Hey pilots,
Now that I have taken over Eno's Firehouse and he's off playing with his new fire engine, we can use this post to discuss flight events.

If you are interested in a particular mission in the inventory, or a particular time, and I'm available, then put a note in here and we'll do what we can to accommodate the request (except for changes to Road Kill).



It'll be the weekend in a couple few hours and I will be in Eno's Firehouse and on TS. Hope to see some action, later.

Wrecking Crew

This will be a great spot to come in to organize mp training sessions as well or do mini fly in announcements.

We will be doing our best to try and keep the server. Up and running with fresh missions- both action and training. But it can't be any good if you guys don't speak up and let us know what you want. So speak up and help put this hardware to use!



EDIT:

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.

tc GG and me got into the Firehouse: Road Kill a few hours ago and saw all three C-130s safely landed at Glendzhik. But no other pilots showed up and it was about three hours.

I signed on with my other computer and did not see Eno's in the lobby so I restarted DCS A-10C Multiplayer.


Eno's Firehouse just got rebooted and my other puter sees it in the DCS MP Lobby.
Eno's Firehouse DCS Server: 70.79.187.158:10308
Plug that into your IP window if you don't see Eno's in the main window.


Let us know here if you have connection issues.

WC

Man, being on this side of the world suxx. Would've joined you last night but was too woozy by the time you guys are flying which is about 1am for me. Plus I'm working this weekend too.

WC, any more missions aside from the Nuc plant and Roadkill? What "training" missions do you guys have in mind?

I hear you about the time zones Ice, albeit a little less extreme, it's still a hassle. They were just getting ramped up at midnight here and I had to be up early. Great great great time though. Wow. The mission last night was challenging but not frustrating, and it didn't even have labels on!

Are you going to post any of the screenshots you took WC? Hopefully you got a few movie or video game poster style action pics of my plane diving on a group of tanks to fire a Mav, of deftly outsmarting a SAM (it happened, really!!) rather than me hanging in the chute

I'll see if I can take a screen shot of the missions that Eno has gathered.

We do have another great mission - a big, wide area, Rampant Bear by Moa. If I can upload that to Eno's Firehouse then we can fly it - haven't been back in that one since about last November. It had about 30 slots in it back then, but it had ships, too, that Moa pulled out because of the crash issues, don't know if he changed the Client count.

I have more missions in mind, and they play out in my head like good mystery/crime novels. But the unit density in Road Kill does make me consider some 'short stories'.

I do know that Eno has DRAGON Training missions. Let me get a list of what we have available.

If anyone has their mission and would like Eno to host it then please send Eno a PM? I have not discussed that with him at this point.

WC

Here are the available multiplayer missions -

CSAR Coop 2 (that means 2 Clients)
Dragons Free Flight BS & WH V26 -- All of the Dragon missions are V26
Dragons Free Flight Low Visibility
Dragons Free Flight Night
Dragons Free Flight Storm
Dragons JTAC Training BS & WH
Dragons JTAC Training Night
Dragons Weapons Training BS & WH
Dragons Weapons Training Night
Hideout Camp
In The Weeds Coop 4
Kashuri Gap Coop 8
Sunset Sierra Coop 2
Serpents Head
WCrews Nuke Plant v11x
WCrews Road Kill v11i

Right now Road Kill is running and it will load up Nuke Plant when completed. Nuke Plant may fail as a result, we shall see.

WC

Here's one, tc!




I have another of you running off the end of the runway and crashing into the apartments but you are just a little ball of flames in that one

WC

Lol you're on your way to becoming DCS paparazzi...

Email the Moa one to me and I'll get it loaded up when I get back to my room from work tonight.

The server is up but you either have to go to History or enter the IP: 70.79.187.158:10308.

Missions sent.

WC

Holy crap- you took a beating on that run! And all around the cockpit... rest of the plane is unscathed.

You must have been giving some Zsu-23 gunner the finger on your way past... someone was pretty pissed at you.

Hehe yeah I sure did. Was just coming off target and entering a turn when two of em opened up on me. I was in external view doing a BDA when I saw a cloud of tracers coming at my plane. They were part of a column of tanks trailing the group I was beating up on. I don't even think I lost a system at all, but when I dropped the gear I was on the rims.

So much for rolling on the rim to win...

Zing. Woot to Canadian content too. The CRTC would commend ya!

Lots of danger on the coast in Road Kill


Some Shilka on Black Shark action in Nuke Plant



WC

One of the Black Shark pilots said he cannot reload at a Farp (he was on the Blue side).

All of the Farps in RK & NP, both Red and Blue, have four types of buildings:
Farp Tent
Farp Command
Farp Ammo Dump x 2
Farp Fuel Depot

And all of these buildings are located on the Farp, not off of it, and they are on the side of the Farp that doesn't have the pads.

What does it take to be able to reload at a Farp?


WC

Answer here.

I'll do this right away. All rotor heads should be able to reload now.

WC

Feedback needed guys.

WC and I have been talking a little about how to implement changes to the server while it's up and running. We don't want ANYONE to have to get booted off a game so that we can push updates through to the growing number of missions available.

Originally, I think we agreed that we wouldn't password protect the "unscheduled" flights but would lock up fly ins. Now I'm wondering if the server does start to pack up throughout the day we may be limited in when we can apply updates.

If someone is flying around in there, in a sim like this where it can take a guy 20 minutes to get his aircraft set up the way he likes it, I don't have the heart to kick people out or shut it down. And I don't always have time to wait around 20-50 minutes for a mission to end... so I need to be courteous to the player and to WC and myself.

A couple of options I thought about:

1) Password protect it and post the current password in this thread. This could be updated in the first post. This would allow us to post "update shutdowns" where guys who go in to play will know (or have an opportunity to know) when we will be shutting it down to update it.
2) Post update shutdowns in the thread (first page) and leave it unlocked... who cares about non-SimHQ guys who don't come read the forums? (kidding, but that's how it would seem)


Also- WC is fanatical about getting updates implemented to his missions so the user has the best experience possible. He's been great at integrating people's suggestions so far. Of course, it will get harder to get access to an empty server as it gains popularity... so do we restrict the updates to once a week?


Thanks for the input guys. Hope you're able to enjoy the server!

Say, I put up the Rampant Bear mission last evening and again this morning. Both times I find that the mission has thrown a DCS Stopped Working message.

Has anyone joined that mission and noticed anything about it to pass on?

I'll post it up again, now.

WC

If you're really worried about bumping people off, only update missions that aren't currently being played - if folks are playing it, the mission isn't too bad and whatever polish you're looking at can wait.

Or, if it's super duper schmooper important to change that mission right now and can't wait, log on to the server, chat "Server's changing missions for some updates", change mission, then update the mission you want, then it'll be updated next time it comes up in rotation.

Only problem is that while acting as the server I can't "window" out of it- alt tab or otherwise... But then again if I switch it to windowed mode on the main computer when I'm not there then that will allow us to do modifications without "alt tabbing" out.

Good point I suppose- provided we can "multitask." I do know the servers are more vulnerable in the multitask world so we might have to see how that goes.

Thanks EP

Just played the Bear mission for an hour or so, quite enjoyable! Only shot down once, not counting my belly landing at Tblisi Woulda been much more fun with another player or two though, as I happened across an enemy convoy which, after I killed its accompanying SA-19, shot me down with an SA-8 or something. I got a new plane and wrecked the convoy and then happened across a frendly group of T-72s moving toward a group of about 10 T-80s. I managed to do some actual CAS for the first time over the battlefield in an offensive manner, it was a blast! There was a group of 2-3 BMPs and a T-80 and a few troops farther inside enemy territory but I was out of ammo so I went to rearm at Tblisi.

I was hoping to get there in time to mop up the BMPs and T-80, but they'd decimated the friendly T-72s while I was rearming, that's kinda shocking isn't it? I mean the BMPs fired first and farther than the friendlies but wow. It was kinda disappointing to see 'my' convoy on fire when I returned to help em out, but the fact I felt bad shows the amount of fun this hop was. It woulda been fun to see how far we could take them with more air support!!

Only issues were a tailless and wingless A-10 at 42000 feet and still climbing, and another Hog with engines on fire and one wing missing just flying along fine. Both appeared well off map, and the missing wing A-10 looked like it was flying at night..

Hey tc,
I saw you in the server this afternoon (I was working...).

Glad to say that after almost 5 hours, Rampant Bear is still up and running - this is a mission that can easily go over 24 hours. I'm suspicious of missions crashing if there are never any players that join in the first couple of hours. Right from the start of this instance there were 3 pilots in it for the first 3 hours.

Rampant Bear does not allow any external views, BTW.

I got to build a *bunch* of stuff in White Bird - it is almost ready for trials. :-) Pushing the event dynamics in it. Need to add in a winter storm. BRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.


It really isn't a big deal to do a mission upgrade package, I've announced a server restart & upgrade a time or two. The thing is that I have to Join the session to make the announcement; I can't Text Chat through the remote console.


WC

(...working on White Bird)

Heh well you've got another hit on your hands if it's this much fun when I'm outnumbered! Also, I entered the coordinates the 42000 foot Hog was at, he was in Northern Iran... Had been flying a while I guess..

+7 hours on Rampant Bear now. Good.

WC

WOW, Rampant Bear was going for 19 1/2 hours with one pilot in it. I asked if OK To Reset? and he said OK. I reset it before leaving for work.

WC

Mmmmm, 19 hours of flying...

Rampant Bear - It's a big mission, covers most of the map west to east.

Sadly, the server is not always showing up under Internet - I keep having to go to History to see it.


We also have Moa's Fulda Gap mission, too, the one where you donna get no stenken TGP. I hate that mission

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OTOH, I'll be adding in the weather to White Bird. Should have it up for an initial run within two days.

WC

Sounds like the internet / history is a known bug judging by one of the posts in the Late night thread.

And about the winter storm... Remember where TC and I are located: How about a summer storm instead?! We just got through winter!


I'm really looking forward to this RAMPANT BEAR mission- and should have lots of time to go meander around in it-

Heh yeah! Boo snow! I had my fill by mid January.

Rampant Bear is fun Eno, a few of us will have to get together and try it out too. I had a blast last night in it, protecting my doomed group of T-72s. They deserved so much more than they got

Road Kill Grill is serving up steaks at Eno's Firehouse.

--- edit -> The Fulda Gap gal is the server tonight.

...

So did you like the no external views in Rampant Bear, tc?

WC

Seems like an awful lot of Hawg flying going on around here! I'm jealous. Have to get work squared away again.

I had external views WC. I meant to mention that to you. I certainly had F2, I used it to see the blown up A-10s flying along.

Eh boys I'm home! WC I can take over the server. It'll be changing computers now- so it'll likely appear differently when joining. Settings on that comp should be the same. I'll load teamviewer on it as well just in case but it should be good.

Flying tonight? Rampant bear perhaps?

Good deal, Eno!

That may work, my usual Wed work night got canceled tonight. White Bird is almost ready for a test drive, too.

I checked on the server before work - Fulda Gap had been running for 9 + hours, a pilot was in it so I left it running.

There's another mission building in my head - summer rain and fog - will require the ILS to land; "Riders On The Storm".

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tc, Rampant Bear has Labels Off and enemy objects Off in Map View - right? Any other views or aids that are disabled? What do you think of those restrictions? Do you know how to find the enemy in that kind of situation?


WC

Wonder if they're off but not enforced off?

Okay- well I'll make sure I have some time off to come in for a couple hours or so later on.

Please don't insult my targeting abilities WC, I managed to do just fine the other night, and no fratricide either, I'll have you know. And if all else fails I can just overfly a column of tanks at about 3000 feet. If they try and kill me but miss, they die, if they don't shoot at me, they're good guys

It'd be interesting if friendly fire worked both ways... And that AI could fire on you accidentally every now and then. That would add something!

I was thinking that as I wrote that Eno, but then I realized I have enough metal and explosives flying at my plane as it is..

Yes as it turns out most SAMs I encounter feature "bang bang" targeting as well. You flying tonight?

Look in your inbox Eno.

I was thinking about it, I'll stop by in a few minutes (USAF has scheduled tanking over us for the next 45mins).

Looks like TS is not back up yet.

Will need to revert to Text Chat. My Text Chat is Tab, some versions of the sim use Alt-M or something.

WC

I'm in now, Fulda Gap... Hunting sans TGP. And labels. And external views. There's an SA-19 stalking me if anyone wants to help find him..

Rooo , I got lassoed into a family pizza dinner (yum yum) back in an hour or so.

WC

Yeah it snuffed me about 3 times... An SA10 gobbled up TC and GG to my understanding- might be a bug because there was no warning on the RWR. I was looking for some pretty well dug in bmp3s sculking around a cluster of buildings and could get close enough for VID. Took a couple of runs at it and then the smoke went out and I got disorientated and wandered into the sa19 while I was looking the other way.

If I go in there tonight and see nobody around I might switch over to white bird- we can start beta testing WCs latest mission! Expect it!

Yeah, Eno's right, no warning at all with the SA-10 launch.. Kept me in the weeds afterward. I'll tell you, as much grumbling (pun intended!) as I did seeing no tgp and no labels, Fulda is intense. Going toe to toe with a SAM at a time, kinda baiting em (I ran one SA-19 out of missiles hehehe) and figuring out what angle to approach from, just barely seeing em on the Mav display, "there he is, come on, lock up... bingo, and Rifle!" whoooo man it's exciting. I killed both SA-19s and the SA-8 near them without getting hit once. This misery DOES make you a better pilot. Also I REALLY see the benefit of TrackIR now, it's very hard to: find a group of tanks, turn away before they shoot you, extend, set up an attack while turning the jet but keeping em in view before turning so they're in the HUD and running in. I messed up about 10 runs just because, while I was ready to shoot, I couldn't find the target again.

Alas, I got tied up, we'll join you guys on the next one!

WC

No big deal... Got a chance to cut my teeth on white bird-

Unfortunately an SA10 nailed me after I was about 30 minutes in- with no warning whatsoever.

To WC- Initial impressions:


1) The weather... it is an interesting challenge- to go over top of it means you're eating a SAM handwich while to go beneath it makes for a very lonely feeling flight. I'm not a fan of it (the storm) so far- and it's a loooooooooooooooooooong mission. I'm but one man- so I'll leave it to the masses but it may be on the heavy side to start.
2) If you miss the text updates can you go back and review them or are they gone for good? Might need someone on the ground on a frequency who broadcasts the location- though not sure how you do that.
3) I think until they work out this SA10 thing we might need to stricken them from the book. But it got me to thinking about phased array systems that can actually use search modes with enough accuracy (because it's instantly upated- no sweeping) to track. I know some US systems benefit from something like this and the advantage is that even when "tracking" a radar doesn't present enough of a change in frequency to trip off the RWR. I wonder if it's because these radars STARE in all directions that they are able to track while in a search mode-

Sorry guys- I'm just trying to figure out why something so glaring would have flown under the proverbial radar for so long. I may have my systems mixed up- but I know some of the more modern ones had something like this. Whether its as advanced as the US side- one thing the russians figured out was SAM technology so it was worth a shot.

I ate the green weiner as I was starting to settle up targets at the waypoint airfield he was expected at. I was busy on the TGP enjoying the peace and quiet when suddenly there was a boom and I was spiraling out of the sky. Pretty annoying but that's the game sometimes.

Anyway, I wish I had more feedback for you WC but so far it seems solid but REALLY spread out. I looked at the map and started zooming out and felt a bit overwhelmed. I'm going to sit on it and see if I can come up with something more constructive- and believe me what I'm saying isn't being critical of your work- but I've seen what user feedback did for your other missions and I'd love to see this one grow the same way.

Talk soon!

Because it's only 4 hours I'll probably put Fulda back up... it will last the night and I'd like to take another stab at it tomorrow.

A buddy. Fly with (If I catch you I'll fly with you)



There's no such thing as not tipping off the RWR. There might be RWRs that are old and not capable of processing the signals correctly, and RWRs that can't process the frequency a given SAM is using. The A-10C should be subject to neither of those.
No change in frequency is needed to sound the alarm. STT (or the equivalent carried out by a PESA/AESA radar) + inside lethal range = launch warning. That's how things SHOULD work in a lot of cases ... probably.

Phased array systems can search while tracking (SWT, not TWS like on F-15) because they can rapidly point the beam all over the search space. By rapidly I mean forming some 2000+ beams every second. This is quite a bit faster than a mechanically scanned radar, if you know how to do the math



Realistically you should expect things to spread out. This is different from a fulda gap scenario where you'd point your nose between the hills so to speak, lock the maverick on the first thing you see (and you would see, straight away) and fire. And then fire. And fire some more (Fulda gap: thousands of tanks assaulting europe). It's the realistic scenario for packing 6 mavs, and pretty much nothing else.

A more modern setting would see you facing companies of tanks split up by platoons (3 to a platoon for russian doctrine) and SAMs forming an umbrella over the ground vehicles rather than travelling with them in convoys. There would also be fewer SAMs per non-SAM unit probably, but they'd be harder to find (and ideally, sneakier).

Thanks GG. Awesome info as usual. I googled a bunch of info on the SA10 and saw I had some of the equipment right but wasn't sure about the phased array and how it worked in terms of searching and tracking. That's why I love this forum.

I think I turned the server off last night... But I hadn't been considering guys like ice over on the other side of the world. I'll go get it back up when I finish this post.

tc, there are smoke & WP? rockets on your wings to mark the target positions. If you are coming into the target area and no one has hit a target in the group to send up a smoke column, use two rockets to mark the position. That way you can broadcast the area and the line that the targets are on so you can extend and have a good chance of picking them up on the Mav display next time around.

Fulda Gap is a mission where you do want a buddy who knows how to form up, and watch for fire as you go in to draw it. Those freakin tanks that get into the cities don't stay in one place and they are really difficult to kill. Thankfully, NATO is there to clean up after the CBUs and give reparations out to the locals.


And for heaven's sake, guys, stay away from those SA-10s. They are coming from so far away that the launch sensors on the A-10C do not see them. Sometimes the only warning you will get is from another player who is observing the whole battlefield (you know, one of those nasty CIA tricks).


WC

The pizza was great, but then Tom Cruise put me to sleep in Ghost Protocol...

HE WAS ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE BUILDING!!!

Heh yeah I knew I had em from looking at the DSMS but it never crossed my mind to use em. Ugh. Oh well at least I get better all the time, nowhere to go but up huh?

The mission is fairly safe up to 6000 feet ASL at least, I was flying around that height all the time and went unharassed save for a ZSU-23 I still had to whack. Threats would go back to just plain dangerous had I worked East a bit though. I can see this mission being a methodical scrubbing type. Killing the mobile SAMs was priority one for me and it paid off. There were at least two SA-19s farther East but I was outside their threat range. Killing the first two westernmost ones was a rush. Most intense session I've had yet.

That's an interesting tactic and makes sense. I like it! Though I guess you could just kill two vehicles in a row

How long does the smoke last?

It's easily safe up to 20000, depending on how far east you go. You can designate one aircraft as AFAC with TGP + Smoke pods (plus two mavs and 3 GBUs of some sort, not clusters) and he can scout out the area first and clear you in on targets, as well as mark them if necessary.

Re: White Bird

Stay away from the SA-10s. Read the briefing, learn it, know it, live it.

The SA-10s are the targets of the F/A-18 SEAD strikes. You will have plenty to do in the mean time.


Phased array radar has a big panel - look at the Patriot system - that scans all of the space out in front of it about a million times a minute. Different sections of the radar panel send beams out that triangulate each little cube of space for a hundred miles out. When the radar sees something in a cube it will concentrate more in that area, while still pinging all of the rest of it's space.

I'm happy with your first impressions. Right on target


Unfortunately, when a triggered message is sent, it is different than a text chat message, such that you cannot press a key to see it repeated. I would have to add logic to repeat those messages within the time window that they are relevant - I'll look into it. The other option on those types of messages is that the time length can be set - 10 seconds, 20, 100, etc., but they can't be on too long such that they overlay the next message.

The weather - very interesting stuff, I'm really just getting the hang of it. One guy over in DCS forums wants to create a tornado. Another says its possible to generate thunderstorms! (Riders On The Storm - coming to theaters near Bosnia) The main page of the CDU shows wind direction and speed - before I sent White Bird out yesterday I dialed back the winds from 30-40 MPH to around 10-15, still brutal, but at least the A-10s aren't getting pushed **backwards** anymore I'm thinking I may need to reduce the 6 weather zones down to 4 for an FPS improvement... we'll see. That just may be too aggressive, but its the first attempt.

There is an SA-10 right there at Kutaisi to discourage A-10Cs from approaching. General Vaz thinks he's well protected, but he's horny, too. That's why we have to kill the SA-10s from the west with carrier-based F/A-18s, and attack his convoy from the east with the more versatile A-10Cs in the mountains and the snow. Yes, it's a big area. I already ripped it all up once and relocated things... I had targets all over the hills before, but because it is so big, I got the brilliant idea to locate all targets on waypoints (our spies at work). So if you see an RWR threat, look at the nearest wp to the threat and you should find it within 2,000 meters. Note that with the severe weather, units will go down and come back up. You don't need to fly the waypoints - they are in this mission for another purpose - to mark all the known enemy locations with the help of our spy network.

The F/A-18s prosecute the SA-10s from the north, down the coast to Senaki and Kutaisi. Because of the overlapping coverage of the SA-10s, the F/A-18s have to pick them off one at at time starting from the end. Because of this and the weather, it is going to take a bit of time before the darn radars are all down. But - but - if you can get to the General's helicopter and shoot it down then the mission is won right there - your choice - otherwise you're going to have to wait for our spies to inform us as to where the General is on-route to the Dada Lake House (that's what she calls it, "Come to Dada Lake House tonight, moi generale. Come to meeee." How can General 'Dada' resist ? "Приходите на озере дом сегодня, мой генерал!"

WC

AGM-65G in da house!

Not sure if anything's happening tonight - Eno is busy and I don't have server access. And the TS server is down. Maybe this is the start of the Zombie Apocalypse.


WC

I'm flying right now. It's 2 am in the mission and its a free flight hop. I'll take what I can get though!

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...

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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?

hmm, no,,, I have two computers on the same LAN and both are fine on TS3. Is there a new TS3 update? The last TS update I applied was many weeks ago.

I don't ever recall that TS has had firewall issues, either.

WC

I've disabled the software firewall on the server side and that solved the problem. My question is- why did it suddenly start blocking both TS3 and A-10.

Anyway, I'm behind a hardware firewall... so should still be reasonably safe. In the meantime- mission is up!


I think my TS3 just updated to 3.0.3.

White bird is the order of the evening. ts3 info is posted on page one of this thread. Join up and lets bag us an officier!

TS3 did update - when I started it last night, it wanted to go to 3.0.6, I think it was. I installed it on my main machine - no issues.

WC

Yeah that could be it. No issue with ts3 or a10 but my eset got grouchy and had to re- teach it the port exceptions. I woke up this mornIbg and Fulda gap was crashed. Restarted nuke plant.

On my way back to work until Monday- short one this time! I hope...

To those of you who are looking in here for updates regarding my Firehouse server... we have had a few problems.


1) The computer I have dedicated for serving has multiple user profiles. This allows me to still use the computer for other things without interrupting the rather sensitive "server" window that we have learned doesn't play well with other programs running.
2) Recently we had some confusion with regards to which user profile was up and we think this may have caused instability- because a DCS server was started on a profile frequently used by others in the home... They ostensibly started up their programs with the server running in the background and didn't know any better.
3) I expect we'll have this straightened out soonest. I'm very sorry to those of you who were in the middle of games that crashed. Though sometimes these are mission related crashes I'm sure I'm responsible for a couple in the last two days.

Anyway... hopefully we've got this sorted out and it's smooth sailing ahead!

Hi pilots,
I got a PM from one of the folks here about joining up in multiplayer. I thought I'd share the conversation for everyone, in case others have similar questions. Hope to see more of you on-line!

--- questions ---
I've been monitoring your Eno's firehouse stuff. I'm thinking about trying to join you guys for some MP flight; is everything I need to know for connection in the "what's cooking..." thread? It sounds like these missions are up all the time whether anyone is flying or not: is that true? Is there a mission brief or anything to look at? What about loadout?

--- my reply ---
Just take the plunge and jump in! All you need to start is to register for the DCS Multiplayer Lobby. I think I used the same login name and password that I have for my DCS account.

You do need to know your text chat key - because many folks who will join in Eno's Firehouse are not on Teamspeak. But when we do get a bunch of pilots all on SimHQ Teamspeak it does make it easier, and we tend then to do most all communicating from the TS and that leaves the non-TS guys out of the loop. Either way, text chat or TS, if you have questions just post them in-sim and you should get real-time instruction and answers!

We try to keep the server up most times, but sometimes it crashes or it's busy doing other things. For now, lots of times the server is not listed in the Internet lobby of the DCS Multiplayer, so you may have to go to History to see it, or enter its IP address the first time (Eno's Firehouse DCS Server: 70.79.187.158:10308).

You do need to set the Options in the Multiplayer Lobby - that is where you can change your handle and set your connection speed - I use 512 ASDL, I think it is.

We have some challenging missions. Do read the mission briefings - lots of good stuff in those, and some hints as to what to expect and what to do. Loadouts are on all the aircraft, You can switch out to a different loadout if you prefer. There is one mission - Moa's Fulda Gap - where you don't get no TGP by design, but there is nothing to prevent even buying one of those through the black market or trading something to your CIA friend for one.

Most of the missions we have on Eno's Firehouse provide Cold Start and Warm Start slots. There are typically four Ka-50 Black Shark slots, too. Most all of the missions are all Blue Team co-ops, but some missions feature some Red Black Shark slots as well.

---
Eno's back from work, SimHQ TS is back on-line, and my bro-in-law is finished with the new deck, so it should be a good week for flying. Did I mention that the wife is going out of town for the weekend?!


WC

Inbound and hot!

Not home yet but soon.


Seriously guys- my TS3 server may be a good option for what we need with A-10. But if we'd rather just stick with the TS3 one I'll drop mine.

As for the server, we do try and keep things up but yes, sometimes it does drop.

For those of you who are totally new... SPEAK UP! SHOUT OUT! SAY HELLO!

This is one of the friendliest forum communities I've ever seen... the folding group at maximumpc.com is pretty awesome too... but these guys here take it to the next level.

Anyway... I'm just dealing with a flight delay sitting at the Edmonton airport on my way home. Argh.

I tried to connect last night, but had no luck. After entering the above IP address, it just stayed on the "connecting" window and never connected. Do I need to do anything with my firewall? Port forwarding?

If you could see the server in the MP lobby then you should be able to connect. tomcat had issues connecting to my server but then tc did fine connecting to Eno's. You should not need to open any ports, but your firewall may be blocking - Alt Tab out of the MP lobby to see if there is a dialog box about firewall access that is behind the DCS screen.

I should be able to get on SimHQ Teamspeak tonight, if not, then tomorrow - or PM me and we can arrange a time. Now that SimHQ TS is back on-line I need to establish that connection again...

WC

Goblin were you talking ts3?

I went on the SimHQ TS and saw a bunch of people doing the Military Monday thing, but did not try the other TS3 server.
I didn't see the Eno's server up in the Lobby when I was in there either. Not sure if I will try again tonight; if not, I'll be trying tomorrow night.

Yeah... sounds good.


Nuke plant is up now and you can't find my TS3 in the server list- you have to go in through just connecting to the ip with the password. I've tried opening up the required ports but don't seem to have much luck with it.

When we're around to modify the server a bit more often we tend to put up shorter missions- this new one sounds really good!

If you go in looking for the game server and have been in there before- don't forget sometimes it ends up in "history" instead of the normal server list.

To my disgruntlement I am noticing more "stopped working" errors from the server side. This absence of reliability is disheartening- especially when this time it's while the computer is left untouched and also logged in. Fulda gap is up now and generally it's stable... But it crashed within a couple hours this morning.

Is there some place I can go find an error code that I can either read or submit to dcs / ed?

I apologize in advance to anyone who has been cut off in game. This isn't to say it's happening ten times a day but frequently enough to cause inconvenience.

Eno - look in your User - Saved Games - DCS A-10C - Logs folder. I've seen some posts on the DCS Forums with logs in them, you may get some answers there.

WC

I'm in the Fulda Gap mission now, but could use some help. I had blunted the initial Russian attack and the friendliest were in harassed but then someone named meet flew a Red Ka-52 near our Abrams a few times.

Hold on for another hour tc - I'm flying in from the north coast!

WC

I might be gone then but at least the battlefield will be sanitized! I'm getting better at this all the time I thinks! I'll try and clean up some sams too.
We did pretty well stopping the initial advance, I've never joined this mission early enough to see blue units before the plains! They're still alive as I write this, I don't think anythings moving toward em now. Next step is the SA-19/8 cleanup duty.

I'll be in shortly!

SA-10 is dead. Yeah. You're welcome

Damn... tried to get in on this as my first MP experience but all I'm getting is integrity check failed? I am running 1.1.1.1! What could the problem be I wonder?

Edit: In my frustration I didn't think to read around before posting. Re-installing now to see if that works.

Hey guys just had to drop by and say thanks for the server/missions and the flying! I joined for the first time tonight as more of a "trial" run to see how I did...lets just say that I have a lot more to learn lol! I'm used to flying simple SP missions with minimal air defenses and clear weather; definitely threw me for a loop lol.

Even then I still had fun, and plan to join more often. Hopefully I'll be of better use after learning more

Thanks again and see you next time!

JoJo

Wow, that was a nice turn out, and about 4-5 of us on SimHQ TS, too.

Jojo, great that you joined in. Saw a couple other new joins tonight, too.

Riders ot Storm is a fun mission with the weather and valleys to hide in.


WC



--- next mission ---
Ants... red fire ants marching towards the blue bases... army ants expanding their nests, pinpoint accuracy necessary. Cargo ants, fire ants and air defense ants, hot dry windy conditions.

Yeah that was really fun. Not going to lie I had my doubts about this mission but wow- it's a boatload of fun!

I've been thinking- don't change that waypoint with the friendly forces. I made an error and knew there was something not quite right and shot anyway. True I didn't know there were friendlies in the area but I shouldn't have assumed.

Had a lot of fun in that mission WC. Thanks again!

X-ray- I hope you get it sorted out sooner than later!

Jojo! Great to see you in there. That's a tough mission to be learning the ropes on. I'm not exactly new but still really weak with a lot of my basic skills. I think you would enjoy a lot of our other missions too. Got a few open training missions cued up as well. Feel free to join those!


See ya!

Before I retired last evening I checked and the server was up for over an hour after it auto-restarted the Riders mission!

Eno, was it still running OK this morning?

BTW, Namaste asked me the other day if Road Kill can be put up for the guys who fly during our nights.

WC

Absolutely. We can run it tonight.

And yes riders was running when I got up so all good there too. Hopefully it'll run smooth today as well.

Was able to join Road Kill tonight for a while. Killed several SAMs and a few shilkas. At one point I had to take off with a ZSU sitting at the far end of RWY24 -- that was very cool. Had the ECM running before I even started my take-off run. Rotated at 130, gear up and banking just feet off the ground and I could hear the AAA exploding all around the jet. Dodged a whole lot of SAMs, but ducked a bit too low there at the end and went swimming.

Cool mission.

Better swimming than rock climbing- eh WC?

Thanks for a great time guys! You'll see more of me on the server from now on, time zone permitting.

Had fun joining up for some formation flying for the first time:


And the ending was very satisfying! I think WC has some less flattering screenshots of the way I returned to Sochi though...

XRay_Specs - I'll never tell, for 1 million dollars

That last screenie above is from after winning Road Kill and the three of us landing back at Sochi-Adler.

We waited for the auto-restart, which worked as advertised, escorted the first C-130 out of the area and left the mission running for the night. Hopefully it ran well for everyone.

WC

I left it running since about 9pm pst and it was running at 1125am now- with a stated runtime of 2hrs35 mins or so. Guess it reloaded at some point.

Good news.

I've also been leaving my second comp logged in in hopes that not having an empty server would prevent a crash. Just toying with the idea. Worked so far.

You know, I'm a bit suspicious about that - if not having anyone in the sim is a cause for a crash.

But then the ChinaPro server is *always* up, and no one is ever in it.


WC

Lots of servings on the Firehouse grill lately,

JoJo dodging a SA-11



RTB after Road Kill


C-130 taxing at 1 o'clock


C-130 escort service



In Hot WP 18 EWR Mavs 3 mins



Eno's Surprise! CBU on top in Riders ot Storm - that BUK site is gone



Batumi in the rain



Jabaow takes out the TV tower at WP 21 with a Maverick



Home bound



Jabow, XRay_Specs and Eno


Nice...

(Gold star ^^)






--- Sign above the counter ---
Bad guys don't get no parade.



Wrecking Crew

That was alot of fun flying with you Guys last night.Very good mission indeed.

Agreed! Lots of different skills put to the test. I'm still looking for that perfect mix of groceries. 4 mavs isn't quite enough but 6 is too many- though I guess if I just hurry up and kill something I can have the best of both worlds!

Got up today and roadkill was crashed- with someone in the spectators. Made me do a double think on my bios ram power settings so I'm going to take a look (was a 1eee error which reminds me of some memory errors from my overclocking days.)

I'm going to take a look when it clears up again.

Wish we could have had you and WC up for the Odessy Dawn mission, could always use more hogs on that mission. I will add a warm start A-10 to that one to account for folks with issues that prevent cold starts. For some reason everybody was having trouble with the right engine lighting up yesterday.

Thanks, Beans!

Wow, that was it, and being that late didnt help

I hope I did not confuse Eno too much. We gave up, I was trying to talk him through Cold Start and things just were not spinning up right.
WCs Ramp Start Guide

You guys had quite a crowd. Great to see all the interest last night, and everyone on SimHQ TS, too.

WC

Tao just emailed a mission to me that has 4 A-10 slots and a pair of Blacksharks that we are going to try later tonight. Plus I'll add some Blacksharks to that one that starts out inflight with the hogs returning from the range with limited ammo.

Wish I'd had time to get on today, Riders of the Storm was a lot of fun! Glad all I had to do was leave autopilot on to keep that formation... Eno's doing all the hard work there

Hope I can get in on the start of Road Kill sometime... it looks like a blast with the C130s at the beginning! (Plus not getting launched on during takeoff would be nice )

Eh guys... well I got up this morning (cough afternoon cough) and noticed that the server was up and running and there was no notification from Teamviewer that crew had to come in to do any adjustments. Could it be I isolated the source of my crash issues? Maybe... maybe...

A couple of other things... Crew- you did a great job walking me through the cold starts but things really weren't coming together for us. I've subsequently gone through the training and responsibly wrote down all the steps and I have started practicing my cold starts... It was time to put my big boy pants on. I've had a few good runs with it so I'm feeling better about it now.

That formation stuff is pretty awesome- in fact it may be something to think about for the end of that mission... actually- that 15 minutes is a good amount of time to join up and enjoy the formation flying (regardless of how "realistic" formation flying is... let's not get THAT debate started again!!)

BEANS I do have your missions downloaded now and available on my server. Just wondering- any stability issues that you've had at all with them? Might be something fun to try out today?

Anyone else in for flying today?

Working on the new Ant farm ................." .." .."

They are invading everywhere


What's that?


??


More ant poison needed... ant farms are everywhere now


You May Be Our Only Hope



---
Many of the roads in the region are dead-ended. These isolated waypoints have become bunkers for a new menace that is spreading quickly. As it grows in strength, the Red threat strengthens each new Bunker with ever capable air defense.

Soon the Red ants will march over all our bases unless we stop them by destroying their bunkers. Mav's are useless.

WC

This mission looks familiar somehow...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soVysOPlR...mp;feature=plcp

Good to see I'm not the only one who ate some mountain after passing the festival

Eh guys. I'm back off To work now so I've moved the server onto my main machine and made similar adjustments. However- it may not show up in your history lists anymore- may be found in the normal Internet server list now.

I've also abandoned my ts3 server in favor of simhqs. I can always fire it back up if SimHQ goes down again.

Again- any problems with the client side let me know. Perhaps it's something I can adjust.

And with that being said- if upgrades / transitions to dcs world happen- I'm not sure if it'll affect serving for those of you without dcs world. For example- I have two copies...do I also need to buy two copies of dcs world? Will I only need one?

Looking forward to seeing missions with a wide variety of aircraft and to be honest I can't wait to fly somewhere other than the black sea region!

If anyone has a mission request let me know and I'll see what I can do about running it on Eno's Firehouse.

Looking forward to the upcoming patch -

Looks like ships will be fixed which will bring back mothballed missions

• Several electrical devices in cockpit not working properly.
tc, ^^^ maybe the above means that mag light thingie will work soon!

Multiplayer issues are being addressed, too. I was home for lunch and Nuke Plant was still running after 14 hours, albeit one plane that was suspended on the tarmac by about 8" - I think maybe that was what was left of a pilot that lost connection - that looks to be addressed with the new patch -
• MP client slots stay unusable for a long period of time if the previous client timed out.

The new Ants mission is marching along... got all the ant piles laid down on the map but the logic is all wrong so I'm ripping it all up after like +20 hours arrggg


WC

You'll be ok WC! I look forward to strafing those guys. If I get close enough. But I suspect you won't make that easy.

TOMCAT?! Where the heck you been? I flew just about my whole last set of days off without you to suppress SAMS! So basically I was SAD (suppressing air defences) on my own (I know it's SEAD but SAD is more appropriate in this case.)


Okay- I shouldn't say "on my own" as I'm sure I was assisted by a great many readers in here who just muttered to themselves "What a jerk... he didn't even acknowledge ME!"

BUT you get the picture!


So- back to the topic at hand here... where did you go? Out working a street corner to get your TIR5 paid off sooner than later? That's what I would do...

oh man, Eno has the A-10C Blues (can we have some saxophone here?)


Looks like the server got cooked so am in the process of rebooting it...

--- edit ---> White Bird is up


WC

Ha! Glad you missed me I almost joined last eve but watched hockey instead. I'll have to get back on soon as I'm starting to miss playing. I wish our schedules synced up a little better cause it's always fun flying with you guys. I'm going out Saturday night so if I join when we get home it should be good timing if you folks are around. I haven't even set up the new Teamspeak server yet, if it's any indication of how long I've been away. Maybe this weekend will work, and I might try and get on tomorrow evening too but I think you're back to work?

Looks like I'm around 6 weeks from TrackIR go live too. Woohoo! First thing I'm gonna do is practice spotting SAMs without a hat switch. Getting shot at might become more fun!

I can assure you from experience that TIR5 does not make that experience any easier... basically just an early warning indicator that you're about to get shot down.

Sort of like a radar detector- simply a device that notifies you that you're about to get a ticket

The server has been running pretty good this week. It looks to me like most of the missions are reloading properly, as I will sign on to see the mission elapsed time at some low number and pilots in the mission.

The server was down this morning though. I'd started up Road Kill before I retired last night but no server this morning and a DCS Stopped Working message to boot. I restarted it with the ever-favorite Fulda Gap.

If any of you pilots are in a mission when it stops on you please let us know? Also very curious if the Black Sharks can reload at the FARPs now?


It's almost the weekend!

WC

Eno's Firehouse is off-line now, don't know why. I'll check it again in a bit...

WC

Eh guys... bit of an update.

I talked to my cable company after the GF reported that all their internet was down... apparently the cable folks could see that service was problematic- possibly because of a connection on our end. When she gets home I'm going to walk her through a couple of things and if that doesn't work a tech will need to be dispatched.

We've tried the usual unplug routine and that hasn't worked so we have a few more things to try out. If we're down, then I'll let you know.

Thanks again for your patience!

All looks good now!

WC

Nuke Plant is at ++30 hours now with only Nuke Plant #1 destroyed. Nuke Plant #2 Cooling Tower is out but there are enough support facilities left to sustain the plant.

Here's the problem - two TORs are north east of Nuke Plant #2.

^^ the right MFCD shows the NP #2 facility that needs to be destroyed.

WC

All the WCrew and 104th_Moa missions have been upgraded with new mission/filename/revision titles and Client slot assignments.

The Ants mission is also up for Beta testing. This one is a cutter - it is on the edge of code limits so Please report issues back here in the SimHQ forums. The number of units in the mission have caused cockpit sounds to disappear; waiting to see if Clients will affect this.

Ants is a good one for pilots wanting to take on the night. Lots of visual cues as to where the enemy is - minus Labels and F10 Map Enemy Views that is. When an enemy base is spawned an illumination flare goes off - which should be seen for many miles. Destroy a base before it releases its hordes or two more bases will spawn. Ants in your pants should run for about 4 hours at most.

Wrecking Crew

Ants in your pants


Ants
*Beta*
Blue Liberation Front (BLF)
A-10Cs
4 Cold @Gelendzhik
2 Cold, 2 Warm @ Novorossiiysk
4 Air @ Krymsk
Blue Ka-50s
2 Cold @Krymsk

Red Democratic Republic (RDR)
1 Cold Ka-50
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A hot summer night along the coast. Normal patrols...

Near Arhipo-Osipovka
A civilian ship runs aground mysteriously.
Within a short time a base appears, illuminated for construction, most of the activity being underground.

---
With little warning the night sky above the base is filled with smoke and red fireballs. Suddenly troops come pouring out of the bunker and head off into the night.

---
Realization dawned on the Blue Liberation Force - this is the start of a major invasion! It seems that the Red Democratic Rebublic obtained new technology and with it they are rapidly spreading, advancing their forces towards Gelendzhik, Novorossiysk and Krymsk.

The good news is that there are no real air defense threats.

---
Mission designed by Wrecking Crew.
Join in the discussions at SimHQ.com.
We use SimHQ's Teamspeak 3; free registration @ SimHQ is required to use the TS server.

This mission pushes the limits of unit counts. If you experience a loss of cockpit sounds let us know - this version should be OK.

Designer notes - each Red base fields about two columns. When a new base is activated an illumination flare marks the spot.

Red flares fire for a few minutes before each bunker releases its troops. Green flares fire for a couple of minutes afterwards.

If the Red base is destroyed then it cannot release troops. Destroying these bases has a significant impact on the red army's ability to spread.

To destroy a base, the Road Outpost, Bunker and Shilka must all be destroyed.

This must be done quickly, before the base releases its troops. Pilot coordination is the key.

---
Red win: Capture the three air bases - Gelendzhik, Novorossiysk, and Krymsk.

Blue win: Prevent all three Blue bases from being captured. Or, if the ants cannot advance due to losses the Blue will win.

'Ants' will take 3-4 hours to complete, without intervention.



Red -
This slot is for CIA use.
Exit now or you will be terminated.
...
..
.

The Red Ka-50 does not have FARP support - no reload or rearm capability exists.
(This mission is up against hard limits on the number of units. There is no room to support the Red Ka-50s.)


Blue -
Gelendzhik Base
Tower 126
Runway 04

Novorossiysk Base
Tower 123
Runway 04

Krymsk Base
Tower 124
Runway 04

Use aircraft nose numbers for Own ID. Default Net ID is 11.

The Red Ants are advancing from the bottom on the coast to the top at Krymsk airbase.

The Red Ants expand out and every new hive fires off an illumination flare. Red signal flares go until the hive releases its armies.

The Red Ant armies expand northward to target Glendzhik and Novorossiysk first, then to Krymsk.

Kill a hive in the red signal flare stage and it will not be able to release its armies - which would be a significant blow to the RDR advance.

Once a hive releases its armies it will fire green flares - don't bother anymore with it. Find the units that just left that base and kill them all!


Cont Msg -
Welcome to the Ants mission! For voice comms we use SimHQ's Teamspeak server - details in the SimHQ.com Multiplayer Forum for members; free registration. And visit the A-10C and Black Shark forums.
The BLF Predator is on frequency 124.0 AM.

Novorossiysk about to be captured


Ninja There is this pesky Red Ka-50 that keeps blowing up the Novo base while I'm trying to test the beta... LOL



WC

New mission - The Highway.

It's not your usual mission.




Four A-10C slots (for now - Beta alert), all air start, no you do not have any weps, yes that's right.

Start at the north end of the lake -


The Red forces suffered badly today, let's go home -


Where did that come from? -


How many more of these? Hey I'm getting pretty good at avoiding them with a few course changes to bleed their energy -


There's the four-lane that leads to the coast -


Those BUKs are forcing me low -


A close up for the GF -


No problem, where do I land? -
Ruhh roh

How many rounds do I have left?

---


WC

It's survivable - if you stay below 200' over the lake. And stick to the waypoints!


If you make it to the south end of the lake -
Fly under this bridge for fun -


Ignore these guys, they won't bother you ---


Oh, there is the highway -


And there is the coast. That did not take long -


Sochi-Adler used to be such a friendly air base -


I wonder if they saw me -



It needs some work. The BUK systems around the lake are too close for most pilots.

And enable the external views like F2.


WC

Looking forward to trying it out... but I may be leaving lots of black marks on the landscape

Hi XRay_Specs,
Or ripples in the lake... There are BUKs on both sides of the lake - I need to move them back a few miles. Everyone I saw join the mission left w/in 10 minutes.


I got the idea for The Highway after watching ralfidude fly Riders w/o weps. He was rolling and banking like an acrobatic flyer. Since there are no weps on the Hog in The Highway mission the plane is quite maneuverable.


WC

The Highway is pretty darn fun if you ask me. I just started a new version that has the feel of a final release. Stay low to avoid those BUKs. The jet will cruise above 300 since there isn't any drag making for some great flying. This mission is making me a better gunner, too. Stabilize in PAC-1 and the Shilkas don't really have a chance.


"Tits Up Hog"

I got myself in a bad way...


WC

Took the server down for a bit to get some updates loaded and disable a few things that were coming on during startup. I'll get things rolling again soon.

That mission looks like fun... maybe I'll see some of you around throughout the day and we can fly it.

Thanks for a great mission WC! I expected the Highway to just be a fireworks festival with lots of unplanned trips south, but it really has a lot to do, and retaking Novo was really satisfying!


Little close for comfort...


Landed (in a manner of speaking) at Gelendzhik. My poor left engine... RIP


Thank you titanium bathtub!


Look at this show-off in his fancy not-stuck-in-the-mud A-10

Will be back on again tomorrow!

The Highway mission is like riding a rollercoaster - lots of twists and turns. Good PAC practice!

The RWR can be a bit overwhelming. With Launch Warnings, press the PRI button on the CMSC to filter the threats and you will then see which site has the targeting lock on your aircraft. You will be able to see if the threat is at 3 o'clock or 9 o'clock and then eyeball the launch plumes. The mission flight path will keep you at the maximum range with little to worry about when staying below 400 feet.



Press the ALT ALERT button in the center of the Up Front Controller to change the AGL setting of the Altitude Warning to zero. Press the button, then '0' then ENT to change the setting from 500 to 0; press ALT ALERT twice more to clear it from the HUD.


This is H.A.L.O. going under the bridge at Waypoint 4 -



WC

My first time playing multiplayer with TS3. I didn't manage to get to the coast but enjoyed it all the same. Thankyou WC for the opportunity.

Hey XRay_Specs and Allizdog! Good flying with you, too. That's a good mission.


Eno, had a couple issues last evening to report - maybe ISP related? At about 1Jun2012 T2000 MDT we had some 7 pilots in the server and all got kicked - I got a DCS Stopped Working message on my screen. Teamspeak was unaffected. The server continued to run through the Client interruption.

Then it happened again at 1Jun2012 T2312 - all Clients booted and the server kept on ticking.


Repair at Gelendzhik if you can make it...



WC

Hmmm that's odd? Mission related kick possibly? I don't know how the ISP would kick people but leave the server running.

On a side niobe my apologies to those who were enjoying the game when it crashed. That's very annoying to me... If its on my end I'll do my best to fix it.

I'm inbound and hot for a round of riders. See you in there.

Update: crew and I are inbound top of the hour- 7pm pst.

Some damage has been done already but loads left to do. It is definitely a dark and stormy night.

Okay guys- judging by some of the feedback I'm reading in other forums I think we're trending back towards setting a password. If this does get set up, I will post the password on the first page of his thread. Typically, just for information, it is 'go'

If ANYONE sees the team killing thing going on- please advise in the firehouse thread.


Thanks.

I am soo against a password.

So much so, that I will gladly pay for serveman if it costs anything.

But it's not my server...

WC

FYI - Servman by Panzertard -

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=53732

WC

The last hour of The Highway -

XRay_Specs and raven helped me to work over Novorossiysk for a late evening win - beautiful colors at 2000 hrs on a warm summer night -

Gorgeous -



tc, this one's for you, 44 days -



WC

Not 44 days since I've played.. Right??

44 days to TrackIR tc :-) if my calendar is not broke

We were in Road Kill just a couple minutes ago and everyone got disconnected and the server was stopped. I reloaded DCS MP and Road Kill.

That seems to be a Friday night thing...

WC

So there was a server crash at 2130 MDT. The mission was Road Kill.

Restarted Road Kill and it is fine now an hour into sim time later.



Peter joined tonite and played a good part for the Blue Team. Yeah! for everyone.


WC

Ahhh ok phew!! I know I haven't been on in a bit and was hoping it wasn't that long. Haven't played even in other servers in a while, I was on vacation for a bit and also the weather has been nice here. Getting the itch to play again though so I'll be around.

Also I just finished a couple hours in Roadkill (WC did you turn off the tooltips? :)) and mopped up around the base a bit, esp the anti air. It was dark so it was fun!

So juuuuust in case this saves someone else the pain of flying to a target IDed by another flight member's SPI, avoiding SAMs and other jerks, only to find out that your GBU-31s are paper weights:

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=79648

I don't use sat bombs from a cold start much and got burned on this today..

tc - there is a way to do an in-flight alignment. I'm not up on it though but I think I could get through it again.

And Sherman (?) who wanted RWR symbols - look at the doc links at the top of this guide.
WC's Start Up Guide & Doc Links


raven and I were practicing SADL targeting assignments, then with tomcat and others in Rampant Bear today. That's the first time I've sent tasking orders out - SADL doesn't get used much IME but its lots better than a simple SPI Broadcast. I found I'm able to enter my callsign in the NET ID stuff but don't know how that will be used - I need to work on this, too, I used the CDU character keyboard but kept getting input errors - I had to use the LTR feature of the UFC just to get a simple 'WC' entered.


The mission started this morning with early successes and the collapse of Roki Tunnel. The coast is still up for grabs.

WC

Know where this is - ?





DCSW upgrade next weekend?

Heheh I know where that is, good to see ordnance heading at it. My frustration Mavs did nothing very glad I was able to fly that mission too btw, I had a great time except for the GBU-31 mis step.

I think that sounds like a good idea but everyone should brace for some hiccups along the way.

Father's Day is this coming weekend and I may fly down to Austin to see my pop.

I start a nice vacation on Thursday and will most likely update my side of things then - DCS World and the new A-10C Beta - I downloaded both files last weekend.


WC

Oh btw WC did you see a friendly T-72 on top of a RR bridge during that mission yesterday? Musta had a great view, and looked neat as well.

Arggg I got all the way to the tunnel and could not release the GBU-31s. It was good flying with you guys and great watching Wrecking Crew close up that tunnel.