Hey fellow dcs enthusiasts!

So after jabbers did a poll and learned that most people were playing SP, myself included I decided to set up a discord channel with the specific purpose of being an informal community/ jumping off point for those wanting to join multiplayer servers and try their skills in a friendly, easy to use, at the moment "ad hoc" environment.

It's pretty simple, join the discord channel, if you see some one on, kindly ask if they would like to join up; done.

Discord: https://discord.gg/Mdf6SY7

It's probably a better join up if you have some of the basics down, but I wanted this to be a place for all wavelengths of skill sets. Cheers!

While I applaud the intention, what's stopping this from becoming just an open server where people do air-quake?

the mission served and the folks joining.

Ice, I think this is a meeting place where newbies can come on and veterans can show them the ropes in individual servers.

I'm in,DBcoop; I joined your discord channel. I have experience with all of the modules (though some more than others). Additionally, my group (the Black Veal Squadron) also flies coop every Wednesday and Saturday at 8pm Eastern. We meet on the SimHQ TeamSpeak server in the temporary room "Black Veal Squadron" or "BVS" or some combination. We welcome new players: the only thing we ask is basic system knowledge (i.e. so you're not asking what keys to press when we're in the middle of a bombing run) and a willingness to learn. Even the basic system knowledge can be overlooked if you're willing to fly with one of us at other times to learn the material. Again, the willingness to learn is the primary criteria.

I'm not trying to hijack your thread; I think it's a great idea and I will show up on the discord channel to help others when I have time. My intent is providing a complement to your idea.

I was curious as to the numbers of SP vs MP players. After the last round of updates and the issues it imposed on MP, I'm seeing that SP is more common, based on replies.

So when I rolled back to 1.5.6 and was looking for servers, seeing very few MP being ran and used for either 5.6 or 5.7 made sense.

Hopefully this discord will allow a common group to join up and get what they want from DCS without the Air Quake environment that is prevalent on the other servers.

I have noticed too the decline in MP since the 1.5.7 update. Pity they stuffed things up.

hey thanks for the responses!!

Perhaps I was not articulating my intentions, I was looking for people to just "ad hoc" group up onto someone elses server. For instance, at this point in time I'm personally looking for people to formation fly with(on the aerobatics server) since i'm just getting my feet wet. I thought it would be nice to have a place where different people who may have different intentions to also form up. I was looking at some other peoples wing groups and while I would love to be able to join one of them, I didn't want to be a person who said, "yea I'll join you guys," but then not be able to commit to specific times do to RL obligations. I also thought I am not alone in this catagory and had not seen something like i am describing. Periodically I see people on the steam forums looking for groups or a couple people to join up with, so I figured I'd just setup a discord channel for that purpose. When I first got interested in DCS, it was off of steam, but I made the transition to the stand alone version. Since I knew thats how a number of people are also going to get into the sim, this was a place for "no reservations, no expectations" MP.

Thank you Home Fries!

Yep 1.5.7 is really borked

sling load cargo = crash server
Spawned AI planes fly at stall speeds

Our clan runs the Havoc Company Dedicated Server

We run training missions 24/7 with A2A and A2G ranges for all the available aircrafts , 1.5.6 was great 1.5.7 ... not so much