flying online tonight

Hi guys,

anyone fancy a flight ?, come and join us on Gameranger.


cheers,



Pobs

EDIT : here are the connection details for gameranger and teamspeak (both freeware) :

you will need to download and install gameranger and register to play, start here :

http://www.gameranger.com/

for teamspeak you need to download and install teamspeak 3 : start here and go to the downloads page and download either the 32 bit or 64 bit client software for windows depending on your setup, and install it

http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=teamspeak3/



then connect to shogun's server here :

Shoguns TS server :
Teamspeak 3 channel: ts1.freevoicehost.com:1337

cheers,


Pobs

Thanks for the games guys,

great fun...


cheers,



Pobs

i am on gr now.

Gameranger room up for a few hours if anyone wants a game, come and join me ...


cheers,


Pobs

Thanks for the games Benj, was fun


cheers,



Pobs

Game Ranger room open if you fancy a flight ...


cheers,


Pobs

Thanks for the Games guys, we will definitely need to get some practise in with torpedos... I am quite sure you are meant to detach them at some point, not enter the water with them still slung under the wings like I kept doing ....


cheers,



Pobs

My first real fly out online.

It was great fun Pobs, and thanks for hosting up. Yep, trying to get a torpedo off with a Ju88 is a real knack....

It's a good job that I, for one, enjoy swimming!

But really enjoyed it.....and EAW is looking better than ever!

Mike skins, and the work on terrain looks superb!

Why are you guys dropping your torpedoes at sea level, and getting your feet wet?

Love to see some pics of these swimming lessons.

Hi Col,

the problem is that the torpedos are pretty sensitive, to get a torpedo running you need to drop to below 100m, drop your speed to less than 150KPH or so, and be level and straight, to do this you need full flaps and nerves of steel in a big bird like the ju88, she only just flies at those speeds. It is all too easy to stall and drop into the sea on the approach, add in the flak storm as you approach to within strike distance (1000-1500metres) prior to release and you will see why the life of a torpedo plane pilot was short and wet.... as for screenshots, sorry I was too busy trying to stay in the air to take any, I will try next time.


cheers,


Pobs

AO

Well that's all very well AO, now come on over to Gameranger and teach us how to do that !! ...


Cheers,


Pobs

Game Up on Gameranger for the next hour or so... come and join us



cheers,


Pobs

Hi Pobs,

Darn missed it!

Anyone interested in a flight, now that I seem to have my faulty connection fixed?
Should be at GR next few hours.

Cheers
Brian

Thanks for the games guys, had a lot of fun.

BP, sorry we missed you mate, we were online for about 4 hours or so last night. I am posting here when I go online to help co-ordinate times for people.

One little trick on Gameranger is to look at players 'info' by right clicking on their names and it shows the last time they were logged on so you can get an idea of the times when EAW is being played when you aren't actually there...

cheers,


Pobs

Room open at GR for anyone wanting a flight ...


cheers,



Pobs

Good fun, thanks for the games

we got Per's new FAW setup working online very nicely, screenshots to follow tomorrow...

cheers,


Pobs

Hi Guys,

GameRanger room open for a couple of hours if anyone fancies a game, come along


cheers,


Pobs

Here is Benj and I flying FAW the other night... great fun














cheers,


Pobs

Hello,

good to see you all so active.

I still miss the time(since a while 60-70 hours work per week), looking forward to Christmas.

Greetings,

Knegel

Just opened a room at GR if anyone is interested in flying tonight


cheers,



Pobs

OK, thanks for the games ... tonight we learnt that bombing Leningrad in Finnish Blenheims, is tricky to say the least... oh, yes and you can't re-arm at an airbase in FAW that only has the camo-net and wood 'hangars'... because they aren't in the 'hangar' slot... useful to know that ...


cheers,


Pobs

Games room open at Gameranger... tonights action will be over Leningrad again I suspect... come and join us


cheers,



Pobs

Thanks guys, some good action over Leningrad and Viipuri tonight ...


cheers,


Pobs

Game ranger open for business ... come and have a flight or two before all the Xmas shopping fills your weekend..


cheers,


Pobs

Hi,

room open for business in Gameranger for the next few hours...


cheers,



Pobs

Great fun flying an intercept over Belgium in '42 with BBG, we scattered the A20's as they crossed the european coastline, then re-armed and chased them back to their bases.

Game Ranger Room open for the next hour or so if anyone wants a game ...


cheers,


Pobs

Pobs Great Flight! , the A20 had no chance without an escort .... was a slaughter carried out with all tranquility ... ... the only survivor could not catch him ....,Pobs thanks! Thanks to all this wonderful community that makes a "miracle"with our old lady

Was great fun BBG

OK game up if anyone is around and looking for a flight


cheers,


Pobs

Thanks for the games guys, we didn't exactly dominate the skies over Calais, what with a tally of 4 x P40's to our 5 x 109F2's lost... at least we got up there and challenged their attempts at air superiority over the channel :), good flying BP, and nice to see Jell back too....



cheers,


Pobs

Some good fun yesterday, a good sweep over Dover in our me109-F2's and a really nice escort mission from Hawkinge in Spit ix's, escorting a squad of A20's to the airfield at Le Havre. We flew the complete mission from take off to landing in about an hour, we were attacked by 109F's and the Abbeville boys in their 190A3's had a go at us as well, but we got 7 bombers onto the target and got home again safe... great fun

Thanks for the flights Shogun


there is a room open now for anyone who fancies a flight


cheers,


Pobs

Yo Pobs,
Shogun is a very humble man......
but don't let him fool you.....
the man can fly!

AO

Hi Guys,

room open if anyone wants to fly....


cheers,



Pobs

Gameranger room open for business.


cheers,


Pobs

Hi Pobs,

Sorry I missed you the other morning.
My internet has only just been fixed, for good I hope.
It was definately a wiring problem that was putting me out for over half the day.

Pretty busy until 1st week of January as my whole family is here with me now, for keeps.

Can't wait to get in the air again though.

Cheers
Brian

No problem BP, I was late getting to my computer due to the snow and ice here too... we had a good flight last night trying to stop the russians bombing an industrial site in Viipurii in '41. Well flown by Landers and Benj, whilst I wandered around looking for an airfield with a hangar to re-arm ... we really need an online target update with a few more hangars on the airfields around Leningrad so we can re-arm ..

will be online most of the next few hours if anyone is interested in flying ...


cheers,


Pobs

Good time trying to bomb the russian supply lines north of Leningrad last night, with limited success I have to admit :), but it was fun, thanks Benj ...

finding the target whilst under attack by Yak1's and Lagg-3's wasn't easy



we found some friendlies though ..



when we did find them we did some damage, but not a lot ..



and we certainly didn't have it all our own way ...



cheers,


Pobs

GR room open for a few hours if anyone wants a game please feel free to join us


cheers,


Pobs

Good to fly online again with Pobs just now!
My internet connection here is dodgy, but it held up long enough for us to get the A20s to the target and to down some 109s and 190A3s in out P38Fs from a groundstarted mission. I was disconnected returning to base.

Good fun Jell and Benj ... I was a bit wary of going up against 190's in a P38 at low alt but we survived... even if half the bombers we were escorting didnt...

Our air superiority mission over Kronstadt brought me a first... slipping in and re-arming at an enemy base and getting out under the AAA !!!.. boy, were they annoyed !!.... hehehe... luckily the layout of the base meant they couldnt depress their guns enough to hit me once I was down, but they sure tried to make up for it as I left





edit : PS I have a room open for the next hour ....


cheers,


Pobs

Game ranger room open for the next couple of hours if anyone wants to fly ...

cheers,


Pobs

Game Ranger room open for the next few hours if anyone is sober enough to fly ...:)


cheers,


Pobs

Room open for the next few hours if you would like a game...


cheers,



Pobs

Gameranger room open for the next couple of hours for anyone looking for a flight ...


cheers,


Pobs

Managed to get SAW and DAW working with Nate and Ignatz last night... action west of Madrid :



and South of Tobruk...



great fun,

Thanks,


Pobs

PS.... Game room open for the next hour or so if anyone wants a game ...

Just had a brilliant evening flying the amazing SAW!

What a sight that is for the eye! A brilliantly built scenario....so much fun online!!

Yup, good games Col., thanks

GR room open for the next hour for anyone who wants to fly


cheers,



Pobs

OK opening a room for the next hour or two if anyone would like to wander over for a flight or two... we are flying co-ops pretty much exclusively these days so don't worry about your standard, just come and enjoy yourself...


cheers,


Pobs

Some really good games tonight guys, thanks to Ignaz, Roller and Shogun for some fine missions in Spain, Belgium and even the eastern front


cheers,


Pobs

Just a few screenies this morning from last nights fights over Madrid, was great fun and we managed to include a scramble mission from cuatro vientos A/F. On one of the other missions, We failed to stop the republicans trashing Grinon airfield where they managed to take out 9 seperate targets on the field in one mission !! well, done to the AI is all I can say, by the time we got there the Polikarpov's had hit parked planes, fuel dumps, sangars, and at least three types of miscellaneous airfield buildings, nothing was left standing other than a couple of forlorn looking AA gunners with their Lewis guns....













cheers,



Pobs

Gameroom open for the next few hours if anyone wants a flight...


cheers,



Pobs

Grrr!
The ADSL connection here in Mylor got worse and worse over the last three weeks, and we have none at all. Telstra are investigating and they tell me that it is a priority, especially as we pay nearly $70 a month for it. Currently I am using a 3G mobile device in my USB port, but at $16 per gigabyte I do not do anything that chews up the allocation.

Jel

Tut, Tut, Tony.

I never thought France was so far behind Blighty.

Our area of Hampshire has just been upgraded to full fibre optic, and when it goes live [soon], I'll have up to 20meg broadband, instead of my current roughly 1.7meg on copper wire.

I hope you find a better connection soon.

This is Mylor South Australia John, not France!
The connection in Caux was good when I was there in November-December, but I did not fly online as I had my laptop but no joystick.
The late breaking news is that Telstra have found a problem with the lines in the Mylor exchange, and they are fixing it ASAP.
They might have some trouble today as Stage three of the Tour Downunder passes through Mylor twice today, and the roads will be closed until the race is over.

Jel

Easy mistake to make when you have a jet setter life style!

I mean, you posted a map today, in the other place, of France! 2+2=

Protecting Barcelona from Fascistic attack, Landers, Pobs and Benj see off the 'eagles' in fine style...











cheers,


Pobs

Telstra and a new router fixed the problem!

Jel

That dusty SAW Terrain is spectacular Pobs! I must go download it. Having spent more time in Spain than any other European country, I can confirm that that look of 'pastel' is spot on, and comes from the everything getting a light dust covering by the desert wind. I remember getting into a car at Malaga (we had only been at lunch for a couple of hours...and you could see a thin film on the paintwork.....You got that look right on the money matey!!

Remember this from the Beta test days?

From last nights fun!

Hi Nate,

yup that white desert is still awaiting the Greece/yugoslavia/eastern med map that has all that limestone to represent ...


more memories of the 'white' terrain, you certainly got some impressive dawns with a white desert !!..








but I think the new 'pale' Spain matches the colours of a mediterranean terrain a bit better


ps. Gameranger open for a couple of hours for anyone wanting a game ....


cheers,


Pobs

Gamesroom open if anyone wants a flight tonight


cheers,


Pobs

Gameranger room open for the next two hours....


cheers,



Pobs

We just tested the new SAW set-up for online- a couple of adjustments need to be made- I'll post a patch shortly




The game worked well, Fiats vs I-16s

Jel

If you have installed the 1.28E SAW addon then here is the patch I mentioned in the previous post.
Run the self installer in the EAW 1.28E folder and it should add a few additional files to the SAW folder inside the SAW128E folder.

Patch 01

Jel

Game on right now with BPNZ testing SAW



Jel

Game up on gameranger ...



cheers,



Pobs

I have a room open, with SAW loaded

Jel

Room just open

Games room open for the next couple of hours if anyone wants a game or two...



cheers,


Pobs

I have just opened a room for the next shift

Just re-booting- I'll re-open a room as soon as I am back

Great games today with Pobs, BPNZ and GreyKat in both SAW and ETO scenarios.




Jel

Yup great fun even if I was up until 6.00AM flying....


we completed a number of missions in Spain and ETO_01 but in particular we made three abortive attempts at the Liege rail-bridge mission.... it is still intact and the Wehrmacht are pouring over the Meuse and escaping the pincer movement from the Anglo-Canadians in the North and the US assault from the south.... that bridge has to be closed down gentlemen !! ... so refuel, re-arm grab some food then back into the cockpit and try again !!....

here are some screenies from last nights games in Spain :

sometimes stopping to re-arm doesn't work out as you envisaged it would :



Dusk falls over a burning Madrid




cheers,



Pobs

Ready to go for Liege rail bridge again. On TS and GR playing single player till someone comes on.

New shift started at GameRanger

We just had some good games with ETO_01 and SAW

Back safely at the base in our Ratas:



A good result:


Earlier today Col. Landers made a really nice SAW mainscreen for 1.28E


Jel

Gameranger room open for the next couple of hours


cheers,



Pobs

A few of us are about to test the Mod Squad BoB online at Gameranger

Jel

Scramble!

More screenies from the games with BP and Pobs





Testing went well!

Jel

Gameranger room open for a couple of hours


cheers,


Pobs

Testing SPAW right now- a carrier battle

Good to fly online carrier missions in SPAW- even if you crash on landing

Here's a map screenie to show where the carriers are- so we can practice landings offline LOL



Jel

We all took F4U's the first time:



Managed to get down on the deck.....Benj coming around:


Jel coming around again.....he was a little high the first time:


We took different planes the second time......I took another F4U,
Benj took an F6F and Jel took a spitV.......great fun!

AO

Good screenies AO thanks!
I must just take the chance to promote the DirSet picker.
It meant that we could all select SPAW very quickly.
Naturally I have the full set available including a test Western Front which is not ready for release yet:




I need to make a small patch for SPAW online as 1.28E needs the N00-N29NAME.str files. We "borrowed" the set from SAW for the time being today.

Jel

Australian evening time here (7 pm), morning in Europe- room open.

We just had an interesting ETO_01 Early game with BPNZ.
BP and I took 190A3s in a fighter sweep from Audembert.
The enemy were P40s from Hawkinge, and Spit Vcs from Manston.
Tactically we took on the P40s and got them all between us, possibly losing one of our AIs.
Our secondary planes had headed towards the Manston group, so after dealing the P40s we headed there, and arrived just in time to down some more Spit Vcs. After the battle the only remaining enemy plane was a Spit Vc which had returned to base, so we let him go and headed back to Audembert, where we both landed safely.

BP arriving home:


The view from my cockpit:


A good result:



Jel

Room open 2 pm locally, 10.30 pm US Eastern.

Game on right now with BPNZ, 7 pm Aussie time, 8.30 am GMT

Nice variation on last nights mission with two battle areas.
190-A3s but this time with 109-F4s vs P51as and Spit Vcs.
Pobs was with us too.
I spun in, but it gave me chance to get these pics of Pobs and Brian returning home:




I love those multiskins!

Jel

Good fun guys, thanks for the flight.


games room open for the next few hours if anyone wants a game.


cheers,


Pobs

good flying tonight, thanks guys, and nice to welcome Maj_Alvega to the online flying community, hope you enjoyed it


cheers,


Pobs

......and here is Maj_Alvega strafing Manston after the had Spits returned there.



He already had got a Mustang earlier in the battle.
Well flown!


Jel

It's great to have the new recruits flying. A few nights ago Pobs helped "igorry" to get half way set up. We completed the task today, and not only did we have him flying, he was able to return to base, land safely (unlike me LOL), and learn how to re-arm by parking close to a hangar.



We are taking a break now, but will be back in about three hours time

Jel

Second shift started, come and join us

Guys,
Shogun and I are flying mayhem on GR. We have some strange things happening.....
could use some help!

Also, if I host, then launch by myself, I get a ctd. But I can join and fly with others.


AO

Hello,

its was very fun friday night, a big thanks to Pobs, AO and Jel for their help in my first trip online!
I advise you to try, even though we were only three in the air was so much fun, imagine 10
I never realized how it could be fun flying online and despite all my limitations, I have learned and enjoyed myself (my straight shot was lucky but that gave me much pleasure )

Cheers

On line flying is great fun. Never understood that some many of the community never do it. Yet they want to keep the game going. I just don't get it.

Agreed Uriah!
It occurs to me that people start playing EAW, find SimHQ, see what is happening, and then they start modding, or programming. This then becomes more interesting and important than actually playing the game. It happened to me, so I have just about stopped programming and modding, apart from re-packaging repackageable old scenarios into things that work in 1.28e, particularly for online play. As far as that goes there is nothing urgent. I'm in the process of fixing up DAW, and that will be it.
If you enjoy playing EAW offline, then get yourself online! Everyone who does realises the benefits.

Jel

Room open now at Gameranger- Sunday late evening Europe, and late afternoon US.
Monday morning here, but I'm retired

Jel

Good games so far- here's a kill that Maj_Alvega got






Jel

gamesroom open for the next couple of hours...


cheers,


Pobs

gamesroom open for the next couple of hours...


cheers,


Pobs

Room open for a few hours


cheers,


Pobs

Thanks for the games guys, we successfully defended Foreness from a Ju88 sneak raid then it was off to Madrid to break up raids on the airfields around the city... our first attempt was pretty disastrous, we got pretty solidly caned in our Fury's by the Cr32's of the fascists, but later in the day we successfully intercepted some Br20's in our I-16/10's and saw them off with heavy losses...

great fun,

cheers,



Pobs

to my side the balance is not very positive but it was fun as always, hope to see you guys later...

cheers

here are a couple of screenshots from our 'defense of the carriers' missions in SPAW, we lost the USS Saratoga in the first attack but drove off the combined high and low level bombing attack on the USS Enterprise...

burning and listing heavily to port, the USS Saratoga creeps into the evening gloom



sunset from the deck of the stricken carrier :




The USS Enterprise battle group fends off the japanese bombers during a daylight raid.




and is bracketed at the height of the battle :




the aftermath, several fires onboard the destroyer screens but the carrier survived...




good fun


cheers,


Pobs

Hi guys,
had some great flights with Shogun, Maj. Alvega,
and Benj last night.
Thanks guys for also helping me test my setup!
(Would also like to thank MissAli.mpf and MissAxe.mpf
for allowing me to host and launch multiplayer! lol!)

We flew a couple mayhems to get warmed up......
then flew an intercept. I hung around up high and watched these guys
mince up some 111's. Great to see new guys fly!
Thanks guys,
AO

Some good flying again tonight with Maj. Alvega....


cheers,


Pobs

Good to read Pobs. I almost made it into your last session, but the call I was waiting for came later than expected. Things are getting busier by the minute.
My Aussie citizenship ceremony is booked for tomorrow

I had better check the oath- I do not think it is the Monty Python "Bruce" sketch version

"This here is a wattle
The symbol of our land
You can stick it in a bottle
Or hold it in your hand."

Bruce sketch

Jel

Gameranger room open for the next couple of hours for fliers


cheers,



Pobs

I'll open a room as soon as I have made this post- join us for a chat or even a game

Game room open for a couple of hours...


cheers,



Pobs

Some good missions defending the airspace over Leningrad, Thanks Guys:)








cheers,


Pobs

Hi guys, we were flying FAW128eBeta1.....
great time with Maj and Pobs last night. First, we flew P39's
on an intercept against Blenhiems and Curtis 75's.


I just had one of those missions where I hit everything I shot at:


I LOVE the cannon on the 39, even thou it only has a handful of
shells. Plenty of mg's thou. Even managed to re-arm and get a fighter.

We decided to fly the 39's again, but this time against 88's and
109g's. Unfortunately, after takeoff, I acquired a real bad warping
problem. I told the guys I was getting crazy warping, but they
reported all looked good to them...%^)
I quickly saw a squad of 88's flying over the water. When I got
close, they were warping from level, in the water, to nose down
in the water.....they were even giving rooster tails! (The one in
front of me was flipping up and down, but stayed in front of me:


Then I also noticed I had hills in the water.....


I crashed my plane to see if the warping might stop when I respawn,
but each plane I respawned in, exploded. And exploded from an
external view. Six explosions in a row! (Was quite glorious looking
anyway!)
So I dont know if something is missing in the Beta or what.
But she worked great the first time, so I don't know........
thanks,
AO

Hi AO,

dont worry we will get it sorted out, looks like you are missing the FAW HM file...


Game Ranger room open for the next couple of hours...


cheers,


Pobs

Sorted !! told you we would ....


a couple of really fine missions over Leningrad last night, in the first the Finns sent two squads of fighters, Ms406's and 109G2's (with gunpods), in first to clear the route, with the bombers following quite some time later, and it worked for them, our squad of P39's was decimated by the 109's and despite breaking through we could only do limited damage to the bombers with the ammo we had left before they completed their mission... but a really interesting fight. In the second mission we were supported by Yaks, and the Bombers only had a single squad of G2's to support them, we still took significant losses to the 109's but we drew off the fighters and then we and the Yaks did serious damage to the bomber formation, so I think we can claim a victory on that one, ending the day on evens ...:)

Bombers over Leningrad



the end of a chemical plant in the city



Interception ...



mission completed, time to go ...




cheers,


Pobs

Gameranger room open for fliers for the next couple of hours, come and have a flight


cheers,


Pobs

Yo Pobs and Shogun,
thanks for trying to help me out last night....

I still have no idea why I could not join....
I did not change anything on my end from the night before where
all was well.....

All of the scenarios work on my end, offline, (Except DAW)
and I can host a room at GR and get the setup screen while alone....

But you guys could host and join each other, and find each other
the old way with IP.

I'm stumped.....
AO

Hi AO,

yup was very strange... the fact we couldnt find you on tcp/IP tells me it isnt a GR upgrade problem, it has to be either a firewall, or router problem. The question is ' what changed the settings on you', since you didn't do it knowingly yourself it is a bit of a mystery... the only thing I can think of is something being left in a strange configuration when we were testing DAW the night before and we had ctd's and needed a reboot to get back in. I am sure we will get to the bottom of it and find it is something simple that we are overlooking at the moment.

see you in the virtual air again soon...

cheers,


Pobs

Some fine games again tonight, Flying the Slot from USS Saratoga in our SBD's, F4f-3's and F6F-4's first off to try to sink the IJN Ryuko, then later in the session we intercepted a supply convoy near Kieta harbour in Bougainville, sinking 2 tankers, a freighter and an escort destroyer... then later still, we took off from Purcell field and climbed over the Owen Stanley mountains in our Beaufighters with P40 escorts to hit a japanese supply convoy leaving Lae harbour in New Guinea. We got torn to pieces on this one to be honest, intercepted by Ki43's and Ki44's we were lucky to get a tanker before we were all shot down....

great fun though ... thanks to Benj, AO and Maj_alvega for a good evening's flying


cheers,


Pobs

GR room open for the next couple of hours...


cheers,



Pobs

Yo Pobs,
I put an edited loadout.dat for SPAW in your folder.
I just made the default loadout null for all planes.
Works fine offline..........

Wish I knew why this keeps happening thou:


Well, there's no default drop tank now!

AO

Hi AO,

we can test it online later today and if it works to fix the problem we should send it to sandbaggers so it is available for anyone who wants to be compatible online in SPAW...


well done mate

Some good missions last night, we escorted some PBY's in our F4U1's in an attack on the IJN carrier Zuikako and then escorted some A20's on an attack on Lae harbour in New Guinea. Both attacks were successful and the japanese lost a fair few fighters yesterday. Well done to AO and Maj Alvega....


cheers,


Pobs

You guys play SPAW w/1.28? PTO has always been my favorite ww2 theatre of operations, but couldnt get SPAW addon working with 1.28

Did you look here?

http://www.users.on.net/pam_biddell/1.28E_Install/128EAddons.htm

RVH,

watch this thread and come and join us on GR and we can help you there .... we always welcome new players to the online scene...

in fact, I have set a room up right now, so if you are around and wanted to come and have a fly please feel free to join me ...



cheers,


Pobs

Lemme see what I can do! If you have a TS/Ventrilo address that`d help alot!

In any case I can only thank you for your hospitality!

Check the gameranger link in my signature

Jel

Hi Jel,
we are all now using TS3!

TS3 EAW:
62.48.74.45


Red got on, and last time I looked, he was flying with Shogun
and Maj. Alvega. Earlier it was me, Pobs, Ralf, Maj. and Shogun.
One mission lasted 2 hours! We have been having a ball flying SPAW.

AO

Yeah I got in alright, the guys helped me out ALOT to, I know I said thanks to ya`ll earlier, but I just wanna say it again: Thanks!,

I downloaded Gameranger using your signature, I somehow figured out thats what GR stood for, so thanks for having the link in your sign

We also found out that when I join on Shogun, I don`t get any lagg at all, so not quite sure whether or not it`s a router problem or not, could be the distance between us!

I'll get set up as soon as I have a joystick!
Visiting Charleston for about a week, just back from an oyster bake- southern style

Jel

Hi,

nice missions we had.

Norway is closer to England, where Pobs live, than the USA, where ShoGun live(i think).

Lag can happen by bad luck when at the beginning of the game some sort of syncronisation fail.
This tends to happen more often when people live close together.
Probably cause EAW was written at a time when the connections was rather bad(high ping times).
Same sort of lag also can happen, when you switch a plane.

I hope he connection will be better next time.


Greetings,

Knegel

Hi just to re-iterate, if you dont have an extensive 'friends' list yet, then whenever you go on Gameranger, 'host' a room.. it is the only way other people can see you are present if you aren't on their friends list, you can always swap the host once people join you, but there is little point sitting anonymously in Gameranger if no one can see you ...

it is interesting that with the new exe we can get one player with lag and the others flying normally, I seem to remember in 1.2 if there was lag in a game we all saw it..

some great games yesterday guys, really fun, thanks... as for a two hour bombing escort mission over the Solomons... I need a flask of soup and a hip-flask before I dare go on a mission with you guys again...


cheers,



Pobs

Carrier landing tips:


Sometimes we manage to luck out and get 'er on the deck at 100+ mph.
But the best speed is between 80 and 90 mph.
At final, you should be at approx. 1000 to 1200 ft alt, 90mph, approx 8000 ft from carrier.
Keep your nose level. (Maybe even 2-3 degrees up)
YOU DO NOT DESCEND BY POINTING YOUR NOSE DOWN!
At 90mph, you will be descending several hundred feet per minute.
Slow down to increase your descent....speed up to slow your descent.
This should set you right down on the deck!

AO

Yeah haha the carrier was tricky alright, I usually get a 50/50 chance by doing it the il-2 way, full flaps and landing gear out and smooth her in from higher alt so as not to having to climb up again at the end of final approach, but when we flew yesterday I was pretty stressed out and because of the lagg I wasnt sure if there was anyone else on final approach, came in way too low and fast, and as I was almost home free despite crappy final approach, and nosed down, I saw a big F6F standing right there, even though I wasnt gna crash into him, I panicked and pulled up, rest is history as I ended up smashing down onto the hangar deck as I stalled, destroying the landing gears and slid all the way to the front of the carrier, tipping over the edge, quickly joining the famous club "Run over by carrier!"

About that club.. when do I get my free cookie?!

Was nice seeing ya`ll flaming those Zero`s and Oscar`s in Pobs`s session though! When ya`ll warned me about a Oscar on my tail, which I didnt see until his 7,7mm tracers started enveloping my canopy, I dived down vertically and pulled up into a hard G turn to the right in the direction of our task force, as I climbed up I saw the rest of you in the middle of a full blown PTO dogfight with american and japanese fighters and tracers all over the place! That was intense! Thanks for hosting and teaching me things btw


Jel: Have a good one on your visit, sounds fun!

After ya`ll left, ShoGun hosted a game for me and introduced me to the game a bit more throughoutly, we ended up blasting down quite a few Fortresses with the Early plane set, that was fun too and my thanks to ShoGun for showing me a few things I didnt know! Thanks to you too for hosting and the teachings
All thats needed now is to set the WEP button and see what can be done about the weird minimize to desktop problem.

Game room open at gameranger for the next hour or two ..


cheers,



Pobs

Thanks to Maj Alvega and Redvonhammer for some good games last night over Spain... we got taught the art of wingman flying by some adept AI republicans


cheers,


Pobs

Some fierce fighting there indeed as the Reps really knew how to fly, but we got some decent kills on that last one

Thanks goes to Pubs for letting me know of the carriers/airfields close to eachother so I could host a game with the Major, we had some fun with Sally`s and Zeke`s over mainland straight across from the carrier group!

Anyone up for a game btw? I`m at GR and on TS3.

Gameranger room open for a few hours for those wanting to fly


cheers,



Pobs

Hi guys,
what I actually did was make all default loadouts null....which turned out
to be a mess with the SBD and bombers....
I can always make the loadout null just for the fighters, but it still leaves
a quandry. We still dont know what causes the problem I'm having. (See pic above.)
Otherwise, just dropping the tanks early would be all that was necessary. Plus,
if we do a mission that would need a droptank, we would be out of luck.

The other problems are (In any scenario) being able to get torpedos online,
or just being able to change the loadout online.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
AO

Hi AO, we probably need Rotton to explain his fix for having several seperate loadout drops to see if that is the cause of this problem....


Gamesroom open for the next few hours come and fly guys....


cheers,


Pobs

..and I was back in the air tonight with Pobs at GameRanger





The laptop handled it well

Jel

Wow Jel, 5 JU`s is a very respectable kill list!

I tried to start a game with J.Bullfrog today, I had my D3D Windower up and the correct EAW.exe chosen in GameRanger, even so I keep getting Game Stopped working (Windows 7) error whether I host or join a game.
The game works perfectly in single player though, and this is weird, the game worked perfectly online until just now

I got your PM`s in GR pobs, I was downstairs watching a movie with pops (Battle of Britain ofcourse) the problem happens when Bullfrogs not even online as well, so it`s a problem with my setup I think.

I got your PM`s in GR pobs, I was downstairs watching a movie with pops (Battle of Britain ofcourse) the problem happens when Bullfrogs not even online as well, so it`s a problem with my setup I think.

(Wrote alot of stuff here thats now not the case, so I deleted it)

The problem was that I had no DLL file chosen with D3D windower, so now that I chose the D3D Windower DLL file called D3dhook.dll the EAW single player game starts successfully in windowed mode provided I have same Width and Height in the EAW.ini as in D3D Windower Settings for EAW.

However, both Bullfrog and me are still having problem launching EAW via GameRanger (Whether I turn Emulation on and off) it still wont emulate window.
UAC for Windows7 is ofcourse turned OFF

Guys,
you might have to speak to Jel about any Win 7 problems.

I know the 1.28e download does NOT include the root folder
'savedata' folder, which has the MissAli.mpf and MissAxe.mpf files,
without which you cannot launch EAW online. However, you have connected
before, so you must have these files already.

So I can only offer the usual suspects. Firewall, antivirus, and router settings.
Usually when you try a new exe, your Firewall and/or your antivirus will tell you
that it has been blocked, and ask whether you wish to unblock. But sometimes you
might have to manually add an exception to those programs.

I DID have an occurence last week where I could not launch for a few days. I came back
a few days later and am now able to connect with everyone. Still have no idea why this
happened...

AO

Yeah I can connect with everyone, but when I launch the game via gameranger, D3D Windower wont emulate the game.
In fact, when using D3D to emulate the game, it will only emulate when I launch the game directly via D3D, not if I hit the emulate button and hit game shortcut or launch via gameranger.

Game Room open for the next few hours at Gameranger for any would-be aces


cheers,



Pobs

Some good missions last night guys, thanks


cheers,


Pobs

Gameranger room open for the next few hours for fliers...


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Pobs

Yo Pobs,
I worked on a new loadout.dat for SPAW........
I made the default loadout for all fighters empty......
this apparently is the cause of the streaming droptanks online.
You can still select a droptank for offline........
Also made the default empty for the SBD and B5N2, but when you
load 'bombs' online, you will get a bomb and a torpedo, respectively.

Unfortunately, there is a problem with the FM for the B5N2. She would
not get off a carrier loaded with a torpedo, and would list very hard
to the left. I utilized the SBD FM for the B5N2 for now.
I placed these files in a zip in my folder at the ftp. (SPAWLoadout.rar)
Just place the 2 files in your SPAW folder root and try them out.

Now I'm looking for a TBF to put into SPAW. I'm sure one can go into one
of the American slots.

Has anyone else tried the SPAW engine soundset I made? If anyone wants it,
I can put it on a slow rapidshare link. But it would be nice if someone could
host it for me. I made a CDF for it that makes using it easy. Also made a
SAW soundset, and a WWI WF soundset if anyone is interested.
Thanks,
AO

Hi AO,

for online play we really could do with a US torpedo bomber in the SPAW setup, perhaps the TBF, we could put it in one of the 'what if' slots so we could fly combined bomb/torpedo missions.


I am using both your SPAW and your WW1 soundsets, and I love them ... keep up the good work mate


cheers,


Pobs

Yo Pobs!







I got the best TBF I could find....from Flying Tiger......
I put it in the SpitIX slot....replaced the Spit Vc that was there.
It was made for the SpitXIV slot, but I used MogProg to switch it.
But that may explain why I get this:


You only see this at a couple of angles.
I edited the planes.dat to get it to act right, edited the loadout.dat,
the pnames.str so it shows in the plane selection screen, and swapped
the .flt file with the SBD. (The planes.dat, I made it just a little
beefier.)
If you want to try it, I placed all in a zip in my folder at the ftp.
(SPAW TBF.rar) Just drop all of the files in your SPAW folder root.

If this works, it will need some 1024 hanger screens.

AO

Gameranger room open for the next couple of hours ...


cheers,



Pobs

Room open right now

Hi all,
Pobs and I re-worked the files and placed the TBF in the Hurri slot.
(It had a MB-3 MKIIb in that slot, but I could not find any info
on it for the South Pacific Air War, so we replaced that instead of the spitVc)

She worked wonderfully in the hurri slot. There was 4 of us online last night,
me, Pobs, RedVonHammer and Maj. Alvega......and we had an excellent mission with it:



It was great to have everyone land safe!

Not so well on our second mission thou.......we went after a carrier.....
the AAA and flak blew us all out of the sky.......but not before we killed the
carrier with a couple of torpedos......

Maybe Mike might want to make us some multiskin TBF's.....The EAW Online Carrier Group...
maybe with our names on the side or something.....

AO

Good game with Syddy and RedVonHammer

Sorry for missing this post. I don't get as much EAW time as I used to

AO,

I think what you're seeing with those multiple drop tanks is a screwed up version of the napalm weapon.

The way it works is that the napalm requires either 2 or 4 weapons slots. If it's a single napalm tank it uses 2 slots and if it's a dual napalm set up it uses 4 slots.

One slot shows a drop tank which has a "hit value" of zero. The other slot has 50 or so "invisible" bombs that drop at the same time as the drop tank. Each one has a small "hit value" and there's a slight drop delay between each one. By invisible I mean that I used a 3dz file with nothing in it so it doesn't show up in the game.

When you drop the napalm you see a single ( or double ) drop tank fall away from the plane. When it hits the ground you see a series of small explosions that are meant to represent a line of napalm flame. This is the line of invisible bombs that dropped at the same time as the drop tank.

I call the drop tank "Napalm eye candy" in the loadout list.

Here's the text from the SPAW loadout list:

No Weapon
250lb Bmb L-2
250lb Bmb L-3
500lb Bmb L-2
500lb Bmb L-3
1000lb bmb L-2
1000lb Bmb L-3
100kg Bmb L-2
100kg Bmb L-3
220kg Bmb L-2
220kg Bmb L-3
500kg Bmb L-2
500kg Bmb L-3
23lb parafrg L-1
45 gl Drop tnk
5" HVAR rkt L-1
50 gl. Napalm L-1
Napalm Eye candy
75gl Drop Tnk
150gl Drop Tnk
3kg parabomb L-1
250lb Parabmb L-1
100 lb bmb L-2
100 lb bmb L-3
50kg bmb L-2
50kg bmb L-3
60ltr Drop tank
190ltr Drop tnk
330 ltr Drop tnk
5" HVAR rkt L-3
Jap. Torpedo
US Torpedo

Use this list in place of the standard weapons.txt file that comes with the loadout editor and you should be able to tell what's what.

Let me know if this doesn't help and I'll investigate further.

Hi guys,

GR room open for business ...


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Pobs

Hi Ray,
yes, I got the correct list....I was using the wrong one in the editor.

The streaming problem thou, was droptanks......droptanks that are default loadout.
Apparently there is an old problem in the exe (this happened with 1.2 also.)
that requires the default loadout to be empty. Something to do with the exe
automatically giving droptanks for longer distance missions.
However, this problem, so far, does not occur with bombs or torpedos.
thanks,
AO

Gameranger room open for flying



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Pobs

Gameranger room open for a few hours for those that wish to watch me die horribly, over and over again ....




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Pobs

Game room open for an hour or two...


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Pobs

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Pobs

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Pobs

Hi AO, Maj,

sorry I missed you guys earlier, I left the room open by mistake sorry about that. I am online again now for about 2 hours if you are around and would like a fly..


cheers,


Pobs

Gamesroom open at Gameranger for the next few hours for those foolhardy enough to risk the virtual skies


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Pobs

Gameranger room open for a couple of hours for any would-be aces out there


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Pobs

Some good missions tonight over Madrid and Barcelona, the low altitudes and flak concentrations made for some uncomfortable rides ...






cheers,



Pobs

Hi All,
Well just finally gone and ordered my joystick as been using the keyboard for what seems like ages.
Pobs thanks for the adapter to use on my "EBAY" joystick but could,nt get it to work either so would you like it back?
Just let me know.
Anyway when it arrives next week am gonna get online with you guys if okay so you can have some cannon fodder and try to shoot me
while I stall and spin!!!!!
Im a good sport so looking forward to it.
See you in the air!!

Hi Blackplume,

pity it didn't work, just bin it .... will keep an eye open for you in GR, look forward to flying with you soon.

Gameroom open now for a couple of hours for insomniacs wanting to fly...


cheers,



Pobs

Gameranger room open for the next few hours

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Pobs

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pobs

Great fun in last night mission over spain!

Thanks for hosting Pobs

Cheers

Thanks Major, it was a good mission even though I got shot down over the enemy airfield and had to walk home..


Gameranger room open for those intrepid enough to face the virtual skies protected only by Pobs as their wingman .....


cheers,



Pobs

Gameranger session open for the next couple of hours , all welcome


cheers,


Pobs

Hi Gameranger room open for the next hour or two.

Shogun suggested I put my target/airfield lists for various scenarios up here in the thread for people to copy to get targets and airfields close to the frontline for use in online games so I thought I would start with

FAW128beta1 :




cheers,



Pobs

Yo Pobs! Where were you when we needed you!???
Had some good missions with Shogun and Maj. Alvega in FAW.....
I used your list to set up a couple missions.

First we intercepted some JU-88's coming to bomb our base at Kasimovo
flying Lagg-3's:




I think I got about 7 bombers and 2 109's.....(But had to use 5 planes to get them....)

Then, from the same base, we did a sweep over Sestronetsk in La5's:
Shogun finishing off a Curtis-75:


Ground battle and carnage on the ground!


We all made it back to Kasimovo, although Shogun bounced her a little:
(Maj. went over to the hanger to re-arm......we had already been in the air
for an hour! lol!)


Good games guys!
AO

Hi Guys,

sorry I couldn't make it last night, spent an exciting afternoon finding and digging out the mains water supply to my house, believe me I would have much rather been flying with you guys !! Still, I did get a nice mission in earlier with Shogun over Leningrad. On Saturday I managed to do a vertical loop over our home base after chasing off a Finnish Curtis75 that was harassing Shogun as he re-armed, only to complete the loop by flying my P39 straight into the roof of the only hangar and destroying it, while Shogun was re-arming in it ... bit red-faced over that

here is Shogun, working over a russian airfield north of Leningrad, yesterday.




cheers,


Pobs

edit : The 'Pobs manual for flying and surviving' (previously titled ' getting high and staying alive' until an unfortunate misunderstanding with the drug squad required a rename) has been edited so that section V, subsection IIa now reads 'In the battle zone, it is important at all times to keep a constant eye out for trouble on your six but this does not exclude the need to also watch where the plane is actually going at regular intervals, particularly during vertical manouvres near the ground'....

Pobs
editor in chief

Gameranger room open for the next few hours if anyone wants a flight


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Pobs

Gameranger room open for flying for the next few hours...


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Pobs

here are my current target lists for Spanish Air War online :







hope they help


cheers,


Pobs

Gameranger room open for the next couple of hours ...

all welcome, you will enjoy it honest ...


cheers,


Pobs

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Pobs

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Pobs

Gameranger room open for a few hours this afternoon ..


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Pobs

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Pobs

Pheww, well some pretty intense action tonight over Malta. We started with a two hour marathon defending Luqa airfield from a large body of Sparvierro bombers escorted by Falcones, coming in from Comiso at around 18000 ft we had to struggle to get up to them ... we went up in pairs against them and were duly beaten up pretty thoroughly and the bombers got through and heavily cratered the airfield, but we harried them all the way Back to Sicily and took a fair toll in the end.... Then a second 2 hour mission saw us defending the Grand Harbour in Malta from a second attack by Pipistrello bombers escorted by Saettas... this time they came in low and due to repair and refuelling problems we again could only send up relatively small numbers of aircraft in waves to defend, luckily we had the support of a second spit Vb squad this time and they went out over the med to intercept the enemy and engage the covering fighters a good 50 miles off shore, our initial patrol made contact but all 4 planes were quickly disabled by return fire from the bombers, and we had to make a second scramble take off to return to the fray... we found the enemy approaching the north coast of Gozo and I bravely dived into the attack only to get an earful of fruity language from the squad leader of the supporting spit V's as I sprayed them with cannon fire !!! ooops... slightly perplexed Maj Alvega and I started a sweep over Gozo looking for the missing bombers and sure enough we found them sneaking in from the south west having passed well west of Gozo and making an overland approach to the Grand Harbour... the flak and the remaining spit vb's finally dealt with them as the Maj and I repeatedly landed and re-armed at Takali and swept back into the fray. The saettas then reappeared and patrolled vigorously over the Island and were only driven off with heavy losses after repeated attacks by the defenders.









a very intense evenings gaming I have to say, and thanks to Shogun and Maj Alvega for a great bit of fun.

S! guys.

cheers,


Pobs

Excellent post brief Pobs..Makes you realise the stress and strain the real defenders went through

Thanks Spitty,

we deliberately organised the defenders to be heavily outnumbered most of the time to simulate the Malta situation, by sending the AI back to base after take off and using them to respawn into, as secondary scramble missions to the initial take off team, so we were patrolling in pairs or at most single flights, and then having to deal with 15 or 20 bombers and a similar number of escorts. This worked very well and led to a series of air fights, with us attacking at intervals as we returned to base or respawned and took off in wing pairs from our base at Takali. It made for long missions with time for tactical flying which was nice. In the first game the supporting hurricanes flew a couple of patrols around the main Island, and since the enemy were still over Sicily, they landed to refuel and we were on our own after that, quite a daunting task !.... in the second mission the secondaries were a squad of Spit Vb's who flew out and engaged the saettas but only downed a couple of them before returning to Malta ( the point at which I valiantly mistook them for triple engined bombers and opened up on them before realising my mistake.... tricky to explain that one to the C.O. I have been sent on a course in aircraft recognition, to be completed asap). It was great fun, you should come and join us

cheers,


Pobs

Hi,

gameranger room open for the next few hours.


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Pobs

Pobs you old curmudgeon! Great to see that your still around and kicking.

Hi Pips,

good to hear from you mate , yup I am still here, like the smell of gas, I just hang around for ever

come on over to Gameranger for a fly if you get the chance


cheers,


Pobs

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Pobs

17.40 Friday in Lyon, joystick unpacked
Anyone up for a game?

Jel

lone pilot need (Ace) wingman at GR now!

feel free to join a couple of missions

Cheers

Thanks for the games Knegel

Cheers

That was great fun. Drunken flying is funky.

Could not remeber the flights until i saw your message here, now all is back.

My wife told me she had to take me away from the PC in the middle of the night. I wonder how i got there. lol

Hi Knegel,

i thought that "Forgotten Battles" were from IL-2 series??!!!!

Cheers

Gameranger room open for the next couple of hours





Pobs

Gameranger room open for the next few hours....


cheers,


Pobs

Modred,

sorry about the problem connecting tonight, it was a problem at my end not yours, I have found and fixed it, so if you are still around, come back to Gameranger and we should be able to fly.


regards,


Pobs

NP Pobs

I'll see you soon on GameRanger

I just had a very enjoyable game with Shogun and Maj. I was hosting on my laptop via wireless from Lyon. We flew an intercept across the channel, caught the bombers, managed to get back and re-arm, took off and went back to France to clean up a few of the escorts.




Jel

...i think this was your last kill Jel

Cheers

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Pobs

Hi,

at GR with Tony right now.

We just did upload a fixed exe.

http://www.users.on.net/pam_biddell/1.28E_Install/EAW1.28e_Fix01.zip

Greetings,

Knegel

Had some great fights with ShoGun in a Groundstarted mayhem.

Oh man, i need training.

It was really strange in my last game. Being so out of practice, having not played seriously for ages,I did not expect good results. However, I managed to take off, get airborne,shoot down some bombers, return to base, land safely, rearm, take off again, and get back to down a few escorts. It was all in the same plane- no respawn.
I probably flew and shot better than I have ever done, and may never achieve such heights again LOL.
Its a bit like my jazz. I'm no longer striving to play better. Instead I have vivid memories of the gigs when I know that I, or the band I was in, played really well. It's a case of been there and done that, so now I just enjoy playing, and occasionally a really good performance happens.

Jel

Gameranger room open for flying


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Pobs

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Pobs

Thanks for some fun missions to Jelly and Roller ... the Zuikako survives another day of assault by the US navy !! damaged but still functioning she is now repairing off Bougainville Island in the Solomon Islands if anyone wants to have a go at her come on over to Gameranger...






cheers,


Pobs

Yes- a good mission before lunch, after which we visited the Roman structures at Narbonne, and then had a paddle in the Mediterranean at Narbonne beach




Jel

Gameranger room open for the next couple of hours


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Pobs

Gameranger room open for the next few hours.... see you in the virtual skies


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Pobs

Gameranger room open for the next few hours guys



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Pobs

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Pobs

Was online for several hours, at the end i found a players.

Thanks to Maj_Alvega for the fight.

Greetings,

Knegel

Kneg,

the whole point of this thread is to notify other players WHEN you are online, not much point posting afterwards to say no-one came !!!!...

If you post to say you are there people will come to find you. I usually get 2 or 3 players at a session, with such small numbers playing we need to communicate when we are available, hence this thread...

To any other onliners reading this, please feel free to post here when you are in gameranger, this thread isn't meant to be just about my games !!!....


cheers,



Pobs

Room open, who like to die is welcome.

Spreading terror online

Hi,

i will setup a ground started Mayhem server for today.

SpitIXc, FW190A-4, HurriIIc and Bf109F-4, all the same base.

You can join anytime. If iam not there i will park my plane near a hangar.

Greetings,

Knegel

Ok, its team mayhem now.

So i can bomb england if noone is there.

Hey you little Brits, your country get attacked, where are the fearless defenders??

Greetings,

The Enemy

If anyone needs Ralf's latest fix it is now available from here:

1.28E_fix04

Right now he has a room open using Fix02, but he is AWOL

Jel

Still 62.75.138.198 ?

From my sig- immediately above your post

Teamspeak 3 channel: 62.48.74.45:8769

Gameranger room open for the next hour or two


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Pobs

Room open again for business


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Pobs

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Pobs

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Pobs

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Pobs

Thanks for the game tonight Maj,

we mounted our trusty Fw190 A6's and escorted a gaggle of Ju88's to bomb a russian forward airfield at Juterbog, we were heavily engaged by La5's and Lagg3's but the bombers got through and did some serious damage, we escorted the Ju88's back over the line into friendly territory then pursued the La5's back to their base near Berlin in a Freijagd. We made a few strafing attacks on them on the ground, escaping the flak with only a leaking hydraulic pipe on my plane... a 50 Km cruise back to base and successful landings all around ... a good mission






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Pobs

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Pobs

Hi guys,

A room is open for those who fancy a coop mission, no blood tonight, Ralf is on vacations


Cheers

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Pobs

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Pobs

Game room open for the next few hours


come and join us


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Pobs

Gameranger room open for the next few hours, come and fly


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Pobs

erm,

if there is anyone watching that would like a flight, the Maj and I could certainly do with a help !! so far today we have seen the USS Saratoga disabled by a single 'Nick' getting a stick of 500lb bombs across her deck in mission 1, our counter strike ( mission2) against the Zuikako with tbf's managed to get 4 torpedoes in the water but she was protected by her close escorts and we failed to get a strike on her. The Japanese response, another strike by nicks escorted by zero's have now rendered the HMS Illustrious unusable for a further 5 missions while she is repaired after 3 bombers got through to her. We are now down to the USS Enterprise alone south of Bougainville, if we lose her, then we will have to relocate a long way east of Choiseul Island to the USS long Island.... In other words, I think we are losing at the moment

cheers,


Pobs

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Pobs

Pobs- I'm using this thread for a quick message.
In the files you sent me Dunkirk Airfield does not have a TMod 5 which all airfields must have.

Jel

Thanks Jell, I knew it had to be something stupid I had done


cheers,


Pobs

I just duplicated a control tower, moved the new one to the middle of the field (based on the other TMods) and reset it as an airfield (TMod 5). I took off from Dunkirk Airfield with no problems
Is there a frontline yet, if so please send me one!

Jel

Hi Jell, yup it is the item 1 : trees that was the original tmod5 I think, it works fine here now too, ta mate.

Jell, I have a frontline to go with the new map I will drop it over.

cheers,


Pobs

TMod 5 is an airfield, and cannot be messed with. All airfields must have it.

Jel

GameRanger room open for the next couple of hours


cheers,



Pobs

Gameranger room open for business


cheers,



Pobs

SPAW Hell again tonight, we Need you online

Guys,
sorry I have not been online lately.......doing alot of overtime at work,
and with what little free time I have left, I have been working on the
"sounds" folder.
Basically, this folder contains the default engine sound files 0060 thru 0119.
But it also contains 0120 thru 0179. (I deleted 0120 thru 0129 as these sounds
were very bad, and I could not find any relation to them in the FM slotxx.mpf
files) 0130 thru 0179 are mostly the Russian planes, but there is also an A20,
Blenheim, P39.......I have also added a Martlett, a couple of Hurri's, (I, II.
and III) and a new P47 and P51, so these sounds are up to 0187.

I have edited all the sounds to have a lower DB setting. I kept alot of the Russian
plane sounds that are in there, but I switched out some......and edited all of them.

The great thing about this is that any sound can be used or switched just by editing
the planes/slot/fm Soundxx.mpf file. (Pointer) It is a text file and you just
adjust the sound number:

[EngineSounds]
StartSound=130
RunSound=131

I will include a text file for all sounds so you know which is which.

Yo Pobs.....all those DAW 109 sounds........are now all my default 109's!

AO

Hi AO,

you really have to get your life/work balance better adjusted, you just cannot go on letting real life intrude into your gaming time like this, it is unhealthy

Looking forward to hearing the new sound pack though

Hope we see you soon online when time permits, you have been sorely missed in our SPAW campaign I can tell you, the Major and I are having to ask USAAF to supply us with escorts from Kahili and Ballalae we have lost so many carriers!! the shame of it !! but the news from the Saratoga is that she should be able to fly off planes in a week or so with the field repairs completed, so we will not have to ask the army to support our raids for long....

We managed to drive off an attack from the japanese carrier based dive bombers on the USS Enterprise the other night and have decided to make our next mission target the airfield at Kieta on Bougainville. We had a little strategy session and decided the land-based Nicks from there are the most serious threat to our last remaining carrier due to their heavier bomb carrying capacity and the airbase needs neutralising before we attack the japanese carrier group again. I will let you know if it was a wise decision

see you in the air soon

cheers,


Pobs

Gameranger room open for a couple of hours


cheers,



Pobs

Sadly could not find you guys at Gameranger. Sho TS also not functional.
Oh well, good luck

Hi Gith,

sorry I missed you, I had to pop out, but I am back online again now and I am on the main eaw TS3 server (62.48.74.45:8769), Shog's one seems to be down at the moment.


cheers,


Pobs

New Address/ts1.freevoicehost.com:1337 Sorry My PC Been
Down Cu Soon

Thanks Shog's,

sorry to hear about the PC, I will be online tonight so I will try the new address then


cheers,


Pobs

Gameranger room open for the next few hours


cheers,



Pobs

Gameranger room open for a few hours


cheers,



Pobs

Flying tonight , gameroom open


cheers,



Pobs

Phewww,

well we completed missions 6,7,8 and 9 in our little SPAW campaign tonight and with the arrival of the F6's and with a little help from Shogun, we may be turning the corner

We opened with an attack on Kieta airfield in our sbf's supported by F6's, smallish in number due to the need to take off from a single carrier but we succeeded in putting the field out of action and destroying at least 4 aircraft on the ground but at the cost of 5 out of the original 8 bombers lost to the patrolling oscars and zeros. Confident that this had dealt with the immediate threat from the heavy land based bombers we scrambled to see off a strike by a squadron of Judy's backed by navy A6m2 zeros on the enterprise, the enemy turned back with heavy losses over Ovau Island and we felt that we had weathered the worst. News from the deck parties over on the USS Saratoga was good, she would be back in action pretty soon and we would have a second carrier for the escorts to take off from.

Our next offensive action was a torpedo attack on the IJN Ryujo, we flew tbf's with supporting F6f3's freshly arrived on the now functional USS Saratoga. We flew north over Bougainville with the fighters sweeping before us, then turned east to take up our attack positions, but we ran head first into two squadrons of zero's and took pretty heavy casualties breaking through. After a fair bit of dodging and diving Maj Alvega and I made almost simultaneous runs into the carrier and both got our torpedoes in the water and running cleanly, quite an unusual event. The twin explosions rocked the ship, one amidships on the main armour belt but the second near the stern, which must have seriously damaged her steering and aft engine rooms. One of the AI also got a solid hit amidships later too, so the Ryujo will be out of commission for a fair period and will be unable to participate for some time to come. By the end of the day we had now equalised the naval situation with two active carriers on each side

The japanese counter was not slow in coming, radar showed a major attack force flying down the east coast of Bougainville Island and our F6's were scrambled again... flying north along the east coast we bounced a flight of low flying bombers only to find they were twin engined Nicks, apparently our working over of Kieta had not totally removed the threat since they had simply relocated to Torokina airfield further north. Still it made co-ordinating the attack with the naval escorts more difficult for them and we succeeded in dispersing the bombers who retreated north. After a bitter fight with the naval zero escorts we were suddenly alerted to the presence of a whole squadron of Judy dive bombers approaching the carriers from over the main Island, having swung west from their carriers and then south to avoid us. Low on ammunition and dispersed from the fight we struggled to intercept them as they cleared the southern coast of Bougainville and swept down over Ovau island towards the USS Enterprise and her escorts. By repeated spoiling attacks we just managed to break up their formation and as some retired we mopped up the more daring enemy pilots that risked the flak to drive home their bombs, and it was very close, two D3's almost made it to the carrier, dropping burning into the water within a few hundred metres of her in attacks that bore out the determination and bravery of their pilots, but she survived.

A great night of fun for all involved, and the tactical situation is proving interesting too. We will be flying this campaign again on Sunday night (GMT), will let you know how we get on

cheers,


Pobs

A good read Pobs!
I'm back in Caux having been away for over a week in Lyon.
My laptop was with me, but not my JS. See you soon!

Jel

Will be shipping out on a supply ship from the mainland.
Should be there in time to help out!

AO

To be honest, this was the most intensive missions we got online (and to me offline included) Thanks guys, for this amazing time that we shared

Cheers

Guys,
when I logged on to TS, there was an update......all seemed to go well,
however the address (62.48.74.45:8769) gives me an error and wont connect.
Anyone else?

AO

Hi AO,

we are using shog's server 64.31.51.182:1337

the other one doesn't work here too,

Cheers

Game room open for business


cheers,



Pobs

We flew some nice single missions over Lae and Barcelona on Sunday night since Shogun couldn't make it for the SPAW campaign, so we will be flying SPAW on Wednesday night around 10pm GMT if anyone wants to join us


cheers,



Pobs

Game room open


cheers,



Pobs

gameranger room open for an hour or two


cheers,



Pobs

Gameranger room open for the next few hours


cheers,



Pobs

Hey, just wondering.

Where did the TBF's come from? They're not in the original scenario as the lo-res model isn't to good.

Also, who made the flight model for it? Just out of curiosity as I certainly don't mind someone putting in the effort.





So, do I need to move the hi-res TBF model up the priority list?

And will Iron Mike be willing to do the skinning if I do?

Hi Ray,
I got the .flt file from the TBF made by Ade and modded by you
for OAW. We had to put it in the Hurri slot because the original
plane there was a 'what-if.' That was the best skin I could find
at the time. For my own install, I also had to switch out the .flt
file for the Japaneze B5N2 Kate as it listed very bad to the left
(More than your stick could compensate for.) and also would not take-off
from a carrier with a loadout. I switched it out with the same .flt file as
the TBF.
I think Jel made the final loadout.dat that we use....some of us might even have
different skins that we use......and there are only 4-5 of us onliners that have
this.
I believe that someone mentioned that we need a TBD too.
For online, SPAW is my favorite mod, as it requires us to return and land on a carrier
to complete our missions.
AO

Okay, just wondering. Glad you're all having fun with it.

Hopefully, we'll get the original SPAW included in the install package by Jel for offline players.

Do you have an engine sound pack that you use for SPAW. If so, is it something you can offer to the community, or have you done so and I missed it?

Hi Ray,
offered here when the mod came out:
http://www.sandbagger.uk.com/EAWSSS/home.html

AO

ps: I believe I put the wrong sound in the zip for the F6F.
I'll put the right one in my folder at the Gen.

Gameranger room open for a couple of missions

Gameranger room open for a couple of hours

cheers,


Pobs

Room is open

18.30 here in France. I'm at GR for an hour or two. I need to test my set up anyway.

Jel

Hmmm
Ralf and I are about to fly to test his version 06 - and whether or not my set-up still works.
He is finishing dinner, so whilst he is eating here is a plea from me.
Daylight saving has ended here and in the US so let's get some good games running again.
Pobs, Ralf, Maj A, myself and maybe a few more are within an hour as far as as time zones go. The European evening is more or less the US afternoon, so it is a reasonable time to have Shogun, AO, IM and others here too, including the South Americans. I d not know who is still participating in the Antipodes- I ave not heard from BPNZ for a while.

Jel

Gameroom open at gameranger for them's as want to fly ....





cheers,


Pobs

I missed you last night- I saw your post just before midnight here when I came to shut down the PC. I was dead beat so I did not try.

Jel

Hi Guys,still alive and watching with interest.

I'm using my wife's old computer to post this as my main computer is still not working after many months - freezes soon after entering Windows. This is even after I repaired XP.
I think there is a driver missing or something and I can't find the disks after moving house. I've almost given up really.

Real life is busy anyway (Rebekah is over 1 year old now) and it would be hard to find much time to fly, especially mornings on this side.
I don't think anyone else in the South Pacific is flying online.

If I can get my comp going I could probably fly online once a week on say Saturday mornings (your evening).

BPNZ

Hey Brian! Good to hear from you- I was not sure if the events in Christchurch had taken you offline.

Cheers

We made a couple of bombing missions last night, with pretty good results






thanks for the missions Pobs

Cheers

Hehehe Maj,

I knitted myself a jumper waiting to get to the target in those Ju87's, it might have been quicker to walk !!



I put our success down to the extensive Luftwaffe training regime, which last night included bombing one of our own airfields before setting out to attack the enemy... excellent planning I thought !



I thought the 109's looked nice in their winter livery as they escorted us




On the first mission of the evening we carried out an interdiction near Wavelghem in Jugs... armed for bear and looking very business like..



Thanks for the games major, was a fun evening


cheers,


Pobs

2.20 pm here in Caux- room open

11.30 am in Caux
Room open

Waiting for Jel to return from lunch! lol!

AO

.....an hour or so later, returned warriors





............and the room is still open after a coffee break

Jel

Room open
It is 7 pm here and 6 pm GMT

Jel

Gameranger room open


cheers,



Pobs

Gameranger room open for a couple of hours


cheers,



Pobs

Gameranger room open for a couple of hours


cheers,


Pobs

Gameranger room open for an hour or two...


cheers,


Pobs

Thanks for the game Maj ,

well we managed to fit in mission 10 of our SPAW campaign last night, after some discussion regarding the relocation of the 'Kieta' based 'Nicks' to 'Torokina' in the west after our successful visit to their previous base, and the nasty surprise they gave us when they turned up over the carriers. We decided to leave them for another day and we launched a torpedo attack on the japanese carrier Zuikaku. We flew TBF's from the USS Saratoga and were supported by F6's from the USS Enterprise. We were met south east of Bougainville Island by A5m2's from the CAP of both the IJN Zuikaku and IJN Shokaku but their attack was broken up by the F6's and the few that got through to us did relatively little damage although one of my wingmen was taken out by a kamikaze attack that saw both planes explode in a fireball. The flak defences were wide awake as we came in low, slow and flying in a straight line and we suffered accordingly. I had the frustration of successfully releasing my torpedo only to be shot down and crash landing on top of it moments later !

The attack saw a single torpedo hit on the Zuikaku and one of her Flak cruisers sunk for the loss of 8 TBF's with only 4 returning to the carrier. We shall see over the next few days whether our decision to attack the carriers and ignore the threat from the 'Nicks' based onshore at Torokina was a good one. We are now bracing ourselves for the inevitable Japanese counter attack.

Oh, and reconn tell us that the Zuikaku is undergoing field repairs to some buckled deck plates and will be back in commission pretty soon, so only a short respite for us to compensate for our losses.




cheers,



Pobs

Gameranger room open for the next couple of hours



cheers,



Pobs

Gameranger room open for a couple of hours for anyone that wants to fly.


cheers,


Pobs

Thanks for the missions Pobs

Cheers

Hi Maj,

yup great fun again last night thanks mate

we withstood the counter strike after our partial success against the Zuikaku last night, a strike by IJA Betty aircraft from Torokino airbase supported by zeros from the Shokako. We flew a CAP in our F6's over the carriers while the F6's from the USS Enterprise flew out to meet the attack, but failed to find them and returned just prior to the attack. The bombers were broken up and all 16 destroyed for the loss of 4 F6's from our squadron.

We then had to decide whether to attack the carriers again or to try to neutralise Torokino to reduce the risk from the heavy bombers based there. It was decided to make a second strike on the Zuikako to try to inflict more serious damage before she could be brought back into action. Since the Ryojo is still seriously damaged and can't fly off planes the CAP for the whole carrier group had to be supplied by the Shokako and land based army planes from Torokino.




Our strike with SBD's with 500lb bombs managed to avoid the CAP and we scored 2 direct hits on the Zuikako's flight deck, causing significant damage which will see her out of action for quite a while. So the Shokako is now a lone carrier looking very vulnerable until Kieta airfield can be brought back into operation to support her.







cheers,



Pobs

After our second mission finally at home..



Cheers

Gameranger room open for a couple of hours


all welcome


cheers,


Pobs

Gameranger room open for a couple of hours


cheers,


Pobs

Room open at gameranger for a couple of hours


cheers,


Pobs

Gameranger room open for a few hours....


cheers,



Pobs

You could have been testing the V15 + TM2 while you were waiting

Hi Jell,

yup I have had to swap computers here this week and don't have the ftp up and working yet so I haven't got the latest exe here, but will get on to it asap....

cheers,


Pobs

gameroom open for a couple of hours ....


cheers,



pobs

Gameranger room open now

Cheers

sorry I missed you Major,

I will keep a look out for you over the next few nights if you are around


cheers,



Pobs

Hi Pobs,

rgr that,
nice to hear you again

Cheers

Pobs I will try to be online tonight. Please check your PM here.

Jel

I have just set up TS3 on this new PC.
What server are we using?
I think that 67.228.81.180:1337 is Shogun's but it seems to be down.

Jel

Hi Jel,

i haven't been flying online for a while, but last time i tried to login none of "ours" TS servers were working any more, even from shog's was off! So i really don't know what is working right now!

Cheers

..and the next question LOL
Which eaw.exes are you currently using at GameRanger?
With all this development I have many different ones which I have been testing offline, but maybe not the ones you are using.

Jel

Hi, i am running 1.28E fix_12. But last time online was fix_10 or 11, can't remember.

New Ip white.freevoicehost.com:1337 sorry for change

Thank you Shogs

Hope to see you soon on the virtual skies!

Cheers

Hi shogs,

tried that server but can't seem to connect to it....


cheers,


Pobs

Sorry For The Mess IP is ts1.freevoicehost.com:1337 I Think My Son For The Problem lol

GameRanger room open, you're welcome!

Cheers

Game room open for a couple of missions, you're welcome

Cheers

Gameranger room open for the next few hours if anyone wants a flight

cheers,


Pobs

Sorry I Missed You Pobs.AO and I had a nice Flight later to day
TS:ts1.freevoicehost.com:1337 24 7

No Probs Shogs mate,

I will check your 'last visit times' on my friends list to get an idea of the best local time to catch you guys and make my arrangements accordingly

see you online soon


cheers,


Pobs

Has gameranger always got a server up or do ya have to host one?

You have to host one

Shogun's is the one they use.
You should not need to host a server.

Jel

oh, sorry, guess i didn't understand the question!

Pobs,
any chance you can edit the first post of this thread so that links to the basics are there?

Posted as a PM but the info may be useful

We are using TS3.
Shogun's server is the one we use:





Jel

Blue,

a bit of confusion crept in here regarding teamspeak and gameranger... Gameranger is always up, all you need is the client software and open a room when you go in so people can see you on the gamelist. Teamspeak needs to operate through a server , and as Jell says we use Shoguns at the address jell has given and I have added to the first post in this thread ( in answer to Brit44's request).

When you first join gameranger you dont know other peoples names or log in details so until you can populate a 'friends' list with their details you can't see if they are online or not unless they open a game room, so when we go online we try to open a gameroom asap so new players can see us by watching the game list in the gameranger main window... look out for eaw games....


cheers,


Pobs

Thx Pobs, I knew all that, got teamspeak for playin battlefield 3 . I was in gameranger last night and played around on need for speed, also had to set up my router to host games which I got sorted aswell so i'm ready to go.
got shog's TS channel bookmarked aswell, just need someone to play with

Hi Blue,

sorry I didnt make it old son, got back late from a family event and couldn't get to my machine at a reasonable hour. I will try again tomorrow same time...


cheers,


Pobs

If so i'll be glad to join your game tomorrow night!

Cheers

sounds good mate, just need to work out the time diference so I know what time to see if there is a game up..

Blue

Hey mate,long time between drinks...How they hangin?

Gameroom open at gameranger for a couple of hours


cheers,


Pobs

Really good mate, how bout you?

Pobs it was about 2:30PM when you posted gameranger open, what time was it at your place?

Hi Blue,
the local time here was 07.37 am I stayed online until 12.30 and I have the room open again now if you are about.

cheers,

Pobs

hey Pobs

sorry I missed it, I went to bed about half an hour before you opened up the room

Blue

Game room open for a few hours


cheers,


Pobs

Gameroom open for a couple of hours


cheers,


Pobs

Room open for a few hours at gameranger.


cheers,


Pobs

Thanks to Jell and Blue for some fun this afternoon, nice flight guys


cheers,



Pobs

Pobs!

I have a V21 which allows a carrier take off again
We can test it tomorrow if you are able to.

Jel

Version 21 is here to use online.

1.28E Version 21 Installer

The carrier take off is fixed and the exe appears to work with the stock "DirSet Picker" scenarios.


Run the 7-zip self installer in your EAW folder.
It will replace two CDF files with extended versions fully compatible with earlier 1.28E exes, but containing default files that V21 needs.
It will put an "E 128EV21" folder in your "OAW128" folder, and also a "G-BigHill" folder.
"G-BigHill" is a test folder for ETO01 with some extra railway tracks, and TMods with numbers bigger than 255 near the Biggin Hill base.

Jel

Room open for V21 testing

Jel

Blue and I did some V21 multiplayer testing at GameRanger. It went well with carrier takeoffs in both ETO and SPAW





He made a great landing, far better than mine LOL. I ran off the end of the deck first time, then collapsed the U/C second time.

Jel

Twas a lovely jag at first landing, not much different to a carrier landing in hawx2 except no arrestor hook or cables, thank god the brakes worked,lol. Nice work Jell had a great time flying with you again..
Cheers Blue

Room open for a while

Hi Jell,

downloaded it, thanks mate, sorry I couldn't get online yesterday. 'She who must be obeyed' organised a window painting session for me... sigh.....


cheers,


Pobs

I flew briefly with BBG last night but he got kicked just before we contacted the enemy

I think V21 should now be the online standard.
I have made a new link in my signature to a simple page for downloads, including the V21.

Heading out to a seafood lunch at Marseillan with "She who must be obeyed even more than She who must be obeyed" and "She who must be obeyed", but that is far preferable to painting

Jel

Thanks for the update Jell

Cheers

sitting in Game ranger waiting for some one to fly with...

I'll open a room for an hour or two

Hello Mr Jelly! a shame not to fly with the later version 21 ..... enter GameRanger but the time difference between us is too big.

BBG.

www.ecv56condor.com.ar

I am in France so I am about 6 hours ahead of you.

Jel

There now with a room open for 1.28F

Closed for lunch- back soon

I'll have a room open in about half an hour to test 1.28EV21 with ETO01 again

Room open

THX!!! Shogun for the fly!!!
were many minutes in our Hurris fighting against the 190a3 and 109f2, and helped us some P 40 over the Channel.
We could not fly in the first attempt with version 1.28f because Shogun told me that when the brakes are applied with the keyboard kicked out of the server ... then switched to the 1.23E version 21 with the ETO01 loaded and it worked like a champ.
I dont know if accidentally pressing the "q" key in the keyboard but the game then finished... no matter.. we had flown a lot of good.
THX guys!!! for working so hard for this wonderful sim.


BBG

www.ecv56condor.com.ar

It's a shame that those that fly online are in so many different countries, it would be good to get all in at the same time.

I generally get online to fly at 9:00PM adelaide, Australia time which is about lunch time in France and England, not too sure what time it would be in the States...

Blue

Just checked it out online, the states are about 15.5 hrs behind me on average. Obviosly there are time zones within the states as well..

Good to hear. I am heading to Lyon today and should be be online later this evening, with my laptop.
There is some progress with the 1.28F situation, but a bit more work needs to be done.

Jel

Room open in Gameranger

I will be opening a room shortly.
Please check the "My EAW links" in my signature.
The last link on the page you see is a 1.28E and 1.28F combined upgrade.

The 7-zip self installer should be run in your EAW 1.28E folder. It will
* replace three CDF files with extended versions fully compatible with earlier versions of 1.28E.
* give you an OAW128 folder with "E" folders containing the 1.28EV21 and 1.28FV13A, plus a few more novelties.
* add a "EAWTM2" folder needed by 1.28F containing a file which is read by the 1.28F exe for bump tile mapping.
* update the "DirDet Picker" scenarios for those who have them for:
DAW128E
FAW128EBeta1
Malta128E
ModSquadBoB128E
SAW128E
SPAW
SWOTL

These updates install additional files into the scenario folders which are needed by 1.28E and 1.28F.

1.28FV13A has the planes.dat bug fixed

V13 was crashing if it read a "planes.dat" file, so that routine has been disabled in V13A. It now reads the split "planes.dat" files, "plane00.dat"...."plane29.dat". In the update these split files are added to the scenarios listed where needed.
ETO01 and FAW128Beta1 already have them.

OK- off to open a room

Jel

SPAW online is working well with 1.28FV13A

Come and join us!



Jel

Roger that!


AO

I got a room open on gameranger

room closed for dinner, be back in 30 min

room open in gameranger again

Thanks to Blue, Jell and shogun,

Good flights this afternoon guys, nice to get to take off from the carriers again

cheers,


Pobs

Good games
I'll open a room this evening French time and hopefully a few on the American continent can join us.
1.28FV13A has become the standard exe for online play.

Jel

Room open again

Taking a break between missions with AO and BBG

Still there with Shogun after some good games with Pobs and Blue.

We just had a massive battle over the channel with Pobs, Shogun and BBG. Pobs re-armed twice at Lympne. Quite exhausted now
A coffee break might just be the fix. 1.28FV13A ran well for all of us.




Jel

An Immersive afternoons flying for sure We flew Corsairs from carriers near Bougainville, had a huge spat in our spits over the channel ( see above), and then flew a '44-45 mission in Lagg3's in eastern Germany... great fun

thanks to BBG, Blue, Jell and Shogun for a great afternoon's entertainment


cheers,


Pobs

The last mission we did:


The enemy were hard to catch



Jel

Game on right now.
BBG and I just tested the SPAW loadout patch which is now the last item in the page from the "My EAW links" in my signature. It is working, so get it and run the 7-zip self installer in your ERAW folder.

Jel

Great Flight! air friends: Pobs, Mr Jelly, Shogun, Blue, that great job makes this community !!!

pictures :



















in the last secuence Mr Jelly i combat :













in this last flight Mr Jelly fix the problem file LOADOUT.DAT of SPAW.


S!

BBG

www.ecv56condor.com.ar

Jel has just fixed another problem, but this one was one of his own creation.
In the 1.28E/F upgrade the SPAW upgrade was wrong. In the upgrade pack I had made a SPAW folder with a SPAW45 folder in it.
I should have named it SPAW1945 and not SPAW45.
When you ran the self installer it put a SPAW45 folder in your SPAW folder, containing the "PLANE00.DAT" ...."PLANE29.DAT" files which 1.28FV13A is meant to read. However, the SPAW45 and SPAW45 OL files in the DirSets folder do not reference this folder, so they are not being read.
What you need to do is to cut the "PLANE00.DAT" ...."PLANE29.DAT" files from SPAW45 and paste them into SPAW1945. Then you can trash the SPAW45 folder.

To avoid future problems I have replaced the 1.28E/F upgrade from Dropbox with a corrected one.

Jel

But this should only affect SPAW1945, and not SPAW, right?

AO

Yes

Just out of interest I made a new SPAW set-up this afternoon with a 1.28E/F SPAW Planes folder, most of the other SPAW stuff and four Planesets. These are SPAW offline, SPAW online, SPAW45 offline and SPAW45 online.
It is working fine, and I have copied and pasted two of the planesets into other scenarios. I can now fly either SPAW of SPAW45 planes in my old three islands scenario, and also DAW and ETO01. This is just an experiment to confirm the possibilities of the planeset system. Each planeset having its own "savedata" folder solves the problem that Blue encountered when he switched to SPAW offline from SPAW online using the current folders.

Jel

Hey, just out of curiosity, what's it like flying those 1945-46 planes. I never got to do much flying after I put that add-on together since that's around when my wife went into her final decline.

Anyone use the planes with contra-rotating props?

Since they're actually twin engine planes I had suggested in the readme that a special .ini file be used when flying them where both engines use the same start/stop key.

Gameroom open at gameranger for a couple of hours


cheers,


Pobs

Thanks to Shogun for a good intercept mission in hurri's against dorniers and 109-F2's

we gave them a good run for their money downing 8 out of 16 for the loss of 5 hurri's







cheers,


Pobs

So with SHQ going offline for a while then why not try flying online. Room open for a few hours 1.28EV21:ETO

Jel

Room open again, for 1.28F testing

Jel

Gameranger room open for a couple of hours

cheers,


Pobs

Pobs and I tested 1.28FV22 a little while ago. The exe ran well, we saw the different types of railway lines and the sea convoys at Foreness.
I just need to check some hit bubbles in the support files before I make a public download available.

Jel

Hangin out in Gameranger if anyone wants to fly, i'll open a room..

We tested the 1.28F DAW version and flew from the Ark Royal


Jel

Flew DAW with Jelly tonight , needs a few bugs ironed out. Railway lines in the ocean as well as AA gunpits in the ocean and when spectating Jelly after I was shot down he was flying sideways, lol

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Good games though..The speck above the cockpit is the HE111 he was chasing
Blue

I used the Target Editor to make an EAW_RRD.DAT for DAW, and fixed the TMods at HMS Illustrious and HMS Ark Royal.
Then I took two unused targets and added them with the HMS Ark Royal TMods to the North African coast within allied lines to create two more target/bases for the Allies to fly from and the Axis to attack.
The targets I used were Amiens and Anklam



For the game I re-named them as HMS Improbable and HMS Impossible



Jel

That's great Jel, I just hope that one isn't impossible to hit and the other is improbable to find,lol. See what I did there
I got my own thing goin on "BOOM"

Room open in gameranger for a while

Game room open for a couple of missions

Cheers

Gameranger room open for some action!

trindade
As we are in the same time zone we should coordinate a few games.
I missed the session you just posted

Jel

Sure Jel, as usual i'll post here whenever i'm online.

Cheers

Game room open for a couple of missions!

Cheers

does anyone fly online anymore? it's been like a month since I've seen anybody in gameranger

PM sent

Up to my eyes in RL family stuff, hip replacement, moving house, visitors arriving for Christmas, so I have not even flown offline for a month.

Jel

Hi Blue,

been focussed on the ww1 map recently here too so I have only been able to drop in irregularly. As soon as I have a working setup for Ade I will try and get a regular EAW session going again so a group can build up around it..:)

In the meantime, if you post here when you are going online and leave gameranger running for a n hour or two in the background, hopefully you will start to pull people into a game or two again


cheers,


Pobs

Game room open for a couple of hours ..... see you in the virtual air


cheers,



Pobs

damn, i would love to join but i have been out tonight at a Dead Can Dance show and now have some work today for a bit then bed
- this game and steel beasts pro pe are the two i want to do MP with and hope i can get this to happen soon

Hi Aga,

no problem :), I will be posting here when I can get a room up, just do the same when you get time to logon to gameranger and we can come and join you if we are around. Just set up a room with EAW in the title so we can see you and we can join you .... if no one is around just leave it up in the background and we can message you when we turn up...


cheers,


Pobs

okay cool - i might try it out tomorrow night - - time differences though may make it hard for us to catch one another, i am not immediately sure what it will be your time in UK

Aga,

OK set watches....

it is 10:34 AM Thursday here NOW ......

I think you are probably about 10 hours ahead of me or there abouts .. so your evening is my morning and vice versa...

cheers,


Pobs

edit : I have opened a room now at gameranger if you have time for a flight


cheers,


Pobs

Hi guys,

Just a small suggestion: as you may know, SimHQ has a TS3 Server up for his members (you can check out at SimHQ homepage) and a dedicated room (like DCS, RoF and others) for EAW onliners would be great to check out who is online and much more easier to chat with new members who are just starting now. I know we have Shogun´s TS server but a TS channel at SimHQ would be much easier in my opinion, I do not know if is possible but I though it would be a good idea. Sorry my bad english!

Cheers

lol, i am here now - i have opened up Teamspeak for SB but i might try now game ranger

how do i get to the sim hq teamspeak server may i ask?

the Gameranger servers dont look very Australia friendly , my ping is bad for of it, i couldnt see any EAW there, the simulations category seems to consist entirely of FIFA 07 games

ahh, got it - okay cool now on simhq tspeak also - yay for me - okay so where to go to play Their Finest Hour online

Hi Agathosdaimon,

you only see a EAW's room at gameranger if is opened by someone else, otherwise you won't see any game room. Unfortunately I am at work right now so I can´t join your game. Maybe someone else can.
About TS3, EAW community does not have any dedicated room at SimHQ's TS3 but if you are a logged member you can access any game room at SimHQ's TS3.
Do not forget to post here that you have a game room open so other players can join you. Hope to see you soon online.

Cheers

okay cool, so how exactly do i start a mp game ion EAW - sorry, hosting is not something i ever do !

I do not remember exactly what I did in GameRanger to configure EAW but first you will have to go to Games and pick up European Air War from the list of games avaiable; then at the Browser option you will have to point Gameranger to your EAW.exe in your root folder . Can´t remember but I think it's all you have to do. Then just Host a game to check out if everything is fine. Hope it helps.

Cheers

ok - well i will try and do something shortly!

okay i have a room up in Gameranger now

OKAY NO joiners tonight for now, but tell me - once i have a game up - how do i actually get out of it . No matter what key i could leave the game,. I had to half shut down the computer

To close your hosting game just close the chat window.

Agathos,

with the new exe's you have to hold the ESC key down for a full 30 seconds or more to exit.. be patient, it will happen ....


cheers,


Pobs

Yes..................why does it take so long?

AO

Ralf made it more difficult to leave a session because occasionally a player would hit the Esc key in mistake for the chat key and pause the game for everyone. However, it should only need 5 seconds. I will have a look at the code and see if I can speed it up.

Jel

I misunderstood your question! sorry Agathos..

Hi Jell,

I exaggerated when I said 30 seconds ... but the point is that most newbies to the 1.28 series don't hold it down long enough and so can't get out of the game... once you realise that it will work if you keep it held down, it isn't really a problem, and all us 'onliners' know that the problem of the 'radio chat pause' induced by the hitting the esc button, was a nuisance , so Ralf's idea was certainly well-founded.


cheers,


Pobs

thanks guys for the reply - very interesting - whew - thats great to know. I hope we can do a game sometime
cheers

Game room open for a few hours


cheers,



Pobs

Game room open for a couple of hours


cheers,



Pobs

Thanks for the missions pobs, great fun

Cheers

Hi Trin,

was good flying again with you Major

The first mission was a straight forward intercept, 303 sq spit 1's from Lympne against heinkels escorted by 109E4's heading for Foreness, the 109 escorts bounced us and we lost 6 with ultimately 5 heinkels being brought down, several by the supporting hurricane squadron.....

the second mission was again 303 sq spit 1's from Lympne, but escorting blenheims attacking Boulogne, we failed to meet them at the designated waypoint and they proceeded without us as far as the middle of the channel, but as soon as they sighted the patrolling 109's sent up from the Pas de Calais airfields they swung west along the channel and aborted the mission, heading back for England with their tails firmly between their legs, in the ensuing melee we brought down 5 or 6 109's before returning home to a pretty hostile reception from the station commander for failing to meet the bombers.... oooops....


cheers,


Pobs

Just giving notice that I have been re-jigging my PC and laptop today to get a good online set-up.
By far the best framerates are with my laptop running Vista and using my 1920x1080 monitor, with Glide as unfortunately d3d has no horizon fog. I have been flying at Gameranger this afternoon in a host only session with 1.28FV32 and it worked well.

I'll make a 1.28FV32 download available, with support files if needed, and post a link in this thread.
It would be nice to have a session tomorrow, European time.

Jel

I have spent some time investigating and for the time being I need to compromise.
My desktop PC runs Windows 8, and in d3d I am getting poor frame rates. Apparently this may be due to the current drivers from both ATI and nVidia being rushed revamps of their Win 7 versions, and not built to use some of the graphics changes that are in Win 8. The frame rates in Win 7 were better. I get much better rates in Win 8 if I use the d3d windower, running in 1280x960 on my 1920x1080 screen. The problem is that with both Win 7 and Win 8 it is impossible to set EAW as the application with the blue flag, so that when it is launched from outside of the windower it runs in a window. This means that a launch from Gameranger runs in full screen with unacceptable frame rates.
So I hooked my Vista laptop up to the monitor, and it runs brilliantly. Good frame rates even in full screen. The disadvantage is that the nVidia driver does not give horizon fog, so I either put up with that or run in Glide.

So, later this afternoon I will upload and post a link to the 1.28FV32 install so that we can test it online. I will keep logging on at GameRanger, and hopefully we can get some flying done.

Jel

The file is a 7-zip self installer to be run in your EAW folder:

http://www.users.on.net/pam_biddell/EAWDL2012/128F32UG.exe

It installs the "DirSets" folder and the "EAW Versions" folder for use with the "DirSetExeManager.exe" program which is also included.
The file in the "EAW Versions" folder is naned "1.28FV32_Win8C01_2013" and it is a renamed version of the 128FV32 exe for loading by the "DirSetExeManager.exe".

There are two files in the "DirSets" folder: "ETO01" and "ETOBargeTrain".
When the latter is loaded by the "DirSetExeManager.exe" program a sub folder in the "ETO_01" folder named "Train-Barge3" is referenced.
This contains some experimental railway and barge stuff just for checking out, and is included in the "ETO01" folder when the installer runs. I am assuming that people upgrading already have a "ETO01" folder.

There is another version of the V32 exe in the "OAW128" folder in the "E-128FV32W8C" folder set up for OAW128 users.
In case they are missing or out of date the installer will replace the DATA, TERRAIN, and TEXT_ENG.CDF files with the current extended ones. It will also add the "EAWTM2" folder needed by 1.28F.

Users may already have a lot of this stuff, but it was easier to make a download with all the essential files and folders.
I would really like to try V32 online soon

Jel

Anyone up for a game in GameRanger

Game room open for a couple of hours


cheers,



Pobs

anyone flyin again yet?

Game ranger room open

I´d love to join your game but i´m stuck at work!

I just checked this thread and the last post before this was on 17th April.
As the northern hemisphere winter is approaching I hope we can revive the sessions we have enjoyed at GameRanger.
Surely it is time that we called a halt to modding and programming so that we can do what EAW was made for and actually play it.
I have a version of the EAW exe which needs to be tested online, and I also need to make sure that my "ETO_01" and "Planes" folders are still OK to use online. I may have inadvertently made changes to them for offline play which cause problems with online compatibility.
Please PM me to get the new exe (EAW1.29 FlexMap V19) and the extended CDF files that it needs, and then we can organise some more good sessions

Game on
Sho and I just tested EAW 1.29V19 FlexMap at GameRanger and TS3

We will try to keep things open for a bit longer

OK Pobs, IM, AO & Co stop modding and start flying

Look out for the next session

Nice to fly online again.
Thanks Jelly
Take a break and fly

Looks like you are having good fun!
Looking forward to join you guys one of these nights.

Cheers

I will probably launch a game this evening our time trindade

Rgr I´m not sure if i can join you tonight but I will try.

Cheers

PM sent about additional files

Thanks Jel!

Cheers

I'm almost finished my current projects but, if ya'll want the P-51B's and D's wearing invasion stripes I'll continue them.

Room open at GameRanger for an hour or so
Sho's TS too

Good games and we will try again tomorrow

Slight advanced notice, but I will open a room at 6 pm European time for a game with the 1.29 Flex exe, which has worked very well so far.

Great turnout tonight

Off to Lyon in 30 minutes, but I'll try the laptop online again tonight

Jel

Arrived in Lyon, so I'll open up a room at about 6 pm European Time, in a couple of hours from now

Room open

Room open

Good games with Sho and BBG

Room open for a while
Sho's TS3 also

Room open

..and we flew for so long we ran out of fuel LOL

Having a coffee break

Here we go again

Opening a room in a few minutes, and I will post links there for Sho, BBG, Maj and others using the 1.29 flex so that we can test something new online

Jel

Room open for a WW1 session

Dinner break-back soon

Are there any plans for some action later today?

Sure, about 5pm our time

A bit late, but opening soon

Room opening in a couple of minutes

Thanks for the games guys


We flew with Planeset 2 which has some of Roller's FMs.
He has not yet done this Camel- it is a little too fast
However, that did not detract from the fun as I took on the Dreidekkers whilst Trin took on the Gothas.

Room open for a new test
Check my "Calling the Western Front Beta testers" post

Game on

Thanks for the missions, Jel

Good games

This map is of course mythical, and entire places have been shifted to give plenty of targets and bases close to the mythical front line. This is just to give onliners a bit of fun, with groundstarted missions.




That's what we just did

Second mission tonight- a sweep after an intercept:

Returned home safely


Did a bit of damage

Stuff this programming and modding
I'm at GameRanger so lets fly EAW again
1.29Flex