Ohh yeah, the server is up but I couldn't connect to it. Dragon's Free Flight is available!


--- edit - looks like White Bird is up.


WC

That fun was while it lasted. White Bird is a big mission, and the A-10Cs have a long way to go, and timing is critical to get the general if you have to start back at Vaziani again.

There is something in the White Bird mission that causes it to not start every time I want to test it from the Mission Builder. I read something late last week about a known bug with triggered 'Change Waypoint' actions - and there are a few of those in this mission. I'll take those out today...

And last night, the general's convoy got to Dada Pass and I got a DCS Stopped Working message. Hopefully the two issues are related.


Enjoy the Labels while you can!




WC

You must have crashed just before I got blown out of the sky by an SA-8... I was trying to text chat with you but you were gone... You may have just been booted and kept going without knowing it.

Once I got shot down I looked in the room and you were gone- but I'm not sure I saw you actually "leave."

Then later last night before going to bed I switched the mission up... but then I noticed it had "ships" in it and not surprisingly it was crashed this morning.

Anyway, just hovering on what mission to put up? WB? Do some roadkill? NP?

BTW- looks like the TS3 server is down for awhile... I highly recommend Einstein's TS3- provided everyone plays nice as I would expect them to from this community. I just can't do A-10 alone... and when there's no coms it's like you're doing it lone wolf style.


The server name he posted in "Late night" was:

einsteinep.no-ip.org


Edit: Whooops- just went in there and it's not connecting for me. Not sure if it's a on and off thing or if he crashed out. I'll look into hosting a server as well.

WC I thought I had this comp set up for remote control but I didn't- so I just confirmed it's up so from now on if I'm gone you can go in there and change things up. If I get the TS3 thing going that might work for that too.

What mission has ships in it?


I made changes to White Bird - I know, shocking news - there were some known bugs with triggered switch waypoint actions that I removed, and clean up of the F/A-18s. That BUK up at Dada Lake now gets it's launchers blown up by the Commandos, too - I did not like having the threat circles left after the radars were destroyed.


WC

Okay boys... here we go.

To accommodate the absence of a SimHQ TS3 server I have created an Eno's Firehouse TS3 server.

Details of the server will be posted up in the first page of this thread as well- but here they are:


70.79.187.158:9987

PW: SimHQ (no caps)

I have a couple of rooms:

Locker room- to get squared away as to what mission you will be joining
Mission 1: For the main mission going on in Eno's Firehouse
Mission 2: For those of you off on your own doing your own thing
Training: For those of you looking to learn, or those of you who don't mind talking the rookies through the various items in the sim... This is a great place to talk or be talked to.

Let me know if you have any thoughts.

Also, I will be making permission keys available so that the server can be moderated by a variety of people who should always be around at some point. I just need to figure out who those will be- but you can take for granted that WC will be one of them!

Looking forward to feedback on performance. I have the qualities cranked so I need to know if it affects performance I'll wind it down... but it should be fine.

I just talked with Eno, we should have the new White Bird up and running within the hour.

WC

Mission sent...

--- edit
I'm going to take control of the server and post it - I don't see the server in DCS Multiplayer.

WC

That was a great intro to White Bird last night - lots of fliers joined the server. The General's convoy was stopped just minutes before he would have escaped. We almost got him earlier at the FARP but the SA-10s were still operational.

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While I've been designing missions, this is what my brother-in-law/wingman/carpenter has been doing - adding to my deck!


WC

Holy crap... nice!

Fulda Gap is up now- same TS3 server info applies. Evil888- not a member here I don't think- has been working it over on and off all night. By the looks of the chat log he got clobbered a few times but has managed to whittle down some of the SAM blanket.

I don't know if I'm going in just yet but if I do I'll look forward to having some company on the TS3. Fulda is a good overall mission and really tests your targetting skills. Without the tgp you have to keep your eyes open. I find that the vehicles moving over open terrain generate some dust clouds that are a little easier to spot- so that is a bit of a break. But when those vehicles get embedded in the cities and stop (generally when under attack) the freebies are harder to come by- unless you're not opposed to levelling entire city blocks and random fire into surrounding buildings with the GAU-8. Probably not great for the whole winning of hearts and minds campaign.

Turns out I have an hour or so to play so I'm heading in. Hope to see some of you in there!

TS3 server is up with all the normal details.


I had the game server down to do some cleaning up and some windows updates. Should be good now.

Putting up a mission- roakill is good for some instant action!


EDIT: WEll, interesting problem here. I updated TS3 and now for some reason it will connect on the server computer but not on my other one. Not sure what's up with that? I'm going to try a system restart on that computer and see what happens- but would a program change cause my antivirus to block it? Very strange.

Any ideas?