Forums » Air Combat & Civil Aviation » DCS: Black Shark » Mid-mission save...


Page 1 of 2 1 2 >
Topic Options
Rate This Topic
Hop to:
#3484049 - 12/29/11 11:55 PM Mid-mission save...
BeachAV8R Offline
Contributing Editor
Lifer

Registered: 01/22/01
Posts: 20982
Loc: Charlotte, NC USA
If someone would write an add-on program or something that would allow mid-mission saves I'd pay $100 for it. Trying to sim with a 2 year old in the room is nearly impossible. biggrin

_________________________
Subscribe to PC Pilot magazine! -- (I write for them!)

Top
#3484076 - 12/30/11 01:27 AM Re: Mid-mission save... [Re: BeachAV8R]
PedroF Offline
Junior Member

Registered: 04/26/11
Posts: 2
My suggestion... change the behavior of the power button on your case to sleep mode or hibernate. You can even turn on hybrid sleep mode on. I did the experiment with a couple of sims some time ago and it seemed to work fine. Of course you won’t be able to use your computer for other tasks in the meantime, but you should be able to hold off your mission for a couple of days.

How I wish sims would have a in mission save option!

Pedro

Top
#3484217 - 12/30/11 07:08 AM Re: Mid-mission save... [Re: BeachAV8R]
Jedi Master Offline
Entil'zha
Big Kahuna

Registered: 02/15/00
Posts: 33095
Loc: Space Coast, USA
Originally Posted By: BeachAV8R
If someone would write an add-on program or something that would allow mid-mission saves I'd pay $100 for it. Trying to sim with a 2 year old in the room is nearly impossible. biggrin



I'll see your 2 yr old and raise you with a 3 yr old who insists on sitting on the lap and an 8 month old whose new hobby is to squeal/scream at max volume for fun!

I'm thinking I'm going to have change all my HOTAS profiles for my sims to make the pinky button on the stick PAUSE.




The Jedi Master
_________________________
Back off, man. I'm a scientist.

Top
#3484221 - 12/30/11 07:13 AM Re: Mid-mission save... [Re: BeachAV8R]
BeachAV8R Offline
Contributing Editor
Lifer

Registered: 01/22/01
Posts: 20982
Loc: Charlotte, NC USA
I love it when I actually DO pause the sim to go do something else (like Tubby Time), spend a couple hours doing something, then come back to my computer. I sit down in front of "the situation" and try to remember what the heck I was doing (tactically).

"So..alright..I remember being by this hillside..and the map shows the targets just over there..and..hmm..what was that red light up there doing?"

<unpause>

"Oh crap..SA-8....."

Crash. Boom. Eject..

Sigh. Might as well unload the dishwasher.
_________________________
Subscribe to PC Pilot magazine! -- (I write for them!)

Top
#3484252 - 12/30/11 07:58 AM Re: Mid-mission save... [Re: BeachAV8R]
BBall Offline
Member

Registered: 11/12/99
Posts: 192
Loc: Dresser, WI, USA
Funny as hell guys!

Griff and I were in a “training mission” I concocted the other night, and his little angel was riding shotgun in his lap. The conversation on Ventrilo was something like this:

Me: “Griff, I’m off the tanker, pushing to STP 2, I have the bridge in the TGP, and selecting a GBU-12…”

Griff’s angel “co-pilot”:
“Hi BBall….”

Me: “Hello Nola…how are you sweetie?”

Griff: “Roger, I’m leaving STP 1 and will meet you this side of 2.”
“No Nola…don’t push that….”
“No ….we’re NOT going to crash…”
“Hang on Bill….I’ll be right back….”

(insert sound of 3 yr old being taken to bed….)

Ah….my little “co-pilot” is 15 now and could care less about my flight simming. I completely remember the days of her in my lap, inbound to the target in Jane’s F/A-18 doing some fancy “nap of the Earth”, and she’d grab the HOTAS, jam forward on the stick and we’d become a huge fireball of teeth, hair and eyeballs.

“Sigh….OK honey, let’s see if “Blues Clues” is on TV.”

Good luck guys, it does get better…

cheers

BBall

Top
#3484274 - 12/30/11 08:32 AM Re: Mid-mission save... [Re: BeachAV8R]
BeachAV8R Offline
Contributing Editor
Lifer

Registered: 01/22/01
Posts: 20982
Loc: Charlotte, NC USA
Steve on Blue's Clues creeps me out.

LOL..
_________________________
Subscribe to PC Pilot magazine! -- (I write for them!)

Top
#3484391 - 12/30/11 12:26 PM Re: Mid-mission save... [Re: BeachAV8R]
Jedi Master Offline
Entil'zha
Big Kahuna

Registered: 02/15/00
Posts: 33095
Loc: Space Coast, USA
BOTH the guys on Blue's (the first and the replacement) creep me and my wife out. The girls love it, though.

They love Wonder Pets more, though, thankfully. That and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Jake and the Neverland Pirates. smile



The Jedi Master
_________________________
Back off, man. I'm a scientist.

Top
#3487430 - 01/04/12 12:05 PM Re: Mid-mission save... [Re: BeachAV8R]
Melcar Offline
Junior Member

Registered: 01/04/12
Posts: 8
Quote:
If someone would write an add-on program or something that would allow mid-mission saves I'd pay $100 for it.



Quote:
I love it when I actually DO pause the sim to go do something else (like Tubby Time), spend a couple hours doing something, then come back to my computer. I sit down in front of "the situation" and try to remember what the heck I was doing (tactically).

"So..alright..I remember being by this hillside..and the map shows the targets just over there..and..hmm..what was that red light up there doing?"

<unpause>

"Oh crap..SA-8....."

Crash. Boom. Eject..


You could save your track when you quit. Then when you want to resume, advance with time compression up to near the end - then take control.

That would also have the benefit of refreshing your tactical awareness.


Edited by Melcar (01/04/12 12:05 PM)

Top
#3487511 - 01/04/12 01:55 PM Re: Mid-mission save... [Re: Jedi Master]
JohnnyChemo Offline
Member

Registered: 04/07/06
Posts: 120
Originally Posted By: Jedi Master

They love Wonder Pets more


I've gotten the theme to that one stuck in my head a number of times....you know it's bad when you find yourself whistling or humming it only to realize WHAT it is you are whistling/humming!! biggrin

Top
#3487566 - 01/04/12 03:16 PM Re: Mid-mission save... [Re: Melcar]
EinsteinEP Offline
Air Combat & General Aviation Editor
Member

Registered: 11/20/07
Posts: 1790
Loc: Tucson, AZ
Originally Posted By: Melcar
You could save your track when you quit. Then when you want to resume, advance with time compression up to near the end - then take control.

My experience has been that track replay is incredibly unreliable in both DCS Black Shark and A-10C. I've been assuming I wasn't the only one...
_________________________
Shoot to Kill.
Play to Have Fun.
SimHQ's Forum Use Agreement

Top
#3487729 - 01/04/12 08:17 PM Re: Mid-mission save... [Re: BeachAV8R]
BeachAV8R Offline
Contributing Editor
Lifer

Registered: 01/22/01
Posts: 20982
Loc: Charlotte, NC USA
I think you are right Erik..which is why I hadn't been using the technique.

The Wonder Pets are great. Probably the favorite show my wife and I watch with the little one. Quirky, funny, and has just enough witty humor to keep us from totally tuning it out.

How people can watch SpongeBob Square Pants is beyond me. That show is annoying.
_________________________
Subscribe to PC Pilot magazine! -- (I write for them!)

Top
#3487943 - 01/05/12 06:01 AM Re: Mid-mission save... [Re: BeachAV8R]
Smokin_Hole Offline
Member

Registered: 07/30/09
Posts: 348
You too, sir, will be converted.

SpongeBob taps into a child's newly discovered sense of irony. And it never crosses the line. It come close but never crosses. Watch it with a five year old and you will get it.

Top
#3487946 - 01/05/12 06:02 AM Re: Mid-mission save... [Re: BeachAV8R]
Jedi Master Offline
Entil'zha
Big Kahuna

Registered: 02/15/00
Posts: 33095
Loc: Space Coast, USA
SBSP is amusing like once per 30 mins. WP is usually amusing a few times, putting it ahead. And the music is better! smile

The guy behind WP does a show on Disney called 3rd and Bird. It's not as good IMO, but the girls like it too.


I've never bothered with tracks just because the way they're done, to save space, has made them far too error-prone. It's always amusing to watch something you know did NOT happen suddenly occur that wipes out an entire flight that is supposed to destroy a bunch of targets later...and then later comes and the targets don't blow up...



The Jedi Master
_________________________
Back off, man. I'm a scientist.

Top
#3487978 - 01/05/12 06:30 AM Re: Mid-mission save... [Re: BeachAV8R]
Melcar Offline
Junior Member

Registered: 01/04/12
Posts: 8
Fair enough -- I guess I've never seen that, but my flights are short with few enemies. I'm still struggling just to fly the machine.

Top
#3491648 - 01/10/12 11:17 AM Re: Mid-mission save... [Re: BBall]
HitchHikingFlatlander Offline
Senior Member

Registered: 09/21/06
Posts: 2810
Loc: California
Originally Posted By: BBall
Funny as hell guys!

Griff and I were in a “training mission” I concocted the other night, and his little angel was riding shotgun in his lap. The conversation on Ventrilo was something like this:

Me: “Griff, I’m off the tanker, pushing to STP 2, I have the bridge in the TGP, and selecting a GBU-12…”

Griff’s angel “co-pilot”:
“Hi BBall….”

Me: “Hello Nola…how are you sweetie?”

Griff: “Roger, I’m leaving STP 1 and will meet you this side of 2.”
“No Nola…don’t push that….”
“No ….we’re NOT going to crash…”
“Hang on Bill….I’ll be right back….”

(insert sound of 3 yr old being taken to bed….)

Ah….my little “co-pilot” is 15 now and could care less about my flight simming. I completely remember the days of her in my lap, inbound to the target in Jane’s F/A-18 doing some fancy “nap of the Earth”, and she’d grab the HOTAS, jam forward on the stick and we’d become a huge fireball of teeth, hair and eyeballs.

“Sigh….OK honey, let’s see if “Blues Clues” is on TV.”

Good luck guys, it does get better…

cheers

BBall


I can't even leave the mancave door open! Anytime my 19mo old notices the door is open she goes running in giggling. She then grabs and HOTAS, controller or loose exposed wire and goes to town! Couple more years and it will get better, but right now its so hard for me to sim an hour here or an hour there. Someone needs to make vehicle skins in the likeness of Sprout TV characters, "rifle" splash one Barney!
_________________________
www.DCS-Mercenaries.com

A casual west coast Black Shark/A-10C Squadron always looking for extra pilots and good times!

Top
#3491765 - 01/10/12 01:05 PM Re: Mid-mission save... [Re: BeachAV8R]
Jedi Master Offline
Entil'zha
Big Kahuna

Registered: 02/15/00
Posts: 33095
Loc: Space Coast, USA
One word: gates!

We have one on the door to our office/PC room so they can't come running in. Also one around the kitchen, easier than getting locks for every cabinet and the pantry.



The Jedi Master
_________________________
Back off, man. I'm a scientist.

Top
#3491790 - 01/10/12 01:39 PM Re: Mid-mission save... [Re: BeachAV8R]
HitchHikingFlatlander Offline
Senior Member

Registered: 09/21/06
Posts: 2810
Loc: California
Oh for sure I have doors, gates and safety locks! I close the door and my daughter stands outside it screaming and crying to let her in. The only solution, "Samuel L. Jackson's: GO THE F**K TO SLEEP" sadly does not work in this situation!

In any case the door just stays closed at all times and even I'm crying, kicking and screaming to get in!
_________________________
www.DCS-Mercenaries.com

A casual west coast Black Shark/A-10C Squadron always looking for extra pilots and good times!

Top
Page 1 of 2 1 2 >
Topic Options
Rate This Topic
Hop to:

Moderator:  EinsteinEP 

Forum Use Agreement | Privacy Statement | SimHQ Staff
Copyright 1997-2012, SimHQ Inc. All Rights Reserved.