For the first time in the four years playing OFF/WOFF, I finally had a pilot reach over 50 flying hours. I was half expecting confetti, balloons, and champagne corks to pop out of the monitor, but it was just the usual mission debrief screen.

The 50-hour mark is a strictly " bring your own champagne" event

Congratulations though - that's definitely a landmark while playing DoD!

Haven't dipped into DiD yet. Every time I want to commit something comes up. I want to.

We sure would love to have you in the Centenary DID. We need more bodies, oops, I mean more pilots.

Congratulations!
I think it is particularly interesting, how one gets more and more cautious, the longer one plays Woff...

Congrats on your 50 hour mark!

A hearty congrats from me too Ace, and also to Raine for his mile marker in the DiD campaign

Thanks much guys. Definitely a congrats to Raine for a greater milestone. I find myself going back reading Jack's story from the beginning.

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AceMedic88, I also offer my congratulation to you on hitting the 50-hour mark. And congratulations to you as well Raine on 100 hours. Looks like we have both of you to thank for the drinks tonight in the Officers' Mess.

BARKEEP!

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I'll echo Lou's fine sentiments to you and Raine! 50 and 100 hours are both remarkable feats in a sim as punishing as WOFF. I don't remember ever hitting such numbers in WOFF's previous iterations and now, with the introduction of hazards like mechanical failures, I wonder how may lucky rabbits feet my pilots are going to need to stock up on to make it home in once piece!

Cheers!

that aint easy to do...now it gets harder.

Well done mate... I'm lucky if I make 10hrs!

I must admit, I'm definitely extremely cautious with everything, and have that "this is the final mission" feeling every time.

Thanks for the comments, guys, and a second hearty congratulation to AceMedic.

As Robert, Hasse, Banjoman, and Lou (with their amazingly long DiD careers)must certainly have experienced, once your pilot gets to 50 hours every flight becomes realistically nerve-wracking. For me, creating and writing a detailed back-story about a DiD pilot immeasurably increases the enjoyment of the sim.

I find that four or five days of easy combat can pass by and then something truly terrifying happens. Your engine conks out miles into Hunland, or you find yourself entertaining four well-handled Pfalzes with wonky controls and shot-up surfaces. You're so invested in your pilot's character by this time that it takes real effort to keep calm and in control.

This is the real magic of the WOFF experience.

Raine, you hit the nail squarely on the head. Yesterday, my Centenary DID pilot Arthur had a control line cut while attacking an Aviatik and I experienced a terrifying 5 to 10 minutes while I basically had a controlled crash on Droglandt airfield. I might add that I have over 414 hours invested in him, so it was really white knuckles all the way.