Got to say, despite the flaws, and there are a couple, but not going into that, its been done to death already, I am still loving the career modes that are available with this game..
Whether its with the stock careerB, or Pat Wilsons great work, I'm totaly smitten with them!
I love the fact that I'm now at the stage where once settled in at an airfield and have flown the AO and got a few sorties under my belt, I'm totaly familiar with my airfield layout, all the landmarks within the AO on both sides of the line, and rarely use the map anymore..
But all that changes when you move to another airfield and have to relearn the whole thing again.

Same here, Trooper.
I recently got captured after a 30-mission run with Esc 103 at Cachy. I've really gotten familiar with the landscape now and returning to Cachy feels like coming "home". I also became fonder of my squadmates and was rather aghast when a fluke round of Archie took out Michel Faye right in front of me... He'd been with me almost from the beginning.

Yep.. same here..
I almost feel responsible for the AI pilots that are assigned to me after they have joined or been transfered in.
If I take a couple of new chaps out who have no kills or missions or experience under their belts, it's becomes a task for me to get them back in one piece.
If I take out pilots with several successful and victorious missions to their credit, I don't worry about them as much as they are 'proven' in combat.
I find my self looking at the pilots roster everytime a mission is on the board to check their experience, or lack of.. lol!

Mad I know, as they aren't real, and are just programmes, but it's very immersive all the same.

I also got complacent a week ago, as any DH-2's or Nieuports I tended to meet I considered as relatively easy to take down, but on this occasion I took on what I thought was a solitary DH-2, only to find, almost to my cost, had a couple of Nieuports in support higher up that I hadn't noticed..
Very soon after becoming engaged with the DH-2 and delivering a fatal blow, the Nieuports were on me with a height advantage, and I only just got back across the lines, pursued by one which I managed to despatch once I'd gained altitude, (and a bit of regained confidence).

I'm also seeing reports from AI only missions that are encountering Spads and Pups, so I have that edgy feeling back now, knowing there are aircraft about that could really give me a bloody nose if I'm not on my metal.. Yes, the career is definately the way forward for the single player experience.. and when the new AI routines are implimented it will be even better!

Yes it is certainly is really big plus. I play it DiD, and every time I die I change sides but re-enlist at the same time that the "war" is for me currently. I am 4 pilots and 100 days in so far, but the injuries, oh the injuries.

The career mode has actually convinced me to play DID for the first time, Katsai.

I've been playing flight sims for since Lucasarts BoB, and never played it that way DiD, but this latest career was so involving (keeping track of fellow virtual pilots, etc) that I felt it was "wrong" to pretend that I hadn't followed the DFW CV too far past the front, so when he got my engine, I figured that an experienced pilot like Alphonse Barra should've known better than to make that mistake and deserved to take his chances at an escape rather than get out of characte and hit refly... That's a testament to the immersion I felt.

I like your idea of pickin up the career as the replacement pilot, I think I'll do the same with my new character.

As Trooper said, it's not perfect... But damn is it ever immersive

I do prefer Pats and the career is OK. Nothing to write home about yet. Very rarely do I get that one my flight feeling.

I have come to terms woth the fact that RoF wont have an amazing career for a very long time yet. Mainly due to tech power.

I'm still very much loving the carreer. Had one of those real surprise moments today while flying a line patrol for No.8 RNAS.
A Nieuport 17 formed up on me over Hunland and followed me back. Never seen two dissimilar types do that in any sim before.

Never seen that before, but even if was a pure coincidence, it would have added to the whole experience!
Great pic by the way..

I agree with Trooper -- the beta Career is very engrossing. I fly DiD too and find myself setting little objectives along the way: make it to the end of the month, bring home my flight when I am leading, get promoted and, above all else, survive every flight!

Pat Wilson's CG is also great fun and adds some interesting variety to the beta Career experience. Both have me so sucked in I don't make time to fly MP.

I think it's great too and play DiD much to my own frustration.
I hear a lot about Pat Willson's career but have to ask what is it and how do I get it?
Would be much appreciated if you could help.

PatrickAWilson's RoF Campaign:

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/2893248/ROF_Campaign_Released.html#Post2893248

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Thank you C Gambler.
Will take look now.

I'm currently doing a German career which I started from the beginning and I'm now flying an Albatros II. Looking at the leaderboards always fascinates me because it makes me realize how this flight sim has some really fanatical players.

My mystery friend in the N.17 is back. Flew as part of my Pup flight for the entire mission. I've taken quite a shine to him now and have been careful to watch out for his safety.
Lost the C.O on this mission. Rotten weather and some very nasty two seaters played their part











Love that last shot. I'll be gutted if the fellow gets the chop now... Has anybody else come across something like this?

I think you've got a bug in your campaign, but oh what a lovely bug! You keep an eye on his 6 for the rest of us!!! Does he join your flight later, or take off with your flight from your airfield? If the later, does he somehow show up in the briefing? Any idea what his name is???

It's the heroic moments, unexpected outcomes, and other things like your N17 friend, that really make flying campaigns a lot of fun. That's why people love OFF so much despite its disadvantages.

RoF campaigns will hopefully become more and more like that with time, with better AI, and with a larger plane set.

I haven't had time to play much in the last few months but took a quick spin today and loved it. The great thing is that it is so replayable.
I haven't had a different plane form up on me but have flown in mixed type flights - really cool.
Just wishing I had a newer PC so I could turn some settings up to see the ground and weather in their full glory.

Not sure if its factored or coded into the career, but in real life there would have been a transitional phase when Naval 8 was changing onto Pups..
I'm flying a Jasta 11 career at the moment, and when I pass my cursor over the map on RNAS 8's airfield, it shows they have Nieuports and Sopwith pups..

Those squadrons that show on the career map as employing two types (n.11 and n.17, for example) will create flights with a mix of the types.

Yesterday I flew the second mission in my new career and my flight leader brought us out over the German lines. We climbed and climbed in a spiral and at one point an n.11 from a different flight appeared to join us, but as we continued to spiral up, he stayed with his partner in a pattern about 3000' feet below us (we got to about approx. 6000' (2000m) before my leader leveled off and stayed in the circular pattern.

I think this is the first time that I've seen my flight leader take a position over the front and patrol, rather than follow the waypoints... It may well be, however, that this occurs on a regular basis and that on those occasions I'm already racing for our lines before the red haze gets me

Eventually I got cold and dizzy from hypoxia and decided to return to Cachy without my flight leader.

He was going to put me on potato-peeling duty for a month for dereliction of duty, but I showed him the Croix de Guerre et Palme I had just received from a passing general (funny how that happened) for having shot down 3 eindekkers during the mission and he let it go with a light warning He was in a good mood as he had bagged a balloon.

Naval 8 had a mix of Pups and Nieuports (and Strutters) when initially sent to the front in November 1916. The Strutters were replaced with Pups by the end of November, and the Nieuports were likewise replaced by Pups by the end of December.

I know we haven't got the strutters, (which will be rectified I'm sure), but if they have managed to include a true mix of Nieuports and Pups I'd say thats pretty good for attention to detail..