I have now flown 6 sorties and 7.47 hours with FA 3Lb from Bisegheim in September 1917. I have not seen ONE enemy aircraft closer than a few miles away.

My last sortie was done at 16x time compression and on autopilot from start to finish. This is no way to conduct a war. Flanders North is supposed to be dangerous at this time.

That is odd. I've always had plenty of air activity in all regions and years even with a setting of "Light" for regional air activity.

Get out of time compression near the front. I shut mine off at the balloon lines.
It throws off something in WOFF and how the AI deals with enemy encounters - both your side and the enemies. Certainly at 8x which is where I have seen the issues. Probably worse at 16x I imagine.

I fly in Flanders all the time in 1917 and 1918. Lack of encounters has never been an issue....in real time of course.

Don't use time compression myself unless landed and waiting for squad stragglers.

Hey, try that workshop setting with encouters. I fly "realistic", but maybe "High" would suit you better.

I don't remember hearing about this issue before.

Are you saying that using time compression reduces the number of encounters that you'll have? In what way? Does using time compression somehow reduce the number of enemy planes in my area or are they there but just less willing to attack?

It sounds odd - I've been using time compression a lot and have had more than enough combat encounters. Maybe there's something else going on?

Don't know the ins and outs of it but three 8x encounters resulted in both sides on top on one another (when I dropped back to real time) and the AI seemed "confused" by the event and/or the proximity.

Things seem more normal and natural to me if the encounters occur and develop out of TC.

OK, thanks Duke.

I'm a cheater. I use time compression and set the TAC to 4 km (or 2.2 miles). As soon as new aircraft appear on the edge of the TAC I drop out of time compression and check them out.

I go through periods where I never encounter certain types of enemy planes and wondered if it was somehow related to this topic. For example, recently I've been flying with Jasta 1 and 2 in summer/fall 1916. I haven't seen a single DH2 and only a couple of FE2bs, but lots of Nieuports and Sopwiths.

Yes no Tac in action so that is perhaps why I get too close in 8x and cause all the combat confusion.
As stated when I fly RFC I fly real time once I hit the balloon lines.
When I fly German I use it just for the "circle and gain altitude" part since the French Nieuports are always close at hand.
If I was retired I guess I could "real time" it all!

Guess I'm screwed.

I just fly and ain't gaming the game...for an advantage...


I fly real time.... what is the rush of time compression all about?

+1 I am with you there Bud!

Well if I was rich and didn't have to work AND had a pack of laborers to take care of my property I guess I would be all set for real time.
Until then, as much as it pains me to say it, I can't do WOFF 16 hours a day.
90 minutes or 2 hours a pop two or three times a week is a good week - and for that I get up in the pre-dawn hours on my days off. Kind of like dawn patrol I guess!

and the lineman....is still on the line

Well, not everybody has enough free time to fly full real missions all the time, so compression helps.

For example, I wouldn't be able to fly any other careers at all in addition to my A level DID pilot, if I didn't use time compression for my other guys.

I don't think I'm gaining any advantage from using time compression - combat is still as deadly as ever, even though it may take a shorter time to get into a scrap.

Well, I do understand the Problem - especially, when you fly for a Squad, that is stationed far away from the Front... and maybe even early in the War in the Vosg... Voges... the Mountains LOL
In some Constellations, you only have 1 Enemy-Squad in the whole Area - and if you have already met them, you know, nothing more will happen.
Sometimes, when flying very early Fighters, I even turn on Labels for a short Time... to see, if there is someone except me in the Air, or if everyone is having Lunch. After spinning Circles in an Area for half an hour, you wonder if it's just a calm day and you should return, or if you should stay a little longer.
Personally, I don't bother, if that happens from Time to Time - that is Part of the Tension of the Game... but if really nothing happens for 3 or 4 Missions in a Row, I start using Labels and Compression...

I'm using time compression and there is nothing off or breaking if using. It was in p3 when warping, but time compression is simply a faster world, but everything happens as it happens, no matter if in real time or not.
Usually after I start manually, I go into time compression 8x or 16x, depending of how good the certain day is handling it. Often then when on patrol I'm usually at 4x, where I can still scan the skies and control the craft good.

To check, if there are really no E/A around, set LABELS on ACTIVITY -
then you get all aircraft assigned in a radius of, I think, 25 miles.
Then you should know.

I never use time-compression; too much of an immersion killer IMHO -
sometimes I may use air start, if I have little time.

TAC does not always show you enemies, it's ones you are aware of or would possibly spotted.

Something sounds odd maybe just remove all mods, then create a new pilot.

We'll always something new to learn in WOFF world!
I always presumed the Tac was like an Aegis system but not at all eh?
"...ones you are aware of or would possibly spotted."
Very cool...I like it.

That's what I thought too
Ah well - you live and learn