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Looking good! Flying tonight? I might want to join for a drink and some flying, it being a long weekend..

Yes, it has...

I will be up in the skies tonight, stick and a beer, that'll be me.



Maybe some Thunder Of Kojori.

Classic mission, I'll be there for a couple hrs, in an hr. I donated blood last night so no promises as far as skills shall be made..

Had to hook up the wife's new washer and dryer. All done.

WC

hi all long time no see,is there people still flying,got loads of dust on joystick
hope u all well

Hey pete -- good to see you!

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I'm taking Hollo Pointe down for maintenance. Getting frustrated with all the 'stopped responding' issues so I am going to rebuild it.

WC

Eh Pete- we were just talking about you!

WHO DARE AWAKEN ME FROM MY SLUMBER?!

I'm down in Texas for work. Where I'm staying has excellent rent (free), but doesn't really have room for my Stick/Throttle, so I left them back at school. That obviously precludes most flight related activities . I'll be back flying again sometime in mid August when this internship wraps up and I'm back at school.



Maybe if I'm lucky I'll have EDGE to gawk at by then

Glad to hear Near... we're thinking of a fly-in around that time so maybe that will line up perfectly. A little EDGE, a little F-86... a little MiG-21... a little Dora...


Still not the stable I'm looking forward to even in terms of mission building... Give me something (human) to pit against the F86... give me something to pit against the MiG21...

Give me a SU27 with an AFM...

Right now balance is a challenge.

Hollo Pointe is all back together. Got DCS World d/l'ing on a torrent over DSL -- That will take until tomorrow. New fans are on the way for all my computers and will be here Wednesday.

WC

Anyone noticing this type of behavior on our servers?

Yes, this is what happened last Friday night on Hollo Pointe. We had 4-5 regulars in the mission with some new clients joining now and then. I thought it was when the new clients joined that was causing the freeze. The other regulars said this had been happening before I joined. After another 3-4 freezes the mission froze completely and the server had another 'stopped responding' message.

I'm getting constant 'stopped responding' messages. Windows 8.1 was reinstalled this week, with only the DCS World application loaded onto the computer, and I am still getting these application hangs.

This morning I launched a server from my main client computer at home to see if that also gets a stopped responding message.

WC

i have every module, so I can go where needed, however I'm the most useful in the A-10C.

Been working on the Herky Jerk mission. This one has audio files for the principle players: C-130 Herky 81, Hawg Flight, Overlord and the special ops 'Popsicle' unit that needs to be picked up by the C-130.


Geez that is a lot of work coordinating the audio with the events in the mission.

3 Cheers to HomeFries for helping me with the audio files production!

Eno's Good Day to Fly.


Does anyone still enjoy just flying anymore?

I'm building a mission I would like to fly right now and I'm wondering if I'd ever have anyone who wanted to fly it with me. My objective is to build a free flight mission- that intends to get people from far south east to far nw... Yeah- from tib-vaz-sog up to anapa.

Okay okay- not many would be interested in a glute buster like that... But with half a dozen guys flying different types of aircraft and a couple of refuel stops along the way... A cross country jaunt with some beers and jeers could be fun.

Intention is that along the route guys are randomly tasked assignments. I'd have 2 or 3 possible mini missions at various locations along the route. The challenge is is finding fun, sort of unique assignments for guys to fly... A couple I've put in place already:

1) a runway tank driving through the city with police unable to stop it needs assistance. Challenge is that NO structures can be damaged while taking out the target.

2) artillery needs to be moved from a position to within range of a target area. Not sure how to make this happen with red ground commander though that's the idea... Generate some cat and mouse.

3) spy plane pilot rescue. (Abkhazia is hostile territory). Have to figure out a way to do this that isn't TOO SAM heavy- since distances are a factor.

4) if F86 makes it out may have a couple side jobs for them...

Really what I want more than anything is to engage aspects of the sim that are done really, really well and pull it back together with the thing our firehouse / Hollo pointe communities do really well. I think most of us like hanging out, and the sim profiles the aircraft really well.

I'm really tired of hearing about all the things it doesn't do well- while simultaneously building missions around concepts I know aren't sustainable... Or reliable.

Not quite free flight... But the mission is meant to fly with a little fight mixed in at random intervals. Just enough to get the motor running. TIC with JTAC support? Sure I can do that. Eco terrorists take over a pumping station and start pumping toxic waste into a nearby lake... Somewhere... Gotta take out the pumping station in the middle of a heavily populated area? Sure. Criminal kingpin is en route to a known location and needs to be intercepted before he gets there... Then needs escort to another location? Yes!

Which job are you going to get?

Maybe none of them!

I want to move away from disposable aircraft and suicide runs- thing is not everyone likes that kind of thing. I'd like to figure out a running mission concept that would just be set and forget. Maybe a few instant action slots... Some cross country slots... Some random action slots. Maybe that's the better way to go. Hmmm.

Ah yes the trials of a mission builder.

i had a flight in your server eno yesterday in the KA 50 its been weeks sins i flown,a guy called mark i was flying with.

I like that idea Eno - reminds me of our dynamic mission generator in Arma.

Some more ideas -

- Drug dealers reported at a small airstrip, destroy the light planes so they can't escape before law enforcement arrives

- Locate a downed drone (use a small plane asset in the woods if no drone model) and mark with smoke for recovery

- Escort an airliner in distress to a nearby airport, chase plane style

- Locate a ship (freighter or warship) that has navigated into restricted waters and fire warning shots

I tried to come up with ideas that were not "warzone" missions.


I have been working on my 25T (and helos!) so if you had one of those I would try this.

Eh Pete- Yeah I saw you in there... tried dropping you a note but I think you were focused on takeoff since you tookoff shortly thereafter.

Things are quiet at that time during the day. Going to be running the training wing template for a bit since a bunch of missions right now are causing some issues.

All up for this, if i can take my Huey and Crowley and Tempus as wingmen.

Sounds great. Up for it as well if work doesn't clash. Ka50 for me please, maybe even clash rotors with pete for old time sakes