...you mean the same kind of visionless meanies who shafted every consumer of Falcon 4.0 and the entire dedicated development staff of the Falcon code? Ah...so why is it that you dog the renegades of Falcon 4.0, continue to decry your shafting at the hands of the big meanie suits, and in general make sure that everyone knows what a big smart (pun fully intended) master programming tonight-pinky-we're-going-to-take-over-the-world genius you are...instead of...dusting off...and making a respectable game of your own?

What's that?
Totally discredited rep?
Monster hyperactive ego?
General base annoying personal qualities?
Oh...ohpe...yer right...I can't judge you without ever actually knowing you in person.

And you can't judge anyone else either. So stuff it.

Hellburner
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Designer/Lead Developer of Hellburner 29.11
Chief Architect of Hellburner: How to Be A Programmer Wannabe
Producer/Writer/Director of Hellburner Episode 30: The Annoying Menace Turns the Big Three-Oh www.takeDenisLeary'sadviceDerekandshutthef**kup.com

All,
I too am taking a vacation from this and other passionate subjects for personal reasons, but probabally only until the 1st of May. I will continue to monitor all the other types of threads.

I don't know what to say like in this case.
It's too sad for us,But we wish to you'll back here soon.
Till that time,enjoy your time and reflesh yourself.

When I get worn out, I go to the Scriptures
to be washed and refreshed.

Thanks for your contributions,

Good luck with whatever you decide to do. For all the work you've done for the f4 community we owe you alot.

Derek,

Has he forgotten the frustration the hex editors must have felt when they corrected something wrong and were probably as skilled without source code?

Derek, learn a little humility ! 4 things I have learned in the IT industry:
1) You are as good as your last project
2) There's always someone more knowledgeable
3) Documentation and testing are always best left to those who enjoy doing it
4) Yanks know bugger all about internationalization till someone tells them-forgive the last point =-some companies do but most don't!